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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 […]

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

Some solo or “soloist” bass exercises: This a transcription of an improvised introduction I performed live for Norberto Pedreira’s arrangement of Francis Lai’s “Un Homme Une Femme” movie song. @norbertopedreiratrio In January 2017 we performed the song for the first time, a bass introduction was part of the arrangement, I improvised something. We played the […]

My compilation “Landscapes, Consonances and Solitude” is now on Spotify. It seems my Spotify profile it’s finally cleaned up and only my music appears, hope it stays like this.

Created for: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]