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  NO SYNTHESISERS USED. I played the same note (La – A) or a basic power chord (A-E-A)on several instruments: Upright piano Acoustic guitar (nylon string) Ukuleles (2) Charangos (2) Upright bass Electric bass guitar (2) Then I played some harmonic sparks on my bass guitar and some random hi pitch notes on the piano […]

Created for a disquiet junto challenge “Compose and record a piece of music that is 10 bpm and in 3/4 time”. Took my favourite ¾ piece, F. Chopin’s Op64 number 2 in C# minor (1847). Played the most fast moving part of it so it won’t be that boring slowed down to the insane 10bpm […]

Instrumental, melodic fretless bass (my good old Sekine custom, circa 1985). Solo fretless bass take, doubled with a moog synth and sparse synth pad on the background. Delay, panner and reverbs as only FX here. Simple “recitativo” melody, no solos, no big development other that the repeated coda/cadenza. Performed by DD, Paris, France, July 2017. […]

“Une étérnité, voir plus” Composed and performed by DD, recorded in Paris, france, September 4th and 5th 2017. All the “pad” sound come from several reverb units and plugins: infinite decay reverb, freeze reverb particle reverb, granular reverb, etc. instruments used, in order of appearance : Electric guitar (distorted power chord) bowed upright bass section […]

Out Of The Cave (El Tala) I played two charangos, two flutes (bamboo from bali and plastic flutophone from the USA), I sang four part harmonies, I played some percussion: bombo and kuntrun (from Argentina), plastic tubes, derbouka (from Turkey) and a hi pitched filtered percussion loop (that served me as metronome). The convolution reverb […]

Composed and performed by DD, Paris, France, July/August 2017 Synthesisers (Korg, Emu, z3Ta, Pentagon, Analogue Lab) String orchestra (samples) Dedicated to Angelo Badalamenti  

ECLIPSE MUSIC AUG 21st 2017 Created by DD on August 4th 2017 for: Disquiet Junto Project 0292: Eclipse Music In coordination with St. Louis Art Hack Day, make some solar-inspired tunes Synths and pulses, stratocaster guitars, ebow guitar improv. samples First eclipse is from 1:00 to 1:15 Second eclipse goes from 1:45 to 2:15

  A new “film noir” instrumental Two electric basses L-R: Schecter Jazz Bass ’62 Drake Diaz Custom 5 +Synthesizer +Drum beats +Electric guitar (Stratocaster) Performed by DD , Paris , June 2017 Part of my 2016-2017 “Film Noir” production music series. photo by thaddaeus lim

New track for TV/Films (publisher’s call) part of an electro naive series: Synthesisers and electric piano. Dedicated to Rick Wright and Simone Veil. Paris 2017. Photo by Elena Nicolai