Each Thursday 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 in the Junto is open: just join and participate.
This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, July 25, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, July 29, 2013, as the deadline.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal Haydn
This week’s project is another in a series of explorations of the concept of genre as a constraint. (The “downtempo”exercise went well several weeks ago, project 79, and this is another in that mode.) The genre this time is “minimal techno.”The source material is from another genre entirely: “classical,”specifically chamber music in the form of a string quartet. The goal of this project is to derive elements from the source material in the service of a track that would fit in the prescribed genre.
These are the steps:
Step 1: Download the MP3 track at the following URL. The track is the third movement of Franz Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA
Step 2: Listen through the full 1:55 of the track, noting the time codes of source elements that could lend themselves to a minimal techno track. Aim for roughly between three and six.
Step 3: Extract the handful of elements that you located in Step 2.
Step 4: Compose and record an original track that you feel conforms to the genre of minimal techno, using only the elements from Step 3. You can manipulate them in any way you choose, though at some point in the track they should each be somewhat recognizable from the source material. You cannot add any other sounds.
Deadline: Monday, July 25, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your track should have a duration of between two and five minutes.
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: Include the term “disquiet0082-minimalhaydn”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
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).
Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:
More on this 82nd Disquiet Junto project, in which a minimal techno track was created using elements of a Haydn string quartet, at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0082: Minimal HaydnThe source Haydn audio is from:
http://goo.gl/7MMHRA
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/