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For https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0467-toolbox-show-tell Thanks to the lockdown and the lack of proper work on these past 2 months I decided to (finally) open and old box of DAT I got from my storage place in Argentina when I was forced to close it and decide what to keep (bring it home on the plane), what to sell, what to discard. These DAT (my go-to recording/archival media in the...

Performed by Daniel Diaz: upright bass, acoustic piano, treatments Miguel Ballumbrosio: Cajon For this haiku: slanting rain, gentle breeze, no need to return home haiku by Zhang Zhihe music composed by DD photo by Jan Kopriva @naviar-records

Again, the Friday junto time prompts me to jump back in the past to recoup lost and found stuff. (this one's for Disquiet Junto Project 0466: [ ] Sound Machine) This track has been mixed and edited today Friday 4th December 2020 in Paris, France. But the source audio comes from the last 30 years and from both Buenos Aires and Paris, my main two home towns. You'll hear in this track what I remember...

Bobby Rangell: alto sax Nico Arnicho: percussion Daniel Diaz: acoustic bass guitar & live synth sparkles Live in the studio recording, circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 27th 2020. Again, from the masters I got back some weeks ago and I am rediscovering and reworking some music for there. This is part of a one day session with these extraordinary musicians this is the only s...

Piano, Synths, Bowed upright basses, filters. Ambient electro-acoustic soundscape for this haiku: ⠀ Magnolia in full bloom…⠀ But waking I find⠀ a chill November morning⠀ ⠀ Poem by John Hinks Photo by DD (Paris, November 2020) Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz @naviar-records @flownblue https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku⠀ Dedicated to Diego Maradona (Oct 30th 1960-Nov 25th 2020) R...

https://youtu.be/qJ_B2XbNKa8 This is my song for all Scorpio fellas (like me) many friends and relatives but all any Scorpio reading this really. Composed and recorded under Scorpio skies (early November 2020) by DD in Paris, France. Piano Electric bass Organ Drum kit Celeste Electric guitars Moog synth Voices Photo by DD, a Paris Sky. For Junto Project 0464: Blanket Song Ok, this is not a usual j...

Daniel Díaz: bombo leguero, rain stick, small percussion, acoustic bass guitar. Miguel Ballumbrosio: Cajon peruano Manuel Miranda: Flutes This one (as some tracks I posted recently) is part of a series of documentary music from 2006-2007 that I got the rights back. Now I'm in the process of re-thinking, remixing and recycling, giving a new life to these forgotten instrumentals. The first part of t...

1st Section: Bb Major synthesizers performed by DD 2nd Section: A major/minor. Performed by Flute (Bobby Rangell, Denver USA) Percussion (Nico Arnicho, Montevideo Uruguay) Fretless Bass, bowed basses drone (Daniel Diaz, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Recorded circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 13th 2020. Photo by Louis Maniquet For this challenge: Step 1: Think about how a gradien...

Daniel Diaz: Acoustic bass guitar, harmonica and synth overdub. Pajaro Canzani; Guitars Nico Arnicho: Percussion. An old studio live jam, recovered from my vaults, mixed and reworked for this haiku: I close my eyes and in the void a black horse prances Photo by Lindsey Bidwell Poem by Kakio Tomizawa @naviar-records

Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France Friday 7th November 2020 Two pianos Upright bass (pizz and bowed cadenza) Muted piano basses (mallets) Treated soundscape Photo by Ricardo Gomez For this challenge: Disquiet Junto Project 0462: Vade in Pace Step 1: Consider the way pace (tempo, speed) is experienced, represented, and accomplished in music. Step 2: Consider the way stasis is experienced...

Composed and performed by DD (Friday 30th October 2020) and Luis Rigou (circa 2015) for this junto challenge "Record a piece of music that moves back and forth between two inhospitable zones before finding one, à la Goldilocks and the Three Bears, that is just right." I made a parallel accompaniment for a discarded quena (south-american indian flute) performed years ago by my friend the great Luis...

