Disquiet Junto Project 0681: Drama Course

January 16, 2025

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I hope this note finds you well. With the annual diary (number 0678) and ice projects (0679) behind us, we this past week...

Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution

January 9, 2025

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is a final moment to reflect on last year. I’m at home, digging my way out of email overload, and I’m...

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age

January 2, 2025

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, First off, happy new year. I hope this note finds you well, or best you can be. Second, I am excited to have published...

Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist

December 26, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Hello. It is the end of another year, and of another year of the Disquiet Junto. Every year we close things off with the...

Disquiet Junto Project 0677: Jeux d'enfants

December 19, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This email announces the penultimate Disquiet Junto project of the year 2024, and the last original one of the year. The...

Disquiet Junto Project 0676: Sub Melody

December 12, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Three things this week: Project Drone: As I mention in the instructions below, last week’s drone project went well, so...

Disquiet Junto Project 0675: Arc of the Drone

December 5, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, After this week’s “Arc of the Drone,” there will be three more projects before the end of 2024. The last of those will be...

Disquiet Junto Project 0674: Cerberus Sample

November 28, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I take something of an online break at the end of most years, which mostly means getting off social media for a month or...

Disquiet Junto Project 0673: Switch Back

November 21, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, The rain is just getting started here, and apparently it’s going to last for quite a while. Part of me wants to record...

Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break

November 14, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Like last week’s Disquiet Junto project, this week’s is more about sound than it is about music, though the sounds you...

Disquiet Junto Project 0671: In the Air Tonight

November 7, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I want to thank everyone — present and past — who participates in the Disquiet Junto. This ever-changing and growing —...

Disquiet Junto Project 0670: Right of Way

October 31, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is a callback to the 11th Disquiet Junto, from way back at the end of March 2012. It’ll be great to...

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

October 24, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Every week, when I send out this project, I don’t actually send it out directly. I set it up in various digital...

Disquiet Junto Project 0668: All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets

October 17, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, The week’s project was proposed by Mahlen Morris, aka Stochastic Telegraph. If you use VCV Rack, be sure to explore the...

Disquiet Junto Project 0667: Neighbor of the Beast

October 10, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Last week’s project was a natural. Certain numbers carry various meanings, and a 666-themed project was inevitable — that...

Disquiet Junto Project 0666: Beauty and the Beast

October 3, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Thanks to everyone who participated in, listened to, commented on, and discussed last week’s project. It was a wonderful...

Disquiet Junto Project 0665: Clicks + Cuts Music Factory

September 26, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is a tribute to the late Achim Szepanski (1957-2024), founder of the Mille Plateaux record label. The...

Disquiet Junto Project 0664: Mother Beat

September 19, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is inspired by a video game from 2006. The project was proposed by Jason (Bassling) Richardson and...

Disquiet Junto Project 0663: Drive Way

September 12, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project was proposed by the novelist Robin Sloan (Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, Moonbound)....

Disquiet Junto Project 0662: Spin Cycle

September 5, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Such a great showing last week. Thanks to everyone who participated, commented, shared, and listened. It’s somewhat...

Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product

August 29, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, No big news this week. Some possibilities are coming into focus for a Junto concert event in San Francisco in the coming...

Disquiet Junto Project 0660: Louis Blues St.

August 22, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is a communal remix — or more to the point, a communal restructuring — of a single piece of music....

Disquiet Junto Project 0659: Reading the Body

August 15, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is a new graphic score piece. Thanks to everyone who participated in — whether uploading tracks, or...

Disquiet Junto Project 0658: Re-Amplify

August 8, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project is the third we’re doing this summer with Musikfestival Bern. Thanks again to Tobias Reber for the...

Disquiet Junto Project 0657: Straight Edged

August 1, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Thanks to everyone who participated in the past two weeks of Disquiet Junto projects. Both babies of these two Junto moms...

Disquiet Junto Project 0656: Soothing Sounds II RMX

July 25, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I have no idea where the summer has gone, or at least is going. I thought we’d make it to Scotland, and then stuff kept...

