(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: drum programming, synthesizers, and found sounds
Composed and Recorded ca. February 19 to 20, 2015.
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I needed some musical exercise—if even for a few hours and a miniscule piece, so I welcomed this week’s Disquiet Junto challenge. I was to “create music that emerges from the sound of fireworks.”
I first located, paid for, and downloaded a field recording from this URL: http://www.soundsnap.com/efx_ext_big_fireworks_06_b . I wanted a field recording with many wails and shrieks. That is what I got.
I let the first five seconds of the field recording play out, and then made the first ‘bang’ of the field recording the onset of bar three. In order to do this, I needed to alter the tempo of my DAW’s project to 104.56 BPM. The piece continues at this tempo.
After editing and timing some added percussive fireworks explosions to accentuate the rhythm, I added Indian percussion instruments and a heavily chorused piano, as well as some organ, tambourine, and plucked string sounds. Two harp arpeggios are ‘in there’ for good measure.
This is quite a simple piece—but a diversion for five hours or so.
More on this 164th Disquiet Junto project — “Create music that emerges from the sound of fireworks” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2015/02/19/disquiet0164-juntofireworks/
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http://disquiet.com/junto
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