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		<title>The Fax Machine as Dubstep Muse (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/15/fax-machine-dubstep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we speak of dropped lines, we mean breaches in communication that are severe enough to cause the connection to end: a severing beyond mere degradation of transmitted information. In the capable hands of Schrödinger&#8217;s Dog, the dropped line takes on a double meaning. This is because the fragile sound of a fax handshake, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we speak of dropped lines, we mean breaches in communication that are severe enough to cause the connection to end: a severing beyond mere degradation of transmitted information. In the capable hands of <strong>Schrödinger&#8217;s Dog</strong>, the dropped line takes on a double meaning. This is because the fragile sound of a fax handshake, the scratchy short-circuiting noise of that fading technology, serves in his song &#8220;Automatic Negotiation&#8221; as the source material for a track that takes dubstep as its genre model. And like many a dubstep track, &#8220;Automatic Negotiation&#8221; takes a break midway through for a lengthy — and nearly silent — pause, when the fax&#8217;s ringing is heard on its own, before letting loose a half-speed variation on what had come before. This pause is known in the trade, to the point of cliché, as a &#8220;drop.&#8221; It&#8217;s a stellar track. The fax sound isn&#8217;t transformed significantly beyond its originating mix of squelch and jitter, so the familiar noise is no less a part of the &#8220;musical&#8221; aspect of the piece as are the tones and beats that lend it framing context. </p>
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<p>The track is by Schrödinger&#8217;s Dog, aka British musician <strong>Mike Wolf</strong>, who thanks the American musician <strong>Margaras</strong> (aka <strong>Ryan Abbott</strong>) for some of the sound manipulation. Track originally posted for free download and streaming at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/schrodingers-dog/automatic-negotiation">soundcloud.com/schrodingers-dog</a>. More on Wolf at <a href="http://twitter.com/strangeloup">twitter.com/strangeloup</a>.</p>
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		<title>ArtPractical.com Podcast</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/14/artpractical-com-podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catherine McChrystal and Kara Q. Smith have co-hosted a podcast that complements the sound-focused current issue of artpractical.com, in which I have a story about the San Francisco area&#8217;s role in the sonic infrastructure of global arts. The audio track (available as a single MP3, and streaming at the &#8220;contemporary art talk&#8221; site badatsports.com) mixes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://disquiet.com/images/2012/2012.05/2012.05-artp.png" style="float:left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px;" width="185" height="185"/><strong>Catherine McChrystal</strong> and <strong>Kara Q. Smith</strong> have co-hosted a podcast that complements the sound-focused current issue of <a href="http://ArtPractical.com">artpractical.com</a>, in which I have a story about the San Francisco area&#8217;s role in the sonic infrastructure of global arts. The audio track (available as a single <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_348-Sound_Issue.mp3">MP3</a>, and streaming at the &#8220;contemporary art talk&#8221; site <a href="http://badatsports.com/2012/episode-348-the-art-practical-sound-issue/">badatsports.com</a>) mixes excerpts from the issue and audio related to the stories, including a lovely early percussion piece by <strong>Paul DeMarinis</strong>, and another by <strong>Pauline Oliveros</strong>. To accompany my story, they play a bit of <strong>Shane Myrbeck&#8217;</strong>s audio from his <em>Sent Forth</em> art installation. There is also audio of artists Joshua Churchill and Chris Duncan in conversation.</p>
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<p>Read <a href="http://disquiet.com/2012/04/21/sonic-infrastructure-artpractical-com/">my story</a> at <a href="http://www.artpractical.com/feature/sonic_infrastructure/">artpractical.com</a>. Podcast originally posted at <a href="http://badatsports.com/2012/episode-348-the-art-practical-sound-issue/">badatsports.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>SoundCloud as Sketch Book (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/13/soundcloud-as-sketch-book-mp3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SoundCloud.com turns a particular idea of the bootleg on its head. The term &#8220;bootleg&#8221; is often associated with black market recordings, but much of the realm is actually more grey market: not fake versions of commercial goods, but commercial versions of uncommercial goods, such as live recordings or studio outtakes. SoundCloud is where many musicians, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://SoundCloud.com">SoundCloud.com</a> turns a particular idea of the bootleg on its head. The term &#8220;bootleg&#8221; is often associated with black market recordings, but much of the realm is actually more grey market: not fake versions of commercial goods, but commercial versions of uncommercial goods, such as live recordings or studio outtakes. SoundCloud is where many musicians, professional, aspiring, and casual, post their works-in-progress. In other words, these are free versions of uncommercial goods. For a particular sort of listener — a listener increasingly characterized as a SoundCloud sort of listener — that is an enticing operation. Which means informed musicians are posting the very things that previously would have been considered the things one gets out of the way before posting something. Tautologies aside, it makes for good listening, and for a great social experiment in sound. Take <strong>Greg Surges</strong>, who besides having a great family name for someone eking the most out of experimental electronics, is an accomplished participant in the online music world. His mundanely titled &#8220;patch[052012] sketch_2&#8243; seems to take a filename for its name, but that&#8217;s true to what it is: an &#8220;improvised sketch,&#8221; as he puts it, for a forthcoming live concert (in Tijuana later this month). He explains his process briefly: &#8220;Using homebrew computer-controlled hardware into a custom software filterbank. Slower drones and percussive effects here.&#8221; The piece is a mix of slight fluctuations in tone and gentle if insistent percussion, like a Martian drum circle heard from beyond a massive sand dune.</p>
