Disquiet Junto Project 0096: Metal Machine Muse

*Each Thursday at [the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com](http://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](http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/).*

This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, October 31, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 4, 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)):

>This week’s project is a tribute to Lou Reed, who passed away earlier this week. His album Metal Machine Music from 1975 is a classic early noise endeavor. The project this week is straightforward. Using the phrase “Metal Machine Muse” as your guide, create a tribute to Metal Machine Music. Please employ at least one actual metal in your work, and note it in the title of your track.
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>Deadline: Monday, November 4, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
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>Length: Your track should have a duration of between one and five 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 “disquiet0096-metalmachine”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 96th Disquiet Junto project, in which metal machine music is made in tribute to the late Lou Reed, at:
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>https://disquiet.com/2013/10/31/disquiet0096-metalmachine/
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>More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
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>http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Image found via [citizenarcane.com](http://www.citizenarcane.com/index.php/archives/2005/03/19/metal-machine-music).