Over on X/Twitter, Zack Soto uploaded a comic about the late great Damo Suzuki and Can he wrote and Connor Willumsen drew. It was part of a 2014 online collection of comics I edited for Red Bull Music Academy. I’ve edited a lot of comics, and this is one of my favorites.
Update: This is pretty cool. According to Michelle Heighway, who directed the film Energy: A Documentary about Damo Suzuki, Damo saw and “loved” this comic.
RIP, Akira Toriyama (68), creator of Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, and Sand Land. I met him several times when I worked for Shonen Jump. Truly one of the greats.
Thanks for sending me your latest album for review consideration but today I’m just kicking back on Barton IV and listening to the humming of the defense perimeter sensors.
(This is a Star Wars: The Bad Batch reference. Episode 5, “The Return,” of Season 3 was fantastic.)
Wow, it’s been 30 years since Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II came out, which in turn means it’s been 10 years since my 33 1/3 book on the album came out (subsequently translated into Spanish and, then, Japanese, which was exciting). Amazing the cultural afterlife this album has had.
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 appear in the lllllll.co discussion thread.
These following instructions went to the group email list (via juntoletter.disquiet.com).
Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3)
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio.
Please note: While this project is the start of a three-part sequence that will unfold over the course of three weeks, you can participate in any or all three of those parts.
Step 1: This week’s Junto project is the first in a sequence intended to encourage and reward collaboration. You will be recording something with the understanding that it will remain unfinished for the time being. Your part will be done, but more will happen. Read on.
Step 2: The plan is for you to record a short and original piece of music using any instrumentation of your choice. Conceive the piece as something that leaves room for something else — other instruments, other people — to join in. (Keep in mind that your piece would appear panned to the left in the finished recording, after three weeks.)
Step 3: Record a short piece of music, roughly two to three minutes in length, as described in Step 2.
Step 4: This is important: be sure to make your track downloadable because it may be used by someone else in the next Disquiet Junto project, and then after that.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0636” (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-0636-left-1-of-3/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. Two to three minutes is best.
Deadline: Monday, March 11, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
About: https://disquiet.com/junto/
Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/
License: It’s required for this sequence of projects 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 636th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Left (1 of 3) — The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0636/
