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, June 5, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, June 9, 2014, as the deadline.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (sign up at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0127: Library Shhh
This week explores the concept of silence. You will record one full minute of sound in the sort of place that is often associated with silence, or at least near silence: the library. By doing so, you will help support artist Zoè Benoit’s artwork called “bibliobeep,”which is a collection of library soundscapes from around the globe. Benoit is especially interested in the “beeps” that might occur in a library, so if possible follow this instruction:
“We are looking for one-minute recordings of background noises occurring at library checkout points and returns, including: electronic ‘beep’ sounds, sounds of books or other library media being handled, words exchanged, etc. To properly record a sound, position yourself near the offices where you can hear especially machine ‘beeps’ that incorporate the voices and sounds of library staff and the materials they handle.”
These are the steps:
Step 1: Record the sound of a library.
Step 2: Locate a continuous one-minute segment and upload it to the Numelyo “bibliobeep” project website:
http://goo.gl/7oKwfM
Step 3 (optional): If you so desire, create a very quiet piece of music suitable for background listening. This piece should employ your library field recording as source material.
Step 4 (optional): If you made the piece of music in step 3, then create a two-minute file by appending it at the end of the original one-minute library field recording.
Step 5: Whether you did steps 3 and 4 or if you merely made the field recording from steps 1 and 2, upload the finished file to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud, following the remaining instructions:
Deadline: Monday, June 9, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: The length of your finished work should be either one minute (if you just do the field recording) or two minutes (if you also do the composition).
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 “disquiet0127-libraryshhh” 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 the track, please be sure to include this information:
More on this 127th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sound of your library — and then maybe make something of it”— at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0127: Library Shhh
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
The Disquiet Junto Project List (0001 – 0574 …)
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
More on Zoè Benoit’s “bibliobeep” art project at:
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/librarians-worldwide-call-beeps
Photo associated with this project via:
http://goo.gl/UJhtQr