Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto,

This coming Saturday, December 13, will mark the 29th anniversary of when I founded disquiet.com, my blog — though in 1996, of course, that word didn’t exist yet. That’s the year I moved to San Francisco from Sacramento, to which I’d moved from Brooklyn seven years earlier, a year out of college, to start a job as an editor at the music magazines published by Tower Records. That’s a lot of years, and a lot of music, and a lot of words.

Meanwhile, the Junto is coming up on its 14th anniversary, as of the first week of January 2026 — meaning around this time next year, we’ll be looking right into the 30th anniversary of the site, and the 15th of this community. For which I have much to be thankful. And which is to say, thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.

Best from San Francisco, where I’ve lived since 1996, not counting four years in New Orleans,

Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com

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Disquiet Junto Project 0728: Note Down
The Assignment: Delete a note at a time.

There is just one step to this project: Record a piece of music with a slow melody that repeats. Each time the melody cycles around, remove one note, until during the final repeat none of the notes in the melody remain.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0728” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: A person participating in the Disquiet Junto should post only one track per weekly project (SoundCloud account preferred but not required). If on occasion you feel inspired to post more than one track (whether to a single account or across multiple accounts), you should clarify which is the “main” rendition for consideration by fellow members and (if on SoundCloud) for inclusion in the SoundCloud playlist.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0728-note-down/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How slow can you go?

Deadline: Monday, December 15, 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 728th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Note Down — The Assignment: Delete a note at a time — at https://disquiet.com/0728/.