Disquiet Junto Project 0744: Cold Chocolate

The Assignment: Turn a shared sample into something refreshing.

/ 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.

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 0744: Cold Chocolate
The Assignment: Turn a shared sample into something refreshing.

Step 1: Download the recording at the following link. It is the sound of cocoa powder being mixed in a ceramic cup of oat milk using a metal spoon.

This URL should work fine:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xfyvfuf8couvule3apd17/Cold-Chocolate-Refreshing.m4a?rlkey=mqn044y90nov03yy3yriks63b&st=bfx1w4ko&dl=0

This URL should eventually work:

https://freesound.org/people/disquiet/sounds/849399

Step 2: Sampling the above audio, record an original piece of music that you feel sounds refreshing.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0744” (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-0744-cold-chocolate/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, April 6, 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 744th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Cold Chocolate — The Assignment: Turn a shared sample into something refreshing — disquiet.com/0744.

Disquiet Junto Project 0743: Make It Happen

The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

/ 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.

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 0743: Make It Happen
The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do.

There is just one step this week. The year is still young. Think of something musical you’ve been meaning to drive, and do it.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0743” (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-0743-make-it-happen/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. Maybe shorter is better?

Deadline: Monday, March 30, 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 743rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Make It Happen — The Assignment: Do something you’ve been meaning to do: disquiet.com/0743.

On Repeat: Oslo, Nottingham, Phoenix

Home/office playlist

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

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.

▰ “Deep Green” is a fantastic, slow-burn track off Eivind Aarset’s new album, Strange Hands, which features the electric guitarist with bassist Audun Erlien and the dual drums/percussion team of Wetle Holte and Erland Dahlen. Aarset is based in Oslo, Norway.

▰ Blissful slice of everyday sound and granular synthesis, from Caustic Gates, of Nottingham, United Kingdom:

▰ Axercism 2: No Cuts is subterranean guitar noise, just shy of half an hour of experiments from Parker Weston (based in Phoenix, Arizona), who describes it as “Folded times of extension and preparedness.” (The automated embed is failing, which happens on occasion, so just click through to the recording’s Bandcamp page.)

On the Corner

In the video game Resident Evil Requiem

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

When I travel, I’m more likely to stay in one place for an extended period of time than to go from place to place. You still travel in one place, because the world passes by you, instead of the other way around. A lot of video game ASMR channels — that is, footage collections that highlight the diegetic, which is to say in-scene, sound of a given game — tend toward the latter, wandering through towns, touring amid landscapes, meandering the depths of dank tunnels. But some do take a chance at just plopping the virtual camera on a corner and seeing (and, more to the point, listening to) what happens past.

This is a tricky mode, because video games don’t match either the pixel density or the chaotic complexity of reality. Stand at an intersection of Cyberpunk 2077 for long, and you’ll see variants of the same characters, and hear the same sounds. The YouTube account Video Game Weather ASMR explores the potential of static recording in a recent video from Resident Evil Requiem, much as the Atmospheric Gaming channel did earlier this month in the same game, albeit in a hallway; this newer one is shot outside. Cars and pedestrians make their way by, while rain soaks everything. Inevitably, you do see the same faces, the same outfits. At least once I could swear a pair of the same character nearly collided on the sidewalk. Likewise, little disturbs the monotony of the weather, though as background white noise, it works well. Per the channel’s description, “Due to the nature of ASMR, any comments or narration will be minimized. The idea is to offer viewers and listeners a calm, relaxing atmosphere.” Pull up a stool and pay attention to the world, and to the attempts to simulate a world, as it goes by.

Disquiet Junto Project 0742: Sensitive Math

The Assignment: An exercise in genre speculation

/ 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.

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 0742: Sensitive Math
The Assignment: An exercise in genre speculation.

Step 1: This is an exercise in genre, pondering what an imaginary genre might consist of. Consider the speculative genre called “sensitive math.” You know nothing about it except its name.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that exemplifies the “sensitive math” genre. When posting the resulting track, describe to some degree what you have come to think of as the characteristics of this genre.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0742” (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-0742-sensitive-math/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. Does speculative math have an inherent length?

Deadline: Monday, March 23, 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 742nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sensitive Math — The Assignment: An exercise in genre speculation — at https://disquiet.com/0742/