no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.


September 2013

  • constraint groups, all the rage…

    Newmusicbox has a brief interview with Marc Weidenbaum about the Disquiet Junto. (The newmusicbox site looks pretty good in general, I’m largely linking to the article so I’ll remember to check it out later). Also found another ‘constraints-based exercise’ SoundCloud group, this one with a monthly deadline, where the stimulus is a particular photo. Could Continue reading

  • you must march back towards the things you had forgotten… (disquiet0088-3d)

    I’ve been skipping the Disquiet Junto projects (and music in general) these past few weeks. Real life has been a bit… event-filled. But this week’s project appealed to me: We were told to generate three elements: A beat, a drone, and a ‘melodic fragment’. We were then to use these to create a 90 second Continue reading