Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room.

Step 1. Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.

Step 2. Picture some comfortable chairs, abstract artworks on the wall, and some large plants in the corners of the room. The perfect music for this moment is playing out of a high quality, vintage-looking speaker. You are ready for your appointment.

Step 3. Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. The duration of the piece is up to you. If you are OK with your work potentially being excerpted, please license it with a CC license that permits derivative works (i.e., any CC license that does not include ND, “no derivative works”).

Background: Selected results from this assignment will be included in the soundtrack of an experimental video series The Talking Cure, currently being produced by visual artists The Big Conversation Space. The Talking Cure will be projected in the group exhibition The Real Show at the contemporary art museum CAC Brétigny, France from January through April 2022 and broadcast on YouTube. The video series will also feature the Disquiet Junto through interviews with Marc Weidenbaum and other Disquiet Junto participants and supporters. The Junto participants whose work is included will be credited by name in the videos.

Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

Studio Noah creation on JUNO-Di Mobile Synthesizer

You Lied [disquiet0515]

For "Bardominium", I wanted a sound reminiscent of a Marpac Dohm noise machine, but with vague extras.  

This is the 40 second version.

To achieve this, I combined sections of tracks by my side group Aleodeology.  These tracks are titled "Aleodeological Travel", "Industrial Terminal", and "Significant Mallets".  I also mixed in a bunch of homemade loops created from the Korg IMS-20 iPad app .

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

Bardominium (disquiet0515)

For this challenge:
Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure
Imagine that you are about to consult a therapist. You are sitting in the waiting room of his/her/their office.
Create a piece of music that you imagine hearing in this situation. 

I was recording ebow guitar today so did this jam, guitar, upright bass, ebow guitar, synths.
it was pure "free association", just played whatever came to my mind on top of the previous tracks.
Friday November 12th 2021

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little home video recording this:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWOQ47JqJfc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Let's Bring It Back To The Waiting Room (disquiet0515)

Sittin in the waiting room  listening to the radio. What i hear inside is not what comes from outside My schizo mind cooks another brew. Rehearses its own music.  Thank you, my brain. 

All sounds EMU Morpheus. Sequenced by Flame Six in a Row

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0515-talking-cure/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Image by The waiting room rehearsals

Waiting room rehearsals

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"The voice may well be the key to the presence of the present and to an unalloyed interiority, but it conceals in its bosom that inaudible object voice which disrupts both. (...) This object embodies the very impossibility of attaining auto-affection; it introduces a scission, a rupture in the middle of the full presence, and refers it to a void—but a void which is not simply a lack, an empty space; it is a void in which the voice comes to resonate."

(Mladen Dolar, The Voice and Nothing More, MIT Press, 2006)


This is my contribution to Disquiet Junto project #0515: Talking Cure. This week, the prompt consisted in creating a piece of music that you imagine hearing in a therapist's waiting room.

More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0515-talking-cure/

Disquiet Junto #0515 - Talking Care

Le sujet-supposé-savoir (disquiet0515)

come in, have a seat | disquiet0515

my first disquiet submission. a chance encounter with this picture on instagram posted by dsqt made me take notice. i didn't know anything about disquiet before this. i kept staring into this picture, past all the text, and my mind started to drift. It is only a few hours later on revisiting  that i read about the project and decided to participate.

the basis of "come in, have a seat" is a field recording of trees in the wind. a few weeks back, on a walk in the neighborhood, the track came on as part of a random selection from my music library. it was comforting to listen to as i walked through a mostly concrete jungle. i checked to see what the track was, and to my surprise, i found it was something i'd recorded nearly 10 years ago for a play - the sound of trees in a gentle wind.

i wanted the listener to begin to feel like they belong.
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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: Disquiet Junto Project 0515: Talking Cure

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0515-talking-cure/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

come in, have a seat | disquiet0515

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