Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto,

For the eighth year in a row, the Disquiet Junto music community has been invited, thanks to Tobias Reber, to collaborate with Musikfestival Bern. You can learn more about the annual music festival’s many events at musikfestivalbern.ch.

This week we’ll be doing the first of four planned projects based on themes from the festival.

And that covers it. Thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity — and if you have any questions or project ideas, or just want to say hello, I’m at marc@disquiet.com.

Best from San Francisco,

Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com

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Disquiet Junto Project 0752: Pong Pings
The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a 2026 Musikfestival Bern installation.

As part of Musikfestival Bern 2026, which takes «Blitz» (flash/lightning) as its theme, a ping pong table will be set up in the newly renovated PROGR courtyard for passers-by to play quick matches against musicians, artists, and each other. During lunch hours, matches will be dynamically scored with outsized storm sounds, triggered with piezo mics and/or game controllers. In this week’s Junto you are invited to contribute to the sound library that will be used for this project. Think “tiny impacts, large sound effects.”

The assignment: Compose abstract storm events: single impacts (rumbling thunder, lightning strikes, etc) and/or textural sounds (wind, rain, hail, etc). Each event or texture should stand on its own. Record one or more. If you record a sequence of these, please make a single track of them and include a brief clean silent break between each. All musicians whose work is included in the installation will be credited on-site. And please be sure to set your track as downloadable.

More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations. This project is the first of four planned this year.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0752” (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-0752-pong-pings/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The number of sounds you contribute is up to you. Please keep each sound brief, given the nature of the installation, as described above.

Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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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 752nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Pong Pings — The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a 2026 Musikfestival Bern installation — disquiet.com/0752. More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations.