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[ January 17, 2010 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents: Oscarless Eno, New Autechre, Symphonic Nortec

Been awhile since the most recent Disquiet.com overview of notable stories elsewhere on the web. He’s a quick rundown, to bridge the gap from 2009 to 2010:
● Why Brian Eno’s score to Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is reportedly not eligible for an Oscar (thewrap.com, via moviescoremagazine.com).
● Thanks to Google Translate, an interview with composer [...]

[ January 10, 2010 / bookmark ]

field notes / Images of the Week: Music Apps & Interface Lag

Below are “before” and “after” shots of the interfaces of several excellent sound/music apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch: apps titled Gliss, DopplerPad, and Bloom. The images of these apps’s various screens evidence what has become a norm, perhaps an accepted one, in casual music-making applications: the application you are learning to use [...]

[ December 25, 2009 / bookmark ]

reports/essays / Best of 2009: 10 iPhone/iPod Touch Music/Sound Apps

Part 3/3: These are — to my ears, eyes, and fingers — the 10 best iPhone/iPod Touch apps of 2009 for sound and music manipulation.

This is a new category for Disquiet.com, and likely a short-lived one. Not because the iPod (or, for that matter, the iPhone or iPod Touch, the latter of which is currently [...]

[ September 27, 2009 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents: Eno App, Turntable Art, Consumer Sound …

Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere:
● On the Making of Brian Eno/Peter Chilvers iPhone/Touch Apps Bloom & Trope (usoproject.blogspot.com): Interview with Peter Chilvers on his development, with Brian Eno, of the iPhone apps Trope and Bloom, and the app Air: “It was something of a two way process,” he says of the development process. [...]