Junto Profiles: The First 20
Something I’ve wanted to do for the longest time was not just to get to know more members of the Disquiet Junto music community, but to do so in a way that helps others get to know them. I’d attempted trial runs along these lines a few times over the years, but it only finally kicked in these past few months, when I’ve managed to interview a range of Junto participants with a wide variety of backgrounds in terms of experience, geography, aesthetics, training, and other characteristics. The first 20 are now online, and there are more to come. Here they are in reverse order of publication date, between February 6, 2023, and September 15, 2023:
Matthew Ackerman: From Los Angeles: “joyfully avant-garde,” experimenting in DAWs, collaborating online
leon clowes: From London, England: autoethnography, transdisciplinary creative practice, revisiting the music of one’s teens
Ray Cobley: From Orkney Islands, Scotland: discarding nothing, living remotely, working with Pure Data
Magnus Lindencrona (aka gis_sweden): From south of Gothenburg, Sweden: observing while commuting, working with limitations
Darren Bourne (aka halF unusuaL): From Nottingham, England: ignoring dead ends, composing for dance and theater
Kel Smith (aka Suss Müsik): From Pennsylvania: handmade electroacoustic instrumentation; reducing complexity
Paul Beaudoin: From Tallinn, Estonia (previously Boston): studying with Morton Feldman and adding beats
Ethan Hein: From New York City: teaching technology and theory, sampling Thelonious Monk
Nick Sinnenberg, aka Sinny: From New York: drumming, collaborating, opting for blemishes
Andreas Winterer, aka Krakenkraft: From Munich, Germany: breaking rules and making “boring” music
Mark Rushton: From Des Moines, Iowa: streaming live, and leaving nothing on the shelf
Michel Banabila: From the Netherlands: “Be open for anything that can happen.”
Joe McMahon, aka Equinox Deschanel: From West Virginia, now SF Bay Area: welcome imperfection, false dichotomies
Klaus-Dieter Hilf, aka RabMusicLab: From Heidelberg, Germany: Mathematics, Munich, MIDI
Jason Richardson, aka Bassling: From Leeton, New South Wales, Australia: drafting, redrafting, and collaborating
Aethyr: From Sheffield, England: eschewing perfection, tweaking genres
Kei Terauchi Sideboard: From San Francisco, California (and Japan): embracing contradictions, reading to compose
xiiixxi: From York, England: growing up with Italian opera, working with Euclidean rhythms
Ian Joyce: From the North Wales coast: soporific synths, having fun, the cat’s meow
Daniel Díaz: From Paris, France: working in film, making space, keeping a notebook
