(Sharbaugh) Michael Ash Sharbaugh: synthesizers Composed and Recorded ca. March 20 to 23, 2015. sm4 [ARIA(D)].

In an attempt to accept this week's Disquiet Junto assignment—"create an original, multi-part piece with a single audio source," I chose a prerecorded track of a single atmospheric pad to form an aural bed of sound. I then time-compressed it greatly, so I could use it for a droney, low-end 'percussive' background and, also, for a higher-frequency, foreground melody. I recorded these three tracks together, but was disappointed with their resultant complexity. Thus, I abandoned hopes of entering it into this week's Disquiet Junto 0168, "Three of a Kind," project and began to add parts using various synthesizers.

The resultant piece, "Dwaal I," is spacious and hazy, and named after an informal word of South African origin, 'dwaal,' which means "a dreamy, absent-minded, or befuddled state."

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