Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto,

Not much to report this week. I did want to mention that on occasion I run on Disquiet.com a Disquiet Junto Profile, a Q&A with a regular participant in the music community. If you’ve been involved in the Junto for over 9 months on a regular basis (and that doesn’t mean weekly, not by any means), and you’re interested in doing one, let me know. The way it works is I send you a list of standard questions, you respond, and then I ask a follow-up question or two based on your responses.

The instructions for this week’s project, Deepest Sympathies, appear below.

And 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 0739: Deepest Sympathies
The Assignment: Make music focused on sympathetic strings, or something akin to them.

Step 1: Consider this concept: When you play a single string on a guitar, or a harp, or another stringed instrument, other strings vibrate in harmony with it. Some instruments, such as the sitar, sarod, and the Hardanger fiddle, have sympathetic strings inherent in their design. This sort of sympathetic vibration is also the case with tuning forks.

Step 2: Record a piece of music exploring, as much as possible, the sound of sympathetic strings unto themselves. This might be a practical experiment, trying to isolate the sounds, or a conceptual approach, using the idea as inspiration.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0739” (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-0739-deepest-sympathies/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. 

Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2026, 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 739th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Deepest Sympathies — The Assignment: Make music focused on sympathetic strings, or something akin to them — at https://disquiet.com/0739/