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<p>Track originally posted <a href="http://soundcloud.com/greg-surges/patch-052012-sketch_2">soundcloud.com/greg-surges</a>. More on Surges, who is based in San Diego, California. at <a href="http://gregsurges.com">gregsurges.com</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/gregsurges">twitter.com/gregsurges</a>.</p>
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		<title>Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/12/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-147/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if my whole interest in drones has to do with the 13-year-old me wishing the opening notes of Yes&#8217; 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&#8217;t show [...]]]></description>
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<li>I wonder if my whole interest in drones has to do with the 13-year-old me wishing the opening notes of Yes&#8217; Fragile would go on forever. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/201344478676656129">#</a></li>
<li>Incredible sonic moire outside Old Navy in downtown San Francisco between store-entrance stereo speakers and drumming busker. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/201020747903283200">#</a></li>
<li>PR email received for band whose picture, artfully, doesn&#8217;t show faces. No description of music, just links to streaming services. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200965538678177793">#</a></li>
<li>I suspect @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/tinyletter">tinyletter</a> may have held up the Disquiet Junto email because it had three embedded links. Spam red flag. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200949535550345217">#</a></li>
<li>The Disquiet Junto email just seems to have been received, even though it was sent yesterday afternoon by @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/tinyletter">tinyletter</a>. #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23odd">odd</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200943711977357312">#</a></li>
<li>We email a lot with our neighbors. I don&#8217;t miss the continuous phone ringing that was the soundscape of my childhood. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200744004181164032">#</a></li>
<li>Yojiro Imasaka&#8217;s inspiring photo of an alley: <a href="http://t.co/bLprwyAs" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/bLprwyAs</a>. It&#8217;s the graphic score Disquiet Junto musicians interpret this week. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200722198028230656">#</a></li>
<li>The gritty-spectral background photo, by Yojiro Imasaka, for my Twitter page serves as a graphic score in the new Disquiet Junto project. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200721908956790784">#</a></li>
<li>Instructions for 19th Disquiet Junto are now live: <a href="http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9</a>. Project due this Monday at 11:59pm, wherever you are. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200719901441265666">#</a></li>
<li>&#8220;rojiura&#8221; is a Japanese word for alley <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200716748268384256">#</a></li>
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<li>Disquiet Junto project #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2319">19</a> involving graphic notation, to go live (and out to email) momentarily. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200716624880349186">#</a></li>
<li>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. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200680571612041216">#</a></li>
<li>19th Disquiet Junto project begins in a few hours. Join the 154 members of the announcement email list at <a href="http://t.co/f2aaVTe0" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/f2aaVTe0</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200661909312245760">#</a></li>
<li>Nicely put. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/artofplanning">artofplanning</a>: Commissioning, not interrupting. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a>: Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco:<a href="http://t.co/xLSFLESl" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/xLSFLESl</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200651780147773440">#</a></li>
<li>RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/DETXL">DETXL</a>: Listening to v.90 modem negotiate connection is oddly soothing. (1998-me would beg to differ. Via ICQ, no doubt, if phone&#8217;s free) <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200624365438631936">#</a></li>
<li>Signed up to check out the &#8220;next&#8221; SoundCloud. Looking forward to checking it out. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200624220189888515">#</a></li>
<li>Received the Japanese and Turkish translations of the instructions to this week&#8217;s Disquiet Junto project. #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23graphicnotation">graphicnotation</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200477949475028993">#</a></li>
<li>#<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23harmonica">harmonica</a> #graffiti #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23stencil">stencil</a> #415 <a href="http://t.co/V3awi5YG" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/V3awi5YG</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200368068625571840">#</a></li>
<li>What I imagine Christian Marclay&#8217;s door looks like. (Actually a bathroom in the Haight.) <a href="http://t.co/2VqBX8gW" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/2VqBX8gW</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200366246523445248">#</a></li>
<li>Background on graphic notation in advance of the next Disquiet Junto: <a href="http://t.co/gOohgvS5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/gOohgvS5</a> + <a href="http://t.co/qTwGQPeK" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/qTwGQPeK</a> + <a href="http://t.co/wkbvGvcN" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/wkbvGvcN</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200340624627601409">#</a></li>
<li>Classical/opera record labels really need to engage with @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/soundhound">soundhound</a> &amp; @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/shazam">shazam</a> to beef up their recognition software. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200338441857277952">#</a></li>
<li>Having grown up with comics in the 1970s I&#8217;m darn happy about the Avengers&#8217; success, but I was more of a Defenders/X-Men kid. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200334676651548673">#</a></li>
<li>Mac OS X 10.7.4 update is 729.6 MB but won&#8217;t install because system tells me it needs 3.65 GB of space to download and install the update. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200332711439765504">#</a></li>
<li>PR for group whose music alternates between &#8220;electronics&#8221; and &#8220;harmonies&#8221; — because, you know, there&#8217;s nothing harmonic about electronics. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200319050855886849">#</a></li>
<li>My favorite music video game is the interactive spinning beach ball you get to play with when using iTunes. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200289205287530496">#</a></li>
<li>The image accompanying this story about $87-million Rothko painting should accompany a New Yorker story by Don DeLillo: <a href="http://t.co/W2N3xN4E" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/W2N3xN4E</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200237778989096960">#</a></li>
<li>Today: writing, call, call, conference call, sausage at Rosamunde Grill, writing <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200237663138226177">#</a></li>
<li>The netlabel proprietor &amp; musician @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/leonrosado">leonrosado</a> had his laptop stolen. Consider helping him buy a new one: <a href="http://t.co/sJHeRA8G" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/sJHeRA8G</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_reply" href="http://twitter.com/leonrosado/statuses/199795995436003328">in reply to leonrosado</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200095631279259648">#</a></li>
<li>Denver/Boulder Disquiet Junto concert in mid-August is gaining steam. Details as they come into focus — to mix metaphors. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/200007106613624832">#</a></li>
<li>Writing a bit about manga — which is to say, about telenovelas and jazz. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199994547193905152">#</a></li>
<li>Adding a little @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/touchmusic">touchmusic</a> to the afternoon birds/bugs/wind/cars/foghorn mashup. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199991812692250624">#</a></li>
<li>Afternoon sounds: seagulls and other birds, bees, foghorns, muted surf of automobile traffic, wind, breeze-blown bushes/trees. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199989063921565696">#</a></li>
<li>Neglected backyard for first 20 months of our 20-month-old&#8217;s life. That&#8217;s now corrected. Backyard looks/smells/sounds great. Foghorns agree. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199986567396335616">#</a></li>
<li>If you live in the Richmond District and work from home and are not working outside today, consider doing so. #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23415">415</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199986553492209666">#</a></li>
<li>Dear @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/idontlikewords">idontlikewords</a>, Please combine automated text-to-voice reading of @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/TheAtlantic">TheAtlantic</a> blog posts with field recordings of urban noise. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199943568767467520">#</a></li>
<li>Looking for lead (Python) developer <a href="http://t.co/iUxEwKHP" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/iUxEwKHP</a> + part-time systems engineer: <a href="http://t.co/vWRuICiV" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/vWRuICiV</a> #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23virtualoffice">virtualoffice</a> #competitivepay <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199942629708935168">#</a></li>
<li>Tuesday noon siren on clear day in San Francisco, multiple speakers echoing each other like some of Philip Jeck&#8217;s turntables. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199936967629221888">#</a></li>
<li>Advance word(s) on this coming Thursday&#8217;s Disquiet Junto project (#19): alley / 路地裏 / ろじうら / rojiura. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199924159696998401">#</a></li>
<li>It was only last week, I think, I&#8217;d read our child, now 20 months, a Sendak book for the first time: Night Kitchen. Dough airplanes FTW. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199901702869090304">#</a></li>
<li>Planned on working to music but the foghorns are especially beautiful and mournful today, noble beasts who lost their leader. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199886529949220866">#</a></li>
<li>Thursday&#8217;s Disquiet Junto, project No. 19, will ask participations to interpret a provided photograph as if it were a graphic notation score <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199877149073752064">#</a></li>
<li>Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco: <a href="http://t.co/xLSFLESl" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/xLSFLESl</a>. A Burt&#8217;s Bees commission. (Mostly for @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/artofplanning">artofplanning</a> @boondesign.) <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199875006052831234">#</a></li>
<li>Tears before bedtime. RIP, children&#8217;s book author Maurice Sendak (b. 1928): <a href="http://t.co/CP2kvAS5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/CP2kvAS5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199849526943678464">#</a></li>
<li>All you bleeding-edge types playing with Mountain Lion: does Desktop Spaces work rationally now, or is it still not ready for primetime? <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199743453918277632">#</a></li>
<li>It&#8217;d be nice if AirPlay mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion let you use the iPad (fluidly) as a second monitor. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199743419126521856">#</a></li>
<li>Er, that was: if you would like to help translate Disquiet Junto projects into languages other than English, lemme know. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199732450082033664">#</a></li>
<li>Instructions to Disquiet Junto 19 have gone to translators. Glad to be back on multi-lingual schedule. If want to help translate lemme know. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199731819908829185">#</a></li>