Composed and performed by DD Bamboo flutes, Indonesian whistle Bowed upright basses For this haiku: "Devi temple . . . along with the ants I enter barefoot" photo by DD (Koyasan, Japan, Oct 2019) haiku by Kala Ramesh @naviar-records

Created by DD on Friday October 23rd 2020 Synthesizers (8 tracks, mostly arpeggiators) for this challenge: Creative Destruction The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound. Step 1: Through some multi-step process, arrive at a complicated, tortured sound. Keep track of how you got there. Step 2: Record a piece beginning with the end result: that complicated, tortured sound. Then transition...

Rejected orchestral piece for a music score (publisher's call), quite naive and straight forward. Piano, upright bass and flute, full orchestra (string, brass and woodwind experimenting with several orchestral libraries). Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2020. Reworked and remixed on Thursday October 22nd 2020 inspired by this haiku: wind tunnel . . . a hummingbird fans the morning glory poem...

This one (as the track I posted just yesterday [here](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/vidala-del-grand-canyon)) are part of a series of documentary music from 2006-2007 that I got the rights back. Now I'm in the process of re-thinking, remixing and recycling, giving a new life to these forgotten instrumentals. Yesterday track was "Jujuy meet Arizona", this one is pure LA PUNA, an average 3500 m...

Composed and performed by DD , January 2007 in Paris Harmonica Upright basses (bowed, drone) Electric guitars (soundscape) Synthesizers (drone) Feat. Pajaro Canzani: slide acoustic guitar Photo by Ernest Karchmit

This was fun and a lot of work, I spend the whole day (Friday 09 October 2020from 9Am till midnight) and it was a nice chance to try some new sounds I’ve got from a friend (mostly N.I. Kontakt synths and libraries) I wrote one phrase and played it with a random sound on Massive X (first 30 seconds) I wrote a new phrase that includes 2 beats from the first and played it a patch on Reaktor 6 (30sec...

Composed and performed by DD Fender Rhodes electric piano Electric bass guitar Synthesizers For this haiku coffee break a crumb for the sparrow Poem by Bill Kenney Photo by Brandon Green https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/10/07/naviarhaiku353-coffee-break/ @naviar-records

Sound Systems for the HAIKU OS. For junto0457 challenge. Created in Paris using samples of my Hang (hand pan) on Friday Oct 2nd at 10AM, Paris France. There’s an operating system called Haiku. It’s open source. The OS is currently running a contest for System Sounds. Specifically sounds for: General:: Beep A nice and soothing startup chime Notifications: Information notification Important notifica...

Electric guitar Bamboo flutes Bowed upright bass Composed and performed by DD For this haiku: the surface of the water like ornate silk spring rain Poem by Ryōkan Taigu Photo by Trevor Cole @naviar-records

Solo upright bass Harmonica Synthesizers and Fx. Image: Friendship by Agnes Martin. For this challenge: Disquiet Junto Project 0456: Line Up The Assignment: Interpret a painting by Agnes Martin as if it were a graphic score. Step 1: Look at the work of painter Agnes Martin, best known for her parallel lines. Step 2: Select an individual work that suggests itself to you as a musical score. My imagi...

2x requintos (steel strings) upright bass Fender Rhodes Flute For this haiku: urban chorus⠀ harmonious tones⠀ uncomposed⠀ haiku by Darran Bourne/halF unusuaL⠀ picture by Edward Xu @naviar-records @half-unusual

Live in the studio improvisation: daniel diaz: electric bass guitar andré charlier: drums For this challenge: Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish? I hate to be lazy and use something I was working on instead of something new sparked by the actual challenge, but sometimes time is our tyran...

The SETI Institute posts an artistic challenge this month. This month’s was issued by the organization’s co-founder, Dr. Jill Tarter. (portrayed as Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact). - In brief, the idea is to consider that First Contact between humans and extraterrestrials will likely be technologically mediated. “We use technology as a proxy for intelligence, and then we go looking with various type...

Live improvisation by Daniel Diaz, electric bass André Charlier, drums For this Haiku: "two voices that sound alike make their way... clouds of blossoms" Haiku by Kobayashi Issa Photo by Igor Karimov