Disquiet » site-maintenance http://disquiet.com Listening to art. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. Fri, 25 May 2012 13:13:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet http://disquiet.com/2012/05/19/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-148/ http://disquiet.com/2012/05/19/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-148/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 23:30:00 +0000 Marc Weidenbaum http://disquiet.com/2012/05/19/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-148/
  • Spending the day just me and my 20-month-old. Will be wandering around @artmrkt, among other places. #
  • Four more now: @nodebeat + (1) keyboard, (2) Moog Slim Phatty, (3) drone pad, and (4) piano: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • My one regret about my Macbook Air is I shoulda gone with the larger harddrive. Didn’t realize at the time it’d become my core computer. #
  • All in all, I got a brick in the mail from @primusluta. #
  • The first three @NodeBeat Disquiet Junto pieces pair the mobile sound app with a ukulele, a guzheng, and a sitar: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • You’re a dreamer. RT @mmaddencomics: “There’s some very thoughtful dubstep behind this blog”; “Wiley revitalizes curating on his new single” #
  • 1st @NodeBeat track in latest Disquiet Junto project is up, courtesy of @ethanhein + his processed ukulele http://t.co/Iny6uyLO #
  • “It’s refreshing to hear a curate track that doesn’t have a drop.” “They’re hiring someone to dubstep a blog of found objects.” #
  • Perfect. RT @primusluta: Headed out to this gallery my friend dubstepped. Hopefully there’ll be wine and good headnoding curation. #
  • “That new Burial remix is true curate.” “I’m dubstepping 18th-century leather wallets on my Tumblr.” #
  • The words “dubstep” and “curate” are so overused, we should just use them interchangeably. #
  • Not a speaker. (Bathroom fan.) http://t.co/ICf6NrGN #

  • Blade Runner 2: The Batty Rises #bladerunner2titles #
  • Instructions for current Disquiet Junto, involving the great @NodeBeat app, available in English, Spanish, and Turkish: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • Discussion about best way to record from sound apps, including @nodebeat: http://t.co/WRFtIOta #
  • Blade Runner 2: You Don’t Know Dick #bladerunner2titles #
  • Blade Runner 2: No You Replicant #bladerunner2titles #
  • The 20th weekly Disquiet Junto project instructions are now live: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • Instructions for the 20th Disquiet Junto, which employs the @NodeBeat app, going out shortly. Email list is at http://t.co/f2aaVTe0. #
  • Belated (my kid’s on spring break from daycare) RIP: disco’s Donna Summer (b. 1948), go-go’s Chuck Brown (b. 1936). #
  • Instructions will be out shortly but in meanwhile Disquiet Junto regulars test-drive @nodebeat: http://t.co/0pPXoQBk http://t.co/pUq3qMP4 #
  • Few more hours until instructions to 20th weekly Disquiet Junto project go out. This week: creative restraints of a mobile app (@nodebeat). #
  • Reminder: I have free download codes for @NodeBeat iOS app, the focus of the 20th Disquiet Junto project, due for announcement later today. #
  • I miss http://t.co/OIi75NEu. #
  • Sent an email out earlier to the Disquiet Junto email list. I mention this since they often end up in spam folders. #
  • Paging @robsheff @mrgavinedwards @tedfriedman @juliandibbell: Cutler’s is closing: http://t.co/noe5ZMiM #
  • Great moments in education. RT @xeni: YOU GUYS. Go-Go is not the Go-Gos. Go-Go is not go-go dancing. Go-Go is, was, DC, Chuck Brown … #
  • NodeBeat: free in Flash; under 4 bucks otherwise. I have 50 free iOS codes (half iPhone/Touch, half iPad). Will go first to Junto regulars. #
  • The 20th Disquiet Junto will employ the app NodeBeat, available for iOS, Android, Blackberry and (with limited functionality) Flash. #
  • Gonna announce the app that the 20th Junto is based on early, so that folks can have time to come up to speed on it, or at least install it. #
  • 20th Disquiet Junto is about mobile apps. … Forthcoming projects: animation, storytelling, electricity, water, performance, the blues. #
  • RIP, Bruno Mauro, of Ampersand International Arts, the fine San Francisco art gallery. Via http://t.co/ahTaaCxT. #
  • Seriously can’t believe we’re about to do the 20th (!) weekly Disquiet Junto project. Just amazing: 849 tracks by 190 musicians in 19 weeks. #
  • Disquiet Junto 20 project going out to translators shortly. Have: Czech/Turkish/Japanese/Spanish/French. Want: Korean, Chinese, others. #
  • I know it’s 2012 and all, but there’s still a certain frisson to receiving raw code in body of an email as part of a reply to a job opening. #
