*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 22, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 26, 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 0047: Party Muted
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>This project has two steps, and the first one will require the use of a microphone — a contact microphone is with considering, and a hydrophone might also be a good choice.
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>Step one: record the sound of conversation, preferably rowdy, through a wall — or, if using a hydrophone, from inside a glass of water. The goal is to have the sense of distant human activity. There’s a party going on, but you’re on the sidelines.
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>Step two: record your own accompanying music, with your instrumentation of choice, that mingles with the sound of the human voices, that treats the muffled conversation as an instrument unto itself.
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>Deadline: Monday, November 26, 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 “disquiet0047-partymuted”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 47th Disquiet Junto project at:
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>https://disquiet.com/2012/11/22/disquiet0047-partymuted/
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>More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
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>http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/