**Listen with Headphones**
**Close Eyes and Dim Lights**
This is a binaural recording of Gu, an acousmatic composition for octophonic ring of loudspeakers, composed by John Levee. The spatialization is far less accurate than the original surround sound version, but this allows the listener to still experience the piece with the convenience of headphones. Performance notes for the piece are below:

Gu

	Gu is an acousmatic composition written for playback on an octophonic ring of loudspeakers. It is divided into four movements:

	I) The Dance
	II) Brewing of the Poison
	III) Mount Greenmound
	IV) Healing

The piece draws inspiration and derives its name from the ancient Chinese magical practice of Gu, which was practiced as early as the Shang Dynasty in the fourteenth century BCE. In this ritual, women would gather on the fifth day of the fifth month at the base of Mount Greenmound and lay bowls beside the mountain’s cool streams. They would then perform a circular dance until it began to rain, and the rainwater filled the bowls, allowing snakes, lizards, and poisonous insects to bath in them. The water, full of the poisonous energy from the creatures, would be poured onto the ground under the shade of a tree, where fungus would later grow. This fungus was then turned into a paste, and used to brew a deadly poison. After the witches used this poison, their usually male victims had a very short time to find an antidote. The only known cure for Gu poisoning was to hunt down and eat the flesh of a mythical creature which lived on Mount Greenmound. The creature looked like a fox, but had nine heads, nine tails, and cried like a human baby, on which it was known to feed. At night, this creature was also accompanied by a number of spirits, both malevolent and benign.

The ring of speakers allows for a number of circular sonic movements which are meant to resemble actions such as the circular dancing of the witches, the stirring of the poison-filled pot, and the chasing of the fox around Mount Greenmound, to name a few.

-John Levee

*Contact jlevee@stetson.edu if interested in the original mix for octophonic ring*

Gu- Movement 1: The Dance (Headphone Mix)

Composed and performed by DD in Paris , France.
Electric pianos (Rhodes) , Upright acoustic piano, synthesizers.

Published by Sonoton Gmbh (contact Sonoton for any license/sync)

For this haiku:

The rain begins to fall,
sounding like my heartbeat
of the nigh

Poem by  Sumitaku Kenshin
Photo by Nick Nice
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/03/11/naviarhaiku323-the-rain-begins-to-fall/

Rain + Sound +  Night (Three Thirty Eight AM) naviarhaiku323

Upright piano, synthesizers.
Recorded @ Paris and Buenos Aires over the years...
Created for:
**Disquiet Junto Project 0428: Urban Moss**
*Step 1: Consider how many concert posters have spent time on an old telephone pole before being torn down or succumbing to the elements. Think about the wear on the wood, the rust on the vestigial staples, as time has passed.
*Step 2: Record a short piece of music that pays tribute to the accumulated echoes of past concerts promoted here over the years.*
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After both my parents died a couple of years ago I had to let go many things, most notably the family house and the bedroom where I lived my first 22 years. It was a thrill to go back to that room to say farewell, the walls were covered with posters, stickers, etc. There were a lot of concert posters glued to the wall that my parents just kept there, along with many concert ticket that I glued over. I wish I could have keep that wall! Filled with memories, there was even a Miles Davis street poster (huge) for a concert in the early 90s that never happened (Miles got ill, cancelled and died)

Then I had to let go my old piano, a century old German beast, with crackles, noises , real ivory and ebony keys and “that sound”...

I recorded a lot on it when I was living there but even in the recent years , when visiting my parents, (although I have a modern piano in my studio) I liked to bring a stereo microphone and do some recording that, when listened 10 thousand kilometres away, instantly bring me back to that piano, that room, and the past.

In this track I worked on a solo piano track I found on an old DAT, recorded at my parents’ house 15 years ago, added some hi pitched notes for the same session/DAT, then I created a pulsating synth arpeggiator and a deep bass, with a lot of subliminal blemishes like noises and interference in the background.

