reports/essays

Longer-form studies of subjects, generally in the form of essays or annotated lists.

Best of 2007

Disquiet.com's annual annotated list of the best full-length ambient/electronic albums of the year, featuring commercial recordings and free downloads.

Tokyo Sound Diary, May 2007

15 ways of listening to Tokyo

Best of 2006

Disquiet.com's annual annotated list of the best full-length ambient/electronic albums of the year, featuring commercial recordings and free downloads.

Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet

A dozen remixes (2006) of Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)

Best of 2005

Disquiet.com's annual annotated list of the best full-length ambient/electronic albums of the year, featuring commercial recordings and free downloads.

NOLA-tronic

Despite New Orleans' reputation, prior to Hurricane Katrina, as a city immune to change, it changed me, and I listened to it grow.

Dim Light/White Noise

Concert Review: The Disquiet Festival (no relation) brings together gothic industrial music and sound art.

SFEMF 2005

Concert Reviews: Notes from the 2005 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

Beyond Laptops

Concert Reviews: Three nights in San Francisco, two French horns and one refrigerator — performances by Ellen Fullman, Krystyna Bobrowski, Luciano Chessa, Otomo Yoshihide, Ikue Mori, Fe-mail, Steve Roden and John Bischoff.

Best CDs of 2004

The best of the year -- and the year in review.