Disquiet Junto Project 0707: Chain of Practice

The Assignment: Make music from how you make music.

This project is the third of three that are being done by the Disquiet Junto in collaboration with the 2025 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 3 through 7. The festival topic this year is « Kette » — which translates, as the organization explains, to “Chain.” All three Junto projects this year engage with the work of Svetlana Maraš, who is the Composer-in-Residence for the 2025 festival.

We are working again at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who is in charge of the educational activities of the festival. Tobias helped prepare this week’s compositional concept.

Step 1: Think about your artistic practice.

Step 2: Write down one sentence that in some manner describes your artistic practice.

Step 3: Record yourself, or someone else, reading the sentence that resulted from Step 2.

Step 4: Use the recording made in Step 3 as the sole source material for a new musical/sonic composition.

Details: disquiet.com/0707

Deadline: Monday, July 21, 2025, 11:59pm (just before midnight) wherever you are.

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (July 17, 2025) at https://disquiet.com/0707, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). This is our third project this year in collaboration with Musikfestival Bern.

Disquiet Junto Project 0706: Tile One On

The Assignment: Make the most of your bathroom.

This week’s project has just one step: record something that makes use of the acoustics of your bathroom. (Or someone else’s bathroom.)

Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details at https://disquiet.com/0706/

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (July 10, 2025) at https://disquiet.com/0706, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme is ... bathrooms.

opening page one of 'a canticle for leibowitz' for this week's #disquietjunto https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0705-brother-francis-gerard-of-utah

For this week's Disquiet Junto, I took inspiration from the opening sentence of David Byrne’s _How Music Works_: “I had an extremely slow-dawning insight about creation.”

#disquietjunto #disquiet0705 #experimental

https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/a-slow-dawning-insight-about

Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start

The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

Step 1: Choose a favorite book, or simply choose one at random.

Step 2: Read — preferably aloud — the first sentence in the book’s text.

Step 3: Make music that somehow reflects the line you read in Step 2.

Deadline: Monday, July 7, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: https://disquiet.com/0705/

Did I manage to make 8 bits sound peaceful, or is this yet another sinister song?

https://soundcloud.com/coralineada/the-cloud-gate-loop

Disquiet Junto Project 0704: Right on Cumulus

The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video.

Step 1: You’re going to record 8-bit music (or something approximately like it). If you’re not familiar with means by which to do so, read up a bit. Also, there may be some discussion on the Lines (llllllll.co) message board for those new to it.

Step 2: In 2002, the media artist Cory Arcangel created a work of art titled Super Mario Clouds, which removed everything from the 1985 Super Mario Bros. video game except the blue sky and passing clouds. This means that Arcangel’s video was silent, because also excluded was Koji Kondo’s classic score. Read up about the work, which is well-documented.

Step 3: Part of the reason that the original Super Mario Bros. music wasn’t included in Super Mario Clouds may have been to do with how it, naturally, wasn’t aligned with how sedate the Arcangel hack turned out to be. Please now record very sedate 8-bit music that does feel aligned with Super Mario Clouds.

Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: https://disquiet.com/0704/

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (June 26) at https://disquiet.com/0704, and go out at the same time to the email list (https://juntoletter.disquiet.com). This one involves making 8-bit music.

semi randomly skipping through a drum loop for this week's #disquietjunto
https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/disquiet0703-random-access-break