Dear Members of the Disquiet Junto,

Please note: There was an error in the instructions when initially posted at 12:10am Pacific. The instructions were corrected by 2:55am Pacific. The BPM should be 153 (not 168, as originally stated). Also, the link to the mentioned materials was missing. Those corrections now appear below.

Whew, I got back late last night from a family vacation in the UK. We’d initially planned this trip for last year (and the year prior), and the plan fell apart, but this year we managed to make it happen. I didn’t get as far north as we’d hoped, so Orkney will have to wait until next time. We did make it to Glasgow, where I met up with Don MacKeen, whom Junto regulars will know as lazenbeeindustries. I’d hoped to meet up with someone in Oxford, too, but the timing didn’t pan out, unfortunately. I love the chance to meet Junto folks in person, so if you find yourself in/near San Francisco, lemme know. I’ll likely be in Los Angeles a bit early next week (last few days of June, that is), so if you’re around, maybe we can meet up?

All of which is to say, I am incredibly tired, and I’d say there’s a 95% chance a typo of some magnitude will be in this week’s project’s instructions, and if so I’ll fix it later in the day.

Meanwhile, thanks, as always, for your generosity with your time, creativity, and curiosity.

Best from San Francisco, where it is good to be home,

Marc Weidenbaum
marc@disquiet.com

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Disquiet Junto Project 0756: In a Flash
The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event.

This year at Musikfestival Bern, Werner Hasler (an electronic musician and trumpeter) will organize two days in which the dozen episodes of the 1940s serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe will be presented with new scores by a variety of composers and performers. We’ll be composing new versions of the film’s title music. The key thing is your rendition must be at 153 BPM, in order to match the pace of the video. Also, be sure to match the length of the original, one minute and sixteen seconds (1:16). Provided as source material for your efforts are (1) an audio recording of the Flash Gordon title music, (2) a MIDI file containing Werner‘s reduction of the full score, and (3) a PDF with sheet music notation of the oboe voice (representing the main melody). You can take all those materials as starting points for your interpretation. Hasler will make the final determination as to which if any completed tracks work well for his Musikfestival Bern undertaking. Participants whose music is utilized will be credited at the festival, and we’ll share their names through the regular Disquiet Junto information channels (llllllll.co, disquiet.com).

Here are the materials:

For your additional information, these musicians will be performing at the event: Liz Kosack, synths; Grégoire Dargent, Revox and Oud; Jo Nagorsnik, trombone, electronics; Jim Black, drum, electronics; Werner Hasler, sampling, live sampling, spatialisation.

More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate, and to Werner Hasler. 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 “disquiet0756” (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-0756-in-a-flash/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: Per the instructions, your track should be 1:16 (one minute and sixteen seconds).

Deadline: Monday, June 29, 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 756th weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Flash — The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event — disquiet.com/0756. More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate, and to Werner Hasler, who developed this Flash Gordon event. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations.