Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)
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 favorite parts of the Junto. I've written enough about why on Disquiet.com and on Lines, the message board, so I'll keep it short here.
Please note: You can participate in any or all three of the three projects.
I'll also keep it short here because the instructions below are fairly detailed. Please pay particular attention to Step 5. And if you have any trouble reading the email, the instructions are at disquiet.com/0637.
One unrelated request: I am giving some thought to the idea of collecting the Disquiet Junto projects into a book. If you're aware of a small arts/music publisher that might be into collaborating on such a thing and might be able to introduce the topic, please let me know. I'm in no rush.
And thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.
Best from San Francisco,
Marc
marc@disquiet.com
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Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.
These instructions are fairly lengthy. Please read carefully.
While this is the second part of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the course of three consecutive weeks, starting last week.
Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the second in a sequence intended to encourage and reward asynchronous collaboration. This week you’ll be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0636). Note that you aren’t creating a duet — you’re creating the second third of what will eventually be a trio. Important: Leave space for what is yet to come.
Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music, on any instrumentation of your choice, as a complement to a pre-existing track. First, however, you must select the piece of music to which you will be adding your own music. There are tracks by numerous musicians to choose from (47 as of last count). All but one are in this playlist:
One additional track is on the Lines discussion board:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0636-left-1-of-3/66416/2
(Note that it’s possible another track or two will pop up in or disappear from that playlist and discussion. Things are fluid on the internet.)
To select a track, you can listen through all those and choose one, or simply look around and select, or you can come up with a random approach to sifting through them.
Note: It’s fine if more than one person uses the same original track as the basis for their piece (more on this in Step 5 below).
It is strongly encouraged that you look through the discussion thread for the previous project on the Lines forum because many tracks include additional contextual information there:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0636-left-1-of-3/
Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly the length of the piece of music you selected in Step 2. Your track should complement the piece from Step 2, and leave room for an eventual third piece of music. When composing and recording your part, don’t alter the original piece of music at all, except to pan the original fully to the left if it hasn’t been panned left already. In your finished audio track, your new part should be panned fully to the right.
To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track you selected in Step 2 and yours.
Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it will be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.
Step 5: You can contribute more than one track this week. In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. You can do two this time. For the second, it’s appreciated if you try to work with a solo that no one else has used yet. I will keep an updated list in this Google Drive document of what has been utilized:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDorIMT9j_nQQPXACYpMPe4B86T2QD5Xvv98XAOS4UE/edit?pli=1#gid=0
The goal is for many as people as possible to benefit from the experience of being part of an asynchronous collaboration. That, foremost, is the spirit of this project.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0637” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required).
Share: Post your track and a description explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0637-right-2-of-3/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. Stick close to the length of the track yours adds to.
Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/
License: It’s required for this sequence of projects 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 637th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right (2 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio — at https://disquiet.com/0637/