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 come up with may turn out to be musical.

This is consecutive week 672 of the Junto. After this we have five more standalone projects for the 2024, and then the final project of the year and the first of 2025. Those two projects are the same every year.

And speaking of the Junto’s longtime operations, this whole series got started, to a good degree, on Twitter, back when it was actually called that — and to a lesser degree on Instagram, back when it seemed like it was mostly fuzzy photos of nature and street scenes — as a result of discussions there toward the end of 2011. I’m still on social media, mostly Mastodon, but as Bluesky has been having a bit of a moment this week, I figured I’d mention: if you’re on Bluesky, lemme know your account name (email me: marc@disquiet.com). I may start a Starter Pack or list or something of Disquiet Junto participants.

And that about covers it. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.

Best from San Francisco,

Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com

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Disquiet Junto Project 0672: Day Break
The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes.

Step 1: You’re going to make alarm sounds. Think about the alarms and alerts — phone, egg timer, microwave, neighborhood church bells, etc. — that currently go off regularly in your life.

Step 2: Make a list of a handful of instances you want to create an alert for, like something urgent and something that’s a gentle reminder, and so forth. Maybe you have a different tone for each morning of the week?

Step 3: Record roughly five (more or less) sonic alerts for the purposes you decided upon in Step 2.

Step 4: Make one track with each of the alerts separated briefly by some silence. When posting the track online, be sure to list the intention behind each alert.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0672” (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 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0672-day-break/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How long do you plan to snooze for?

Deadline: Monday, November 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 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 672nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Break — The Assignment: Make a handful of sonic alerts for various purposes — at https://disquiet.com/0672/