I follow the work of the musician who goes by he_nu_ri pretty closely, and I was excited when this video popped up on YouTube. Not only does it feature Serge synthesizer modules (designs that go back to the early 1970s, though these specific devices are fairly new), but the musician described it as pushing the bounds of what previous releases might suggest: these are “more experimental and atonal experiments.” That said, it’s a delight, precise little sounds that seem to echo forever, like drops heard from a deep deep well. It is at once musical and environmental.
Author: Marc Weidenbaum
Disquiet Junto Project 0710: Let’s Get Loud
The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier
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 lllllll.co discussion thread.
Disquiet Junto Project 0710: Let’s Get Loud
The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier.
There is just one step in this project:
Choose a recent piece of your own music and rework it by making some portions of it significantly louder and busier than they were initially.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0710” (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.
Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0710-lets-get-loud/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you.
Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2025, 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 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.
The Art of Circuitry
Manga edition
Incredible circuit board illustrations, all full-page, from the first volume of Kazuo Umezz’s manga My Name Is Shingo (1982–1986). A fairly common aspect of manga is to, after pages of sometimes casual and spare drawing, to be suddenly hit with a page or spread of intense detail, like cityscapes or nature scenes. Here the eye focuses on the detail inside a machine — a machine that is, at times, the story’s narrator. I worked in manga for a half decade, and moments like these thrill me to this day.
Five Apartments and a Mailbox
Another day, another set of doorbells
Another day, another doorbell, or set of doorbells. I like to think the Master Lock set-up on the left is for when the electric buttons fail. Bonus points for the one apartment that gets a mailbox.
Long Weekend
High NorCal content
It was my birthday and I spent it up the coast. Back home now.