Disquiet Junto Project 0740: Polychord Amorous

The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of polychords.

/ 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 0740: Polychord Amorous
The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of polychords.

Thanks to Robert Precht for having proposed this project.

Step 1: If you’re not familiar with the idea of polychords, read up a bit. Here are some initial resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychord

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/polychords.html

Step 2: Record a piece of music that is based on a progression of polychords. Don’t make it too complicated.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0740” (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-0740-polychord-amorous/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. 

Deadline: Monday, March 9, 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 740th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Polychord Amorous — The Assignment: Write a piece of music based on a chord progression of polychords — at https://disquiet.com/0740/

Happy 303

The phuture will be computer controlled

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Happy 303 Day to all who celebrate.

Also, I do my best to add alt text to images, and now some platforms offer automated alt text, and one such service provided the following:

May be an image of text that says ‘MXIN WAVEFORM SYNC IM TUNING CUT OFF FFFREO RESONANCE ENV MOD 2Roland DECAY TEMPO ACCENT CV TRACK PATT PATT.GROUP #* GATE ME OUTPUT MODE SLOW WRITE NV FAST Bass Line PLAY TRACK BAR RESET PATTERNCLEAR VOLUME PLAY WRITE PITCH PITCHMODE MODE c PATTERN C# D$ E TB-303 Computer Controlled F# AUN BATTERY G# A A# B POWER SW OFF c FUNCTION NORMAL MODE DEL MAX INS TIME MODE RUN RUN/STOP STOP BAR DOWN $ BACK UP ACCENT SELECTOR DEL SLIDE INS 3 4 D.S 5 6 78 a STEP 9 0 100 WRITE WRITE/NEXT NEXT 200 TAP’

Corr(u)ption Goes on a Trip

From the prolific and mysterious musician and field recordist

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

I generally have no idea what exactly is going on in the music attributed to Corruption (or Corrption) on SoundCloud, as it veers from dub to noise to field recording to strange combinations thereof, much of it more like an audio diary entry than like a considered composition. The latest such track, intractably titled “runakuna hunt’a trenpi ñut’usqa wañusqa,” sounds mostly like voice announcements at public transportation hubs in something other than English, perhaps Japanese, which is Corruption’s native tongue. The prolific musician now has well over 2,000 tracks on SoundCloud, and this one isn’t even the most recent. Whatever the track is, it’s a trip, perhaps also literally. It’s a snippet of daily existence that may have been edited to feature highlights, or may have been selected whole for its readymade collage qualities. (And for some reason at the moment embeds aren’t working, so just click through to listen.)

On Repeat: Barbieri/Gieske, Akinmusire, MMW

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.

▰ This is one track, “Alignments, Orbits,” off a fantastic new collection, At Source, of collaborations between Caterina Barbieri (synthesizer) and Bendik Giske (saxophone). Giske’s lively paralleling of Barbieri’s pattern cascades is pure delight. The spirit of Philip Glass is deep in this pairing.

▰ Ambrose Akinmusire’s maturity and strength as a band leader can be measured here in how slowly yet easily he paces his playing, and how much room he leaves for his fellow players. He’s heard with guitarist Charles Altura, drummer Justin Brown, pianist Sam Harris, and bassist Harish Raghavan. This was just uploaded to YouTube, and is part of a longer set at qwest.tv, but it appears to date from 2014.

▰ A full-length concert from John Medeski (organ, keyboards), Billy Martin (drums, percussion), and Chris Wood (double bass, electric bass), aka Medeski, Martin, and Wood, plus some occasional guests, including saxophonist Skerik, trumpeter Eric “Benny” Bloom, and, for one piece, singer Datrian Johnson. The trio has exhibited a lot of range in its 35 years together, and for them this is a particularly straight-ahead and funky gig. It was recorded February 10, 2026, on the Jam Cruise.