Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
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 the past few days. If you’ve been doing Junto projects for a while and want to be the subject of a profile, just lemme know. It’s a straightforward Q&A. Everyone is asked the same basic questions, and then I follow up with one or two additional questions after I’ve read your initial responses.
This week’s project appears below. Sleep habits are a frequent topic of discussion, and while we’ve done sleep music and alarm sounds and waking music in the past, we haven’t quite followed this sort of directed approach. Welcome to consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto project 684.
And thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.
Best from San Francisco, where it was — by local standards — quite chilly (48ºF) the evening I set this to send,
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Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird
The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.
Step 1: You are going to record a piece of music intended for someone to listen to almost immediately upon waking up. Think about your mornings, and what a more optimal morning might entail.
Step 2: Consider a scenario in which someone wakes up and, rather than look at their work or check the news, they take a period of time to just get centered. Think about how long you might want this to take, say three minutes, or five minutes, or twenty minutes.
Step 3: Consider the stages of awakening, from quiet to loud, from slow to fast (or a middling pace), from simple to complex. Perhaps the sounds go full circle, returning to where they started.
Step 4: Consider what sound at the end — a gong, a bell, a bird call, etc. — might signal that the waking process has concluded.
Step 5: Having reflected on the topics brought up in the instructions thus far, record a track that might guide someone slowly into consciousness upon waking each morning.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0684” (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-0684-early-bird/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. How long does it take you to wake up?
Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
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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 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/