The New York venue Roulette’s YouTube channel keeps posting one amazing performance video after another. A recent one is the live score to a film, The Great Flood by Bill Morrison, performed by the tight little trio of Bill Frisell (guitar), Luke Bergman (bass), and Tim Angulo (drums). The production takes as its topic the catastrophic 1927 flooding of Mississippi River. While the threesome perform there are short segments on the flood itself, the immediate aftermath, the resulting migration, and other interrelated factors. It was followed the second night with live scores to two other Morrison films, and two from Buster Keaton, The High Sign and One Week. More at the Roulette website on night one and night two, May 23 and 24 of this year.
Author: Marc Weidenbaum
On Repeat: Parker, SML, James
Home/office playlist
On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
▰ The Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, a jazz foursome, posted a full video recording of a live set, doing their new album, Happy Today, co-released May 15 by the International Anthem and Nonesuch labels — heavy on atmosphere and exemplifying a rich sense of ensemble:
▰ SML, a jazz quintet, revs percolating minimalism into virtual Afrobeat in this first available track from their forthcoming live album, Spontaneous Music Live, due out June 26, also on International Anthem:
▰ Glitch/IDM producer Loraine James works with vocalists a lot lately — introspective rap, sultry soul, stream-of-consciousness spoken word — and her excellent recent album, Detached from the Rest of You, released May 8 on Hyperdub, exudes artful anxiousness:
Scratch Pad: Sichuan, Bern, Bay
From the past week
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online 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.
Another light week. Guess I’ve been busy. (I have.)
▰ You know it was a good Sichuan meal when afterwards, as you walk down the street, even the air you inhale is tasty.
▰ The Disquiet Junto music community is collaborating for the eighth year in a row with Musikfestival Bern, in Bern, Switzerland, and they posted this about the first of four projected projects we’ll be doing together this year, in the lead up to the September events:
▰ Not bad, SF:
Free Little LPs
Final vinyl
This is one next level Free Little Library
Disquiet Junto Project 0752: Pong Pings
The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a 2026 Musikfestival Bern installation.
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 0752: Pong Pings
The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a 2026 Musikfestival Bern installation.
As part of Musikfestival Bern 2026, which takes «Blitz» (flash/lightning) as its theme, a ping pong table will be set up in the newly renovated PROGR courtyard for passers-by to play quick matches against musicians, artists, and each other. During lunch hours, matches will be dynamically scored with outsized storm sounds, triggered with piezo mics and/or game controllers. In this week’s Junto you are invited to contribute to the sound library that will be used for this project. Think “tiny impacts, large sound effects.”
The assignment: Compose abstract storm events: single impacts (rumbling thunder, lightning strikes, etc) and/or textural sounds (wind, rain, hail, etc). Each event or texture should stand on its own. Record one or more. If you record a sequence of these, please make a single track of them and include a brief clean silent break between each. All musicians whose work is included in the installation will be credited on-site. And please be sure to set your track as downloadable.
More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate. 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 “disquiet0752” (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-0752-pong-pings/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The number of sounds you contribute is up to you. Please keep each sound brief, given the nature of the installation, as described above.
Deadline: Monday, June 1, 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 752nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Pong Pings — The Assignment: Contribute sounds to a 2026 Musikfestival Bern installation — disquiet.com/0752. More on Musikfestival Bern at https://musikfestivalbern.ch. Many thanks to the festival’s Tobias Reber for the invitation to again collaborate. This is the eighth consecutive year of Bern x Junto collaborations.