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Michael Ash Sharbaugh: synthesizers and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. March to September 19, 2013.
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"I had already started a musical piece under the working title, “Wind,” when this Disquiet Junto project came along; I had been dying to finish it.
“Wind” needed additional sonic material to just ‘push it over the edge’ of being ‘finished’; this Disquiet Junto assignment inspired, as well as provided, it.
I recorded the Voyager’s audio captures at an extremely low resolution; therefore, I was limited in how much I could manipulate the Voyager’s sounds. Hence, the Voyager’s sonic material is plainly recognizable at times. I used a variety of means to treat the Voyager material: time expansion, granular synthesis, and a program written for Mac OS 9.1--"th0nk."
Also, this Disquiet Junto assignment is late: I was on vacation for two weeks and away from my studio; I celebrated a birthday when I returned—September 16th (the due date for the assignment’s completion). Despite my tardiness, I henceforth acknowledge my strong desire to contribute to last week’s assignment by releasing this work—“Solar Wind.”
~ Michael
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"More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make "goodbye music" for the Voyager 1 space probe, at:
http://disquiet.com/2013/09/12/disquiet0089-vger/
Source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4
Special thanks to Mark Ward (mark-ward.org) for having suggested this material as the subject for a Disquiet Junto project.
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/"
~ Marc Weidenbaum
