Disquiet Junto

Anderson’s Studio 360 and Schaefer’s Soundcheck Praise Disquiet Junto Tracks

The winning entry — well, one of two tying winning entries — in a blues-song cover challenge launched by Kurt Anderson’s Studio 360 radio show was the work of a Disquiet Junto regular, and the result of a Disquiet Junto project. Back on May 8, Studio 360 announced its “1914 Blues Challenge,” in which listeners…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Create a Composition by Altering an Ongoing Loop

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. This project was published in the evening, California time, on…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Write a Score to Accompany a Short Piece of Text You Wrote a Year Ago Today

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. This project was published in the early evening, California time,…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Mess with the Meter of a 1918 New Orleans Jazz Record

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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Derive and Thrive: Remix 3 Netlabels This Weekend

Update 2014.05.16: Please note there were two text errors when this project was first posted. The netlabel Audiotalaia was misidentified as Audioitalia, and the Kayaka track “O” was misidentified as “Blackening.” 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

What Will the Appliances of the Future Sound Like?

It’s the year 2044—what does your kitchen sound like? What about your power supply? How about the laundry room, or even your new, high-tech burglar alarm? Disquiet, Gizmodo’s subdomain of all things sonic and ambient, is challenging its readers to come up with a speculative soundtrack for the home of the future—or, more specifically, for…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

Help Gizmodo Create the Soundscape of the Home of the Future

Disquiet Junto Project 0123: All Tomorrow’s Domesticity 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Two Disquiet Nights in Portland: May 7 + 8

I’m excited to travel to one of my favorite cities later this week. I get in on May 7, Wednesday, in time for a Disquiet Junto concert we’re having at Townshend’s Tea (2223 NE Alberta St), and then on Thursday I’ll be reading from my recent 33 1/3 book on Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Aliens + Interrogative Music @ SETI

When you reference Ezra Pound’s statement that “The artist is the antennae of the race” at SETI, the “antennae” part takes on a whole richer meaning. SETI hosts weekly colloquium at its Mountain View, California, offices, and a few times a year those talks put aside interstellar science and are, instead, organized by SETI’s artist-in-residence.…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Two Projects In Collaboration with Edward Frenkel (of Love and Math)

Disquiet Junto Project 0121: Math Rock 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Experimental Music + Extraterrestrials + Earth Day

Tomorrow night, April 22, at 7pm I’m giving a guest talk at SETI, famously the acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It’s free if you’re in the neighborhood, by which I mean Mountain View, California, not our galaxy. April 22 happens to be Earth Day, and what better day than Earth Day to address…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Marcel Duchamp’s Heartbeat Is the Beat

Disquiet Junto Project 0120 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Paperback Beatmaker

Write music to accompany the typing of a work of fiction: 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Make Music from Haiku at the End of the World

Disquiet Junto Project 0117: Naviar Junto Haiku 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. This project was…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Music for Dental Hygiene

Disquiet Junto Project 0116: Brush Brush Brush Brush 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. This project…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Don’t Drop Your Laptop in the Toilet

Nothing may inspire music-making quite like the fear of dropping one’s laptop in the toilet. Earlier this month I had the welcome opportunity to give a guest talk at the music department at Santa Clara University, not far south of San Francisco, where I live. It was the latest in a series of guest talks…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Record a Duet with Yourself, Mediated by a Wall

Disquiet Junto Project 0115: Mediated Solo Duet 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. This project was…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Disquiet Junto Project 0114: Five Sines

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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Record a Piece of Music Inspired by Groundhog Day

Disquiet Junto 0113: Pretty Groundhog 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…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Turn Your Week’s Dayplanner into Music

Disquiet Junto Project 0112: Calendrical Score 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. This project was published…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Disquiet Junto

Anderson’s Studio 360 and Schaefer’s Soundcheck Praise Disquiet Junto Tracks

Create a Composition by Altering an Ongoing Loop

Write a Score to Accompany a Short Piece of Text You Wrote a Year Ago Today

Mess with the Meter of a 1918 New Orleans Jazz Record

Derive and Thrive: Remix 3 Netlabels This Weekend

What Will the Appliances of the Future Sound Like?

Help Gizmodo Create the Soundscape of the Home of the Future

Two Disquiet Nights in Portland: May 7 + 8

Aliens + Interrogative Music @ SETI

Two Projects In Collaboration with Edward Frenkel (of Love and Math)

Experimental Music + Extraterrestrials + Earth Day

Marcel Duchamp’s Heartbeat Is the Beat

Paperback Beatmaker

Make Music from Haiku at the End of the World

Music for Dental Hygiene

Don’t Drop Your Laptop in the Toilet

Record a Duet with Yourself, Mediated by a Wall

Disquiet Junto Project 0114: Five Sines

Record a Piece of Music Inspired by Groundhog Day

Turn Your Week’s Dayplanner into Music

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