  • Fundamentals of Respiratory Care and Zombies. #
  • Steve Jobs bust addendum: Collector only spoke Chinese. Someone at restaurant helped me explain the hobby shop across the street has glue. #
  • Guy at lunch had box on table. When bill came he accidentally pushed it off the table. Opened it to reveal broken porcelain Steve Jobs bust. #
  • Guy in cafe did not have a holster. It was an empty Baby Bjorn under his windbreaker. #
  • My browser has so many favicon-emblazoned tabs open, it looks like I’ve installed the Nascar extension. #
  • RT @cinchel: @disquiet ooh..glad there is an Android app. [This is the first app-based Disquiet Junto. I wanted it catholic/cross-platform.] #
  • RT @gregsurges: @disquiet What app is it? [I'm going to wait until later tonight or tomorrow to announce the app.] #
  • Disquiet Junto 20 launches mañana. I have 25 free iPhone/Touch & 25 free iPad codes. Android app costs $2. Limited desktop version is free. #
  • Scent-infused Vessels from Paolo Salvagione’s current Headlands exhibit. http://t.co/vhzuoCbr #
  • Hoping robots gain sentience soon so they can demand that USB-host support for all gadgets is a right not a privilege. #
  • In OS X, the menubar for “mute” is speaker w/o image of sound coming out, but the screen image is of speaker with slash through it. Discuss. #
  • Interested in this gang-written book (including @ibogost) on “the way computer programs exist in culture”: http://t.co/Pw8rcBCw #
  • Great interview this morning with Monolake. Much to reflect on: installations, recording, software, art, teaching, 3D, business, programming #
  • Humor of being on email list for org famed for new-media tech, yet it’s the same old everyone-requesting-unsubscription pileup. #
  • Successfully guessed someone’s cafe location based on music they’d tweeted. #geoshazam #
  • Increasingly enthused for next Disquiet Junto project. It’s the 20th week in a row, and the first to focus on a mobile app. #
  • Indeedy. RT @cinchel: i know @disquiet was excited about Disquiet0013-wildup but the interpretations of photo are great http://t.co/NLmiA4Gn #
  • Suspicious about uptick in emails from SoundCloud users. Probably just passed a “followers threshold” but wondering about automation/PR. #
  • Tuesday noon siren while listening to conference-call hold music. #
  • Interviewing Monolake tomorrow. If you have questions lemme know. My previous interview (c. 2004) here: http://t.co/vqUTBsJk #
  • This London-based crew the Grind http://t.co/VBvgCc0u remind me favorably of Tommy Guerrero in his home-studio tinkerer mode. #
  • Museum in Tasmania provides visitors with iPod Touch containing exhibit-specific music: http://t.co/N6KaP7sX #
  • This Thursday’s Disquiet Junto project will be No. 20. The theme is everyone employing (roughly) the same software application. #
  • About half a day left in the 19th Disquiet Junto. So far, 24 tremendous interpretations of a photo as a graphic score: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • Can’t wait to hear. RT @arbeemonkey: finally found the twist I want to use for this week’ Junto. Will try to execute my idea before deadline #
  • Mallets, pipes, and shadows at kids’ sound sculptures at Dolores Park. http://t.co/MLR0NG7I #
  • Xylophone for kids at Dolores Park. #415 http://t.co/fFNDppAv #
  • RIP, Donald “Duck” Dunn (b. 1941), bassist in Booker T and the MGs, and on countless Stax sessions. #
  • It appears that @orenambarchi has joined Twitter. #
  • Photography-as-score: Already 13 Junto musical interpretations (at http://t.co/lSzqLIp5) of Yojiro Imasaka’s photo (at http://t.co/bLprwyAs) #
  • Repeat tweet: Graphic notation background for folks in current Disquiet Junto http://t.co/gOohgvS5 http://t.co/qTwGQPeK http://t.co/wkbvGvcN #
  • Not a speaker. (First in a likely series.) http://t.co/yV63yaFM #
  • Serious sound-art opening with fish-fry contact-mic performance tonight @Parklifesf #
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  • I wonder if my whole interest in drones has to do with the 13-year-old me wishing the opening notes of Yes’ 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’t show faces. No description of music, just links to streaming services. #
  • I suspect @tinyletter may have held up the Disquiet Junto email because it had three embedded links. Spam red flag. #
  • The Disquiet Junto email just seems to have been received, even though it was sent yesterday afternoon by @tinyletter. #odd #
  • We email a lot with our neighbors. I don’t miss the continuous phone ringing that was the soundscape of my childhood. #
  • Yojiro Imasaka’s inspiring photo of an alley: http://t.co/bLprwyAs. It’s the graphic score Disquiet Junto musicians interpret this week. #
