Conversations — with musicians and technologists, composers and record-company executives, legends and upstarts, analog turncoats and self-publishing entrepreneurs.
Note: The software by which Disquiet.com is published was upgraded on July 26, 2007. As a result, many past interviews have yet to be ported to the new site. They will be back up shortly. Those interview subjects include, in roughly reverse chronological order: DJ Krush, Amon Tobin, Future Sound of London, Twine’s Chad Mossholder, Michael Bentley (founder of Foundry Records), Sam Rosenthal (founder of Projekt Records), Todd Hyman (founder of Carpark Records), Console’s Martin Gretschmann, Bogdan Raczynski, Randy Greif, Patrick Carpenter (of DJ Food), Coldcut’s Matt Black, and the heads of the record labels Asphodel, Extreme and Moonshine.
FM3 member Christiaan Virant talks about controlling pitches and recording new loops for the second-generation (version "2.0") sound-art gadget
Brad Mitchell reflects on the decision to close his long-running netlabel, Kikapu
The lo-fi electronic musician talks about hand-crafted circuitry, digital academe, and the beauty of the square wave.
On nurturing software and programming for video games -- plus visual art as preparation for sound-work.
The musician talks about his guitar-fueled solo album, Western Violence & Brief Sensuality
Science fiction writers Richard Kadrey, Pat Murphy and Rudy Rucker discuss remixing reality
Christopher Willits viscerally inhabits the space between what he plays and what we hear
Christopher Bissonnette talks about music on the periphery
The proprietors of three established netlabels (Andras Hargitai of Complementary Distribution, Nathan Larson of Dark Winter, Pedro Leitao of Test Tube) discuss the cost of free downloads, the online community of uploaders and the transition from physical distribution to virtual
Dub figure Raz Mesinai talks about looping Sumerian myths and electrifying downtown musicians