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-8 tracks of Tibetan bowls (drone and hits) some treated and pitched.
-2 tracks of Koshi chimes, one natural, another pitched 8ve low
-1 track of Ultra Analog VA synth pad
-40 seconds Lexicon reverb, delays, convolution reverb

Performed by DD , June 2018 Paris, France.
Photo by @ablaut
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Cretaed for Ambient Online “image inspired dare 27”

Composed and performed by DD
Accordina
Multiple upright basses (pizz and bowed, string section)
Glockenspiel
Classical guitar
Ukulele (mandolin style picking)
Harmonium
Violin and viola samples (several sample libraries)

Dedicated to:
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Mario Averbuj
Andrea Averbuj
Die Stadt Wien
Mr Kite

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Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France, May 2018.
Tibetan bowls
Shakuhachi
Melodica Hohner
Treated dulcimer
Clocks
Tongue drums (treated)
Matrix 12 synth pad
Voices

Music for this haiku:
“A snail
raising its horns:
edge of the well”

Photo by Benjamin Robin Jespersen
Poem by Natsume Sôseki

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:
disquiet.com/0331/

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

Genetically modified clarinet by Gustavo Bulgach
Image by Casey Horner
Poem by Taneda Santoka

Nylon string electric bass, stratocaster guitar, samples and synths by DD

This haiku inspired the music:

“the milky-way
at midnight
a drunkard dances”

April 2018, Paris and Los Angeles.
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Clarinet performance inspired by Yusef Lateef and performed by Gustavo Bulgach in Los Angeles, recorded on his telephone and sent to Paris where it was edited, harmonized and used as the basis of this composition, added Fender Rhodes, Upright Bass, brass samples and electronica.

Music for this haiku:
“he won’t go to sleep
unless we play him the tune
that keeps him awake”

Poem by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Photo by Vladimir Malyavko

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music boxes
carillons
clock bells
metal tubes
FM8 synthesizer
Geo Generator

performed by DD in Paris, France, April 2018.

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created for Ambient Online Image inspired Dare 26

Created for:
Disquiet Junto Project 0328: Sonic Pentimento
That word is “pentimento,” which is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist.” Familiarize yourself with the term.
Think about how the term “pentimento” can be borrowed from painting and applied to sound.

Recently I could get my hands on a collection of music boxes my mother had and that I adored when I was a little child. I have that stuff in my place now, along with a big clock with a gorgeous carillon with the “Big Ben” melody.

For this junto I sampled those objects from the past and composed a melody reminiscent of the music-box melancholic type of melody, performed on a nice freebie for Kontakt called “W Music Bow”

I mixed all that with some oneiric soundscapes and played around the faders to bring the music from the past back and forth.

Created by DD
Friday 13th April 2018.
Image by Johannes Vermeer

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A Ghostly Melody (naviarhaiku222)

Piano
Soundscape (synths and samples)
Reverbs
Delays

April 2018, Paris France

“Ghostly melody
follows me into my day
fragment of a dream”

Poem by Jason Richardson highku.blogspot.co.uk

Picture by Casey Horner unsplash.com/@mischievous_penguins

Sine waveforms from these synths:
z3Ta
Emu Vintage Keys
Ultra Analog by AAS

Vinyl noise sampled from my personal collection.

Created on a rush, March 31st 2018 in Paris for:
Disquiet Junto Project 0326: Wave Turntable
The challenge: Compose a short piece of music using only sine waves and the surface sounds of vinyl played on a turntable. Those two sources are inspirations for the Clay/Fischer exhibit.

More on Clay and Fischer at:
dclaymusic.com 7
feather2pixels.com

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

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CCCXXVII was created for Disquiet Junto Project 0327: Time Zoned
Engage with the number 327. Compose a piece of music with three separate and distinct through-lines. Think of each of the three lines as an individual voice. The important thing is that the three through-lines occur in your composition simultaneously. One voice should be in 3/4 time. One should be in 2/4 time. And one should be in 7/4 time.

Thanks Marc, Ethan and Nate for an excellent, inspiring challenge.

I created 3 grooves:

Upright basses(x3 bowed) playing a 2/4 tango groove
DX7 playing my favourite 7/4 gimmick (I used it all over the place since 1988)
Lead Saw synth playing in ¾

Each accompanied by a drum loop using the same sounds but in the matching time signature.

I played separately over a click track you can hear (a string sample and an arpeggiator)

Then I did a mash up of the 3 to create polyphony. It is complex, progressive and a bit chaotic but was a lot of fun.

It goes like this:

7/4
2/4
3/4
3/4 + 2/4
3/4 + 7/4
7/4 + 4/4
7/4 + 4/4 + 3/4

Cheers

DD

Created Friday 6th April 2018 in Paris, France

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