Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist
The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

As has become the tradition at the end of each calendar year, this week’s Junto project is a sound journal: a selective audio history of your past 12 months.

Step 1: You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2024 — or you might opt for even more elements, choosing a segment for each week, or each day, for example. These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should be of your own making, your own devising, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Step 2: You will then select one segment from each of these (most likely) dozen audio elements. If you’re doing a dozen items, one for each month, then five-second segments are recommended, for a total of one minute. Ultimately, though, the length of the segments and of the overall finished track are up to you.

Step 3: Then you will stitch these segments together, equally weighted, in chronological order to form one single track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

Step 4: In the notes field accompanying the track, identify each of the audio segments.

Deadline: Monday, December 30, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0678

Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist

perila & ulla 'silence mix' (3XL #03 for rádio quântica)

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Mt Baker

More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

For quite some time traditional Taekwondo was my main hobby and I practiced it daily whenever possible - until my back told me to stop. In traditional Taekwondo, shadow boxing is an important element as you learn sequences of attacks and defenses against imaginary opponents. These sequences are called Hyeong. 

So for my piece, I thought about how one performs a Hyeong. Usually one is a bit excited, also maybe already really tired because of a long practice. So one tries to perform the movements in a steady, not too fast manner as precise as possible and put on a bit of show. Almost always, mistakes happen, which have to be covered up or integrated into the sequence. So the whole thing is a lot like performing a piece of music.

For the track I used Magpie on Norns. Magpie takes bits of midi you play into it and plays it back on all devices (here Novation Circuit and NTS-1). Everything (except the beat) was played live in one take with lots of mistakes - just like when you perform a Hyeong.

Disquiet0648 - Hyeong

More on the 653rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Break a Rule — The Assignment: Stop doing something you always do — at https://disquiet.com/0653/

A Peace At Dawn (disquiet0653)

OP1 Field, Chase Bliss MOOD MKII

More on the 655th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Soothing Sounds II — The Assignment: Make music for babies — at https://disquiet.com/0655/

Being & Becoming (disquiet0655)

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at disquiet.com/0669/

ether (disquiet0669)

0:00 Janvier: dictaphone handpan
0:16 Février: synt D05
0:32 Mars: otis 210424
0:48 Avril: tape 0006
1:04 Mai: tape 0012
1:20 Juin: tape 0033
1:36 Juillet: 07 operator backup 11 
1:52 Août: zadar sea organ 26 août 17h40
2:08 Septembre: dt A10 sofia (C10)
2:24 Octobre: 10 operator backup 11
2:40 Novembre: electro-mechanical ventilation (VMC)
2:56 Décembre: dt Norda

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

2024 sound journal disquiet0678

Check out the accompanying visuals at https://youtu.be/UA7ynWm0t74

Here are the links to full videos for each 10 second snippet, January to December 2024:

December 2024: https://youtu.be/f8gy5dZQX3M
November 2024: https://youtu.be/2AUEC9qD69U
October 2024: https://youtu.be/riLSFwyHed4
September 2024: https://youtu.be/72mXDi5sUeU
August 2024: https://youtu.be/Sp4ZHHzsAGc
July 2024: https://youtu.be/GWVLIyx5kMM
June 2024: https://youtu.be/asYHnyxSXZc
May 2024: https://youtu.be/YcUq1eRvUDA
April 2024: https://youtu.be/2WlUiN3crBQ
March 2024: https://youtu.be/2yy4OxpBybE
February 2024: https://youtu.be/8-DOBssq2So
January 2024: https://youtu.be/2SJWl-c4LOQ

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

Year's end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.

The final poem of the year is by the greatest haiku master of all.

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō (translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/basho

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

visuals (YouTube)

halF annuaL [disquiet0678] [naviarhaiku573]

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

Disquiet Junto | Commonplace Playlist - disquiet0678

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

My review consists of 12 parts, one for each month:
01 Track from Jamuary, named split in two halves 
02 Field recording from the local carnival.
03 Track Karbid / Schpokau, inspired by a documentary about a factory in the GDR.
04 Disquiet 0643
05 Field recording from a mountain village.
06 Disquiet 0651
07 Field recording form another mountain village.
08 Disquiet 0658
09 Disquiet 0661
10 Field recording from the seaside.
11 Track Something Slow For November
12 Disquiet 0677

Disquiet0678 - Rückblick

5 seconds from each month in 2024. mostly taken from unedited tascam recordings; april and june are field recordings, all others are mostly jams with my smaller eurorack palette case

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More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

disquiet0678 - 2024 (60sec)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0678: Commonplace Playlist. The assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0678 discussion thread on Lines:

This is my third year of participating in Disquiet Junto. Thank you to this community for information, guidance and inspiration this past year. I ended up completing 33 Disquiet Junto projects, along with 53 music/video works that were posted on YouTube, Instagram and Bandcamp channels. Here’s to a creative 2025! (Image by Michael Skok via Unsplash).

1. January: Magic Forest Friends
2. February: when they looked up – under the alias float_fields 
3. March: Alpha Cubic
4. April: Fibonacci Frolic and Flow – Disquiet Junto 0642
5. May: Quiet Gathering of Shy and Curious Introverts – Disquiet Junto 0644
6. June: Times to Come 
7. July: Waking in a Cool Cave
8. August: Past Illusions
9. September: Subconscious Relics – Disquiet Junto 0665
10. October: where to? – under the alias float_fields
11. November: fronds waving. – album released via Bandcamp and streaming platforms 
12. December: Nesting Lost Fragments

More on the 678th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Commonplace Playlist — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at https://disquiet.com/0678/

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Polygonia (House Set) | Blitz, Munich 2025

I totally LOVE this sign on a stairwell at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, UK, so I've enjoyed making it into a track! 😜 It looks to me like the figure is tap dancing down the stairs, so I've tried to capture that a little. Also, the stairs suggest a walking bass, but, as they are clearly falling or tripping, it (obviously) needed to be a little less step-wise! 😁

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/kedleston-hall

More on the 688th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sign Up — The Assignment: Interpret a routine public sign as a musical instruction — at https://disquiet.com/0688/

more halF unusuaL

halF triP [disquiet0688]

The first time I heard Emily Sprague’s music was on lines. Somebody posted a video of hers, 'Three Sisters + Harmonic Oscillator', that had captured their attention as a high watermark...and it’s easy to understand how. The straightforward and earnest exploration of a beautiful module, through a looped melody you could listen to for hours, seemed the work of a seasoned pro. Somebody else commented, revealing that the synthesist was Emily Sprague from the band Florist. While they brought up that Emily had just started working with modular synths in the last year, digging deeper revealed that the video was actually made in her second week.

Beyond the quality of her music, which has only swelled over the last year, what’s fascinating about Emily’s work is how public her process has been. While most whittle away for months, releasing new work only after long incubation, Emily seems to revel in sharing each step of her growth in realtime — a direct response to the trajectory of her own self-education.

If you’re new to modular synthesis, this is the episode for you. If you’re deeply settled, this is the episode for you. Emily has retained a beginner’s mind while leveraging her rich decade-long background as a musician, producer and engineer to create music that is playful and emotional, while remaining technically impressive.

As you’ll notice, there are more music breaks in this episode than previous ones — due to my own fandom and Emily’s generosity, you’re the first to hear the demos that will make up her much-anticipated modular album.

Beyond her talents, Emily is an insightful and passionate addition to the lines community and personally, I hope that her reflections help anyone who feels that their voice is un or under-represented in this field to join the conversation at llllllll.co

Emily Sprague: SOUND + PROCESS #8

Somewhere on the California Central Coast

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.

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