danieldiazmusic

Fifteen notes from an E major scale, played on my Martin guitar, left to grow into something unexpected. Brian Eno once compared making art to gardening: planting a few seeds and watching how they come to life and interact. For this Junto challenge, I took that idea quite literally — except I didn't listen while putting the piece together. I rearranged the original notes at random, letting them gr...

MINIMAL PHASES ON A HIGH PLATEAU Two interlocking ronroco motifs gradually overlap, fade in and out, shift and modulate, moving between melody and rhythm. An evolving infrabass line anchors the track , while lush orchestral string washes bring depth and continuity to the short arpeggios. Steve Reich has been a major influence on my music for around 40 years. This piece is my own take on phasing: l...

Music for this haiku by Kobayashi Issa: Speak of the devil! a snipe takes flight... evening cool In the original Japanese expression, "speak of the devil" simply means "speak of someone and they appear" — but I took the poem in a darker, more mysterious direction, with this being Haiku Challenge #666, taking the darker path felt inevitable. Starting from a studio jam that had been sitting unused:...

REVERBERANCE A reverb-drenched instrumental built from strummed Telecaster, electronic drums and four different arpeggiators — all deliberately buried in reverb. For Disquiet Junto Project 0770: Reverb x Reverb, I did the opposite of an old studio trick: instead of reducing the reverbs before exporting, I pushed them all up by 6 dB. Three reverb sends: 12-second Lexicon plate, convolution reverb a...

Poetic License Layered acoustic piano — two tracks — over an improvised electric bass guitar take processed through “ambient” live pedals. Recorded in Paris, 24 September 2026. The piece is built around “Figura a manera de prólogo,” a poem by Argentine poet Raúl González Tuñón (Buenos Aires, 29 March 1905 – 14 August 1974). I used a recording of Tuñón himself reading the poem, from the AMB album "...

A solo felt piano piece with a melodic, neoclassical character, surrounded by a very subtle treated soundscape. A reworking of my earlier electric bass improvisation Chanson 15072026 (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/chanson-15072026)— the original music (chords/melody) transferred to piano, with only occasional traces of the original soundscape remaining underneath. Recorded in Paris, France, 1...

An electric bass improvisation recorded on July 15th 2026, listened to after a couple of months and decided to keep it "as is" and double the melody with a Celesta and orchestrate it with floating synths and granular FX.

Ambient piece inspired by the king of board games — and the only one I’ve ever really played: chess. Inspired by J.L. Borges’ poems Ajedrez I & II, where the chessboard becomes a battlefield, I wanted to give this piece a quietly epic atmosphere. Two first-take improvisations: electric bass, processed through my pedalboard, followed by a piano improvisation over it. A simple, spontaneous piece. Co...

IT HAS OPENED An electric bass guitar improvisation, doubled with Fender Rhodes and processed in real time through several pedals. One take, unedited. Inspired by this haiku by Yatsuka Ishihara (1919–1998): The Nile— a golden water lily has opened Photo by myself, Gran Canaria, 2025. @naviar-records

I Repeat Myself Instrumental Math Rock built around interlocking repetitive patterns. Tuned percussion and electric guitars take turns before coming together in tutti, with fretless bass anchoring the piece. Composed and performed by DD.

A floating ambient guitar piece built from first-take performances. Live electric guitar and pedals, with a few bass notes underneath and a second guitar improvisation added on top. No tempo, no click — just the guitars following their own phrasing and slowly playing around each other. A little melodic, a little sensitive, mostly a quiet meditation. Inspired by: shrine fence — on a white flower a...

A Sea of Fog Ambient guitar piece inspired by the haiku by Akito Arima. A live electric guitar improvisation, with an overdubbed bass providing a slow, occasional pulse. An Oberheim OB-E doubles the main guitar throughout, while a second guitar trying sparse melodic lines around it. Suspended, floating, and quietly intense. Inspired by: through the keyhole the sea fog quietly flows in — Akito Arim...

A melodic electric guitar improvisation gradually viewed through a veil. The original performance is first presented clearly, then revisited with layers of treated reverbs that soften its edges while preserving the melody. An ARP Odyssey doubles the guitar throughout, following the same musical path as the texture slowly changes. Inspired by this junto challenge: Interpret a gauzy window treatment...

