Disquiet Junto Project 0733: Window Drop

The Assignment: Add to the sound outside your window

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.

Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.

Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) tracks also generally appear in the llllllll.co discussion thread.

Disquiet Junto Project 0733: Window Drop
The Assignment: Add to the sound outside your window.

Step 1: Open a window.

Step 2: Put a microphone near your window and press record.

Step 3: Optional: Close your window.

Step 4: Listen back to the resulting field recording.

Step 5: Find a continuous segment that you want to work with.

Step 6: Layer music atop the unaltered field recording that you feel suits it and complements it.

Bonus: Post a photo of your window and the view.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0733” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.

Upload: A person participating in the Disquiet Junto should post only one track per weekly project (SoundCloud account preferred but not required). If on occasion you feel inspired to post more than one track (whether to a single account or across multiple accounts), you should clarify which is the “main” rendition for consideration by fellow members and (if on SoundCloud) for inclusion in the SoundCloud playlist.

Share: Post your track and a description/explanation at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0733-window-drop/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you. How much fresh air do you need?

Deadline: Monday, January 19, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

About: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Newsletter: https://juntoletter.disquiet.com/

License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).

Please Include When Posting Your Track:

More on the 733rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Window Drop — The Assignment: Add to the sound outside your window — at https://disquiet.com/0733/

Back to Modular

Cuidado for sure

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

This should have gone out last night, but I’ve been having on and off backend issues with my site’s CMS (content management system). Posting this backdated.

What my modular synthesizer looks like after I’ve spent most of my time in the software version, aka VCV Rack

On Repeat: Keinseier, DAFAKE, Corruption

Home/office playlist

/ By Marc Weidenbaum

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ The feeds are stuffed with the riches of Jamuary. This is Keinseier, based in Hamburg, Germany, doing up some glitchy ambient.

▰ Paris-based Antoine M, aka DAFAKE, goes deep and dark, bringing to mind some of the work of Sussan Deyhim and Richard Horowitz.

▰ Been a while since I checked in on Corruption, whose Soundcloud account has topped 2,000 tracks, and the latest appears to be of the field recording variety in a particularly reverberant space. (The embed isn’t working, so go right to the track.)