Disquiet Junto Project 0566: Outdoor Furniture Music

The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

This is the cover image for the project. It's pixel art. It shows a chair and a table on green grass against a blue sky with two bright white clouds.

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. 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. It’s weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when you have the time.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 7, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 3, 2022.

Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks appear in the [llllllll.co discussion thread](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/).

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):

Disquiet Junto Project 0566: Outdoor Furniture Music
The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with the concept of furniture music, or musique d’ameublement in the original French. This was an idea of Erik Satie’s. Often cited as a precursor to ambient music, it was music that would mix in with the furnishings, and serve as furnishings. Presumably these were indoor activities.

Step 2: Imagine the concept of furniture music transported outdoors.

Step 3: Record some “outdoor furniture music.”

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0566” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0566” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co [https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/)

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to [email protected] for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, November 7, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, November 3, 2022.

Length: The length is up to you. How long is your lawn party?

Title/Tag: When posting your tracks, please include “disquiet0566” in the title of the tracks, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 566th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outdoor Furniture Music (The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air) — at: https://disquiet.com/0566/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: [https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/)

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “outdoor furniture, pixel art, sunny day.”

Jamie Stillway’s Sublime Stillness

On Lullaby for a Stranger

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I’d been listening to an advance copy of the forthcoming Jamie Stillway album, *Lullaby for a Stranger*, on my laptop and thought it was beautiful. Then I popped on my headphones and … yow. Yow! Yow, is there a lot going on in what feels quite placid and introspective. More than beautiful. Yow. I was a big fan of the guitarist’s previous EP, *City Static*, and this is very much a companion to that release. One track, “The Patience of Spring,” is available to listen to already. The full album comes out on November 11, 2002. (I thought I’d already mentioned this album, but apparently I hadn’t.)

Get it at [jamiestillway.bandcamp.com](https://jamiestillway.bandcamp.com/album/lullaby-for-a-stranger).

Arovane x Deupree

They teamed up for the album Skal_Ghost

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Uwe Zahn (aka Arovane) and Taylor Deupree are favorite musicians of mine, so I was excited to learn they have a new collaborative album due out. Thus far we have only one track to go by, but it’s endlessly loopable. The song, an instrumental, is titled “Pfad_Onset.”

The cut balances glitchy foreground sounds that seem like both errant signals and plucked strings at the same time, all against a shimmering, droning backdrop that gains considerable depth upon repeated listens. The album is titled [*Skal_Ghost*](https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/skal-ghost) and it comes out on Deupree’s record label, 12k, this coming week, on November 4.

Album at [12kmusic.bandcamp.com](https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/skal-ghost).

Disquiet Junto Project 0565: Musical Folly

The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept.

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

This is a seeming photograph of an architectural folly on a country estate, against a blue sky with clouds. It was created in DALLE2.

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. 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. It’s weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when you have the time.

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 31, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, October 27, 2022.

Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks appear in the [llllllll.co discussion thread](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/).

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto):

Disquiet Junto Project 0565: Musical Folly
The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept.

Step 1: Consider the concept of a folly in architecture. The Oxford English Dictionary has defined a folly as “A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.” Look at other definitions.

Step 2: Consider how the idea of a folly might be transposed, so to speak, to music.

Step 3: Make a piece of music inspired by the thoughts that arose in Step 2.

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

Eight Important Steps When Your Track Is Done:

Step 1: Include “disquiet0565” (no spaces or quotation marks) in the name of your tracks.

Step 2: If your audio-hosting platform allows for tags, be sure to also include the project tag “disquiet0565” (no spaces or quotation marks). If you’re posting on SoundCloud in particular, this is essential to subsequent location of tracks for the creation of a project playlist.

Step 3: Upload your tracks. It is helpful but not essential that you use SoundCloud to host your tracks.

Step 4: Post your track in the following discussion thread at llllllll.co [https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/)

Step 5: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.

Step 6: If posting on social media, please consider using the hashtag #DisquietJunto so fellow participants are more likely to locate your communication.

Step 7: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Step 8: Also join in the discussion on the Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to [email protected] for Slack inclusion.

Note: Please post one track for this weekly Junto project. If you choose to post more than one, and do so on SoundCloud, please let me know which you’d like added to the playlist. Thanks.

Additional Details:

Deadline: This project’s deadline is the end of the day Monday, October 24, 2022, at 11:59pm (that is, just before midnight) wherever you are. It was posted on Thursday, October 20, 2022.

Length: The length is up to you.

Title/Tag: When posting your tracks, please include “disquiet0565” in the title of the tracks, and where applicable (on SoundCloud, for example) as a tag.

Upload: When participating in this project, be sure to include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto. Photos, video, and lists of equipment are always appreciated.

Download: It is always best to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution, allowing for derivatives).

For context, when posting the track online, please be sure to include this following information:

More on this 565th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Musical Folly (The Assignment: Make a piece of music inspired by this architectural concept) — at: https://disquiet.com/0565/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: [https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/](https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0565-musical-folly/)

The cover image for this project is from DALL·E 2. The prompt: “architectural folly on British estate in disrepair, photograph.”

Hildur Guðnadóttir, After & Before

A live performance from 2014

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

If you’re an admirer of composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, then you’ve likely listened to her phenomenal music for Tár, the new Cate Blanchett film, even if you haven’t had a chance to see it in a theater yet. You’ve also, then, sorted out that it may be her most challenging score date, from what seems like the emulation of traffic noise in “Tár – II. Allegro” to the oceanic roiling of “Mortar.” So, while getting oriented with the intensity of Tár, here’s a soothing but no less engaging flashback to 2014: a 20-minute live solo performance in which she sings and plays and loops segments through all manner of textural filters.

And some bonus news: Guðnadóttir has at least one more score due by the end of 2022, for Sarah Polley’s Women Talking.