Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.
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. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.
Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks also generally appear in the llllllll.co discussion thread.
Disquiet Junto Project 0739: Deepest Sympathies
The Assignment: Make music focused on sympathetic strings, or something akin to them.
Step 1: Consider this concept: When you play a single string on a guitar, or a harp, or another stringed instrument, other strings vibrate in harmony with it. Some instruments, such as the sitar, sarod, and the Hardanger fiddle, have sympathetic strings inherent in their design. This sort of sympathetic vibration is also the case with tuning forks.
Step 2: Record a piece of music exploring, as much as possible, the sound of sympathetic strings unto themselves. This might be a practical experiment, trying to isolate the sounds, or a conceptual approach, using the idea as inspiration.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0739” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: A person participating in the Disquiet Junto should post only one track per weekly project (SoundCloud account preferred but not required). If on occasion you feel inspired to post more than one track (whether to a single account or across multiple accounts), you should clarify which is the “main” rendition for consideration by fellow members and (if on SoundCloud) for inclusion in the SoundCloud playlist.
Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0739-deepest-sympathies/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you.
Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
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License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).
Please Include When Posting Your Track:
More on the 739th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Deepest Sympathies — The Assignment: Make music focused on sympathetic strings, or something akin to them — at https://disquiet.com/0739/