*Each Thursday at [the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com](http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info) 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/info).*
The assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, November 15, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 19, as the deadline. (There are no translations this week.)
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 0046: Silent Ballot
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>This is a shared-sample project. It focuses on the intimacy of democracy, and in the process it touches on various interrelated contemporary anxieties, including the surveillance state, voter fraud, and digital privacy.
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>You are being provided an audio recording of someone voting during the recent U.S. presidential election. The MP3 file can be accessed here:
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>http://goo.gl/uRBv0
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>You will select a very short segment (between 1 and 5 seconds in length) of this recording and you will then investigate it for what might be called its “sonic fingerprint.”
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>To accomplish this goal you will stretch, loop, magnify, and otherwise probe the audio to reveal its unique properties.
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>The evidence of your investigation will take the form of a single track of audio, between 1 and 4 minutes in length. You can add whatever sounds you like in the process of developing your track, but the source audio should be prominent throughout.
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>Deadline: Monday, November 19, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
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>Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 4 minutes in length.
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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: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0046-silentballot”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
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>Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
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>More on this 46th Disquiet Junto project at:
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>https://disquiet.com/2012/11/15/disquiet0046-silentballot/
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>More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
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>http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/
Photo of voting during a blackout by Michael Ross of [guitarmoderne.com](http://www.guitarmoderne.com/).