Recordings from the recent Other Minds festival in San Francisco continue to be uploaded to the Internet Archive, aka archive.org. Some are a little off topic to the Disquiet Downstream, but two recent percussion pieces will certainly appeal to …
If ever a music was destined to live on well past its peak of popularity, that music was dub. Its lingering presence, which swells every few years, resembles nothing so much as the sweltering echoes that are the music’s aural …
Good Reading: The “projects” section over at the home page of musician Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski), keithfullertonwhitman.com, is highly recommended. Currently up are detailed explanations of three of his performance/recording systems. Each entry features screen shots and lengthy …
No, your wifi isn’t picking up stray radio signals. Musician Micah Silver did that himself, fusing barely audible bits of the spoken world into “Scale,” the first of two lengthy experiments in sonar chamber music that comprise his album for …
The database at music.download.com can be confusing, especially if you want to know what’s “current.” By all initial appearances, the entry, for example, on the group Jet Black Crayon aligns with no temporal axis. We know the title of …
If the proliferating mass of names that make electronic music so difficult to keep up with has got you down, then here’s a netabel worth visiting: Ansiform, at ansiform.a.la. Why? Well, besides the fact that it posts fine ambient-leaning …
Sounds are all around us, and so too is writing about sound, often as not well beyond the bounds of what’s considered music criticism. For example, a story in today’s New York Times (”For Young Fish, It Seems, the Call …
Another fine Other Minds entry from the Internet Archive, at archive.org. It’s a recording, from 1965, of a La Monte Young piece comprised of sequential bangs on a gong, performed by Peter Winkler at the Third Annual Festival of …
Matmos Stream: A 20-minute live set featuring Matmos, along with frequent guest J Lesser, recorded March 17 for the BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It show dated April 1 (link). … Keeping Score: Here’s some soundtrack news, courtesy of the …
A place on Disquiet.com for brief notes and quick links has been coming for a while now. Pretty much any downtime in updates to this site can be traced to after-hours stints spent fiddling in HTML and dry-running various scripts, …