A solo electric guitar improvisation recorded live while testing a new pedalboard. After the session, I listened back and felt there were a few interesting ideas in it, but I left it aside, unfinished, for later. Then I read this haiku: Autumn sunset— is there something of mine left undone? — Fusae Fubasami A week later, I returned to the recording and overdubbed a series of synthesizer parts, fol...

A spontaneous experiment blending live guitar improv and synth arpeggiators. Recorded June 2026, capturing the contrast between a floating guitar track and kinetic synth layers. for this challenge https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0755-give-way

live electric guitar improvisation. first pass recorded on a 1985 schecter stratocaster while testing a new pedalboard. a second improvised layer was overdubbed using a circa-1990 gibson les paul. some sections were edited out; the remainder is presented largely as performed. recorded live in the studio, paris, france, early june 2026. photo by eugene biliavskyi. composed and performed by dd.

This track began as a work-in-progress session: an improvised bass line built from simple, repetitive figures evolving through a tempo-synced delay, locked to a steady Motorik drum beat. An electric guitar part followed. Then came this week's Junto challenge prompt: "Create a piece of music by regularly or irregularly interrupting an ongoing process." So I decided to interrupt the process itself....

For almost a year this track existed as a very simple two-track piece: clean Stratocaster guitar over an arpeggiated chord progression. Inspired by this haiku by Santoka Taneda: "wind from the sea butterflies in embankment weeds never resting" Yesterday and today I finally expanded it — adding synth pads, a melodic synth doubling the guitar lines, a soft synth bass pulse, scattered electronic text...

Composed for a challenge: Music for an imagined nature documentary about slugs, specifically for one of the film's slowest scenes. A technical exercise in micro-movements, heavy pacing, and low-register textures. Recorded exclusively using the low strings of a classical baritone guitar. It gets dark... 📸 Cover photo: The Achilleion Palace (Αχίλλειο), Greece.

Floating soundscape built entirely from layered eBow guitars, with occasional deep bass single note anchoring the drift. Slowly unfolding textures, melodic fragments, and suspended harmonies moving between mystery and melancholy — somewhere between ambient guitar music and Frippertronics-inspired landscapes. No drums, no pulse, no synths. Inspired by this haiku by Sawaki Kinichi: *A white ship mov...

Epic electronic score built entirely with Oberheim synth emulations by @gforce-software. Warm melodic bass, layered analog textures, slow harmonic movement, and soaring synth lines unfold over a heartbeat-like DMX pulse. Forward-moving and bittersweet, the piece constantly shifts between major and minor moods, inspired by classic science-fiction cinema and vintage synth soundtracks. Performed usin...

Based on this duo https://soundcloud.com/dawn-falls-654459054/second-of-a-few-2-disquiet0748 by @dawn-falls-654459054 and John Wright Out of all the excellent and inspiring duos from last week, I couldn't resist jumping on this track: "second of a few 2 (disquiet0748)" by Dawn Falls, based on John Wright’s original Junto 0747, "The First of a Few." I loved the spicy, spiky, and frantic pace of bot...

I wanted to build a proper groove out of it. I tried the chord changes @rabmusiclab kindly and precisely noted in his post, but I thought it might be more tempting for an eventual 3rd collaborator if I kept it Dm modal. And easier for me :-) To accentuate the groove thing (and shift the focus from the floating ambient side) I added a 1-bar drum machine and a very simple bass part, then tried a sec...

Electronic, lyrical synth piece in a cinematic / soundtrack style. All sounds performed on Oberheim emulations by GForce Software: DMX, OB-E and OB-X. Warm pads, slow harmonic movement, and a gentle rhythmic pulse supporting a melodic line that unfolds gradually. Created by DD, late April 2026. Inspired by this haiku by Martin Lucas: October dawn the flicker of lights at the river mouth Photo: @NA...

This is just a jam on my Höfner bass over the glitchy groove from last week: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/cordyceps-disquiet0747 I initially wanted to push it into a dub direction — not sure it fully works — but I had fun adding delays and plate reverbs to bring out that feel. It follows the two-part structure of the original. In the first part I went with F minor, but when the more bell-lik...