I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I also find knowing I will revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
Writing-wise, I had a quite productive week, which may be reflected in my simultaneously limited amount of social media posting:
▰ It’s a Monolake Cinemascope sorta morning, but then again when isn’t it?
▰ There are good guitar class days, and what I have come to think of as Flowers for Algernon guitar class days
The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus.
/ By Marc Weidenbaum
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.
Disquiet Junto Project 0658: Re-Amplify The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus.
This project is the last of three that are being done over the course of as many months in collaboration with the 2024 Musikfestival Bern, which will be held in Switzerland from September 4 through 8 (details at musikfestivalbern.ch). We are working at the invitation of Tobias Reber, an early Junto participant, who manages the festival’s educational activities. This year is the sixth in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern.
Step 1: Listen to “Kokytos” by Daniel Glaus, available for download here:
“Kokytos” is part of a series of organ improvisations that were recorded with a wide range of microphones placed both inside and around the instrument. This assignment will build on Glaus’ work and take it a step further.
Step 2: Re-amplify the recording, or elements of it, by playing “Kokytos” back over a loudspeaker in locations with unique sonic qualities, and re-recording it. Experiment with unusual placement of speakers and microphones, and with the distance between them. Record as many takes as you like to create a pool of derived samples.
Step 3: Use the pool of sounds resulting from Step 2, compose a piece of your own, perhaps adding further sonic treatment.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0658” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: Post your track to a public account (SoundCloud preferred but by no means required). It’s best to focus on one track, but if you post more than one, clarify which is the “main” rendition.
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 658th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Re-Amplify — The Assignment: Re-record and re-compose an organ improvisation by Daniel Glaus — at https://disquiet.com/0658/
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