<li>37 Disquiet Junto pieces in response to project #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2318">18</a> with just a few hours until midnight: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199724272409788416">#</a></li>
<li>Jukebox at the Hemlock confirmed for me that South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199709797891850240">#</a></li>
<li>Yeah, we&#8217;re talking about a possible Disquiet Junto concert in Denver/Boulder this August. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199657587040452609">#</a></li>
<li>There&#8217;s lots of ways to draw a cloud, but the @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/amazon">amazon</a> cloud silhouette looks a lot like the @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/soundcloud">soundcloud</a> cloud backwards. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199657353421926401">#</a></li>
<li>&#8220;Drone in G Major for Sinewaves, Wind and Bubblewrap&#8221;: <a href="http://t.co/fUsQmvrx" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/fUsQmvrx</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199638656779157505">#</a></li>
<li>33 entries so far in 18th Disquiet Junto, including a bunch by 1st-timers. Excellent, subtle background listening: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199630313020862464">#</a></li>
<li>Raisins and almond slivers are my new jam. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199623216262680576">#</a></li>
<li>One of the next Disquiet Junto projects will be: graphic scores. Details TK. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199603220509769728">#</a></li>
<li>Genius when song breaks for train to pass overhead. #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ripmca">ripmca</a> RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/audiation">audiation</a>: So good. So sad. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/questlove">questlove</a>: Style <a href="http://t.co/CXoOZIJD" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/CXoOZIJD</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199537975216971776">#</a></li>
<li>Haven&#8217;t seen Avengers yet but am hopeful there&#8217;s evidence of Nick Fury not aging, which will let Samuel Jackson be both Fury &amp; Enoch Root. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199533547810336769">#</a></li>
<li>RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/TheValiska">TheValiska</a>: This week&#8217;s Junto submissions are especially wonderful. The 3 parts in transition offer some really interesting compositions <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199514866254483456">#</a></li>
<li>Confused by numerous Mad Men / Chemical Brothers tweets, but looking forward to sorting it out when I watch the episode later this week. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199382270149275648">#</a></li>
<li>&#8220;Noises are important. Noises can tell you everything.&#8221; —Sherlock Holmes, season 2, episode 1. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199363659309387776">#</a></li>
<li>The Disquiet Junto just got its 800th track and 180th participant, all in 18 weeks: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199330854168829953">#</a></li>
<li>Today&#8217;s best sound gadget: turkey caller (wood, glass) in Berkeley hills. At least one wild turkey replied. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199318919973044224">#</a></li>
<li>Welcome! RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/shredderghost">shredderghost</a>: 1st track made for @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> group, Upwelling [disquiet0018 3x3]. Slow ambient tidal force. <a href="http://t.co/QQJOJttx" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/QQJOJttx</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199186243827933184">#</a></li>
<li>Of generic cloud syncs only Dropbox plays music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync &gt; download. Box costs to sync. Amazon doesn&#8217;t sync. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199149820244529153">#</a></li>
<li>Correction: Amazon&#8217;s cloud desktop app allows uploads, but doesn&#8217;t appear to do true sync. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199149545018499074">#</a></li>
<li>Of major generic syncing clouds, only Dropbox &amp; Amazon play music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync -&gt; download. Box costs to sync. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199145658005991424">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, classical violinist Zvi Zeitlin (b. 1922), modernist champion, Eastman Trio cofounder: <a href="http://t.co/TKk91Lhl" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/TKk91Lhl</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199046840845484032">#</a></li>
<li>So glad you had the time. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/ethanhein">ethanhein</a>: New @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> Junto entry: Thelonious Monk meets Pac-Man meets Led Zeppelin. <a href="http://t.co/qyEBGP6P" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/qyEBGP6P</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199046331589865472">#</a></li>
<li>Perfect opportunity to fiddle. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/TheValiska">TheValiska</a>: @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> Junto submission: <a href="http://t.co/8gME4K30" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/8gME4K30</a> trying to figure out Izotope&#8217;s Iris synth <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/199046143051694082">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, David Bowman (b. 1957), who wrote a lot for me in the mid-1990s:&#8230; <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198905798531874816">#</a></li>
<li>Parenting question: Does a pocket calculator count as screen time? <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198882410690125825">#</a></li>
<li>Associating a domain with Google Apps actually taking time to process. Not used to this. It&#8217;s like 1996, minus the fax sound. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198865213561380864">#</a></li>
