Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution

The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

/ 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 lllllll.co discussion thread.

Disquiet Junto Project 0680: Reverse Resolution
The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year.

This project has just one step: finish something you started last year, likely a piece of music you left unfinished.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0680” (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-0680-reverse-resolution/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you.

Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2024, 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 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

Coppola x Davis

In a Silent Conversation

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

The Conversation is like Francis Ford Coppola’s In a Silent Way.

Which would make Walter Murch his Teo Macero, which just about works.

(Oh, nice, and as Aaron Oppenheim put it after I posted those observations: that’d make Apocalypse Now his Bitches Brew.)

On Repeat: Isungset, Aarset, Vogelsinger, Buckley, Levienaise-Farrouch

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’ll later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ In Memory of Nature by Terje Isungset and Eivind Aarset — this is Aarset’s most melodically remote album in some time, and the fact that percussionist Isungset gets top billing may explain why.

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▰ Not sure if I’m ready for 2025, but Hélène Vogelsinger sure is. She posted this short montage of clips, “The Crossing,” from work she’s done the past year, all set to a single, flowing, warping, glorious synthesizer track.

▰ The Lincoln Lawyer and The Agency — two shows I’ve been watching, the scores to neither of which appear to be available commercially yet. David Buckley’s work on The Lincoln Lawyer has a jazz-tinged quality, emphasis on trumpet, that’s a little more ethereal than the score to Bosch (both series are based on novels by Michael Connelly). Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, whose work on The Agency I’ve mentioned previously, edges well past the standard grade tension-inducing beats and tones of thriller scores. I really want to hear both of these on their own, devoid of their respective narrative-making purposes.