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Featuring Jorge Luis Borges' voice, reading his text "Borges y Yo" I spent the late night of Thursday and some very early hours of Friday 14th/Oct developing this impromptu composition, my "live" upright piano, some synth and samples and Borges voice from his text "Borges y Yo" from the AMB release "Borges Por Él mismo" https://www.discogs.com/release/6042573-Jorge-Luis-Borges-Sus-Poemas-Y-Su-Voz...

disquiet 0562 Record something to help someone fall asleep This track I created today is supposed to help somebody fall asleep *and* have nightmares. That's licit right? I had this piano track recorded this summer using a guitar pick on my upright piano, along with some regularly played notes and chords. Very simple , very spacious and lovely natural sound. Just added some synth noises and Valhall...

New version June 2023 updated with Santiago Arias on bandoneon. Abstract experimental meditation on my home town Buenos Aires, recorded in Paris, France 2022 by myself (my upright piano, accordina, synths & noises) Photo, Buenos Aires, calle Florida, early 2002 by DD Updated version released here: https://open.spotify.com/track/4tFXgidKRxmtWrmJI0u1eY?si=8a633da90f6b4f79

Recorded Friday 23rd September 2022 in the morning. Here's my take on The Sound of All Human Knowledge, so the Wikimedia Sound Logo as opened to submissions here: https://soundlogo.wikimedia.org/ And submitted for this junto challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0560-sonic-disambiguation I created a multitracked flute (using one of my bamboo flutes from Indonesia) performing a si...

Unused old demo, re worked and mixed September 14th 2022. Composed and performed by DD (bass, drum programs, synths, samples) For this haiku: The thief left it behind: the moon at my window. https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku haiku by Ryōkan Taigu picture by Nantu Das

Improvised farewell instrumental to a dear friend. All first takes: A first electric bass take (with volume pedal) A second bass part (through a guitar amp) An electric guitar (Stratocaster) take A final acoustic (upright) piano improvisation. All edited and mixed August 12th-19th 2022 . Dedicated to Nico R.I.P. Photo by DD (Puglia, Italy 2022)

For me the image suggest stains on a table cloth, sweaty wine glasses and bottles... I started recording a beautiful plastic bottle I had around, then added some simple drums (I can't drum more that 2 things at once, so here it's bass drum and hi hat) The added some wine glasses (rubbed) and chamber crystal bowls (hit w/mallets) , some of my favourite samples. The bass it's a freebie I recently fo...

Acoustic upright piano and synthesizers. Performed during the summer 2022 by DD in Paris, France. For this haiku: night walk sudden shower- the smell of rain photo by DD haiku by Paul Engel https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku @naviar-records

Fender Rhodes (w/wah wah) Electric Guitar (w/wah wah) Electric Bass Lead Bass Drum Beat Synthesizer (Micro Korg) Recorded October 2010, mixed and shared July 2022 for this challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0551-the-bends

4 voices hard panned on L and R. An old exercise on counterpoint from my student years (this was a Fugue really) , first time I take this from ink and paper to sound and the speakers. Recorded 4 voices on piano Voices I + III on the left Voices II + IV on the right Recorded Friday July 8th in the morning. 4 pianos, reverbs and delays for the glitchy background track (the actual piano tracks on a w...

Synthesizers and stratocaster electric guitar, created on June 30th 2022, mixed July 1st for this haiku: just before sunrise the quiet mystery of dawn silences the birds @naviar-records haiku by Raymond Cobley @ray_cobley picture by Stefan Berndt

Yesterday midnight, after I got the email , I dared to sing some tracks improvising harmonies in C major. It was fun, I did some serious Melodyne, particularly on the first basic tracks (2 of them) then two more falsetto improvisations and a 5th track using pitch shift for some extreme lows. The rest is 4 reverbs: Valhalla Hypemassive Lexicon Random Hall (@22 sec) St Patrick cathedral impulse resp...

Same last week's master reworked and remixed, with great feedback from friends and colleagues (see post here: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0545-unself-awareness/56084/11?u=dede) Original track here: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/time-lapse I did not completely delete and rework from the ground, (considered it as a pretty I introduced some variation in the new 8 bar sections, d...

Rejected production music demo/ Composed and recorded may 2022 in Paris. I played guitars (using last week's rhythmic delays thing) and keyboards. Another evrsion: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/time-lapse-vers-motorik-disquiet0545 Photo by DD For this weekly junto joint: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0544-feedback-loop

For this challenge: Disquiet Junto Project 0543: Technique Check The Assignment: Share a tip from your method toolbox: Think of some technique — small or larger, simple or complex — that you employ when making music. Hi, "rhythmic delays" is my technique for this junto. This is something I use a lot, this is not the most abusive example of it, but it's really important for this track, and peculiar...

Created Thurs 19/05/2022, mixed Fri 20/05/2022 for this junto challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0542-2600-club I learned about the 2600 Hz thing and , on my usual further reading I learned a new word: Phreaking. Nice. This one's for Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου. RIP DD: synths Photo by Wendy Scofield

Previously unreleased (and un-mixed) 2006 studio collab with Pajaro Canzani. Tiple, percussions, bass For this haiku: lightning thunder and rain all speaking at once haiku by Elancharan Gunasekaran picture by Jeremy Thomas aka Tolteca 1 by Daniel Diaz with Pajaro Canzani

Snippet from an unused session for an upcoming album : Minino Garay: percussion Daniel Diaz: Upright bass, marimba work in progress, unfinished. dedicated to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond en May 5th 2022 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0540-5ive-4our

live in the studio improvisation with some percussion overdubs. (circa 2007) Pajaro Canzani (tiple, percussion) Daniel Diaz (percussion, flutes, tarka, pinkullo, pifilca) for this haiku: if a touch could heal spring rain Haiku by C.X.Turner photo by Hulki Okan Tabak @naviarrecords

Guitars, bass, drums, hammond organ... Unused demo for a production music company, 2022. photo by DD, Paris , April 2022.

If ain't broke, don't fix it. A 15 years old demo, just a production music rock cue with guitar (wahwah) bass, drums and clavinet. Remixed and shared for the first time May 2022 Nothing wrong with this one, just some background groovy music, nothing to fix really... https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0536-metaphor-play/54287

Hang Synthesizers Bowed upright basses Composed and performed by Dnaiel Diaz Published by Sonoton GmbH For this haiku high tide flapping in vertical waves a lone fish by Marilyn Ward photo by DD

Guitars, bass, drums... Unused demo for a production music company, 2022.

asynchronous mash-up for junto project 0533 with tracks by @zedkah , @paul-reiners-1 , @isonomia , @user-130801280 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0533-numbers-magik 18/MAR/2022

Two acoustic pianos Electro-acoustic soundscape composed and performed by DD March 16/17 2022 in Paris, France. For this haiku: end of rains sunny deep blue sky- winter is yet away photo: Argentinian sky by DD poem by Aju Mukhopadhyay https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/03/16/naviarhaiku428-end-of-rains/ @naviar-records