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New digital EP released April 17th 2019 Available on most streaming services. https://awal.lnk.to/AutoCounterpoints .

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 […]

  Disquiet Junto Project 0371 Concrete Ambience The Assignment: What could concrete wallpaper music sound like? Step 1: Consider the concept of wallpaper music. Step 2: Consider wallpaper designed to look like concrete. Step 3: Consider what concrete wallpaper music might sound like. Step 4: Record concrete wallpaper music. I decided that concrete wallpaper music […]

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 https://awal.lnk.to/Finisterre

My creations inspired by haikus this last few months:    

New single released today April 1st 2019 Acoustic instrumental experimental using changing odd time signatures. Ukuleles (two takes left-right) Upright bass Marimbas Harmonium Drums Caxixis Analogue synth (à la Rick Wright) Composed and performed by DD, December 2018 Photo by Vivek Kumar https://awal.lnk.to/OHJPm      

I released this EP today, all performed (almost exclusively) on electric basses. https://awal.lnk.to/y9z3e Some multi tracked ambient bass, some unaccompanied bass (fretless track 2, fretted 5 string track 1, real time pedals and treatments track 4) Thanks for listening and any comments/critics are welcome. It is called Hope, Despair & Other Issues: Melodic Experimental Electric […]