Each Thursday evening 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 to the Junto is open: just join and participate.
The assignment was made early in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, August 16, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, August 20, as the deadline. View a search return for all the entries as they are posted: disquiet0033-turntable.
The above image is the schematic to a Lenco L75 (via lencoheaven.net).
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto). They appear below translated into Czech, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish, courtesy of Katerina Janouskova, Éric Legendre, Naoyuki Sasanami, Norma Listman, and M. Emre Meydan, respectively:
Disquiet Junto Project 0033: Turntable Played
This week’s project is the Disquiet Junto’s 33rd, and since the number 33 (or, more specifically, the number 33 1/3) is so closely tied with the LP turntable, that device will be the primary object of investigation.
You will make an original piece of music in which all the sounds are derived from a turntable — only from the turntable itself, which means you can’t put any vinyl on it. You can knock on the turntable, blow on the needle, record the sound of its internal mechanisms, whatever you like. You can also transform those sounds as you please, but you cannot include any additional sounds.
Deadline: Monday, August 20, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 2 and 4 minutes in length.
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 “disquiet0033-turntable”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: As always, you don’t have to set your track for download, but it would be preferable.
Linking: When posting the track please include this information:
More on the 33rd Disquiet Junto project at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0033: Turntable Played
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info
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