Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, 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. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. It’s weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when you have the time.
Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, March 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, March 24, 2022.
These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):
Disquiet Junto Project 0534: Transition Capsule
The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones.
Step 1: This project looks at the new normal of office life, in particular back-to-back virtual conference meetings. Even if such circumstances don’t define your own life, there is a captive audience looking to manage the loss of mental transitions that gaps between meetings used to provide. Keep that audience in mind.
Step 2: In the new normal, one is less likely to change rooms, to walk down a hallway, to use public transportation, or to otherwise travel between meetings. Consider the benefits that such transitions used to provide before virtual conferences took over the lives of many professionals. Think about the way that a break or change in scenery or other transition used helped the brain process what has just happened and prepare for what’s about to happen.
Step 3: Imagine you could provide an easily consumable mental aid to ease the transition between meetings. Think of it as a Transition Capsule, which artificially induces the sort of reorientation that used to be provided by breaks and travel between meetings.
Step 4: Now, compose a piece of music that serves as a sonic Transition Capsule.
Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:
Step 1: Include “disquiet0534” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.
Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0534” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.
Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.
Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co:
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0534-transition-capsule/
Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.
Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.
Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to [email protected] for Slack inclusion.
Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.
Additional Details:
Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, March 28, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, March 24, 2022.
Length: The length is up to you. How long a transition do you want to assist with?
Title/Tag: When posting your tracks, please include “disquiet0534” in the title of the tracks, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.
Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to 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. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.
Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).
For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:
More on this 534th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transition Capsule (The Assignment: Record music to help people efficiently reorient between two zones) — at: https://disquiet.com/0534/
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/
Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0534-transition-capsule/