This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku582-here-and-there/

SONG 76 - Naviarhaiku582

Acoustic repetitive, all real instruments:
Ronrocos
Ukuleles
Acoustic bass
Bombo legüero

Composed and performed by DD, 2024

For this haiku

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

by Kajiwara Hashin 


@naviar-records

From Heaven (naviarhaiku584)

Neither exists apart  (naviarhaiku584)

Disquiet Junto Project 0689: Supporting Players The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment.

In my improvisation setup, using acoustic instruments with electronic effects chains, I prefer using a contact microphone. This prevents unwanted audio feedback (sound from the speakers feeding back into the microphone. But it can lead to issues with accidentally bumping against the table that the instrument is on, or touching the cable of the contact mic (which is extremely sensitive to handling noise). One of the effects chains I use a lot, uses transient detection to trigger recording to a buffer in a granular synth, and doing pitch analysis to allow tuned audio effects (like a tuned resonator in a feedback path). Accidentally brushing the mic cable can then lead to some unexpected results… which I often find rather pleasing, actually.
So for this piece, I wanted to give the granulated mic cable brushes and table bumps centre stage, playing a bit of duduk as a background layer.

More on the 689th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Supporting Players — The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

Accidental support (disquiet0689)

After watching the wonderful TV series "In My Skin", I tried to compose a track to match this touching story. While playing the piano melody on my midi keyboard, I recorded the mechanical sounds of the keys using a smartphone and a dictaphone.
This recording approach was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project, but doesn't follow that prompt closely.
These recordings (treated with various effects) were mixed with the piano, and strings and synth sounds were added to the track, all to support the guiding emotion drawn from the story.

More on the 689th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Supporting Players — The Assignment: Elevate the presence of your non-instrument equipment — at https://disquiet.com/0689/

In My Skin - the Sound of Sound  (Disquiet0689)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

Thank you Marco.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
591
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

2025-05-01

steady spring rains... (Naviarhaiku 591)

May 28, 2025
IMAGE - Thomas Sander - Room installation

INSZENIERTER RAUM

A solo acoustic charango performed by me looking through the windows on my studio.
Two microphones, a great sounding room, some convolution reverb added.

Photo: the view through my windows this morning 29/May/2025

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0700-view-frame/

through my window - disquiet0700

5Jun25

My naviarhaiku596 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/
:D

not becoming unhinged [naviarhaiku596]

In history some ideas perished, others spread the world. Some of them survived quite long gaps of silence over time. 
In the end you never know if an idea came to an end or will come back some day..

The Assignment: Break apart a piece of music and fill the resulting spaces.

Step 1: Choose a piece of music (whether your own or something in the public domain) and break it into sequential pieces. You might do this to a recording, or you might place gaps between parts of a notated melody (just to provide two different ways this instruction might be interpreted).

Step 2: Now, fill the various gaps, however many there may be, resulting from Step 1.

Spoken words are taken from an article on wikinews, read by momo112, published CC-BY-SA-4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016-11-26_-_Fidel_Castro_est_mort.ogg)


A la victoire toujours [disquiet0701]

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.

through my window - disquiet0700

Daniel Diaz