Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
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 the first in a new series of Junto Profiles, with more to come (and I owe several of you email replies — I promise I’ll catch up shortly). This one is with Junto member W. Sze Tsang (aka Samarobryn), who is based in Perth, Australia.
Third, it would be great if participating regularly in the Disquiet Junto is part of a New Year’s resolution for you — but please don’t feel any pressure to participate weekly. I don’t want the Junto ever to feel like a burden. It’s there every week on schedule so it’s available when you have the time and interest. That is the structure, design, and purpose in a nutshell.
Fourth: the Junto is now entering its 13th consecutive year. The project we’re kicking off 2025 with is the exact same project we do at the start of each year. Details appear below.
And that about covers it. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.
Best from San Francisco, where it’s a bit chilly,
. . .
Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:
Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each January ever since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. By now, it qualifies as a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0679” (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-0679-ice-age/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you.
Deadline: Monday, January 6, 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 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/