An exceptionally nice addition -- thanks, Daniel!

Takes me back to Bladerunner, happy to be there

Spot-on additions to our duo track, @daniel-diaz, thank you and @joe-mcmahon for keeping me great musical company.

More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3

2025-10-28

when the cherry blossoms bloomed

he wrote sonnets for you

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 textures from soft-synths fittingly called Thrill and Spooky Keys.And some distorted arpeggaitors barely heard.

What took a couple of days to construct only took two hours to tear down.I like the result: a dark, cinematic mood somewhere between spy funk and ambient noir.

Sax by Miguel Yanover
Photo by Stefano Pollio
The rest by me.

Project:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/

@disquiet

Spooky Spy - disquiet0722

Ambient Aura

MMXXVIIXFAFRSDEPD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhS1NAvym8

MMXXVIIFRSD

Heroes

wierd flex - 2025:10:31, 00.39.wav working file

Spiralling

fractal/offal n*2

Old City Sound

* "Bass Drones"
** Matthew Thomas Davis
** https://soundcloud.com/matthew-thomas-davis/bass-drones
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0429-solitary-ensembles/30277/113

* "disquiet0430" (Drums)
** vgmrmojo
** https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/disquiet0430
** https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0430-solitary-ensembles-x-2/30579/100

* Test Tones » sine log sweep up down.wav
** Timbre
** https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/157553/

* 5 note version Czech lady
** Conet Project
** https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Conet_Project/The_Conet_Project/5_note_version_czech_lady

* come back alive whisper.mp3
** LadyImperatrix
** https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/

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More on this 41st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3 — The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0431/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this track is by Abby, used thanks to a Creative Commons license and Flickr. The image has been cropped, colors shifted, and text added.

https://flic.kr/p/8LopPe

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Solitary Ensembles x 3 - disquiet0431

took the beautiful collaboration by @forcedamage and @wasabicube https://soundcloud.com/wasabicube/force-damage-own-medicine-disquiet0430
and added a bit of fretless guitar, with some compression and delay. I tried to make minimal additions--the original is so sublime.

disquiet0431 force damage own fretless medicine

This is a collaboration between Paul Rose, Douglas Scott, and Douglas Murray. Some guitar improv from Paul, an overdub by Douglas, and anther overdub of waves by me, another Douglas. I had to take the hard panned previous two tracks and mix them together with my addition, which I did in Pro Tools, with minimal effects.

Tele Sunday - Morning Light - Waves - Disquiet0431

Daniel Diaz: bowed upright basses & filters (on original track)
@MarcoLucchi; mellotron é & synth
@michel-banabila: Synthesizer

My first contribution to this collaborative challenge, based on https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/der-steppenwolf that's Marco's collaboration with michel [banabila](https://llllllll.co/u/banabila)  adding to his track [Michel-banabila – Fase-1-disquiet-0429-solitary-ensembles](https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/fase-1-disquiet-0429-solitary-ensembles)

This one really liked and puzzled me, there's a mysterious modulating sound and performance on the mellotron that  reminds me of Gregorian chant, even if the sound is no "voices" but more like a string-harmonium sound. But it evokes a bunch of ancient Greek monks on acid , recorded on an old Geloso (what won't I give to lay my hands again on my mum's old Geloso that served as my first experimental recording device when I was 6 ?) Nevermind...
Thanks to Marco and Michel for their inspiring track.


For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0431-solitary-ensembles-x-3/

der steppenwolf kommt zurück - disquiet0431 w/Marco Lucchi & Banabila

For this one I worked over this track by @encym
https://soundcloud.com/encym/oozes-two-drones-looking-for-companydisquiet0430
That is a collaboration with this original solo by @joe-mcmahon
https://soundcloud.com/joe-mcmahon/where-i-was-drone-only-disquiet-0429

I performed synthesizers (MicroKorg, Emu Vintage Keys) to add some more "regular "musical content (melodies, harmonies) to a drone track that sounded very musical to me, it was difficult to catch in terms of my reactions to it, it sounded abstract and musical, cold-experimental  and warm and sensitive, very inspiring one.
I  know I made it more "cliché" standard and less mysterious to my ears, but that's what I had to add anyway, it's ok.
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For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…tary-ensembles-x-3/

Oozes Boozes Snoozes - disquiet0431 (collaboration w/ Encym And Joe McMahon)

Third collaboration for this week's junto joint:
This one's a more standard track, with bass, guitar, drums and an overdub of accordina.
I performed over @howthenightcame 's track https://soundcloud.com/howthenightcame/c-disquiet0430-ryan-scott-mattingly
That was his duo over @ryanscottmattingly 's https://soundcloud.com/ryanscottmattingly/rabbit-food-disquiet0429
I played standard rhythm section (upright bass) over the basic guitar+drum track, then added an Accordina improvisation over it.
It’s nice, melancholic, it was a pleasure for me, cheers
dd

For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…tary-ensembles-x-3/

Solitary Trio - disquiet0431 (collaboration w/  htnc & ryan scott mattingly) -

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.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Oozes Boozes Snoozes - disquiet0431 (collaboration w/ Encym And Joe McMahon)

Daniel Diaz

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