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 #

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• I’ve been thinking in rhymes since MCA died. #
• Anyone strongly recommend a password manager? This “store your passwords in the cloud” thing seems, er, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. #
• 5th piece in this week’s Junto is by @ETALABEL (Poland). Like how each piece’s waveform is clearly divided in three: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
• Tatsuya Yoshida from the Ruins is playing the Hemlock tonight. (In San Francisco.) #
• Disquiet Junto is 2 shy of its 180th participant in 18 weeks. Number 178 is Athens, Greece–based Sim_psi: http://t.co/yny4EKyp #
• RIP, MCA. Instrumentals: “The New Style”: http://t.co/SKTNMvjx. “Sabotage”: http://t.co/B6X36Vdk. “Flute Loop”: http://t.co/A0230aL3. #
• Cancer Is Killing Music #

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Among the top 10 most popular posts of the past month, April 2012, were (1) an interview with Morton Subotnick (“The Patch Cord Godfather”) and (2) the announcement of a live Disquiet Junto concert in Chicago on April 19.

Five of the 10 most popular posts were drawn from the daily recommended free downloads: (3) thoughts on hotel bedside radio (“The ‘Classical’ Button”x), (4) a sound collage by Jane Burton and Doris Lake (together working under the moniker Public Domain), (5) Carl Ritger (aka Radere) working with a tape-based four-track recorder, (6) the static-based work of C. Cu, and (7) a preview track from the forthcoming IoNiZeR album.

Also in the top 10, not (8) one but (9) two weekly automated collections of what is posted at twitter.com/disquiet, and (10) the top-10 list from March 2012.

The most popular searches on the site during the month of April were: junto, salvagione, weidenbaum, mallet, would-be messiahs, autobiography, automaton, bitlabrecords, modular, Peter 7 Paelinck, rjdj, subotnik, Vitiello, ableton, amirkhanian, autechre, bars, cacophony, friends.

• RIP, Swiss artist David Weiss (b.1946) of Fischli/Weiss: Rube Goldberg-ish video The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) http://t.co/05DZynwH #
• RIP, Joe Muranyi (b. 1928), latter-day Dixieland clarinetist in Louis Armstrong’s band: http://t.co/5xUFnQiN, http://t.co/KrGmazuP #
• 17th Disquiet Junto project already has 2 new 1st-time participants: Biel, Switzerland’s @tobiasreber & NYC’s @clownfacee. #
• Somehow got a http://t.co/ygIzHsQ1 MBAir cover at Apple store in @soundcloud orange/grey today even though they’re not on the @acmemade site #
• Note from daycare today says my kid has started a band with two other kids. My kid turns 20 months on Monday. #
• The telltale pocket-fabric swish with which begins the semi-surreptitiously recorded bootleg of a lecture. #
• Anyone have any experience with the mailing-list services of http://t.co/abAJFrlp or http://t.co/2oFj6v4s? #
• Read my first Kindle Single: Jonathan Biss’ Beethoven’s Shadow. Pondering his informed critique of the shadow cast by recording equipment. #
• Wonderful! RT @tobiasreber: posted my 1st disquiet #junto contribution on soundcloud. glad I could finally participate http://t.co/0d6EsmUR #
• Downtown San Francisco is like a busker convention today. #
• Coldplay’s “Trouble” is Pink Floyd fan fiction. #

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