Cheers

DD

memories embedded in wood (disquiet0428)

Third collaboration for this week's junto joint:
This one's a more standard track, with bass, guitar, drums and an overdub of accordina.
I performed over @howthenightcame 's track https://soundcloud.com/howthenightcame/c-disquiet0430-ryan-scott-mattingly
That was his duo over @ryanscottmattingly 's https://soundcloud.com/ryanscottmattingly/rabbit-food-disquiet0429
I played standard rhythm section (upright bass) over the basic guitar+drum track, then added an Accordina improvisation over it.
It’s nice, melancholic, it was a pleasure for me, cheers
dd

For this Disquiet Junto Project 0431: Solitary Ensembles x 3
The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…tary-ensembles-x-3/

Solitary Trio - disquiet0431 (collaboration w/  htnc & ryan scott mattingly) -

Composed and performed by D.D. in Paris, April 2020.
Voices
Bowed upright basses (regular notes and harmonics)
Treated orchestral samples
Electronica

Photo by Annie Spratt

For this weekly joint:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0435-woodshed-report/

Dried Flowers Minimal Voices (disquiet0435)

Daniel Díaz: bowed upright basses, voices (Paris , April 2020)

For this haiku:
A bird flew past
very close
a white feather fell

haiku by @unden 
photo by evie s

White Feather & Minimal Voices (naviarhaiku330)

Electric guitars (3 x stratocaster)
Upright bass
Synthesizers
May 21st 2020.

For this haiku:
"A wild sea-
In the distance over Sado
The Milky Way."

Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz
Photo by Davide Baraldi
Poem by  Matsuo Basho

@naviar-records

The Milky Way Sea (naviarhaiku333)

Live in the studio improvisation:
daniel diaz: electric bass guitar
andré charlier: drums

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0455: Inner Invertebrate
The Assignment: What does a moment (or a day) in the life of a jellyfish sound like to a jellyfish?

I hate to be lazy and use something I was working on instead of something new sparked by the actual challenge, but sometimes time is our tyrant and I was fascinated by this forgotten masters, some live-in-the-studio improvisations with awesome French drummer André Charlier that I discovered some days ago.
Captured while we were warming up for a recording session years ago. This was on tape but never used nor listened to, and I've been taking some nice bits out of it for further use. These are all ad-lib, abstract and weird soundscapes, no groovy bass 'n drums at all.
This is an abstract, floating groove-less & creepy track.

And I think it fits the challenge perfectly cause, o be honest:

- Invertebrate folks listen to beat-less music, I'm pretty sure. 
- Jelly fish are creepy little  beings.


Photo by Daria Polishchuk


@disquiet
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0455-inner-invertebrate/

invertebrate duet improvisation (disquiet0455)

This one (as the track I posted just yesterday [here](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/vidala-del-grand-canyon)) are part of a series of documentary music from 2006-2007 that  I got the rights back.

Now I'm in the process of re-thinking, remixing and recycling, giving a new life to these forgotten instrumentals.

Yesterday track was "Jujuy meet Arizona", this one is pure LA PUNA, an average 3500 meters height desert/plateau where this kind of simple, powerful folk melodies resonate from the distance. 

DD: bombo leguero, rain stick, small percussion, acoustic bass guitar.
Miguel Ballumbrosio: Cajon peruano
Manuel Miranda: Flutes

Remixed Friday 16th October, Paris France.

Photo by Toimetaja Tolkeburoo

Second part of the same masters jere: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/la-puna-part-ii
For this weekly project:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0459-from-a-distance/

La Puna, 3500 meters high (disquiet0459)

More on this 459th weekly Disquiet Junto project, From a Distance (The Assignment: Make music intended to be heard from afar), at:

https://disquiet.com/0459/

tālu {Disquiet0459}

Created by DD on Friday October 23rd 2020
Synthesizers (8 tracks, mostly arpeggiators)

for this challenge: Creative Destruction
The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound.

Step 1: Through some multi-step process, arrive at a complicated, tortured sound. Keep track of how you got there.

Step 2: Record a piece beginning with the end result: that complicated, tortured sound. Then transition to the start of the process and build back up to the end result, slowly repeating how you got you there.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0460-creative-destruction

I created a very slow nice and tame, sequence with several arpeggiators playing complementary riffs in C minor. 

To produce the tortured sound I just accelerated the master 6X.

I respected the instructions, so it is in mirror:
Chaos/Fast - Calm/Slow - Chaos/Fast 
This is how it goes, for the tortured souls that really want to listen to this:
00:00 Count down
00!01 Start at  fastest tempo, all tracks playing at once
00:12 All tracks playing, slow down starts
00:27 Slow tempo, tracks start to mute one by one
00:59 Slow tempo, basic track remains and the build up starts, each track (re)entering in turns
02:27 All tracks playing
03:10 Acceleration starts
03:39 we arrive to the beginning's tempo, and finish

photo: bicycles, scooters and other things taken back from the bottom of the Seine river in Paris 2020.

The Construction And Deconstruction Of Chaos (disquiet0460)

Multimedia Publishing and Production Company

Gu- Movement 1: The Dance (Headphone Mix)

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