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The Black Rain (dark melodic ambient) https://awal.lnk.to/theblackrain Performed by DD in Paris, January 22nd 2018 (ukulele, bowed upright basses) No Synthesizers used, nor samples. Photo by Colin Rex  

New release today: Ukuleles Etc (5 track EP ) – Daniel Diaz (ukuleles, basses, piano, string orchestra) https://awal.lnk.to/ukulelesetc          

Tibetan Bowls (experimental acoustic ambient) New single performed on several Tibetan bowls, hit and rubbed with wood mallets.   Stream and download: https://awal.lnk.to/TibetanBowls  

https://awal.lnk.to/unclasico New single, Un Clásico Andino. Instrumental World. DD: charango, upright bass, percussion, synth pad Miguel Yanover (recorder/flauta dulce) @yanomito Recorded at different times from 2013 till 2015 in Argentina, France and Spain. Photo is from Arto Marttinen    

New single released April 2019, instrumental ambient, https://awal.lnk.to/concrete Features: -Indian Harmonium as it sounds listened through concrete walls -Synths and electric piano buried on “concrete basement” convolution reverb. I routed the harmonium stereo mix through some extreme filtering to make it sound like it is played very loud inside a concrete bunker or building and […]

New digital EP released April 17th 2019 Solo instrumental performance of a simple melody and some variations (time expansion and compression, permutations and octave transpositions). All passed through long delay and echo effects to produce melodic lines that superpose upon each other creating a counterpoint, in part random and in part planned (variations have been […]

Created for: Disquiet Junto Project 0377: Algorithms Assemble Step 1: Define a scale of 8 notes (or sounds). Step 2: Create a melody with 4 notes from the scale resulting from Step 1. Step 3: Replace note 2 in the melodic sequence from Step 2 with an unused note (selected deterministically or randomly). Then do […]

  Composed and performed by DD, February 2019. Ukuleles bowed upright basses orchestral soundscape muted piano, voices synthesizer celesta slight percussion groove ( tongue drums and thunder drum). Music for this poem: “Transience Petal by petal We let go” haiku by Debbie Strange debbiemstrange.blogspot.com picture by Annie Spratt unsplash.com/@anniespratt

Challenge: Compose a work of music for sentient beings elsewhere in the universe. “Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic.” This is on more step in a research I’ve been into lately: creating music that have that “pop” catchiness and charm that stick with you, but avoiding some of the “pop” song formulas: typical pop […]

Ambient track performed exclusively on Tibetan Bowls. I used the two sound you make with this thing, _Tap_ that’s a “hit” on the edge of the bowl with the fat wood stick/mallet and a _Rub_ drone turning the stick around the bowl’s edges. Then I just pitched up and down to several different notes and […]