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		<title>Guitar and Tone (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/09/hey-exit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1:39, suspicions are verified. In the expansive world of experimental music, it&#8217;s pleasant to listen to each new individual track as a standalone entity, to take it as a self-contained whole, let its internal coherence be the ear&#8217;s sole guide — but there&#8217;s always some bit of metadata to help shape the imagination in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At 1:39, suspicions are verified. In the expansive world of experimental music, it&#8217;s pleasant to listen to each new individual track as a standalone entity, to take it as a self-contained whole, let its internal coherence be the ear&#8217;s sole guide — but there&#8217;s always some bit of metadata to help shape the imagination in advance. It may be a title giving white noise a conceptual framework, or it might be a brief annotation, alloying the sonic abstractions with facts about performance technique. Or it may, simply, be the musician&#8217;s name.</p>
<p><strong>Hey Exit</strong> is <strong>Brendan Landis</strong>, whose experiments in music and sound generally employ some manner of string-based instrumentation (guitar, koto), a dose of noise-based sonic perception, and sometimes digital processing. So, when &#8220;It&#8217;s Just an Ugly Thing to Say,&#8221; a track he recently uploaded to his <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hey-exit">soundcloud.com/hey-exit</a> account, begins with a slowly played acoustic guitar, the ears do two things: first, they wait for the noise, and second, they listen for the potential processing. They wonder, when the acoustic guitar&#8217;s notes begin to double, if that is two fingers, or if there is a digital tool being enabled as a subtle level. The sequence is slow, distantly folk-like.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F45894596&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;color=666666"></iframe></p>
<p>And then, at 1:39, a note kicks in that is far beyond the guitar&#8217;s fundamental range. It is a single held note: a round, sour bit of sine-wave emersion that sways a little here and there. It blankets the guitar but doesn&#8217;t mute it. It confirms that this is, indeed, Hey Exit, and that a throwback John Fahey fan hasn&#8217;t hijacked his SoundCloud account. And it plays with the foregrounded guitar part, as the ear seeks out harmonic alignments and metric significance. It lasts for just over a minute, this tone, and then disappears. But like a bright light impressed upon the retina, it leaves an after image.</p>
<p>More on Landis, who is based in Brooklyn, New York, at <a href="http://heyexit.com">heyexit.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Ringing in Zeus&#8217; Ear (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/08/the-ringing-in-zeus-ear-mp3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 06:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As heard later in an MP3, the performance is cut short. Not by the arrival of the fire marshall, or an electrical outage, or an assault from a member of the audience. The performance went on, but it&#8217;s cut short for those of us who didn&#8217;t make the April 21, 2012, event at the YU [...]]]></description>
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As heard later in an MP3, the performance is cut short. Not by the arrival of the fire marshall, or an electrical outage, or an assault from a member of the audience. The performance went on, but it&#8217;s cut short for those of us who didn&#8217;t make the April 21, 2012, event at the YU Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon, when <strong>Daniel Menche</strong> played two-plus hours of deep glisten, of intense sheen, of high-decibel sheer. There&#8217;s an MP3 document of the event, a rousing, swelling mass of what it would sound like if tinsel caused feedback (<a href="http://www.touchshop.org/touchradio/Radio78.mp3">MP3</a>). Apparently it&#8217;s shorter than the original performance due to a recording failure. What we miss must be even more resplendent noise, because the hour and a quarter in the sizable (110+ KB) MP3 is nothing but resplendent noise, occasionally dipping into everyday-level but often in a sonic stratosphere of hazy clanging, the ringing in Zeus&#8217; ear. Apparently the performance was itself cut short (&#8220;The amplifiers also blew out at the end,&#8221; <a href="http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_78_daniel_menche.html">we&#8217;re told</a>) but the MP3 doesn&#8217;t get that far. The MP3&#8242;s failure is an unintended simulacrum of the one that ended the show.</p>
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<p>More on the performance at <a href="http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_78_daniel_menche.html">touchradio.org.uk</a>. More on Menche at <a href="http://danielmenche.blogspot.com/">danielmenche.blogspot.com</a>. More on the performance space, which has a remarkably designed website, like the Periodic Table of Contents, at <a href="http://yucontemporary.org">yucontemporary.org</a>.</p>
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		<title>Music from London&#8217;s Linear Obsessional (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/07/malapert-and-erratic-mark-browne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 06:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Diaries Of The Too Numerous Cursed Poets by Mark Browne Mark Browne&#8216;s Malapert and Erratic is an expansive and ambitious project: seven tracks, one over twenty minutes in length, none shorter than six minutes, all with lengthy titles somewhere between a Dickensian subtitle and a Fluxus manifesto, such as &#8220;Adjusting the Windows in [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Mark Browne</strong>&#8216;s <em>Malapert and Erratic</em> is an expansive and ambitious project: seven tracks, one over twenty minutes in length, none shorter than six minutes, all with lengthy titles somewhere between a Dickensian subtitle and a Fluxus manifesto, such as &#8220;Adjusting the Windows in the Loneliness of My Car so That the Wind Whistles Through at an Ill Defined Pitch and Volume.&#8221; But the true mark of the album&#8217;s broad goals is the way it mixes such seeming disparate elements as improvisation, jazz, field recordings, and noise into one rich associative endeavor. The strongest track may be the longest, &#8220;From the Diaries of the Too Numerous Cursed Poets.&#8221; It is a deeply coded narrative of dark intonations and frazzled nerves. Browne&#8217;s sound may be abstract, but he isn&#8217;t uncomfortable explicating his maneuvers in text. Accompanying the album is a lengthy PDF, with track-by-track notes. This is what Browne says of his &#8220;From the Diaries&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>This piece was devised for boiling water, hot fat, synthesizer and sopranino saxophone. This is the second piece I have recorded using this instrumentation and approach and is largely the result of finding the appeal in listening to Noise Music at low volume levels. The piece uses four frying pans initially containing only water. Variation is created by allowing the pans to nearly boil dry, adding and melting fat into the water, and adjusting the gas. The synthesizer uses a touch pad that can be operated using a small stone allowing the saxophone to be played.</p></blockquote>
