October, 2024 -

October 26, 2024September 30, 2026

There once was a woman named Linda…

… Linda Sharpe.

For just over two years I was the sound designer, dialogue looper, mix guy, and chief conceptualist in an outfit called the Linda Sharpe Trio. I worked with an excellent musician who did the majority of synth and rhythm work, which I always felt resulted in the extraordinary. It eventually fell apart.

Linda Sharpe Trio (no ‘the’) is still around doing its thing. Check it out. I’d link the reader to his output platform, but he’d probably threaten a cease & desist for my efforts.

But I’ve got the prior goods. And I want to share a couple of them. This outfit could’a been a contender.

Linda’s Suitcase (It’s Her Bag)

Radio and Television (It’s in the Bag)

Nemier: Synthesizers, Sounds
Bärkər: Optical theremin, Shortwave manipulations, Sounds, Dialogue loops

Produced: Nemier & Bärkər
Engineered: Bärkər 
Recorded: Cyclops' Lair - Middleburg Heights, Ohio - 2022

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024

Medea’s Descent

When I began experimenting with electronica in early 2020, one of the first projects I wanted to realize was a soundscape opera based upon Euripides’ tragedy Medea.

With the resurgence of ‘Feminism’ at that time, and how much attention it was getting, I thought Medea was a great metaphor. You have it rough, lady in the Starbucks checkout line? Well dig this…

Euripides’ Medea

I’ve worked on it off and on in that time, but needed – at the least, a voice actor to read as Medea. I got one for a spell, resulting in ‘Her Loathed Existence’. The following pieces represent Medea as she realizes her husband has betrayed her – and then when she makes up her mind to see through her horrible revenge.

If interested, here are the demos…

Her Loathed Existence

Her Mind Unfurls Such Dreadful Horrors

Bärkər: Synthesizers, Sounds
G.A.B: Recitation 

Engineered and Produced: Bärkər
Equipment/Instrumental VSTs used: Ableton Live, Ableton Push 2
Recorded: Cyclops' Lair - Middleburg Heights, Ohio

Cover art: jprocyonart

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Live: From the Basement – Kent, Ohio ’24

Out now on Bandcamp, Live: From the Basement – Kent, Ohio ’24

Recorded Live at ‘The Residence’s Basement’ – July 12, 2024
Private Sound & Discussions Event – Kent, Ohio

Performed, Engineered, and Produced: Bärkər

Equipment/Instrumental VSTs used during live recording: Ableton Max for Live, Ableton Push 2, Apple MacBook Pro, Arturia Minifreak, Arturia Tape MELLO-Fi (tape emulator), Ember (Micro Collage Machine), Replicas (Splice Sampler), and Strom (Generative Micro Texture Synth) by Puremagnetik, Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Zoom H5 portable recorder

Mixed: Cyclops’ Lair – Middleburg Heights, Ohio

Do You Believe?

Live mix of a looping Strom generative synth line, an interview with Ohio’s own, the former Ernest Winston Angley, and an Ember micro collaging of said interview fragments.