Disquiet Junto Project 0668: All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.
Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.
Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks also generally appear in the lllllll.co discussion thread.
Disquiet Junto Project 0668: All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets
The Assignment: Bury a secret sound until it is no longer identifiable.
This project was proposed by Mahlen Morris.
Step 1: Record a 30-second chunk of sound from a single source. This may or may not involve a microphone. This recording shall be referred to as The Sound.
Step 2: Manipulate the Sound extensively. Stretch, break, torture, soothe, remove, heighten The Sound. Reveal subtleties of The Sound you didn’t notice when you recorded it.
Step 3: Layer the results of Step 2 in a way that pleases you. Revel in it.
Step 4: Reveal to no one the original source of The Sound. Ever. In the description when posting your finished track, you can say what you did to The Sound, but do not even hint at the source.
Step 5: Keep and carry that secret. Not all must be revealed.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0668” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.
Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0668-all-right-then-keep-your-secrets/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. How hard do you need to work to keep your secret?
Deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/
License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).
Please Include When Posting Your Track:
More on the 668th weekly Disquiet Junto project, All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets — The Assignment: Bury a secret sound until it is no longer identifiable — at https://disquiet.com/0668/
This project was proposed by Mahlen Morris.
The image associated with this track is a detail from a photo by Chris Riebschlager, found on Flickr and used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/2eGb3D
