Disquiet Junto Project 0677: Jeux d'enfants
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 final 2024 project, next week, will be the same one we do every year, which is a sonic diary/journal of the preceding months (or weeks, or days, as you may choose). And the project the week after that, the first of 2025, will be the same one we start every year with (the “ice” project).
Project 0640: To those waiting for project 0640’s playlist to finally, after the eight-month consensual embargo period, go live, I apologize for the delay. Between work and family, I bit off a bit more than I realized when planning to post the tracks. I will have it done shortly, hopefully by Friday of this week.
Junto Profiles: As I mentioned last week, I’m going to start doing Junto Profiles again. These are Q&As with members of the community who have participated regularly for at least, say, nine months. We do the interview via a Google Drive document. I ask you questions, you respond, and then I ask some follow-up questions. It’s pretty straightforward. If you’re interest, shoot me a note. I’ve already got four in the works, which is wonderful. The series has, in the past, provided a great way for participants in the Junto to have a richer sense of the varied perspectives, backgrounds, and thoughts of the people they're creating alongside asynchronously, and often across great distances.
And that covers it. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity. It means the world to me.
Best from San Francisco,
Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com
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Disquiet Junto Project 0677: Jeux d’enfants
The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game.
Step 1: In the early 1870s, the composer George Bizet wrote a suite of short pieces, each inspired by one or another toy or game beloved by children. The first in the series, “L’escarpolette,” suggested a swing, and another, “La toupie,” a spinning top. There were pieces for soap bubbles and leap-frog, as well. Read up on and listen to Bizet’s suite, which was titled Jeux d’enfants, or Children’s Games.
Step 2: Choose a suitable toy or game, perhaps one from your own childhood, or perhaps something even more modern.
Step 3: Record a short piece of music inspired by the subject you selected in Step 2.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0677” (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-0677-jeux-denfants/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. How long does your top spin?
Deadline: Monday, December 23, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
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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 677th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Jeux d’enfants — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a children’s toy or game — at https://disquiet.com/0677/