I’m very excited to announce that the upcoming 400th consecutive weekly project in the Disquiet Junto music community will be a collaboration with Malka Older, author of the excellent science-fiction trilogy the Centenal Cycle, and who’s now working on *Orphan Black: The Next Chapter* at Serial Box, for whom she previously created *Ninth Step Station*. The Junto members will be doing something along the lines of what we did with another novelist, [Richard Kadrey](https://disquiet.com/2015/10/29/disquiet0200-kadreyscore/) (*Sandman Slim*, *The Grand Dark*), for the 200th Junto project, back in October 2015. It’s going to be great.
The Junto community did a project based on Older’s novel *Infomocracy*, the first book in the Centenal Cycle, back in [December 2017](https://disquiet.com/2017/10/12/disquiet-junto-project-0302-gronkytonk/), for the 302nd consecutive Junto. In that project, Junto members tried to imagine what a genre of music might sound like. The genre, “gronkytonk,” was mentioned in passing in *Infomocracy*. The author graciously thanked the Junto in the third and final Centenal book, *State Tectonics*, which came out in 2018.
The Disquiet Junto is a group in which musicians respond to weekly, fast-turnaround assignments to compose, record, and share new music. The idea is to use constraints as a springboard for creativity. It has run weekly since January 2012. Project announcements are emailed each Thursday via [tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto](https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto).