field notes / Hollywood Minimalism from Nyman, Glass
Continuing to add archival pieces to the site. Just uploaded two brief reviews of movie scores:
Michael Nyman’s The Piano (1993)
Philip Glass’s The Hours (2002)
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[ January 23, 2010 / bookmark ]
[ October 11, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / The Internets of Fernando Pessoa
Back in 1996, when I launched Disquiet.com, part of its foundation was an ongoing experiment in comparative literature focused on the poet from whom the website derives its name: Fernando Pessoa, best known for his The Book of Disquiet.
Part of that subsite, available at disquiet.com/pessoa, is a side-by-side series of multiple renditions in English [...]
[ October 4, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / From the Archives of epulse
Spent the morning digging through the archives, and located six pieces I’d written between 1996 and 2000 that weren’t up on Disquiet.com. All were entries in epulse, the email zine I founded for Tower Records in 1994, and edited on and off until it closed down in 2004:
(1) Now the earliest entry on this site [...]
[ October 1, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Top 10 Posts & Searches from September
The past month’s visits to Disquiet.com were weighted unusually — it’s almost always the case that the most popular posts involve the week-daily free-MP3 recommendations, from the Downstream section of the site. But in September, only four of the top ten were Downstream pieces: (1) the remixed African hip-hop of Oh No’s Ethiopium, (2) the [...]
[ September 16, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Request for Creative Site-Development Input
This website, Disquiet.com, is due for a light visual upgrade. This post is a request for any input from readers as to what improvements would benefit the site. The site will remain true to its current design, which has been in place since the launch of Disquiet.com in December 1996: white background, limited fonts, bare-bone/functional [...]
[ August 15, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Photostream: Console, Parenthesis
There’s a new Disquiet.com photostream at flickr.com/photos/disquietpxl. I’m still sorting out the best way to integrate WordPress and Flickr (advice appreciated), but in the meanwhile, two recent images:
This old console stereo is the centerpiece of the Jews on Vinyl exhibit from the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. More on the exhibit at thecjm.org:
Just [...]
[ June 13, 2009 / bookmark ]
field notes / Disquiet.com Upgraded to WordPress 2.8
As of Saturday morning, June 13, at 6:50am Pacific time, this site has been updated to version 2.8 of the WordPress content management software. If you find any functionality issues, please let me know at marc@disquiet.com. Thanks.