Disquiet Junto Project 0710: Let’s Get Loud

The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier

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 0710: Let’s Get Loud
The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier.

There is just one step in this project:

Choose a recent piece of your own music and rework it by making some portions of it significantly louder and busier than they were initially.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0710” (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-0710-lets-get-loud/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. 

Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2025, 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 710th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Let’s Get Loud — The Assignment: Make a piece of your own music louder/busier — at https://disquiet.com/0710/.

The Art of Circuitry

Manga edition

Incredible circuit board illustrations, all full-page, from the first volume of Kazuo Umezz’s manga My Name Is Shingo (1982–1986). A fairly common aspect of manga is to, after pages of sometimes casual and spare drawing, to be suddenly hit with a page or spread of intense detail, like cityscapes or nature scenes. Here the eye focuses on the detail inside a machine — a machine that is, at times, the story’s narrator. I worked in manga for a half decade, and moments like these thrill me to this day.

Bridge to Nowhere

In Golden Gate Park

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Also, the story behind it is sort of insane: