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 early evening, California time, on Thursday, August 14, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, August 18, 2014, as the deadline.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica The Assignment: Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre “old-time electronica.”
All Disquiet Junto projects employ constraint as a means to stimulate creativity and productivity. Sometimes this means limiting oneself to specific source material, other times to a conceptual approach, and there’s always the additional constraint of time: the deadline is approximately four days, depending on your time zone.
For this Disquiet Junto project, the constraint is a matter of terminology. This week we’re exploring how the concept of “genre”can itself serve as a restraint, and we’ll accomplish this by pushing back at genre conventions.
The project instructions are straightforward: Record an original piece of music that you feel belongs within the genre of “old-time electronica.”
Restrictions: You can use any source material, any instrumentation, except the human voice.
Deadline: Monday, August 18, 2014, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 minute and 4 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: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0137-oldtimeelectronica” 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 137th Disquiet Junto project — “Produce an original piece of music that fits the genre ‘old-time electronica’” — at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0137: Old-Time Electronica
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
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Photo associated with this track, of a working Babbage Engine, by Larry Johnson, courtesy of a Creative Commons license at:
