Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com and at Disquiet.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, November 20, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 24, 2014, as the SoundCloud deadline — though the encouraged optional video part of the assignment can wait a day or two longer, if necessary.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0151: Reliving Dead The Assignment: Score a segment of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead using the movie’s audio as source material.
Step 1: Download the classic film Night of the Living Dead, which is in the public domain, at the following URL:
http://goo.gl/rm1lMy
Step 2: Locate a short segment of interest, between 1 and 3 minutes, in which there is no musical score present.
Step 3: Compose a score for your chosen segment using only the audio from that segment as the source material. You can alter the source audio in any way you choose. You just can’t add any new sounds.
Step 4: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.
Step 5: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Step 6: This part is optional, and you can take an additional couple of days if you need them. Upload the video segment combining the original audio and your score, and link to it from the notes field in your SoundCloud track.
Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 3 minutes long, depending entirely on the length of the segment you selected.
Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, November 20, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, November 24, 2014, as the deadline.
Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and 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 “disquiet0151-relivingdead” 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 151st Disquiet Junto project — “Score a segment of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead using the movie’s audio as source material”— at:
Disquiet Junto Project 0151: Reliving Dead
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
https://disquiet.com/forums/
Image from the George Romero film Night of the Living Dead.
I saw a post on the archive.org page that said the music is not public domain. Is that why we need to use a portion that is music free?
Hi. Good question. That is, in fact, a coincidence. The purpose of focusing on segments from the film that don’t contain a score is to explore the manner in which a movie score, which is often an unnatural aspect of a film, can have a more direct connection to the audio it is accompanying and thus, by extension, to the video as well.