<p>Get the full album at <a href="http://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/malapert-and-erratic">linearobsessional.bandcamp.com</a>. It was released by the London-based netlabel <a href="http://linearobsessional.weebly.com">linearobsessional.weebly.com</a>. This is the first Linear Obsessional release to be featured on Disquiet.com.</p>
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		<title>Rawore, Playing Around (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/06/rawore-bob-phillips-finally-sunny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 06:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burble, burble. This is &#8220;Finally Sunny,&#8221; a nearly four-minute piece by Rawore uploaded to his soundcloud.com/r-37 account. It&#8217;s a bubbly, synthesized rhythm, atop which, methodically, a melody of sorts comes into focus. The melody takes the form of occasional tones that move up and down and up again in a manner that suggests a loose, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burble, burble. This is &#8220;Finally Sunny,&#8221; a nearly four-minute piece by <strong>Rawore</strong> uploaded to his <a href="http://soundcloud.com/r-37/finally-sunny">soundcloud.com/r-37</a> account. It&#8217;s a bubbly, synthesized rhythm, atop which, methodically, a melody of sorts comes into focus. The melody takes the form of occasional tones that move up and down and up again in a manner that suggests a loose, genial structure. What makes the melody especially enjoyable isn&#8217;t the tune itself, though it is a lovely fragment of a tune, but instead the manner in which the motion of the tune resembles the ping-ponging percussive effects amid which the steadily bounding tones appear. The blurring of foreground and background is splendid.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F45532627&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;color=666666"></iframe></p>
<p>For his part, Rawore provides only the slightest of contextual information, a description that clearly suggests its intended readership — true to the workshop nature of so much of SoundCloud — is soleley his fellow musicians: &#8220;playing around with audio damage tools. phosphor synth and ronin effect.&#8221;</p>
<p>More on Rawore, aka Bob Phillips, at <a href="http://raworeb.blogspot.com">raworeb.blogspot.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/05/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-142/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking in rhymes since MCA died. # Anyone strongly recommend a password manager? This &#8220;store your passwords in the cloud&#8221; thing seems, er, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. # 5th piece in this week&#8217;s Junto is by @ETALABEL (Poland). Like how each piece&#8217;s waveform is clearly divided in three: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 # Tatsuya Yoshida from [...]]]></description>
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<li>I&#8217;ve been thinking in rhymes since MCA died. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198791425490550785">#</a></li>
<li>Anyone strongly recommend a password manager? This &#8220;store your passwords in the cloud&#8221; thing seems, er, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198786730428600321">#</a></li>
<li>5th piece in this week&#8217;s Junto is by @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/ETALABEL">ETALABEL</a> (Poland). Like how each piece&#8217;s waveform is clearly divided in three: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198578481083326464">#</a></li>
<li>Tatsuya Yoshida from the Ruins is playing the Hemlock tonight. (In San Francisco.) <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198571454202257409">#</a></li>
<li>Disquiet Junto is 2 shy of its 180th participant in 18 weeks. Number 178 is Athens, Greece–based Sim_psi: <a href="http://t.co/yny4EKyp" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/yny4EKyp</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198489941888614402">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, MCA. Instrumentals: &#8220;The New Style&#8221;: <a href="http://t.co/SKTNMvjx" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/SKTNMvjx</a>. &#8220;Sabotage&#8221;: <a href="http://t.co/B6X36Vdk" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/B6X36Vdk</a>. &#8220;Flute Loop&#8221;: <a href="http://t.co/A0230aL3" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/A0230aL3</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198479541080039424">#</a></li>
<li>Cancer Is Killing Music <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198475769134059521">#</a></li>
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<li>RIP, Beastie Boys Adam Yauch, aka MCA (b. 1964), <a href="http://t.co/HYygLpJz" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/HYygLpJz</a> Man, this makes me sad as hell. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198472785926963200">#</a></li>
<li>“Mode for Joe” by Joe Henderson is my new jam. ♫ <a href="http://t.co/Z0zNVHFs" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/Z0zNVHFs</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198449651794460672">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, Lloyd Brevett (b. 1931), bassist and founding member of the Skatalites. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198430753737031682">#</a></li>
<li>Woke to three initial tracks in the 18th Disquiet Junto: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a>. The theme: Three sounds in three minutes. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198428847652347904">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, composer Felix Werder (b. 1922). <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198301839526072320">#</a></li>
<li>Drove by Civic Center in San Francisco after Frey Norris art opening, and heard no sonic-warfare audio irritants. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198292896837926912">#</a></li>
<li>Disquiet Junto Index: In 17 weeks 780 tracks from 177 musicians; 360 discussion posts; 148 members of email list. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198243018728411136">#</a></li>
