(Sharbaugh) Michael Ash Sharbaugh: synthesizers and found sounds Composed and Recorded ca. March to September 19, 2013. sm7.

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.”

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/