C'était une balade très agréable, Merci.

to me, adequately surreal, being in a room of human gestures, yet with nobody there; perhaps turning abruptly only to confirm no one was behind you, and realise you had not been there yourself

this is outerwordly, Daniel. A masterpiece

Always Just Beyond

Moog Subharmonicon (chords) & DFAM (bells) with my DIY Minimoog clone (bass), all run through an Alesis Quadraverb – and some more FX in post.

Slumber

An exploration of Bloom Ten Worlds from Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers.

Bloom World 7 - 092725

A test mix of a new Proof of Utah track. 
The yellow turtle is located towards the top left and just beyond the edge of the image.
music: mike brosco & louie simon
image: suzanne rinehart

Yellow Turtle (w/Louie Simon)

jholrohn_03

Music by Mauricio Balma,  E-Mu Command Station with Shock Treatment ROM expansion onboard.  No masterization Oct 05 2025

DebrisGhost

yotoloun

L'atlas n°1 "Le Songe de Filaments"
Composition acousmatique d'après la partition graphique de Ju-An Hsieh


Composition acousmatique : Shih-Lin Hung (洪世霖)
Partition graphique: Ju-An Hsieh（謝茹安）

L’atlas n°1 “Le Songe de Filaments”

Played a vintage, GDR era, analog string synth (Vermona Piano-Strings) with some keys taped down to free my hands. Sent it through a filter bank emphasizing the vocal formants and then into a legendary phaser pedal with wooden cheeks. Accompanied by Moog Subharmonicon and a simple bass patch on the modular synth.

Airborne

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

Track list and start times:
00:00  Lambwool – Downpour of Fire
05:57  Hawkwind – The Night Sky
08:00  Llyn Y Cwn – The Great Henge
12:46  Loo(p)cy – Earth Calling / Northern Stars
19:23 Radio Free London – At the Edge of Forever
24:07  Aultone – Forty two [disquiet0225-serialcomposition]
30:15  Edø Pisto Sømi – 3 state steady
36:45  Gregg Skloff – Divined
44:50  Philippe Deschamps & Relief – Shifting Horizons
48:15  Serena Gabriel – Celestial Diadem
54:55  Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 1
1:02:47  Dionisaf – Pollination
1:06:21  Walter Fini – Deconstruction Reconstruction
1:14:21  Snakeskin – Olive groves
1:19:56  Gregg Skloff – Conveyed
1:28:27  Hawkwind – The Black Sea
1:29:35  Philippe Deschamps – In the Wake of Ceres
1:33:44  Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – Short Poem for Aretha Cooper
1:38:36  wellenhafen – FM SQ FX EX
1:44:10  Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 4
1:52:10  windspace – Drawing The Autumn Light - naviarhaiku612
1:56:32  Serena Gabriel – Izar (excerpt)
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Image:Lexica.art


Eclectic current – The rumoured death of reality

Treated (muted) upright piano
Orchestral samples (treated and mistreated) 
Music box sample
Synthesizers.
Bowed dulcimer (sampled)

Composed and performed by DD in a rainy Paris on Friday December the 7th during the whole day.

Created for the 362nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Operational Surrealism
This track might not be the most surrealist of the lot for this junto, an uplift little melody, a simple "ballade" or "comptine" if you want. But one thing is sure, this track is beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.

Treated (muted) upright piano
Orchestral samples (treated and mistreated) 
Music box sample
Synthesizers.
Bowed dulcimer (sampled)

Composed and performed by DD in a rainy Paris on Friday December the 7th during the whole day.

There's a word play with the double or simple L in _ballade/balade_ for the French speakers, don't know which one makes more sense for the title and artwork. Should ask Mr Magritte....

More on this 362nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Operational Surrealism / The Assignment: Make a piece of music informed by a key text from the art movement — at:
https://disquiet.com/0362/ 1

Thanks to Peggy Nelson, for having proposed this project.

Ceci n'est pas une ballade (disquiet0362)

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
Genre fluid music for images / instrumental / contemporary post-fusion / experimental jazz / electro acoustic ambient / melodic noise / neoclassical / naive hard core / cosmopolitan world music.

bio here:
http://dedeland.com/daniel-diaz-bio/


In some words:
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Born in Argentina,
I studied music in Buenos Aires, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris.

For 20 years, I developed an important career as a session and backing musician in Argentina and Europe, playing, among other instruments, the bass, touring and recording with many jazz, rock, fusion, world, Latin and tango bands.

At the same time, I worked as an arranger, producer and musical director with many projects and artists in the USA, Argentina and Europe.

From 1992 to 1997, I performed my compositions live with my own band in Buenos Aires and began a solo recording career with the worldwide release of my first album "The Years Alone" on the North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile. On this album I arranged and performed 11 of my songs written between 1986 and 1993. I played most of the instruments, but included guest appearances by some great South American players.

My recording career continued with "Segundo Ciclo" (1997), released worldwide by Timeless Records, and 12 more albums released between 2000 and 2016.

Currently, I work as an on-demand film/TV composer while continuing to play live and produce.

Ceci n'est pas une ballade (disquiet0362)

Daniel Diaz

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