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 0753: 5 Minute Wait
The Assignment: Write outdoors hold music for a single-lane tunnel entrance delay.

Perhaps you’ve experienced the pleasures of a single-lane, two-way tunnel yourself. They way they are usually situated is that there is a signal for when you can go through, and for when you can’t. Traffic proceeds in one direction, leaving enough time at the end of the cycle for all vehicles to pass. Then after a pause, the direction changes. At the tunnel where this project’s cover photo was shot, the phase for each direction is five minutes, and at each end there is a warning sign about the wait. The sign reads “5 Minute Red Light.”

Now, imagine you were commissioned to write “outdoors hold music” for the delay experienced by drivers at either end of the tunnel. Consider the circumstances of the delay for automobile drivers and their passengers. Now, record a five-minute piece that fulfills that creative brief.

Bonus if you record the track in a manner that reproduces the sense of it being heard outdoors — and, perhaps better yet, from inside a parked vehicle.

Note: Cover photo shot at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California.

Tasks Upon Completion:

Label: Include “disquiet0753” (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-0753-5-minute-wait/

Discuss: Listen to and comment on the other tracks.

Additional Details:

Length: The length is up to you, though five minutes sort of makes the most sense for this one.

Deadline: Monday, June 8, 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 753rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5 Minute Wait — The Assignment: Write outdoors hold music for a single-lane tunnel entrance delay — disquiet.com/0753.

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