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 response
Some automated LFO  filter on a long Valhalla reverb

Created on the first hours of Friday July 1st 2022.

For this challenge: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0548-drone-vox/

Photo by Jason Rosewell

Be Vocal (disquiet0548)

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

October Groove N°2 (disquiet0551)

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

Night Walking (naviarhaiku452)

This is a recent rework of a previously shared track, 
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/silencio-first-demo-version

I reduced and simplified the arrangement and instrumentation, and I feel that this one's the good version for proper release (but I might be wrong), so it is my first 2023 single.


Shared on Feb/2nd/2023 for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves

This is the version I finally released,
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RG0q9pSfrl725mBlcLqjf?si=42df3429ed664047

Silencio (version 2) disquiet0579

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)

Second try (I think the first one is too "full")
Used @lazenbeeindustries track https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/five-days-a-week-disquiet0591

Added a 808 kick-bass and played around with some filters and distortion 
Photo by Vince Gx

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/

@lazenbeeindustries

Two Days a Week - disquiet0592 with LazenbeeIndustries

A work in progress / abandonded track from early 2023, finished and remixed June 1st 2023.
This track, I created earlier this year for the same proto-jazz proyect that generated my track for [junto0584](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/nocturnal-studio-jam-number-2) this was intended to be a jazz-lounge jam, I recorded the electric piano part over a jazz drum loop and a walking upright bass, then decided that I wanted a more lounge/funky beta and grabbed a different loop. I clicked on the wrong loop-file an dI got this weird electro-beat that completely destroyed the track's jazz feel. I tried to re record the bass, with a fretless bass, more soul-funk groovy but it didn't work, it was too hybrid.

So as the track evolved from a jazz jam to...well, this; I decided to tweak a couple of things, mix it and share it with you as my example of Phylogeny.

Recorded early 2023 by DD in Paris, FR,
Fretless bass guitar
Electric piano
Drum loops and synthesizers.

Photo by myself, [Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece some years ago]


For this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0596-phylogeny-junto/

Phylogeny (Jazz at the Achilleion Palace) - disquiet0596

Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

Electric guitars and bass by DD, recorded 2010, reworked and mixed June 2023.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda
Picture by Diego PH

@naviar-records

different version here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/spring-meadow

Early Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)

Harmonium
Fretless bass
Arpeggiators/Synths
String orchestra samples.

I often work with arpeggiators, and I like to combine their kinetic, steady pulse with ambient parts, rubatto and floating.I particularly like to add acoustic "real" instrument to and icy electronic arpeggiator synth. I do like all those contrasts : rhythmic vs floating, acoustic vs electro, tense vs relaxing cold vs warm etc

Here I had an old , unused acoustic Indian Harmonium improvisation, played rubatto, no tempo, no click.
I tried to add more floating tracks, a fretless bass melodic impro, some string samples, etc but still didn't quite go nowhere..A menacing, repetitive and obsessive ARP could save the track, I thought.

So I tried to add a tempo-sync arppeggiator, but it was difficult to find a right tempo for the ARP track, rhythm that makes sense with the ambient pace. To make it worst, the Harmonium did start to play a more rhythmic bit around the 01:53 mark, and the rhythm didn't quite fit. Tried many different tempos and mixes, this is what I got Friday 6th October 2023 in the morning, before I have to abandon this and go to work..


Performed by DD (Jul 2020 Harmonium, Oct 2023 Fretless, Synths, Strings)
Photo by Amit Kumar

For the challenge "Step 1: Think of something related to making music that you do a lot. Step 2: Think of an alternate way to do it that challenges your habits.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0614-alternate-route/

Alternate Harmonium  (disquiet0614)

Hi, lately I’ve been working a lot (for a professional assignment) on orchestral soundscapes, so my previous Soundcloud shares were done using sample libraries, a friend’s cello performance and my own upright basses (using my bow)

This one, recorded yesterday and edited and finished today (Friday the 27th Oct 2023 is just me and my multitracked bowed bass , to achieve a noisy, creepy tone I didn’t use any rosin on the bow, so i could get some nasty tones bowing very hard and all around the strings. It was fun, just improvising one track on top of the previous and playing around some cathedral convolution reverbs, a Lexicon Hall at 18 seconds and one instance of the great Valhalla Supermassive (always useful for this stuff, with the right settings it transforms a noisy harmonic into a gorgeous sustained pad )

This one’s dedicated to William Burroughs and is called Rotten Ectoplasm.
Happy Halloween to everybody.

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0617-haunt-scape

Rotten Ectoplasm (disquiet0617)

I seldom work like this: creating a charged “full steam” pattern and placing it at the end of a crescendo, then moving backwards removing stuff till there’s nothing left at the beginning. I did it with drum programs a lot, but also with repetitive stuff (pianos, guitars) à la Reich/Riley. I like to have an idea of my “tutti”, my maximum peak in density and intensity, then going there from zero.
This track, recorded today Friday November 10th 2023, started with a programmed drum beat (using for the first time in decades my good old Alesis D4 module that remained unplugged in my rack, just to fill a space)
To complete I added two tracks of a Matrix 12 synth and cello samples (noisy)
The patter is 16 beats long but never in 4x4 time signature, it does something like 7x8 + 6x8 + 3x8
The synths are in straight 4/4.
The weirdness of the drum patter becomes evident as we progress and more elements appear.

