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.
Tracks by participants will be added to this playlist as the project proceeds:
This project was published in the evening, California time, on Thursday, December 26, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, December 30, 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 0104: 2013 in 60 Seconds
This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2013. You will then select one 5-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen 5-second segments together in chronological order to form 1 single 1-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.
These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.
Deadline: Monday, December 30, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.
Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0104-audiojournal2013”in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).
Linking: When posting your track, be sure to include this information:
More on this 104th Disquiet Junto project (“Create a 2013 audio diary with a dozen five-second segments”) at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0104: 2013 in 60 SecondsMore details on the Disquiet Junto at:
The Disquiet Junto Project List (0001 – 0574 …)Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Photo associated with this project found via Creative Commons at:
http://goo.gl/AuZpPf