Disquiet

• Now 14 @wildup Shostakovich Junto remixes: http://t.co/1JOZV3wt. Thoughts on source audio as Rashomon: http://t.co/WCcUKtJv #
• Morning sounds: my wife and 19-month-old breathing in their sleep, and from just beyond the window a formidable wind. #
• Most unexpected thing about Fringe tonight is that, suddenly, it is good is again. #
• We need to do a Conet Project of people’s lottery-number tweets. #
• The 6th @wildUp Shostakovich Junto remix, from Birmingham, Britain, is an exercise in considered restraint http://t.co/wXPGD7ho #
• The fifth and latest @wildup Shostakovich Junto remix is a lovely murky piece by Québec’s @arbeemonkey: http://t.co/FngiKk37 #
• “That static noise you hear isn’t your music.” Things my wife says. #
• Just shy of 19 months, my kid officially has more dolls than I do. We both await a figure of the Authority’s Jack Hawksmoor. #
• I like how the Twitter site’s Home button lights up to tell me there are new tweets—as if there ever aren’t new tweets. #
• My office is haunted by ghosts of laptop drives and fans past. My laptop is SSD, but occasionally I hear antique buzzings. #
• Four @wildup Shostakovich remixes already in: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5. In Discussion area, remixers discuss how far to veer from the original. #
• Nothing against Nas, but is there an instrumental edit of the DJ Premier / Berklee Orchestra track from @regenerationmp? #
• New David Byrne London project is a nice parallel to Juntos 5 & 11: http://t.co/z6Y4mtiy “I let the sounds dictate the groove.” #
• Paris mayor employs mimes to subdue noisy nightlife: http://t.co/mebdrcrC: “silence is not repressive, but a form of sharing” #
• Already some Shostakovich Junto remixes coming in: @mystified131, early as always; and we have first-timer @matt_borghi http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• I’ve interviewed some ridiculously accomplished visual artists the past month or so. More details as publication dates near. #
• Great stencil of Shostakovich from @chutson99: https://t.co/6PKvF599 #
• Stream audio of the Shostakovich track by @wildup we’re remixing: http://t.co/ct2NJ1dr: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a, movement 1. #
• Reminder: the Shostakovich remix instructions are in English, Czech, French, Spanish, Japanese & Turkish: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
• Thanks to all retweeting the @wildup Shostakovich remix project: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Tracks are due by Monday at 11:59pm. #
• The 13th Disquiet Junto announced here: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Please join in and remix @wildup‘s Shostakovich chamber symphony recording. #
• Instructions for 13th Disquiet Junto project, in which we remix @wildUp‘s recording of a Shostakovich symphony, have gone to the email list. #
• Please, if Disquiet Junto has interested you, inform people about (and participate in!) the Shostakovich project to be announced shortly. #
• Got the French translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @chegreco!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
• This fall I’ll teach “Sounds of Brands / Brands of Sounds” at @academy_of_art: http://t.co/F7FGRBmF. (Thanks, @artofplanning.) #
• +1 for giggles. RT @Big_Pause: @disquiet Isn’t the question, Marc, redundant most of the time. #
• Isn’t the question mark redundant most of the time. #
• Got the Spanish translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks to Norma Listman.) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
• Got the Czech translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @kocicenka!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
• Got the Turkish translation for tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @m_emre_meydan!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
• 2. I didn’t know the Anderson song was on the St. Elmo’s Fire soundtrack. 3. There’s a Brian Eno / Robert Fripp joke in there somewhere. #
• 1. We know Dr. Bishop likes his Yes, but it was still a surprise to hear “This Time It Was Really Right” by Jon Anderson on Fringe. #
• Got the Japanese translation for tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @naotko!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
• I find it incomprehensible what it meant, what it felt like, when a musician died prior to the rise of recorded music. #
• RIP, bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs (b. 1924): http://t.co/nM6Ho8sc #
• The hive giveth. I am all set with download providers for the @wildUp Shostakovich remix project that begins in about 20 hours. #
• Disquiet Junto request: Can a few folks volunteer to help host the Shostakovich-remix audio files? It’s a half-gig Zip. Thanks. #
• Cageian Audiophile: Enter acousmatic chamber and hear your pulse speed up as you imagine having such a chamber at home. #
• Newly re-addicted to old Photek. #
• Quick burrito accompanied by significant construction sounds just outside. #
• The Shostakovich-remix Disquiet Junto details are with the translators. Instructions go live in ~30 hours. Cc @wildUp @mlaffs #
• As always, if you are available to translate Disquiet Junto project instructions, let me know. It is greatly appreciated. #
• Did I mention we start remixing a Shostakovich chamber work tomorrow as part of the 13th weekly Disquiet Junto? Very excited. #
• RIP, art critic Hilton Kramer (b. 1928), synonymous with modernism: http://t.co/bNqIk9Pp #
• Fun with truncation: received email whose header read “The Merger Is Off…” but the full text read “The Merger Is Official.” #
• Tuesday noon siren downright freaky on this excessively windy day. #
• Weighing in on the age-old “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” debate: http://t.co/ptNxIhNX #
• Some people play music boxes better than other people do. #
• Anything good going on in Los Angeles sound-art–wise next Tuesday (April 3)? I may be free in the evening. #
• Mundane synaesthesia: decreasing your laptop’s volume when you had intended to decrease its screen brightness. #
• How do Google Books and http://t.co/4jro55If handle straight-to-ebooks, like the Kindle Singles? There’s nothing to scan. #
• Many thanks to @mlaffs @wildUp @orionrountree for helping set up the 13th Disquiet Junto, which starts this Thursday, 3/29. #
• Man, the Disquiet Junto just racked up its 600th track — in just 12 weeks: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• XVth Activating the Medium electronic-music festival in San Francisco is all women. Nice contrast with the more common all-men festivals. #
• A lot of these nursery rhymes only make sense if read with a British accent. #
• Need something bright and upbeat to wake up with? Listen to http://t.co/YGKsUt52 by second-time Junto participant Chiara Zedek. #
• Am beginning to get the value of PDFs. #

By Marc Weidenbaum