Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100
Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate.
Tracks by participants will be added to this playlist as the project proceeds:
This project was published in the evening, California time, on Thursday, February 6, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, February 10, 2014, as the deadline.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0110: WSB100
The day before this project began marked the 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs, who passed away in 1997. We celebrate his literary legacy by employing one of his classic artistic subroutines, the cut-up. (Special thanks to C. Reider of Vuzh Music for the centennial reminder.)
These are the steps:
Step 1: Take the lead article from your local newspaper and write down the first 18 sentences on separate slips of paper — or, if you prefer, extract the first 18 lines on separate strips of paper.
Step 2: Label these pieces of text from 1 to 18.
Step 3: Either read them out loud or use text-to-speech and record them.
Step 4: Construct the vocal of a song using the material. Sequence the vocal in the following order. Note that text element 3 serves as the chorus and text element 15 serves as the bridge. The remaining elements are in random sets of four, with no repetition.
3 3 3 3
14 10 5 7
3 3 3 3
8 18 11 4
3 3 3 3
6 17 12 9
15 15 15 15
3 3 3 3
13 2 16 1
3 3 3 3
Add music, whatever instrumentation you choose, to flesh this out into a proper song.
Step 5: When posting the track be sure to include a link to the originating source article. If you cut up the text by hand, please include photos of your process.
Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 minute and 4 minutes.
Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0110-wsb100” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
More on this 110th Disquiet Junto project (“Celebrate the 100th birthday of that old cut-up, William S. Burroughs”) at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/02/06/dis…
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