The photo is mine, I can’t recall what that is. Paris 2019, it says in the folder…

for
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0619-beat-accrual/

Bad Beat (disquiet0619)

Jam session en el estudio.
Paris, martes 13 de Junio 2023.

Raúl Barboza: acordeón
Santiago Arias: Bandoneon
Daniel Díaz: bajo acústico

Improvisación en torno a Ferviente Ilusión, vals de R. Barboza.

ferviente ilusión (studio jam) barboza+arias+diaz

Hi, I imagined a ball bouncing on that concrete room (photo).
The room is huge.
the ball is hollow and metallic.


Used:
Hang (treated with a bouncing delay fx)
Synthesized field recording
Filtered and treated field recording.

Recorded on December 22nd 2023  during the morning.

for this junto:https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0625-noise-ceiling

Ball Bouncing in This Empty Room (disquiet0625)

Piano
String quartet (harmonics) by Cinesamples
Orchestral drones by Spitfire

Photo by DD, Oslo Concert Hall.

Today I tested and old sample library and a new one I've got to compare their sounds. I used the junto prompt as inspiration for my tests.

I'm a small time alchemist, so I didn't went too far into the transformation. I just wrote a simple piano piece, I submerged the piano piece into some some string orchestra as a potion (a plugin called Fragile String Evolutions) and you can hear the piano piece already evolving. Then the theme is played one last time on some distant, noisy string quartet and low strings (from Cinesamples' Quatre Harmonics).
There's some sort of hi pitched pump organ, that's a mistake (I forgot to mute a test track) , I decided to keep it there in the background.

For this junto: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers

Alchemical Academia (disquiet0628)

Simple guitar arpeggios and string soundscapes, with felt piano and ukulele overdubs.
Inspired by this haiku:

vernal seas…
all day long swelling, falling
swelling, falling

by: Yosa Buson

I took the picture one springtime on the northern coast of France (Normandy)


https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku525-vernal-seas/

Vernal (Cuando Los Dioses Hablan) - naviarhaiku525

trailer miusic using my new "toy", @cinesamples musio libraries.

january 25th 2024
sample libraries by dd
photo by rob simmons


https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Orchestralscapes (Trailer) - disquiet0630

"Take one held tone and make it dance slowly"

HI, I used a single Saw waveform playing a C note. I made it evolve using the Mod-wheel mapped to filter frequency cutoff and the knobs and faders of my midi controller mapped to tweak filters and LFO in real time.
Recorded two parallel tracks, one tweaking a square waveform LFO1 mapped to "volume" , the second track tweaking a pulse LFO2 mapped to Filter-Cutoff.



For:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/

It's Only A Saw Waveform (disquiet0631)

A "trailer" track I've been working on requests this past week.
Synthesizers, orchestral samples, percussion, arpeggiators.


For this haiku:

ore train
bright colors
passing quickly

by: Jerome Berglund

Photo by CHUTTERSNAP

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku527-ore-train/

Dark Colors Passing (Trailer) - naviarhaiku527

Used the source audio + electric bass (base and harmonics), drums+programming+synth pad+bells

Friday March 1st during the morning in Paris.

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1

More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/

the unbearable loss of a train passing - disquiet0635

Trailer music with bowed upright basses, string orchestra , percussion and effects.
Composed an performed by Daniel Diaz, February/March  2024

For this haiku:

The first thunder
Is likely to shake
The tiered doll stand.


Haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigoto
Picture by Victor Chartin

@naviarrecords

Baltic Thunder - naviarhaiku531

Hi, today I had a great recording session in duet with the great Bobby Rangell, from Denver, Colorado, my "to-go" flute player. It was an ambient  bass & flute gig.
The volume of certain pedals is a bit out of control, I kept tweaking that, but this is the only test recording I did, straight to stereo .I started earlier to set up all my pedals and practice a little bit, and recorded this impro as a test.
Here for you to treat, mistreat, chop, pitch, mutilate, whatever.

Nothing great happened, but it's a nice texture and sound...
E minor.


Cheers DD


Recorded Thursday 7th March 2024 around 10AM in Paris, France.

for

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0636-left-1-of-3/

Live Bass Soundscape - disquiet0636

I used Tristan Louth-Robins  (@red_robin) guitar track as a basis for this. 

https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0636-epochs-left-1-of-3-72-bpm

I added electric bass, playing a quite standard bass line and some harmonics.

This still sounds like a "basic track", hope somebody has an idea to complete this next week.
This collaboration between two austral guys is called Australopithecus.

I did alter the original to suit my taste, I added an intro (copy paste form the original's first bars) 'cause Tristan's track started a bit abruptly. And then added the coda using an Ecophlex tape delay simulation. My best contribution to the track  if you ask me.
So , yeah, I didn't follow rule number 3 "When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all" so shoot me!
The pitch here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/

Australopithecus - disquiet0637 with tristan louth robins

Based on 
https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0636-1of3-implexus
by @tunelight

My soft R panned synth track (a soloist impro using a mono lead on AAS Ultra Analog) over his L panned original.