<li>Instructions for the 18th Disquiet Junto project have gone out to the email list and are now posted at <a href="http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198242578519437313">#</a></li>
<li>If you contributed a @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23junto">junto</a> remix of @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/wildUp">wildUp</a> (project #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2313">13</a> that was a WAV file titled &#8220;thanksJOE2&#8243; please get in touch with me. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198165595345268736">#</a></li>
<li>I was cautious about creating a @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/facebook">facebook</a> page for <a href="http://t.co/xdF6qCg1" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/xdF6qCg1</a> but it&#8217;s led to good discussions: <a href="https://t.co/38iqLD8R" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/38iqLD8R</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198156884497285121">#</a></li>
<li>A few more hours before the 18th Disquiet Junto begins. The theme: &#8220;four minutes, four sounds.&#8221; <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198156503260213248">#</a></li>
<li>Quite unfortunate how large a number of netlabels don&#8217;t include allowance for derivative works. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198085014120972289">#</a></li>
<li>Great interview w/ Brian @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/boondesign">boondesign</a> Scott, longtime graphic designer of Disquiet projects [Instagr/am/bient, LX(RMX)] <a href="http://t.co/avdtBruD" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/avdtBruD</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/198081062650392577">#</a></li>
<li>Been slowly rereading Count Zero by @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/greatdismal">greatdismal</a>. Increasingly convinced it&#8217;s my favorite of his novels. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197927236492472320">#</a></li>
<li>Hey, @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/markuspopp_oval">markuspopp_oval</a> (aka Markus Popp / Oval) is now on @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/twitter">twitter</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197918483617562624">#</a></li>
<li>Would someone with the power to do such things please make the Boxhead Ensemble put out another album? Thanks. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197917998646968320">#</a></li>
<li>Congrats to @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/Crewest">Crewest</a> Gallery for 10 graffiti-infused years. Proud to have had a (non-graffiti) piece there back in 2009 <a href="http://t.co/kMiSFgr8" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/kMiSFgr8</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197785926968160256">#</a></li>
<li>Domestic sonic warfare against the homeless: <a href="http://t.co/Vn1SN7y1" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/Vn1SN7y1</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197726919716904962">#</a></li>
<li>Instagr/am/bient track by @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/mapmap">mapmap</a> featured in new @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/newmusicbox">newmusicbox</a> mix: <a href="http://t.co/S3wY3Lco" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/S3wY3Lco</a> Full mix is streaming &amp; downloadable. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197726114674782208">#</a></li>
<li>San Francisco cultural institutions persist in having seasons, but the city sure doesn&#8217;t, not in the traditional sense. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197495126048780288">#</a></li>
<li>RIP, Charles &#8220;Skip&#8221; Pitts (b. 1947). That&#8217;s his wah-wah guitar in the Shaft theme, among other prominent places. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197494223887548416">#</a></li>
<li>If the Best Music Writing books were Best Sound Writing, Chiara Barzini&#8217;s Italian film dubbing essay in the May Harper&#8217;s would be a shoo-in. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197430418180546560">#</a></li>
<li>Didn&#8217;t hear the Tuesday noon siren because the dim sum restaurant was quite loud. #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23richmonddistrictproblems">richmonddistrictproblems</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197426336808173569">#</a></li>
<li>Grains in this enlarged comics image from @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/hilobrow">hilobrow</a> (<a href="http://t.co/VpJnINCN" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/VpJnINCN</a>) are like if Roy Lichtenstein had been a textile artist. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197383478961111041">#</a></li>
<li>If you&#8217;re part of Disquiet Junto and don&#8217;t have a Vimeo or YouTube account, please set one up. It&#8217;ll be necessary in the next week or two. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197375379378405376">#</a></li>
<li>Good to see Luke Fowler listed among the four shortlisted Turner Prize nominees. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197334778792513541">#</a></li>
<li>Word processors made it easier to write longer. Tablets made it easier for readers to lug around the longer texts. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197333284781436929">#</a></li>
<li>There&#8217;s a guy near me in the cafe who is also 1/2 way through Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Reamde. I feel like I&#8217;ve been there for months. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197139572419854338">#</a></li>
<li>Very excited about this. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/barrythrew">barrythrew</a>: OvalDNA player Iteration 1 Released <a href="http://t.co/xSllWnVH" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/xSllWnVH</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197120338356748290">#</a></li>
<li>Got requests to be added to the Disquiet Junto project announcement list. It&#8217;s now an automated process: <a href="http://t.co/f2aaVTe0" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/f2aaVTe0</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197104808480620544">#</a></li>
<li>26 entries in 17th Disquiet Junto project, with half a day to go. A half dozen are by first-timers, which is great: <a href="http://t.co/lSzqLIp5" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/lSzqLIp5</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/197067988141219841">#</a></li>
