This is a collaborative music-making space associated with Disquiet.com.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0008: Giving Voice
Instructions:
Deadline: Monday, February 27, at 11:59pm wherever you are.
Plan: The eighth Junto project is the first to focus on the human voice. It is a shared-sample project. Everyone will work from roughly the same source material, though there are choices to be made. You will select a single sentence (or extended, self-contained clause) from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. It is Franklin's own Junto Society that provided the name for our association. You will either extract the single sentence/clause from this public-domain recording of Chapter 11 from the book:
http://www.archive.org/download/franklin_autobio_gg_librivox/franklin_11_pine.mp3
Or you will record your own version of a sentence/clause of your choice (again, as long as it is from Chapter 11). The free text of the autobiography is available here -- the link goes directly to the 11th chapter:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm#XI
Whether you use the provided MP3 or you elect to record a section yourself, you will use that recording as the sole audio source material in your work. You can do with it as you wish -- cut it up, slow it down, process it, otherwise transform it -- so long as at some point, the sentence/clause is comprehensible to the listener. You will not add any other sounds.
Length: Please keep your piece to between two and five minutes in length.
Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term "disquiet0008-voice” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.
Download: As always, you don’t have to set your track for download, but it would be preferable.
Linking: When you post the track, please include this information if you use the MP3:
The underlying vocal sample is from this public-domain recording of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, from LibriVox:
http://www.archive.org/details/franklin_autobio_gg_librivox
And use this information if you record your own sentence from Franklin's book:
Text made possible thanks to:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm#XI
And either way, please include this:
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
Disquiet Junto
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Project Index
Updated: February 23, 2012
Disquiet0008-voice
Create music using only a sample of a sentence from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
Start: 2012.02.23 ... End: 2012.02.27
Disquiet0007-subtract (link to tracks forthcoming)
Create by removing material from an existing field recording.
Start: 2012.02.16 ... End: 2012.02.20
Disquiet0006-cylinder
Remix three archival Edison cylinder recordings.
Start: 2012.02.09 ... End: 2012.02.13
Disquiet0005-layer
Add sounds to a pre-existing field recording of everyday life.
Start: 2012.02.02 … End: 2012.02.06
Disquiet0004-mfischer
Remix the Marcus Fischer piece “Nearly There.”
Start: 2012.01.26 … End: 2012.01.30
Disquiet0003-glass
Record a live performance for “expanded glass harp.”
Start: 2012.01.19 … End: 2012.01.23
Disquiet0002-duet
Duet for fog horn and train whistle — using only those two provided samples.
Start: 2012.01.12 … End: 2012.01.16
Disquiet0001-ice
Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.
Start: 2012.01.05 … End: 2012.01.09
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Disquiet Junto FAQ:
Updated January 26, 2012
*New/edited information marked with an asterisk.
Q: What is the Disquiet Junto?
A: The Disquiet Junto is a group based on Soundcloud.com where musicians respond to regularly scheduled, fast-turnaround assignments to compose, record, and share new music. The idea is to use restraints as a springboard for creativity.
Q: How does it work?
A: A project is announced each Thursday evening, and it is due the following Monday by 11:59pm (that's 11:59pm wherever you happen to be). You upload your track to your Soundcloud account. Then you associate it with the Junto group. And you include the appropriate tag with the track, and include that tag in the name of the track (the tag is the word "Disquiet" followed by a four-digit number followed by a hyphen followed by a keyword, such as "Disquiet0003-glass" -- the number and keyword are provided as part of the assignment).
*Q: Should I provide any additional information?
A: Yes, please. It is preferred that you include with the track some description of both the compositional approach you had undertaken, as well as the equipment and process you employed to achieve it.
Q: Do I need to participate every week?
A: Gosh no. There is no intent to pressure anyone to do any more than they have time for.
Q: Do I need to do this alone?
A: These can be group projects, certainly. You needn't work by yourself, though that appears to be the most common approach by Junto members. (And there will be some projects in which collaboration is actively required.)
Q: What is a "junto"?
A: The word comes from the name of a society that Benjamin Franklin formed in Philadelphia during the early 1700s as "a structured forum of mutual improvement."
Q: What is "electronic music"?
A: Anything you want it to be. Drones, beats, drones with beats, abstract, melodic, tuneful, discordant, phonographic, synthesized. Go for it.
Q: Does my track have to be "ambient"?
A: No, not by any means. That mode, broadly defined, will likely be a not uncommon approach for participants, but it won't be the only one.
Q: Is there any restriction on length?
A: Not necessarily. It depends on the project. Some will stipulate length. Others won't.
Q: Do I have to set my track to be downloadable?
A: You don't have to, but it would be appreciated. Also, some assignments may involve remixing previous project entries, and if your track isn't downloadable, it won't be easily remix-able.
Q: Can I post more than one track?
A: No, please. Just focus your efforts on one track. (That said, there may be occasional Junto projects for which you will be asked to do more than one track, but that will be part of a specific assignment.)
Q: Is there an email list for announcements?
A: Yes, and if you want to be added, just shoot a request to marc@disquiet.com saying so.
Q: Are those really the only questions?
A: So far.
Q: What if I have more questions?
A: Get in touch with Disquiet Junto founder Marc Weidenbaum, at marc@disquiet.com.
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