Disquiet

• I wonder if my whole interest in drones has to do with the 13-year-old me wishing the opening notes of Yes’ Fragile would go on forever. #
• Incredible sonic moire outside Old Navy in downtown San Francisco between store-entrance stereo speakers and drumming busker. #
• PR email received for band whose picture, artfully, doesn’t show faces. No description of music, just links to streaming services. #
• I suspect @tinyletter may have held up the Disquiet Junto email because it had three embedded links. Spam red flag. #
• The Disquiet Junto email just seems to have been received, even though it was sent yesterday afternoon by @tinyletter. #odd #
• We email a lot with our neighbors. I don’t miss the continuous phone ringing that was the soundscape of my childhood. #
• Yojiro Imasaka’s inspiring photo of an alley: http://t.co/bLprwyAs. It’s the graphic score Disquiet Junto musicians interpret this week. #
• The gritty-spectral background photo, by Yojiro Imasaka, for my Twitter page serves as a graphic score in the new Disquiet Junto project. #
• Instructions for 19th Disquiet Junto are now live: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Project due this Monday at 11:59pm, wherever you are. #
• “rojiura” is a Japanese word for alley #
• Disquiet Junto project #19 involving graphic notation, to go live (and out to email) momentarily. #
• Found ¥10,700 in my (San Francisco) desk drawer, from my most recent (2009) Japan trip. Maybe Kinokuniya will let me pay for pens with it. #
• 19th Disquiet Junto project begins in a few hours. Join the 154 members of the announcement email list at http://t.co/f2aaVTe0 #
• Nicely put. RT @artofplanning: Commissioning, not interrupting. RT @disquiet: Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco:http://t.co/xLSFLESl. #
• RT @DETXL: Listening to v.90 modem negotiate connection is oddly soothing. (1998-me would beg to differ. Via ICQ, no doubt, if phone’s free) #
• Signed up to check out the “next” SoundCloud. Looking forward to checking it out. #
• Received the Japanese and Turkish translations of the instructions to this week’s Disquiet Junto project. #graphicnotation #
• #harmonica #graffiti #stencil #415 http://t.co/V3awi5YG #
• What I imagine Christian Marclay’s door looks like. (Actually a bathroom in the Haight.) http://t.co/2VqBX8gW #
• Background on graphic notation in advance of the next Disquiet Junto: http://t.co/gOohgvS5 + http://t.co/qTwGQPeK + http://t.co/wkbvGvcN #
• Classical/opera record labels really need to engage with @soundhound & @shazam to beef up their recognition software. #
• Having grown up with comics in the 1970s I’m darn happy about the Avengers’ success, but I was more of a Defenders/X-Men kid. #
• Mac OS X 10.7.4 update is 729.6 MB but won’t install because system tells me it needs 3.65 GB of space to download and install the update. #
• PR for group whose music alternates between “electronics” and “harmonies” — because, you know, there’s nothing harmonic about electronics. #
• My favorite music video game is the interactive spinning beach ball you get to play with when using iTunes. #
• The image accompanying this story about $87-million Rothko painting should accompany a New Yorker story by Don DeLillo: http://t.co/W2N3xN4E #
• Today: writing, call, call, conference call, sausage at Rosamunde Grill, writing #
• The netlabel proprietor & musician @leonrosado had his laptop stolen. Consider helping him buy a new one: http://t.co/sJHeRA8G in reply to leonrosado #
• Denver/Boulder Disquiet Junto concert in mid-August is gaining steam. Details as they come into focus — to mix metaphors. #
• Writing a bit about manga — which is to say, about telenovelas and jazz. #
• Adding a little @touchmusic to the afternoon birds/bugs/wind/cars/foghorn mashup. #
• Afternoon sounds: seagulls and other birds, bees, foghorns, muted surf of automobile traffic, wind, breeze-blown bushes/trees. #
• Neglected backyard for first 20 months of our 20-month-old’s life. That’s now corrected. Backyard looks/smells/sounds great. Foghorns agree. #
• If you live in the Richmond District and work from home and are not working outside today, consider doing so. #415 #
• Dear @idontlikewords, Please combine automated text-to-voice reading of @TheAtlantic blog posts with field recordings of urban noise. #
• Looking for lead (Python) developer http://t.co/iUxEwKHP + part-time systems engineer: http://t.co/vWRuICiV #virtualoffice #competitivepay #
