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.
The duo FM3 packed nine ambient loops into a device the size of a cigarette pack; member Christiaan Virant discusses sound art in the age of mass production
An electronic musician, an English professor and a science fiction writer, all Brian Eno fans, walk into a chat room…
Composer Kenneth Kirschner talks about how his music, which he likens to a certain popular MP3 player, changes every time you play it
John Kannenberg, founder of the Stasisfield netlabel, discusses the limits of microsound, the future of online music, and the compositional intersection of sound art and visual art.
Chachi Jones turns childhood musical toys, like Speak & Spell and Touch & Tell, into 21st-century folk instruments
When Brad Mitchell isn't homebrewing electronic music as Pocka and studying sound design, he somehow finds time to run the Kikapu netlabel
An archival interview from back in 1999, when composer Steve Reich talked about Reich Remixed, an album on which electronica acts rework his formidable, minimalist contributions to classical music
Monolake, aka Robert Henke, talks about the parallel processes of (1) composing a new full-length album while (2) helping develop the new edition of Ableton's audio production software, Live
Benoît Charest, who scored the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville, talks about turning a vacuum cleaner into a Theremin, and other jazzy feats of everyday electronica.
Composer Elise Kermani talks about revisiting "retro" multimedia performance art; getting young, desk-bound technophiles to move; and remixing Vivaldi by accident.