*Each Thursday at [the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com](https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/) 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](https://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/).*
This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, August 15, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, August 19, 2013, as the deadline.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto)):
>Disquiet Junto Project 0085: 3 Parts
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>This week’s project is fairly open-ended. It involves making a simple song, and just three directions are involved.
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>The goal is to make a song with three parts: (1) beat, (2) background sound bed, and (3) melody.
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>You will make the beat with an oscillator.
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>You will make the background sound bed with a drum machine.
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>You will make the melody with a field recording.
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>Note: Software versions or equivalents of the oscillator and the drum machine are certainly allowed, and you can process any of the material, so long as the final heard audio bears a recognizable resemblance to the source audio.
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>Deadline: Monday, August 19, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
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>Length: Your track should have a duration of between 1 and 3 minutes.
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>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.
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>Title/Tag: Include the term “disquiet0085-3parts”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
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>Download: Please consider employing a license that allows for attributed, commerce-free remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
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>Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
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>More on this 85th Disquiet Junto project, in which a song is made with three simple parts (oscillator, drum machine, field recording), at:
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>https://disquiet.com/2013/08/15/disquiet0085-3parts/
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>More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
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>http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
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