• Tuesday noon siren on clear day in San Francisco, multiple speakers echoing each other like some of Philip Jeck’s turntables. #
• Advance word(s) on this coming Thursday’s Disquiet Junto project (#19): alley / 路地裏 / ろじうら / rojiura. #
• It was only last week, I think, I’d read our child, now 20 months, a Sendak book for the first time: Night Kitchen. Dough airplanes FTW. #
• Planned on working to music but the foghorns are especially beautiful and mournful today, noble beasts who lost their leader. #
• Thursday’s Disquiet Junto, project No. 19, will ask participations to interpret a provided photograph as if it were a graphic notation score #
• Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco: http://t.co/xLSFLESl. A Burt’s Bees commission. (Mostly for @artofplanning @boondesign.) #
• Tears before bedtime. RIP, children’s book author Maurice Sendak (b. 1928): http://t.co/CP2kvAS5 #
• All you bleeding-edge types playing with Mountain Lion: does Desktop Spaces work rationally now, or is it still not ready for primetime? #
• It’d be nice if AirPlay mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion let you use the iPad (fluidly) as a second monitor. #
• Er, that was: if you would like to help translate Disquiet Junto projects into languages other than English, lemme know. #
• Instructions to Disquiet Junto 19 have gone to translators. Glad to be back on multi-lingual schedule. If want to help translate lemme know. #
• 37 Disquiet Junto pieces in response to project #18 with just a few hours until midnight: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• Jukebox at the Hemlock confirmed for me that South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. #
• Yeah, we’re talking about a possible Disquiet Junto concert in Denver/Boulder this August. #
• There’s lots of ways to draw a cloud, but the @amazon cloud silhouette looks a lot like the @soundcloud cloud backwards. #
• “Drone in G Major for Sinewaves, Wind and Bubblewrap”: http://t.co/fUsQmvrx #
• 33 entries so far in 18th Disquiet Junto, including a bunch by 1st-timers. Excellent, subtle background listening: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• Raisins and almond slivers are my new jam. #
• One of the next Disquiet Junto projects will be: graphic scores. Details TK. #
• Genius when song breaks for train to pass overhead. #ripmca RT @audiation: So good. So sad. RT @questlove: Style http://t.co/CXoOZIJD #
• Haven’t seen Avengers yet but am hopeful there’s evidence of Nick Fury not aging, which will let Samuel Jackson be both Fury & Enoch Root. #
• RT @TheValiska: This week’s Junto submissions are especially wonderful. The 3 parts in transition offer some really interesting compositions #
• Confused by numerous Mad Men / Chemical Brothers tweets, but looking forward to sorting it out when I watch the episode later this week. #
• “Noises are important. Noises can tell you everything.” —Sherlock Holmes, season 2, episode 1. #
• The Disquiet Junto just got its 800th track and 180th participant, all in 18 weeks: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• Today’s best sound gadget: turkey caller (wood, glass) in Berkeley hills. At least one wild turkey replied. #
• Welcome! RT @shredderghost: 1st track made for @disquiet group, Upwelling [disquiet0018 3x3]. Slow ambient tidal force. http://t.co/QQJOJttx #
• Of generic cloud syncs only Dropbox plays music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync > download. Box costs to sync. Amazon doesn’t sync. #
• Correction: Amazon’s cloud desktop app allows uploads, but doesn’t appear to do true sync. #
• Of major generic syncing clouds, only Dropbox & Amazon play music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync -> download. Box costs to sync. #
• RIP, classical violinist Zvi Zeitlin (b. 1922), modernist champion, Eastman Trio cofounder: http://t.co/TKk91Lhl #
• So glad you had the time. RT @ethanhein: New @disquiet Junto entry: Thelonious Monk meets Pac-Man meets Led Zeppelin. http://t.co/qyEBGP6P #
• Perfect opportunity to fiddle. RT @TheValiska: @disquiet Junto submission: http://t.co/8gME4K30 trying to figure out Izotope’s Iris synth #
• RIP, David Bowman (b. 1957), who wrote a lot for me in the mid-1990s:… #
• Parenting question: Does a pocket calculator count as screen time? #
• Associating a domain with Google Apps actually taking time to process. Not used to this. It’s like 1996, minus the fax sound. #

By Marc Weidenbaum