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Solo electric guitar by DD

Music for this haiku:

“a ladder
put against an apple tree
goes through toward the sky”

image by Setuan Ajina
poem by Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963)

this track served as abase for several re-works by fellow junto creators:

https://soundcloud.com/detritus-tabu3/skimpy-dress-dd-disquiet0351-tabu-mix-of-daniel-diaz-emptiness-disquiet0350

https://soundcloud.com/octif/emptiness-is-awareness-disquiet0351-disquiet0351 .

and

https://soundcloud.com/glsmyth/fulfillment-disquiet0351 .

My own re-work of a fellow junto creaotr’s work is this one:

Bowed upright basses, cello, violin
Bowed chamber bowls
Cristal Baschet (@soniccouture)

Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France, inspired by this haiku:

“flowers of morning glory
the sky above this street
begins to overcast”

Poem by Sugita Hisajo
Photo by Milos Tonchevski

For this “Larmkunst Theme” I created glitches out of analog and tape delays, set to infinite feedback and saturation. The long coda produced by these distorted delay tails is used in edited form here and there to produce textures and contrast with the simple and pure acoustic theme.

The main theme is already online here:
Daniel-diaz – Larmkunst-main-theme

It’s a duo acoustic guitar performance
But this final version develops further the use of glitches adding radio noise and interferences and it’s a duo Acoustic Guitar + Upright bass.

This track comes from an unreleased series I created a while ago titled Auto-Counterpoint where a single melody superimposed itself by the use of very long delays w/ infinite decay and Revox tape machines.

So I wrote a melody with many variations, played the whole thing a couple of times feeding 4 or 5 delay or revox lines that recorded to additional tracks.
In the end I’ve got a 10 minute mess of 5 tracks with the same 16 measures repeated over themselves, a pandemonium of repetitions and superimpositions.

Then I made edits, creative use of the delete button and got a reasonable track.

So performed this in 10 minutes, and edit took several days to finish….

Image by aly syaaban

Charango
Upright basses
Hang/Halo/Spacedrum
Harmonium (India)

Composed and performed by DD , Argentina 2014, Paris 2015.

Simple South American rhythm performed on charango, spacedrum, hang, halo samples, upright basses, harmonium.

Original version part of my “Metal Works” collection, published and released by Sonoton GmBh (SCDV 603 “Minimalist Steel Drums” album)

Instrumental music performed on hand pans (halo, spacedrum, hang) and other electro-acoustic instruments. (Electric guitars and basses, marimba, synths, upright bass, ukelele, etc)
Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2014

DD: charango, upright bass, percussion, synth pad
Miguel Yanover: recorder (flute à bec)

Recorded at different times from 2013 till 2015 in Argentina, France and Spain.

Photo is from Arto Marttinen

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)

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