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

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku

Picture by Ritz

KiKaKuKaKi [ naviarhaiku599 ]

Man with a Movie Camera (excerpt) -Dziga Vertov 1929 - live sound in Timișoara, Ro

Sergiu Cătană - drums
Irinel Cârlan -saxophone
Emil Kindlein -guitar
Shanyio - tape mix & prepared cimbalom

Man with a Movie Camera (excerpt) - live sound

Please listen with headphones
Ambient 2025

...into the silence

Autumn hiding in a hedgerow.

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/

250822 [disquiet0712]

THE  MICROTONAL  PIANO   3

This track was inspired by this week's Disquiet Junto project: The barcode of the softcover Penguin edition of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was used as the timeline for the rhythm, and the track was created with this beat as inspiration.
The other elements followed, found through intuition or happy accidents.
The result is a far groovier track than I initially assumed.

More on the 712th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Zebra Code — The Assignment: What rhythm do you hear in a bar code? — at https://disquiet.com/0712/

Thinking Fast and Slow (Disquiet0712)

4Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/793657063087767552/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark
😊

The sadness of things [naviarhaiku609]

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch
 

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

fisherman's sadness_naviarhaiku609

Creelot Hittingem

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/

Patreon & Soundcloud - blisterpop
YouTube - Jimmy Lem
TikTok - jimmlem
Bluesky - jimmylem.bsky.social

Obey Your Mistress Bonnie  (disquiet0719)

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

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/.

Breaking Free (disquiet0719)

sound art for 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/.

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

Sound artist and poet - American, living in the North of France. Member of Muzzix Collective.

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.

disquiet0719 taktell tak tak

Marjorie Van Halteren

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