This paragraph is from the email I’m sending out tomorrow, January 30, to the Disquiet Junto email announcement list for the weekly projects:
The Junto has been around for well over a decade now, starting way back in January 2012, and a lot of people have come and gone, some returning, some pausing, and many have stayed for extended periods once they’ve joined. No matter the specific duration, frequency, or cadence of those individual presences, in combination they have formed what can be termed, for lack of a less overused word, a community. I really can’t do justice to the sensation I experience (to the way I am both inspired and touched) each week (683 consecutive weeks to date) when musicians take these rough ideas (from the stringent to the open-ended) for music composition prompts (some my own, some in collaboration with others) and make music from them. It’s quite something, and I never take it for granted, not your efforts, your insights, or your time. The year is still quite young, and who knows what will come of it, but we’ll keep making music together, and learning from and with each other.
