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 0742: Sensitive Math
The Assignment: An exercise in genre speculation.
Step 1: This is an exercise in genre, pondering what an imaginary genre might consist of. Consider the speculative genre called “sensitive math.” You know nothing about it except its name.
Step 2: Record a piece of music that exemplifies the “sensitive math” genre. When posting the resulting track, describe to some degree what you have come to think of as the characteristics of this genre.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0742” (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-0742-sensitive-math/
Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.
Additional Details:
Length: The length is up to you. Does speculative math have an inherent length?
Deadline: Monday, March 23, 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 742nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Sensitive Math — The Assignment: An exercise in genre speculation — at https://disquiet.com/0742/
