Disquiet

• Six “layering reality” tracks already in the Junto, including one from first-timer @Banabila: http://t.co/kel3Tiwn #
• Listening to the Haywire soundtrack will either make your day feel far more dramatic than it is, or illuminate how banal it is. #
• Nice. Or, truly random: Oaomsr Undeh. RT @Whybray: @disquiet What about an anagram? Human Rodeos? Horseman Duo? #
• I Bau down to you. RT: @taylordeupree: @disquiet Random Haus. RndmHs. #
• Sitting in a row. RT @otologist: @disquiet Random Harper Penguins? #
• Wanted to call my generative publishing company Random House, but apparently it’s already taken. #

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There were 38 posts on Disquiet.com in January 2012, and the most popular were as follows:

(1) a consideration of white noise in the work of Phil Julian (“A Variety of Noises, White and Otherwise”), (2) a “Sneak Peek at New Disquiet.com Project: Disquiet Junto,”, (3) the fuzzy beats of Would-Be Messiahs (“Hairshirt Industrial”), (4) a work for dual wind chimes by Josh Davison, aka Stringbot (“Chimes and More Chimes”), (5) Alarm Will Sound performing a syncopated work by Liza White (“When a Chamber Ensemble Sounds Like a Jazz Ensemble Sounds Like Breakbeat”), (6) a pair of tracks off Michal Jacaszek‘s Glimmer (Ghostly), (7) “Russian Post-Turntable Turntablism” by Mizontiq, and (8) “Sketch of a Drone / Drone as Sketch,” on a piece by Pacers that at times sounds like a church organ being tuned by an especially patient and exacting workman. Also: not (9) one but (10) two automated selections of what has happened in the previous week at twitter.com.disquiet.

The most popular searches (searches that didn’t yield null results) were: harold budd live, junto, autechre, best of 2010, In the Echo of No Towers, souns, mark harris, saito koji, Kahlen, weir, would-be messiahs, airport, brian eno, Carrie Underwood, compilations.

• RIP, church organist Gerre Hancock (b. 1934). On mastering his instrument: "Coordination is key. But so are earplugs." http://t.co/D21x1Mnw #
• Good use of "also": "[T]hey found a computer monitor and 2 video surveillance cameras. They also located a large amount of methamphetamine." #
• Dean Westerfield posted a comic of his I edited back in 1997, about a concert from five years earlier: http://t.co/BDpIRJtC #
• Already 7 @mapmap remixes at http://t.co/anQFre9l, all sharing the same 10 core audio samples, and we're barely a day in. #
• Senior citizen who complained loudly in cafe about loud babies now on cellphone. Prediction: Will criticize loud typing. #
• Senior citizen complaining loudly in cafe about how loud babies can be. #

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• 9 "expanded glass harp" tracks now in http://t.co/anQFre9l. Latest are Chicago's @otologist San Jose's @CompMusicBlog Brisbane's Greg Hooper #
• Jan 21 = Instagr/am/bient Track 21 = @orangecookie's "Near Cedar," based on an @instagram by @c_bissonnette: http://t.co/Dx2996Sq #
• Nicely put. RT @stringbot: @disquiet I like the challenge of trying to keep it from getting boring. #
• I'd say fade in/out's kosher. RT @stringbot: Recorded 40 minutes of improv but since I'm not allowed to edit I have to cull the best bits. #
• Crazy rainy night in San Francisco, watching my 16-month-old. Listening to "expanded glass harp" music in the Junto; thanks to all involved! #
• Looking forward to it RT @ben_carey: uploading my first @disquiet #junto track: glass harmonica processed live using my derivations software #
• I can't fully recommend Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but I can recommend seeing it on a rainy day. #
• To use FileZilla for FTP on a Mac is to be reminded that OS X is just as littered with human-unreadable gibberish files as is Windows. #
• When I miss my old laptop, I just use my Macbook Air in the kitchen while the dishwasher is running. #

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• There are 13 duets for fog horn and steam whistle in the Junto, and midnight Monday, the deadline, is a long way away: http://t.co/anQFre9l #
• Jan 14 = Instagr/am/bient Track 14 = @atlastop's rendering of an @instagram by @mapmap : http://t.co/UQhCnz1W #
• All but 2 Instagr/am/bient tracks have over 300 plays on @soundcloud. One has over 3,500. Three others have over 1,000: http://t.co/I0nPVLla #
• RIP, prolific Japanese composer Sadao Bekku (b. 1922), whose work included the score to Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People). #
• Already 7 duets for fog horn & train whistle in second Junto. Looking forward to new ones between now & midnight Monday http://t.co/anQFre9l #
• Jan 13 = Instagr/am/bient Track 13 = @markrushtoncom's sonic "floatation tank" inspired by Oootini's @instagram: http://t.co/Hs3wcUc4 #
• "post processing was extensive": @atlastop on his Instagr/am/bient track: http://t.co/gSa80oNc #
• Noon bells against the brakes of an 18-wheeler making a sudden stop. #

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