The netlabel album Western Spaghetti by Long Desert Cowboy (aka Portugal-based Daniel Catarino) opens with a slow fumbling of earthly rumble before backtracking to something more spare, intimate — less “western,” perhaps, than “horror-show”: …
All minuscule little noises that blip along like a dusty windup toy on its last legs, the opening track on Yopoman’s Autonomatismos Parcelarios (MP3) was one of the last things to be heard …
This site was upgraded expertly by Nathan Swartz of clicknathan.com from my decade-old handcoded HTML to a proper WordPress install on July 26, 2007. Left lingering for me to take care of was a relatively small proportion of back …
Though the musical agenda of this website, Disquiet.com, is in no way limited by geography, the fact of the matter is that I live in San Francisco, California. And since that’s where my body generally is, it’s often where my …
A marketing proposal submitted to the New Museum of Contemporary Art (newmuseum.org), along with the reason the idea was rejected:
IDEA (Wolff Olins): Have a small speaker playing a recording that announces the names of lead donors.
REASON REJECTED: Could …
The way that Los Angeles-based musician and sound artist Steve Roden presents his music is a perfect match for the music itself. He has long been a proponent for what he terms “lowercase” sound: music constructed from some of the …
There’s a temptation to link to the score to the recent video game hit Bioshock and to not mention that it is, in fact, the music for a violent, shoot’em’up at all and to instead just pay attention to the …
It’s become increasingly common for record labels to release mixes of snippets of a given album in advance of its release. There’s something about these mixes that can seem preemptive at best, but perhaps they’re a good idea. Maybe uploading …
Madeline Puckette writes perky little songs in which she breathily sings atop electro-pop backing tracks of her own composition. She doesn’t quite bury her voice in the mix, but she’s more than comfortable letting the electronica, often a blippy mix …
Graffiti, much along the lines of skateboarding, can often feel like a nostalgia act these days, what with the preponderance of retro-urban imagery such as boomboxes and turntables. Rather than celebrate street life as it is, these murals tend to …