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.
Deadline: Monday, June 8, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.
Details: disquiet.com/0753
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