60: Percent of UK adults estimated to be adversely affected by their sonic environments.
60: “The 60-60 rule asserts that you shouldn’t listen to music at a volume louder than 60% of maximum for more than 60 minutes at a time.”
70: The percent slower that sound moves on Mars than on Earth.
Sources: UK (pipedown.org), 60-60 (zdnet.com), Mars (nature.com)
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 0751: Gastropod Meter
The Assignment: Go slow for an imagined nature documentary.
Imagine you’ve been invited to compose music for a nature documentary about slugs. Record a track for one of the film’s slower scenes.
Note: Cover photo shot at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0751” (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-0751-gastropod-meter/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. Maybe 3 to 5 minutes?
Deadline: Monday, May 25, 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 751th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Gastropod Meter — The Assignment: Go slow for an imagined nature documentary — disquiet.com/0751.
This went out, second week in a row. Feels good. A little shorter than I’d intended, but I’m getting back on track, so to speak.
I’m excited to report we’re again teaming up with Musikfestival Bern this year, thanks as always to Tobias Reber.
The festival will run in Bern, Switzerland, from September 2 – 6, and we’ll be doing four projects in advance, playing in various ways — direct and indirect — with the theme for this year’s events, which is «Blitz» (or “Lightning”), and we’ll be responding, as well, to concepts introduced by various composers and musicians involved this coming season. Some of the music we create over the course of these projects may also end up being part of one of the festival’s many sound installations. The first of these Junto x Bern projects will likely occur next week, for Disquiet Junto project 0752, which will begin on May 28.
Read more about the festival at musikfestivalbern.ch. This will be the eighth year in a row that the Junto has collaborated with Musikfestival Bern. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege, and precisely the sort of creative connection-making I love to happen for the Junto community.
I call this one: The tin wall reflecting light from the stage while one of my favorite bands from the 1990s plays, having magically appeared in my neighborhood movie theater.
Also, it’s probably not tin. It’s probably Lincrusta.
