danieldiazmusic

The Jungle Acoustic cinematic percussion piece. The pulse shifts from 6/8 into straight 4/4 while maintaining the same underlying tempo — the groove transforms without losing momentum. Organic textures, subtle trailer-style impacts, and sustained rhythmic tension carry the piece forward. Performed on real instruments: marimba, bombo, bamboo drums (tun / teponaztli), shakers, caxixi, and more. Comp...

An instrumental electronic piece driven by pulse, texture, and gradual transformation. Using only Oberheim synth emulations, a new sound and musical idea appears every four bars — briefly explored, then replaced, mimicking the restless logic of endless scrolling. A constant low drone and a steady, heartbeat-like pulse hold everything together, while textures and gestures shift above the surface. I...

A free guitar improvisation, recorded ad lib with no click. Electric guitar leads the performance, later joined by an ARP Odyssey in overdub—soft pads and melodic lines subtly doubling and shadowing the guitar. Inspired by the Crayola color Cosmic Cobalt: deep blue, luminous, slightly unreal. An intuitive, cinematic sketch where tone and space matter more than structure. Created by DD in the morni...

Fragile, warm, major chords are spread in a slow arc, like an string carillon. — a fully acoustic piece built without a click, letting time breathe. The first part unfolds as ascending-descending arpeggios, traveling from the lowest bass notes to the highest ukulele register, spanning several octaves across three instruments. The second part settles into repeating acoustic patterns, with tempo-bas...

A cinematic, ambient instrumental composed and performed yesterday and today, inspired by the sound world of Vangelis and his score for Blade Runner. Built exclusively with an ARP Odyssey, the piece unfolds slowly through drifting harmonies, analog motion, and sustained textures—evoking solitude, nocturnal images, and introspection. Composed and performed by DD, January 21st & 22nd 2026 For this w...

A solo electric guitar performance, recorded live in real time on an Epiphone Sheraton, using pedals only—no overdubs, no click, no edits. Slowly unfolding phrases, spacious delays, and sustained reverbs shape a floating, panoramic atmosphere, evoking open landscapes and road-movie imagery. The piece follows the natural flow of the performance: man, guitar, and space, without grid or constraint. C...

An ambient instrumental built from layered electric guitars—Stratocasters and Telecasters—combining five evolving atmospheric volume pedal parts with a restrained clean Strat lead. Slow-moving textures, sustained harmonics, and gentle melodic lyricism create a nocturnal, immersive soundscape, balancing stillness and motion. Composed and performed by Daniel DIaz. Photo by Filipe Resmini Inspired by...

A quietly epic, all-acoustic instrumental in 7/4, built around some simple melodic ideas voiced across ukuleles, acoustic guitars, and acoustic bass—exploring phrasing, articulation, and rhythmic displacement rather than repetition. Fingerpicked and slide guitar lines intertwine with a grounded bass pulse and muted, organic percussion, creating a sense of forward motion that feels both playful and...

A minimal Ebow-and-bass drone in E minor, built around a 12-note melody that dissolves one note per repetition. Recorded during a lyrical Ebow session, using long sustained tones and slow melodic reduction. A small ambient/minimalist experiment on top of a deep E drone. Part of the Disquiet Junto project: disquiet0728

Synthesisers, electric bass, instrumental jam. A quick experiment built from a pair of Oblique Strategies cards: “Honour thy error as a hidden intention” / “Just carry on” This track started as an improvised bass demo over a simple low-note loop meant to replace a click track. I accidentally recorded four mismatched fingerboard-taps while trying to sketch a candombe-style groove — and instead of d...

Equinae A world-repetitive, cinematic instrumental built entirely from acoustic strings: three ronrocos, one ukulele, and two Martin guitars, wrapped in subtle orchestral textures and infra-bass pulse. By DD, Paris, May 1st and 2nd 2025. The image is my photo of a fantastic sculpture by Alexandra Athanassiades (on a great exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros 2022)

Oddity Deep in the Night All sounds come exclusively from the GForce @gforce-software ODDITY3 — a beautiful emulation of the classic ARP Odyssey. This piece leans toward reflective, melodic ambient, with that vintage cinematic/synth soundtrack vibe of the early electronic pioneers (Vangelis, Tomita, Wendy Carlos…). Instrumental track inspired by this haiku: Deutzia in full white – deep in the nigh...

