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An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Disquiet Junto Project 0661: Consumer Drone Product
The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home.
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 0661: Consumer Drone Product
The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home.
There is just one step this week: Record a piece of drone music constructed entirely from sounds that are byproducts of consumer electronics products (e.g., alarm, refrigerator, clock, HVAC, etc.) in your home.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0661” (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-0661-consumer-drone-product/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you.
Deadline: Monday, September 2, 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 661st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Consumer Drone Product — The Assignment: Record a piece of drone music using sounds from your home — at https://disquiet.com/0661/
No Foolin’
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
The opposite of trompe l’oiel
Have Mercy
The latest from James S. A. Corey
Yes, I’m enjoying The Mercy of Gods, the new science fiction novel from James S. A. Corey, aka the two authors (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) behind the great series The Expanse. More than ever, their authorial ear is attuned to the micro-interactions of the workplace (here, at least initially, scientific research labs and their governing bodies), more broadly of human communication, and now — since the looming alien threat seems to be slightly more evidently conscious than in The Expanse — between species. I’m only 25% of the way in, so there is much more to explore. And there are sequels to come, of course.
The Prone Gunman
Jazz + noir, together again
I wasn’t expecting an Anthony Braxton reference when I started reading The Prone Gunman (née: La Position du tireur couché, 1981) by French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995). The person going on about jazz here isn’t the titular gunman. It’s an annoying character who’s married to the gunman’s ex. The novel is old enough that maybe in the early 1980s the “noir protagonist listens to jazz” trope wasn’t yet as tired as it has become — or perhaps this scene was already pushing back at the trope.