I improvised over 6 tracks from last week to see what happened on "first take" , decided to keep 3 for the second week.
Today, while choosing just 2 to share here, I decided to keep this one, even if I didn't develop nor edit my take I thinks it's nice to have a pure 2 synth duet and I like his basic track (reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "...Found Harmonium" track) and my impro as as good as I can get, it is rambling  but I am  really happy with of it.

I interpreted his title as "I'm Plexus" before realizing that  implexus was a thing...
Too late, my track was already titled "We'r Plexus"...


The pitch here:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/

WERPLEXUS - disquiet0637 w/tunelight

I liked this track by  he_nu_ri (@user-807707609) & mikey_a (@mikey_a)
https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/both-sides-of-the-river-disquiet0637

I just jammed on top of it with my accordina but it was too much of the three of us, so I split the stereo original, separated he_nu_ri,  mikey_a and myself on 3 tracks (softly panned like the original with mine at centre) and made some very creative use of the delete button, as Eno used to say.

That created some space that I then filled with huge reverbs. I’m afraid I didn’t really honoured the source track on this one, but it is done so I better share it.

For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

photo by wynand uys

@disquiet

all three sides of the river [with he_nu_ri & mikey_a] disquiet0638

Krautrockish
I promise I was thinking on making this a bit Krautrock when I started, doesn’t sound like that now, I guess...

Based on rightward [disquiet0637] by LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright
https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/rightward-feat-john-wright-disquiet0637

I just added a 808 kick and played bass. Most satisfying and less time consuming on the lot, but I don’t think it works, a 4th (soloist) part is needed IMHO.

dedicated to the guy in the photo, god bless him..

#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

@lazenbeeindustries @disquiet @thgirwnhoj



Krautrockish (with LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright) disquiet0638

I dunno, maybe it's springtime in sunny Paris, but I felt the urge for some old disco vibes. 
So I went for the duo. Lefty Drone, Right English disquiet0637
https://soundcloud.com/skylarkduquesne/lefty-drone-right-english-disquiet0637
by skylark duquensne (David Totten)  and alanblip

I didn’t change the original tracks at all, I behaved this time.
I added a beat, for that 50 years old euro-disco vibe and then jammed on a lead synth that brought this to some sort of proto-disco-floyd.

Four on the floor man, you can’t go wrong…

It was fun.


#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/

@disquiet
@skylarkduquesne
@alanblip


the grounding of an english lark (with skylark duquensne and alanblip) disquiet0638 trio

An old track, released by Indiesonics/Warner Chapell in 2019 titled "Country Ways". This is an unreleased  alternate version with slightly different structure and a flute track (never heard before) by the great Bobby Rangell from Denver, Colorado.
Rescued from the vault today.

For the haiku 
Deep in the mountains
Falling into my heart
Autumn streams"

Haiku by Shinkei
Picture by Zoe


@naviarrecords

Falling Into Autumn Streams - naviarhaiku537

Recorded by DD on the night of April 25th to 26th 2024.
Samples, voices, cello, treatments.

For this junto:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0643-stone-out-of-focus

ageless stone (disquiet0643)

Composed and perforemd by DD
Piano, Upright bass.

From "The Long One"

https://awal.lnk.to/h6X2b

(C)&(P)2020 DedeLand Records

Photo by anant jain

After The Rain

Soundtrack for my possible birthday party one day...
(I stopped throwing birthday parties for myself decades ago)

This is a weird track, that started with a drum track (performed by Javier Estrella in Paris 20 years ago) for a project I was working that was scrapped and never used.
A couple of years later, when that project was confirmed dead, I removed all the other instruments and vocals and recorded a Hammond Organ and an upright bass part (again in Paris, different studio) just jamming around.
It had the charm of real instruments and real musicians playing but was really pointless.

Some years later I was recording my old upright piano in Buenos Aires and found this drums & bass jam on my hard drive and recorded a piano take on top of that, performed on that old piano.
Some years later I was travelling to Argentina again, bringing my laptop and microphones to make some recordings, and visiting family in Villa Gessel found my old requinto (one of the few instruments I left behind when moving away from Argentina) and decided to add a take to this "forever-ongoing-jam".
That master, never used, was mixed to be shared today May 2nd 2024.

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon
The Assignment: Record music for a party of your choosing.

Step 1: Imagine a party you want to attend.

Step 2: Write some music that would be appropriate as background music for that event.

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona

November Party Groove (disquiet0644)

Composed and performed by Daniel Díaz (in lockdown in Paris, April 2020)
Ukuleles
Upright bass
Music box samples
Vibraphone
Voices
Udu drums
Bass drums & bombo
Synthesizers


Inspired by this haiku:

Creativity,
for which springtime light is lit
like fire in my mind

haiku by Raymond Stull @stull
photo by Azzedine Rouichi

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/04/22/naviarhaiku329-creativity/

Meridional Lullaby For Springtime Light (naviarhaiku329)

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
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.

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