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Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel
March 27, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I’m packing for a trip — first to San Diego, then New York — and so I need to keep today’s email brief. I had this...
Disquiet Junto Project 0690: Knot Bad
March 20, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, First up: I’ll be in San Diego for a few days this coming week, from the 27th, Thursday, through Sunday, the 30th. If...
Disquiet Junto Project 0689: Supporting Players
March 13, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I hope this note finds you well, or best as can be. This week’s project engages with stuff we might take for granted. The...
Disquiet Junto Project 0688: Sign Up
March 6, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I hope this email finds you well. Apparently February came and went, and the month is barely a memory for me at this...
Disquiet Junto Project 0687: Applied Science
February 27, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, Not much to report. The planet has spun for another week, and there is another Disquiet Junto project afoot —...
Disquiet Junto Project 0686: Catch Your Breath (V2)
February 20, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This email was intended to go out about 15 hours ago, but there was a DNS snafu between my website and Buttondown, and it...
Disquiet Junto Project 0685: Pick-Me-Up
February 13, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, This week’s project feels a little more open-ended than some are, but I never really know what people will make of the...
Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
February 6, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, I hope this note finds you well, or best you can be. Another Junto Profile of a participant, Jimmy Lem, went live over...
Disquiet Junto Project 0683: Space Shot
January 30, 2025
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto, First, I had this email scheduled to go out on time (12:10am Pacific), but for some reason it didn’t. I’m sending now...
Disquiet Junto Project 0682: Unring a Bell
January 23, 2025
Dear Disquiet Junto Participants, I hope this note finds everyone well — or well as can be. The idea that one cannot “unring a bell” is a fairly common...
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...
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