Disquiet Junto Project 0719: Riding on the Metronome
The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat.

Step 1: Locate a metronome and set it to play at a speed of your choice. Recommended: 70 bpm.

Step 2: Practice playing with, and against, and entirely apart from the beat.

Step 3: Record a piece of music in which you start off playing with the beat, and then veer away from it, and then are drawn back to it, and then veer away, around and again. End the piece while playing apart from the beat, not in sync with it.

Deadline: Monday, October 13, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0719

Disquiet Junto Project 0719: Riding on the Metronome

What's the difference between 85bpm and 84bpm? I think you'll agree, that 1bpm makes all the difference! 🤯 Enjoy! 😁

For the eagle-eared among you, you'll notice the music is based on the Dali project which you can see on the halF unusuaL YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/1C3-wesgtec

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/

more halF unusuaL

halF metronomE [disquiet0719]

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 09 Oct 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synths, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 04 Oct 2025, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Obey Your Mistress Bonnie” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0719: Riding on the Metronome. The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/

Discussion - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0717-generation-gambit/

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Obey Your Mistress Bonnie  (disquiet0719)

A contrapuntal composition created using Pure Data with alternating sections of regular (120 bpm) and irregular or free rhythms.

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Breaking Free (disquiet0719)

sound art for disquiet0719.

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our cups overflow with light (disquiet0719)

Brut quartet: Metronome, Me, Me and a couple of comments from a 3-string boxy dulcimer.

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.

disquiet0719 taktell tak tak

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Don't Go Changing the Tempo (disquiet0719)

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt challenged us to a duel with a metronome: record a piece of music that weaves in and out of a steady beat. 

I assembled a trio comprising the Moog Minitaur (lead and bass), Roland Juno (pads), and Waldorf Streichfett (strings). I improvised a meandering chord sequence and spent a lot of time mixing multiple layers of analog pads to bring it to life. Against the steady backdrop of a simple percussion pattern, I recorded the lead performance on the Minitaur. Since this synth doesn't sync to the MIDI clock on the computer, riding the LFO controls manually let me improvise the swirling/cycling/beating patterns that dance within, against, and without the beat. 

About the vocals: When I was listening to the mix earlier today, I heard a momentary audio artifact that sounded like a muffled voice. This inspired me to add a vague vocal part for way back in the mix, so recorded myself reading an excerpt from "A Vision of the Night" by Ambrose Bierce.

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.

Legend of the Moon People (disquiet0719)

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/

Pleistocene Wallop [disquiet0719]

Track created for the Disquiet(0719) challenge; An electronic piece offers a journey of respecting and disrespecting the Gnome.

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.



GNOME VARIATIONS Disquiet(0719)

It's just an anomaly in time. All fixed now.

Anomaly (Disquiet0719)

This began as live playing using preset sounds on Garageband. I then took each individual track and gave them new timbres through Ableton Live effects. I slowed the tempo down by half to give room to the new textures created by the effects. I followed the instructions of this week's @disquiet project almost to the letter, with a slight moving of a couple of parts at the finalising stage. 

More on the 719th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Riding on the Metronome — The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat — at https://disquiet.com/0719/.

Metronome Ride (disquiet0719)

Basic metronome created with piano + delay. Other sequencers with different tempos control some percussive sounds (prepared piano, cello  and percussion).

Metro- Nomos-disquiet0719

Made in response to Disquiet Junto 0719, Riding on the Metronome. We were invited to create something that follows a metronome and then separates away from the metronome and back. I interpreted this pretty loosely. No AI was used though there are plenty of influences that might be obvious or not.

pish.posh (Disquiet 0719)

Counting Heartbeats (Disquiet 0719)

Marco Lucchi : piano and electric organ 

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for the current #disquiet junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2025/10/09/indisquiet-junto-project-0719-riding-on-the-metronome/

piano sketch 1 [disquiet # 0719] 60 bpm

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.