Disquiet Junto Project 0655: Soothing Sounds II

July 18, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, We have had a bunch of new members in the Junto lately — and welcome to you all. This project, however, is related to two...

Disquiet Junto Project 0654: Just Notation

July 11, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This is the second of three projects we’re doing this year with Musikfestival Bern, thanks to the warm invitation and...

Disquiet Junto Project 0653: Break a Rule

July 4, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, First, I have a question — really, a favor to ask. If you’re fluent in a language other than English, and there’s a term...

Disquiet Junto Project 0652: By the Tale

June 27, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Thanks, everyone who participated in and discussed last week’s project, the first of our three this year with...

Disquiet Junto Project 0651: Why Compute?

June 20, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, It’s hard for me to describe just how important the album News for Lulu was to me in 1988, the year I graduated from...

Disquiet Junto Project 0650: Doppler, Interrupted

June 13, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, For those of you for whom summer is beginning, I hope yours is getting off to a good start. We’ve had some newcomers in...

Disquiet Junto Project 0649: Concerto for [ ]

June 6, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, No big news this week — just a quick thanks for, as always, your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity....

Disquiet Junto Project 0648 (Date Correction)

May 30, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, The due date for the current project, 0648 (Shadow Boxing), is June 3, this coming Monday. It’s not Thursday, June 6, as...

Disquiet Junto Project 0648: Shadow Boxing

May 30, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Not much to report this week. Just settling into summer as the school year comes to an end. We’ve had a bunch of new...

Disquiet Junto Project 0647: Day Drone

May 23, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Greetings from oddly sunny and hot San Francisco. This coming Saturday, May 25, is Drone Day (more at droneday.org), and...

Disquiet Junto Project 0646: Empty Orchestra

May 16, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project tangentially connects with karaoke. More details below. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with...

Disquiet Junto Project 0645: Speed Trap

May 9, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, First of all, my plans are still in flux about a potential summer trip to Scotland. As it comes together, I’ll let you...

Disquiet Junto Project 0644: Event Horizon

May 2, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project instructions appear below. I have an excellent backlog of proposed projects from numerous...

Disquiet Junto Project 0643: Stone Out of Focus

April 25, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I’ve begun to hear from folks who might be able to participate in a Disquiet Junto event in Scotland should we schedule...

Disquiet Junto Project 0642: Kick from Champagne

April 18, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, It was 63º Fahrenheit this afternoon, somehow, when I took an end-of-the-(work)day walk to the ocean and back. The past...

Disquiet Junto Project 0641: Re-re-re-re-revise

April 11, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I've been in New York this week, visiting my mother, who just turned 85. It's been a mostly family-oriented time, though...

Disquiet Junto Project 0640: Time Vault

April 4, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Please note: the rules for sharing your track this week will be unique to this project, so read the instructions...

Disquiet Junto Project 0639: Path Ways (4 of 3)

March 28, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This recent three-week sequence of projects was intended to come to a close on Monday, when the trios were completed....

Disquiet Junto (in advance of 0639)

March 27, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, One nice thing about having moved to Buttondown for these Disquiet Junto project emails (from TinyLetter, which was shut...

Disquiet Junto Project 0638: Center (3 of 3)

March 21, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week's project will conclude the three-phase trios project, which is one of the best things we do each year in the...

Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)

March 14, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This three-part sequence of projects, in which musicians around the world collaborate to make trios, is one of my...

Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)

March 7, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week initiates the annual three-part Disquiet Junto project in which we build asynchronous trios over the course of...

Disquiet Junto Project 0635: ’Round the Bend

February 28, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Normally this project post would have gone live at 12:10am Pacific, but for some reason WordPress posted it to...

Disquiet Junto Project 0634: Bust a Move

February 22, 2024

Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, There isn't much to report this week. Rain persists. Writing persists. Guitar practice persists. We're somehow more than...