Disquiet Junto Project 0759: Rock Music

The Assignment: Make music with nothing but rocks.

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.

Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.

Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks also generally appear in the llllllll.co discussion thread.

Disquiet Junto Project 0759: Rock Music
The Assignment: Make music with nothing but rocks.

There is one step to this project: Make music with nothing but rocks. (Yes, processing is fine, but the sense of the “rockness” of rocks should be present.)

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0759” (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-0759-rock-music/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up for you. How long do your stones roll?

Deadline: Monday, July 20, 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 759th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Rock Music — The Assignment: Make music with nothing but rocks — at disquiet.com/0759.

Please Sound Horn

Around the bend

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I have only begun to share photos, and observations, from a recent two-week trip around the UK in June. This fairly impressive sign for a fairly simple request was at Stirling Castle in Stirling, Scotland, which is sort of midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, and north of both. Even though the two larger words are on the top, I would say that putting just “PLEASE” on one line and “SOUND HORN” below might feel a bit loud. Either way, if you can’t hear a car coming on these cobblestones then either you are deaf or your window is closed and you’re blasting the air conditioning.

On Repeat: Demo, Jazz, Sine

Home/office playlist

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ There’s upstream, and then there’s up upstream. As you find your curiosity pulling you deeper into the making of music, you take pleasures in demos of new functionality for pre-existing gear. A “no-talking” (YouTube category of demo) performance for a couple minutes on an instrument called the Tonverk is also a master class on ambient glitch, with a minor in dub influences. I played this on loop for an hour while reading at night. The performer is Keinseier, a film composer based in Hamburg:

▰ Nothing makes me happy as a listener quite the way jazz musicians teaming up with electronic musicians do, and a key example is the trio of Jason Moran (piano), BlankFor.ms (aka Tyler Gilmore, electonics), and Marcus Gilmore (drums), together for their second full-length outing, titled Shards — ambient and atmospheric, then gently abrasive, always considered and thoughtful:

▰ A relative oldie (five years) but a head-trip goodie, this is an hour-long live performance (click on the link, because the embed isn’t working) by Lesley Flanigan for voice and a couple of literally industrial-strength sine wave generators. This was taped very early in the pandemic when arts organizations (NYC’s Roulette here) were doing live streams to keep the culture moving and stay on mission. I was reminded of this when a friend sent me a link to a new article about people using archaic test equipment to make music.