fave listenings of this month .. 

in the pic: Ryuichi Sakamoto

"musica assoluta" (aprile 2023)

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots

The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

This project is the first of three that are being done in collaboration with the 2023 Musikfestival Bern (@musikfestival_bern), which will be held in Switzerland from September 6 through 10. The topic this year is « √ » — as the organization explains: “the radical, or square root symbol and the power of its symbolism are central to the festival and these will be translated into music in multifarious ways.” All three projects will engage with the work of Éliane Radigue, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2023 festival.

We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber (@tobiasreber), an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. This is the fifth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.

Select recordings resulting from these three Disquiet Junto projects may be played and displayed throughout the festival.

Step 1: Consider two different techniques: field recordings and feedback.

Step 2: Combine field recordings and feedback in the development of an original track.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, April 24, 2023, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, April 20, 2023.

Details: disquiet.com/0590

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots

Some experimental tracks combining classical instruments, glitch & noise, samples, field recordings, electronica and treatments.
Composed and performed by D.D.

Experimental- Noise

unterdessen in nicht ganz ruhigen Gefilden

Goodbye Mister Ryūichi

I'm so sad for this great lost. Ryūichi Sakamoto was one of my favourite artists ever. One big source of inspiration when I use piano into my tracks. This is my little personale tribute.
Have a good trip, Mister Sakamoto!

Goodbye Mister Ryūichi

fragments free

A scenic work for vocals, chants, percussion, drums, electroacoustic soundprocessing, organ and synthesizers.

Story of many

R.S. (2023)

Disquiet Junto Project 0590: Concrète Roots 
The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback

I was in Paris and brought my recorder along. Our hotel was right outside of Gare de l’Est. The little four note tune that’s at the start of the French Railroad service announcements was in the room about every two minutes, and so became somewhat emblematic of the trip. Also, there was this fluorescent tube light in the hotel bathroom that had a… je ne said quoi. Perhaps it’s the sound of arriving in a work place — a garage, storage space or studio — in the very early morning, still dark, at an hour when no one who has any choice in the matter is not in bed, everything quiet, all alone, and then this tingling, almost glitchy tone as the lights come on. You don’t see/hear them as much as you used to. 
So those recordings, together with a recording of a departing train, became the basis of this track.

The field recordings are accompanied by a feedback part, which was inspired by things I read in the llllllll cybernetic music thread: https://llllllll.co/t/cybernetic-music-roland-kayn-feedback-systems-ai/40635. 
I suppose it is a take on work by Jaap Vink. The audio signal goes into a delay, is then sent through some effects (in Vink’s setup, a ring modulator and a filter, if I recall correctly), then a reverb, and then sent back to the input, with some form of attenuation that is controlled by an envelope follower. The result is an audio signal loop that keeps its feedback in check automatically.
In my case everything was made on an iPad, which is surprisingly good and versatile for creative audio routing. Instead of a ring modulator, I used an app that has a bunch of resonators that you can actually ‘play’ using a keyboard: playing a note on the keyboard will activate the resonator tuned to that note. Playing the resonators subtly shifts/nudges the feedbacking audio into different parts of the frequency spectrum (in a way that is roughly analogous to what the ring modulator and filter do in Vink’s setup).

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

Disquiet Junto

Concrète Roots- disquiet0590

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Concrete Roots

Disquiet Junto | Concrete Roots - disquiet0590

An old fence, a gate making noises and the lawn mower of the neighbour. Field recordings with feedback in honour of Éliane Radigue.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Concrète Gate [Disquiet0590]

A walk through my mother's parking garage; a short elevator ride; snippets of a preacher's sermon; radio static; mysterious voices and glorious feedback from an Enner and a PolyD. This and more found its way into my Polyend Tracker and then into Logic with a few feedback loops using a bus trick I learned from Youtube. Hallelujah!

Disquiet0590

Thunder field recordings by Mike Koening
Wind field recordings by Chris Watson
Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar strums by me
I copied the guitar  feedbacks and manipulated it a little bit.
Recorded today, Friday 21st April 2023 during the early morning, in paris , france.
Photo by David Moum



for this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots

Feedback And Thunder (disquiet0590)

An original field recording made with stones & pebbles on the shore, with additional feedback.

More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Shore Stones (disquiet0590)

music boxes
carillons
clock bells
metal tubes
FM8 synthesizer
Geo Generator

performed by DD in Paris, France, April 2018.

Free Download


created for Ambient Online Image inspired Dare 26

Metallic Infinity Mirror

Created for:
Disquiet Junto Project 0331: Born Under a Bad Sine
What does it sound like when a robot has the blues?

Can’t quite tell for other cities, but believe me: this is  the kind of music robots like to listen to in my hometown when they get sad and low.
Buenos Aires is a melancholic city, and robots are not spared.

I won’t be surprised if this track becomes a hit among robots, my vacuum cleaner got weird while I was mixing this earlier this morning.
Me too, mind...

Bandoneon performed by Olivier Manoury, the rest by D.D.

Created in Paris, France 
Friday 4th May  2018.
Image by Franck V.


More on this 331st weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0331: Born Under a Bad Sine / What does it sound like when a robot has the blues?) at:
https://disquiet.com/0331/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

When Robots Cry in Buenos Aires

When Robots Cry In Buenos Aires (disquiet0331)

The Assignment: Record a piece of music in this imaginary genre:  “rude mechanicals.”

Went back to my vaults, all the metals and household objects  I recorded for my CD “Musique Mecanique” back in 2010. An album that could be filed under the “Rude Mechanicals” genre.
Also recorded some fresh tracks, mostly metallic objects and instruments:

Knives
Hang
Trash lid (Ikea)
Thermos (inox)
Spacedrum
Electric Bass
Chris Watson’s “Wire” samples (field recording)
Bowed upright bass noises
Metal box (percussion)

Free Download

More on this 339th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Rude Mechanicals: The Assignment: Record a piece of music in this imaginary genre) at:
https://disquiet.com/0339/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Of Metals And Mechanicals (disquiet0339)

Assignment: Record a piece of music in tribute to Terry Riley’s In C using only samples of water sounds)

Used:
Several water samples, drops on a glass, waves of the sea (Baltic and South Atlantic) , a brandy glass hit with a stick, rain drops (field recording) + several instances of Chris Watson's  Ice and Water Recordings for Geosonics. And a grand piano.

Photo by Tim Marshal

Created by DD, Paris July 20th 2018


More on this 342nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (In Sea / The  at:
https://disquiet.com/0342/

Water in C

This is National Anthem of Mordor (official version)

Composed and performed by DD:
All sorts of bowed upright basses, playing notes, noises, cries and effects.
Bamboo drums.
Guests: Hermy Wolf and Lisa Z(tortured souls)
Field recordings: insects and crazy birds on a jungle (sound bank)
More on this 392nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Another Country / The Assignment: Compose the national anthem for a fictional country — at:
https://disquiet.com/0392/ 1

Mordor National Anthem (disquiet0392)

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.

Feedback And Thunder (disquiet0590)

Daniel Diaz