  • The gritty-spectral background photo, by Yojiro Imasaka, for my Twitter page serves as a graphic score in the new Disquiet Junto project. #
  • Instructions for 19th Disquiet Junto are now live: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Project due this Monday at 11:59pm, wherever you are. #
  • “rojiura” is a Japanese word for alley #

  • Disquiet Junto project #19 involving graphic notation, to go live (and out to email) momentarily. #
  • 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. #
  • 19th Disquiet Junto project begins in a few hours. Join the 154 members of the announcement email list at http://t.co/f2aaVTe0 #
  • Nicely put. RT @artofplanning: Commissioning, not interrupting. RT @disquiet: Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco:http://t.co/xLSFLESl. #
  • RT @DETXL: Listening to v.90 modem negotiate connection is oddly soothing. (1998-me would beg to differ. Via ICQ, no doubt, if phone’s free) #
  • Signed up to check out the “next” SoundCloud. Looking forward to checking it out. #
  • Received the Japanese and Turkish translations of the instructions to this week’s Disquiet Junto project. #graphicnotation #
  • #harmonica #graffiti #stencil #415 http://t.co/V3awi5YG #
  • What I imagine Christian Marclay’s door looks like. (Actually a bathroom in the Haight.) http://t.co/2VqBX8gW #
  • Background on graphic notation in advance of the next Disquiet Junto: http://t.co/gOohgvS5 + http://t.co/qTwGQPeK + http://t.co/wkbvGvcN #
  • Classical/opera record labels really need to engage with @soundhound & @shazam to beef up their recognition software. #
  • Having grown up with comics in the 1970s I’m darn happy about the Avengers’ success, but I was more of a Defenders/X-Men kid. #
  • Mac OS X 10.7.4 update is 729.6 MB but won’t install because system tells me it needs 3.65 GB of space to download and install the update. #
  • PR for group whose music alternates between “electronics” and “harmonies” — because, you know, there’s nothing harmonic about electronics. #
  • My favorite music video game is the interactive spinning beach ball you get to play with when using iTunes. #
  • The image accompanying this story about $87-million Rothko painting should accompany a New Yorker story by Don DeLillo: http://t.co/W2N3xN4E #
  • Today: writing, call, call, conference call, sausage at Rosamunde Grill, writing #
  • The netlabel proprietor & musician @leonrosado had his laptop stolen. Consider helping him buy a new one: http://t.co/sJHeRA8G in reply to leonrosado #
  • Denver/Boulder Disquiet Junto concert in mid-August is gaining steam. Details as they come into focus — to mix metaphors. #
  • Writing a bit about manga — which is to say, about telenovelas and jazz. #
  • Adding a little @touchmusic to the afternoon birds/bugs/wind/cars/foghorn mashup. #
  • Afternoon sounds: seagulls and other birds, bees, foghorns, muted surf of automobile traffic, wind, breeze-blown bushes/trees. #
  • Neglected backyard for first 20 months of our 20-month-old’s life. That’s now corrected. Backyard looks/smells/sounds great. Foghorns agree. #
  • If you live in the Richmond District and work from home and are not working outside today, consider doing so. #415 #
  • Dear @idontlikewords, Please combine automated text-to-voice reading of @TheAtlantic blog posts with field recordings of urban noise. #
  • Looking for lead (Python) developer http://t.co/iUxEwKHP + part-time systems engineer: http://t.co/vWRuICiV #virtualoffice #competitivepay #
  • Tuesday noon siren on clear day in San Francisco, multiple speakers echoing each other like some of Philip Jeck’s turntables. #
  • Advance word(s) on this coming Thursday’s Disquiet Junto project (#19): alley / 路地裏 / ろじうら / rojiura. #
  • It was only last week, I think, I’d read our child, now 20 months, a Sendak book for the first time: Night Kitchen. Dough airplanes FTW. #
  • Planned on working to music but the foghorns are especially beautiful and mournful today, noble beasts who lost their leader. #
  • Thursday’s Disquiet Junto, project No. 19, will ask participations to interpret a provided photograph as if it were a graphic notation score #
  • Rhythms of the yard by Diego Stocco: http://t.co/xLSFLESl. A Burt’s Bees commission. (Mostly for @artofplanning @boondesign.) #
  • Tears before bedtime. RIP, children’s book author Maurice Sendak (b. 1928): http://t.co/CP2kvAS5 #
  • All you bleeding-edge types playing with Mountain Lion: does Desktop Spaces work rationally now, or is it still not ready for primetime? #
  • It’d be nice if AirPlay mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion let you use the iPad (fluidly) as a second monitor. #
  • Er, that was: if you would like to help translate Disquiet Junto projects into languages other than English, lemme know. #
