Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third
Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto,
First, if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and have free time tonight, Thursday, May 22, I’ll be giving a little presentation about the Disquiet Junto as part of an event at Mission Synths, starting at 7pm. Also part of the event: Naomi Seyfer, Jonathan Snyder, and Thadeus Reed. More details here.
Second, this week closes the trios sequence. The instructions appear below. Thanks to everyone who turned a solo into a duet. Almost every individual piece from project 0697 two weeks ago was turned into a duet this past week during project 0698. In the end, only 6 weren’t.
Third, next week marks the 700th (!) consecutive weekly Disquiet Junto, meaning in just under a year we’ll hit the even more momentous 750. Maybe invite some friends to join in. We have two more projects with Musikfestival Bern ahead, and a cool collaboration involving voice mail messages (that’s just an aspect of the eventual project).
And that 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 0699: Third Third
The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio.
There are two versions of the instructions for this week’s project — one very short, the other very long.
Very short version (roughly 25 words): Select a track from last week’s duet project (disquiet.com/0698) and add a third part dead center between the left and right stereo channels to complete a trio.
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Very long version of the instructions (about 550 words):
These instructions are fairly lengthy. Please read carefully.
Please note: While this is the third part of a three-part project sequence, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which have occurred over the course of three consecutive weeks.
Step 1: This week’s Disquiet Junto project is the third in a sequence that encourages and rewards asynchronous collaboration. This week you will be adding music to a pre-existing track, which you will source from the previous week’s Junto project (disquiet.com/0698). Note that you are finishing a trio: you’re creating the third part of what two previous musicians began, filling the space between them. Please keep this in mind.
Step 2: The plan is for you to record an 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. The majority of these tracks, 55 at the time of publishing this post, are in this playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0698
And one is on Bandcamp:
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.
When choosing a track, consider checking out the two previous projects’ discussion threads, as there may be additional information in them that could be of use, such as BPM or key signature:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0697-first-third https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-thirdStep 3: Record a 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 it should be placed dead center between the left and right stereo channels. When composing and recording your part, do not alter the original piece of music at all. To be clear: the track you upload won’t be your piece of music alone; it will be a combination of the track from Step 2 and yours.
Step 4: Also be sure, when done, to make the finished track downloadable, because it may be used by someone else in a subsequent Junto project.
Step 5: In normal circumstances, Junto projects have a one-track-per-participant limit. However, as with the preceding project that led up to this one, you can contribute more than one track this week. You can do up to three total this time. For your first, you can choose any track from the duets, no matter how many times others may have employed it. If you choose to do a second or third, please do a track no on else has used yet (it’s understood that between when you select a duet track and finish your trio, someone else may have popped up and used it, which is perfectly fine). Throughout the project I will keep an updated list in this Google Drive document of what has been utilized.
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 “disquiet0699” (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-0699-third-third/
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, May 26, 2025, 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 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/