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322nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (The Wanderer: Make a short piece of music that encourages the the mind’s tendency to wander)

Here my take on this, a divagating fusion piece, with no clear tonal focus, many melody glimpses that never establish completely, and to make it “worst”, something I use sometimes to create a wandering, dreamy feeling that keeps calling somewhere else from the music albeit being part of it: spoken voices mumbling around.
It starts with a famous female politician saying in the late 1940’s “Humanity is living tremendous days.
A cold materialism wants to mock the tenderness …” but when you want to focus on that it vanishes. So go ahead and wander with this one.

Fender Rhodes
Electric bass
Synthesizers
Acoustic guitar
Spoken voices

More on this 322nd weekly Disquiet Junto project
based on research by Dr. Liila Taruffi, PhD, and her colleagues) at:

disquiet.com/0322/

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Recording on the road, at 37°09’01.7″S 56°53’06.9″W

My laptop and a microphone (AKG 451).
As sound source I used what I have with me: the Requinto on the photo (taken on recording location) an instrument I bought in Tegucigalpa 22 years ago that proved to be a nice travel companion and perhaps the worst instrument I own.
A real bastard when it comes for tuning and playing comfort.

Three track created with this setup during february 2018:

Composed and performed by DD, Paris France, last days of January 2018.

Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar
Upright Bass
Accordina
Vibraphone
Synthesizer.
Field Recordings

Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France, end of a rainy January 2018.
Solo Ukulele, multiple bowed upright basses.

photo: patagonia, by christopher burns

Music for this haiku:

Under a winter moon
with shallow water
a river flows

Electric guitar (Epiphone semi-hollow body)
Geosonic sample
Field recordings by Chris Watson (ice and water)
Treatments (delay, filter, saturation, paulstrech)

Poem by Seishi Yamaguchi allpoetry.com/Seishi-Yamaguch
Picture by Teddy Kelley teddykelley”>unsplash.com/@teddykelley

Performed by DD, Paris, France, January 24th and 25th 2018

www.naviarrecords.com/2018/01/24/nav…a-winter-moon/

Performed by DD in Paris, January 22nd 2018 (ukulele, bowed upright basses)
No Synthesizers used, nor samples.

Photo by Colin Rex

Created for Ambient On-line’s Image Inspired Dare 24 (January 2018)

Lovely image, combined with the non-stop rain that’s falling since last week, it proved to be a mood setting, inspiring image.
I wanted it dark, darker, and went for a A minor drone.

This is all acoustic, no synths, no samples, every note it’s been performed here in my studio.

I recorded a basic Ukulele track, taken with 3 microphones, positioned differently in the room, two cardioid and one figuer-8 (a ribbon mic)
That allowed to experiment with different microphones and subtle texture and ambient sounds from the simple Uke performance. That combined with a large convolution reverb and three delay buses is all I used as effects.

The “tremolo” ukuleles on the intro and coda are triple tracked, the rest is one performance.
Then I added 12 tracks of bowed upright bases performing different notes of the basic Am and Dm chords, using different microphones and bowing techniques.
The basses run through the delay buses and convolution reverb.

A last track features a single upright bass A note passed through paulstrech plugin.

dd, January 22nd 2018

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Daniel Diaz:One Empty Chair (disquiet0315)

W:I:L & zanshin 残真 with Daniel Diaz: One Empty Chair[disquiet0316]

dd & disconcert: From The Left Side Looking Right (disquiet0316)

mark lentezner & dd: Twin Chairs (disquiet0316)

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