When, thanks to an MP3 file posted at the Internet Archive, Paul Zukofsky’s rendition of “Mitzvah for the Dead (for Violin and Tape),” by composer Michael Sahl, is heard, some 37 years after its broadcast on KPFA-FM, the experience is …
Is “Break Beep” the title of Aghost’s latest free download (MP3) from the kracfive.com collective? Or is it the name of the nascent genre that the track aspires to exemplify, evangelize and propagate? Perhaps both. A mix of …
While visiting Tokyo for 10 days in late May of this year, I kept a “sound diary.” I didn’t record sounds, except, so to speak, with my pen and with a digital camera.
1. The Tokyo Dome roller coaster sounds exactly like there’s a military jet flying overhead. I wonder if it has speakers playing a recording of a jet, or if it just happens to sound like that.
2. A photo of the entrance to the Loop-Line gallery and performance venue, near Sendagaya Station:
3. In the Suidobashi district of Tokyo, the sound of the crosswalk signal, a two-beat motif that is all attack and no denouement, sounds exactly the same when you’re on the street, surrounded by traffic, and when you’re 20 floors up in a hotel room, the world otherwise muffled by bedding, sheets, plate glass and so much distance.
Quote of the Week: The eminent comics artist Ben Katchor writes and draws a single-page comic for the last page of each issue of the magazine Metropolis. The July/August 2007 entry, “Peabald’s Field Guide to the Air-Conditioners of North …
No wonder subscriptions for classical seasons are graying. Surveying the 2007/2008 subscription-calendar circular for the San Francisco Symphony (sfsymphony.org) makes doing your taxes look like child’s play. It also confirms that, at least from a marketing standpoint, regular symphony-going …
The URL for Disquiet.com’s RSS feed has changed as a result of the upgrade, last week, of the site’s back-end publishing system. The new URL is:
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The track “Half Silver” by Aaron Spectre provides a glimpse at the lighter side of dubstep. He’s posted the free download (MP3) as a teaser for his recent Lost Tracks collection (Ad Noiseam), which follows up last year’s Grist. …
If this website suddenly looks a little different, here’s why: As of this morning, Disquiet.com has been ported to a new backend publishing system, WordPress (wordpress.org), thanks in no small part to the labor of Nathan Swartz, an independent …
A website about quiet music is probably the last place where one might feel the need to explain the virtues of silence. However, two months have passed since I posted at Disquiet.com, and it’s time for a little explanation. I’m …