This one started as a simple electric-guitar-and-bass progression, just a rough idea that wasn’t really going anywhere. This week I expanded it with several synth layers and some floating eBow lines. Funny enough, the little gimmick in the middle section ended up giving the track its shape — a kind of slow, climatic crescendo that finally brought it to life. I re-recorded that line as an intro tod...

UN GAUCHO – solo bass A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun. Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument. Thanks for listening! — dd Photo (C) Elena Nicolai For this @disquiet junto meeting https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0724-work-it Release: https:...

All synths, Blade Runner–inspired, cinematic electronic, melodic ambient synth music. Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz – early November 2025 Photo by Yasin Arıbuğa Synths by DD (from Geforce amazing oberheim synths and from AAS collections) Inspired by the haiku by kjmunro: the harp player moves under cover market day @Naviar-records @appliedacousticssystems @gforce-software

This comes from a groovy, slow-funk spy-thriller track— Fender telecaster and jazz bass, tenor sax, drums, synths, and percussion — originally written for a producer’s call that never made it through. For this week’s challenge, I decided to destroy it. I kept just a few fragments — scattered guitar and bass phrases, some sax phrases— and rebuilt the track with ambient layers and unsettling texture...

Abstract ambient instrumental with a gentle pulse — playfully shifting between major and minor moods. Layered synthesizers (10 tracks across 6 synths), all performed in real time — no sequencing, just hands-on, old-school playing. Inspired by this haiku: an autumn nightfall the skeleton of a huge fish drawn back by the sea. — Saitō Sanki (1900–1962) Photo by DD (Iceland, 2024) @naviar-records

Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy. This track is a dark, mysterious duet between electric bass and thunder — attitude, rumble, and grit. Photo by Artur Stanulevich Gear used: electric bass with Seymour Duncan pedal tremolo, Lexicon reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive echo. Thunder and storm sounds sourced from my vau...

A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures. Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the kind of track that lives between a modal jam and a chill-out or lounge beat. Performed by DD - clavinet, electric bass, abstract synth, drum program. With Miguel Yanover - Tenor saxophone For this @disquiet challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/di...

A four-minute ambient journey built from four evolving one-minute drones — each exploring a distinct emotional landscape. Major to minor, light to dark, tension to abstraction: 00:00 – 01:00 → Luminous, joyful 01:00 – 02:00 → Dark, melancholic 02:00 – 03:00 → Anxious, tense 03:00 – 04:00 → Abstract, strange Synthesizers and acoustic instruments blend seamlessly to create a warm, organic soundscape...

Full synth pastiche built around real NASA mission recordings. Recorded and finished in one day (Thu, Oct 2). Retro-futuristic, spacey, and playful — first contact imagined through electronics. Cover photo: Venice, CA, ~20 years ago. for this challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0718-planet-jam-it/

“Glissando” – an abstract orchestral–ambient soundscape with a cinematic edge. Blending real instruments and string samples, it evokes the mood of a modern trailer soundtrack: immersive, expansive, and atmospheric. For this haiku: naviarhaiku613 Star above the peak - a silk worm-breeding village silently asleep Poem by Mizuhara Shuoshi Photo by Fabrizio Conti

I’ve been exploring the drone possibilities of the ronroco. Although it’s a high-pitched instrument with picked strings that produce short, percussive transients, it can be layered and softly strummed to create a surprisingly sustained sound. In this piece, I combine those textures with my own bowed upright bass and generous layers of long reverbs,trying to create an all acoustic, atmospheric soun...

A second sax take from this tracks served to create this new one: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/golpe-de-suerte https://ffm.to/outlaststhefall Inspired by this haiku dropped glass - its ring outlasts the fall A duo jam (electric bass and tenor saxophone) I've been tweaking for a couple of months, ading textures and more subtle rhythmic elements. Performed by Miguel Yanover (tenor sax) and Dan...

Slow instrumental jam, electric bass, bass synth, drum beat, clavinet, synths with Gustavo Bulgach (saxophones) @gustavo-bulgach