Please note: There was an error in the instructions when initially posted at 12:10am Pacific. The instructions were corrected by 2:55am Pacific. The BPM should be 153 (not 168, as originally stated). Also, the link to the mentioned materials was missing. Those corrections now appear below.
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 0756: In a Flash
The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event.
This year at Musikfestival Bern, Werner Hasler (an electronic musician and trumpeter) will organize two days in which the dozen episodes of the 1940s serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe will be presented with new scores by a variety of composers and performers. We’ll be composing new versions of the film’s title music. The key thing is your rendition must be at 153 BPM, in order to match the pace of the video. Also, be sure to match the length of the original, one minute and sixteen seconds (1:16). Provided as source material for your efforts are (1) an audio recording of the Flash Gordon title music, (2) a MIDI file containing Werner‘s reduction of the full score, and (3) a PDF with sheet music notation of the oboe voice (representing the main melody). You can take all those materials as starting points for your interpretation. Hasler will make the final determination as to which if any completed tracks work well for his Musikfestival Bern undertaking. Participants whose music is utilized will be credited at the festival, and we’ll share their names through the regular Disquiet Junto information channels (llllllll.co, disquiet.com).
Here are the materials:
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/2203f768-6d7f-4143-b4ff-0237df004962
For your additional information, these musicians will be performing at the event: Liz Kosack, synths; Grégoire Dargent, Revox and Oud; Jo Nagorsnik, trombone, electronics; Jim Black, drum, electronics; Werner Hasler, sampling, live sampling, spatialisation.
More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate, and to Werner Hasler. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations. This project is the first of four planned this year.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0756” (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-0756-in-a-flash/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: Per the instructions, your track should be 1:16 (one minute and sixteen seconds).
Deadline: Monday, June 29, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/
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 756th weekly Disquiet Junto project, In a Flash — The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a Flash Gordon–themed 2026 Musikfestival Bern event — disquiet.com/0756. More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate, and to Werner Hasler, who developed this Flash Gordon event. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations.