<li>DropBox helped train me to keep all documents in one place. SugarSync&#8217;s (hack-free) ability to sync desktop is a nice backup, so to speak. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196975317401870336">#</a></li>
<li>UI Lewis and the News #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23computerbands">computerbands</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196862607179792384">#</a></li>
<li>Tragically Chip #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23computerbands">computerbands</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196861646986166272">#</a></li>
<li>ASCII Crimson #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23computerbands">computerbands</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196861376877174784">#</a></li>
<li>USB40 #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23computerbands">computerbands</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196861096836075520">#</a></li>
<li>Stevie UNIX #<a class="aktt_hashtag" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23computerbands">computerbands</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196860696070328320">#</a></li>
<li>The (manhole) cover to an album I would like to hear: <a href="http://t.co/YUqZDpAA" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/YUqZDpAA</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196803966061916162">#</a></li>
<li>Domecile Tetris: <a href="http://t.co/yM3XAZDD" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/yM3XAZDD</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196803939100930049">#</a></li>
<li>Visual evidence of unintended sound art installation: box of dry macaroni left strewn on sidewalk: <a href="http://t.co/NEzepvY3" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/NEzepvY3</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196803910684516352">#</a></li>
<li>Disquiet Junto email-alert list now on @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/tinyletter">tinyletter</a>: <a href="http://t.co/f2aaVTe0" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/f2aaVTe0</a>. If you were already subscribed you&#8217;re on the new list <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196802618062938113">#</a></li>
<li>Tested out <a href="http://t.co/GoTVCZOx" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/GoTVCZOx</a>. Went straight to Gmail&#8217;s spam folder. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196758281203625984">#</a></li>
<li>Still largely inured to the charms of Burial. Maybe I need edits without the runway-model vocals. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196641667053395968">#</a></li>
<li>Discussion between Google Music &amp; Drive teams must be interesting: what&#8217;s free, what isn&#8217;t, what&#8217;s a service, whose territory is whose? <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196628216318926849">#</a></li>
<li>If you take too long between chapters of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Reamde, it just gets longer. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196617882036215812">#</a></li>
<li>Woke to 17 in Disquiet Junto 17. Two more 1st-timers: from Muncy, PA (US), <a href="http://t.co/CZ4nMokl" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/CZ4nMokl</a> and Armagh, Ireland, <a href="http://t.co/pk34wqqr" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/pk34wqqr</a>. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196599465321308160">#</a></li>
<li>Splendid. Thanks. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/markrushtoncom">markrushtoncom</a>: Nail It Down, my submission for this week&#8217;s @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> junto (&#8220;Transition&#8221;): <a href="http://t.co/AbemvpBu" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/AbemvpBu</a> <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196317294660567041">#</a></li>
<li>Recommended Saturday plan. RT @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/lownote">lownote</a>: Off to grab some field recordings for this weekend&#8217;s @<a class="aktt_username" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet">disquiet</a> Junto. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196303262654267392">#</a></li>
<li>Neighborhood sound art installation: box of tiny dry macaroni strewn along sidewalk. <a class="aktt_tweet_time" href="http://twitter.com/disquiet/statuses/196294221194465280">#</a></li>
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		<title>Autechre on Guitar (MP3)</title>
		<link>http://disquiet.com/2012/05/03/autechre-goz-quarter-xyzr_kx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 06:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Weidenbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The songlessness of experimental music is often overstated. Autechre&#8217;s distressed digital inventions, for example, gain from their cover art an association with impossible architectures, things that CAD software can imagine but no general contractor could actually build. XYZR_KX of Chicago, aka Jon Monteverde, took the challenge upon himself to transform the turntable-laden, scratch-infused, murky wonderment [...]]]></description>
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<p>The songlessness of experimental music is often overstated. Autechre&#8217;s distressed digital inventions, for example, gain from their cover art an association with impossible architectures, things that CAD software can imagine but no general contractor could actually build. <strong>XYZR_KX</strong> of Chicago, aka <strong>Jon Monteverde</strong>, took the challenge upon himself to transform the turntable-laden, scratch-infused, murky wonderment of &#8220;Goz Quarter,&#8221; off the 15-year-old <em>Envane</em> EP by Autechre, and turn it into something playable — playable on guitar, no less. His resulting work trades the subsumed hip-hop of the original for something closer to dub, and while hearing the melodyishness of &#8220;Goz Quarter&#8221; is a pleasure, the real richness of the track is how the dubby environment has the echoed strings and bits of percussion swirling around each other and never &#8230; quite &#8230; coming &#8230; into &#8230; sync. By mimicking the song&#8217;s melodic path, XYZR_KX has produced a cover; by re-engineering the piece&#8217;s inherent complexity, he has produced a tribute.</p>
<p>Track originally posted at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/xyzr_kx/goz-quarter-autechre-cover">soundcloud.com/xyzr_kx</a>. More on XYZR_KX/Monteverde at <a href="http://xyzrkx.com">xyzrkx.com</a>.</p>
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