  • Instructions to Disquiet Junto 19 have gone to translators. Glad to be back on multi-lingual schedule. If want to help translate lemme know. #
  • 37 Disquiet Junto pieces in response to project #18 with just a few hours until midnight: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • Jukebox at the Hemlock confirmed for me that South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. #
  • Yeah, we’re talking about a possible Disquiet Junto concert in Denver/Boulder this August. #
  • There’s lots of ways to draw a cloud, but the @amazon cloud silhouette looks a lot like the @soundcloud cloud backwards. #
  • “Drone in G Major for Sinewaves, Wind and Bubblewrap”: http://t.co/fUsQmvrx #
  • 33 entries so far in 18th Disquiet Junto, including a bunch by 1st-timers. Excellent, subtle background listening: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • Raisins and almond slivers are my new jam. #
  • One of the next Disquiet Junto projects will be: graphic scores. Details TK. #
  • Genius when song breaks for train to pass overhead. #ripmca RT @audiation: So good. So sad. RT @questlove: Style http://t.co/CXoOZIJD #
  • Haven’t seen Avengers yet but am hopeful there’s evidence of Nick Fury not aging, which will let Samuel Jackson be both Fury & Enoch Root. #
  • RT @TheValiska: This week’s Junto submissions are especially wonderful. The 3 parts in transition offer some really interesting compositions #
  • Confused by numerous Mad Men / Chemical Brothers tweets, but looking forward to sorting it out when I watch the episode later this week. #
  • “Noises are important. Noises can tell you everything.” —Sherlock Holmes, season 2, episode 1. #
  • The Disquiet Junto just got its 800th track and 180th participant, all in 18 weeks: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • Today’s best sound gadget: turkey caller (wood, glass) in Berkeley hills. At least one wild turkey replied. #
  • Welcome! RT @shredderghost: 1st track made for @disquiet group, Upwelling [disquiet0018 3x3]. Slow ambient tidal force. http://t.co/QQJOJttx #
  • Of generic cloud syncs only Dropbox plays music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync > download. Box costs to sync. Amazon doesn’t sync. #
  • Correction: Amazon’s cloud desktop app allows uploads, but doesn’t appear to do true sync. #
  • Of major generic syncing clouds, only Dropbox & Amazon play music from browser. Microsoft/Google/SugarSync -> download. Box costs to sync. #
  • RIP, classical violinist Zvi Zeitlin (b. 1922), modernist champion, Eastman Trio cofounder: http://t.co/TKk91Lhl #
  • So glad you had the time. RT @ethanhein: New @disquiet Junto entry: Thelonious Monk meets Pac-Man meets Led Zeppelin. http://t.co/qyEBGP6P #
  • Perfect opportunity to fiddle. RT @TheValiska: @disquiet Junto submission: http://t.co/8gME4K30 trying to figure out Izotope’s Iris synth #
  • RIP, David Bowman (b. 1957), who wrote a lot for me in the mid-1990s:… #
  • Parenting question: Does a pocket calculator count as screen time? #
  • Associating a domain with Google Apps actually taking time to process. Not used to this. It’s like 1996, minus the fax sound. #
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  • I’ve been thinking in rhymes since MCA died. #
  • Anyone strongly recommend a password manager? This “store your passwords in the cloud” thing seems, er, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. #
  • 5th piece in this week’s Junto is by @ETALABEL (Poland). Like how each piece’s waveform is clearly divided in three: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • Tatsuya Yoshida from the Ruins is playing the Hemlock tonight. (In San Francisco.) #
  • Disquiet Junto is 2 shy of its 180th participant in 18 weeks. Number 178 is Athens, Greece–based Sim_psi: http://t.co/yny4EKyp #
  • RIP, MCA. Instrumentals: “The New Style”: http://t.co/SKTNMvjx. “Sabotage”: http://t.co/B6X36Vdk. “Flute Loop”: http://t.co/A0230aL3. #
  • Cancer Is Killing Music #

    • RIP, Beastie Boys Adam Yauch, aka MCA (b. 1964), http://t.co/HYygLpJz Man, this makes me sad as hell. #
    • “Mode for Joe” by Joe Henderson is my new jam. ♫ http://t.co/Z0zNVHFs #
    • RIP, Lloyd Brevett (b. 1931), bassist and founding member of the Skatalites. #
    • Woke to three initial tracks in the 18th Disquiet Junto: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5. The theme: Three sounds in three minutes. #
    • RIP, composer Felix Werder (b. 1922). #
    • Drove by Civic Center in San Francisco after Frey Norris art opening, and heard no sonic-warfare audio irritants. #
    • Disquiet Junto Index: In 17 weeks 780 tracks from 177 musicians; 360 discussion posts; 148 members of email list. #
    • Instructions for the 18th Disquiet Junto project have gone out to the email list and are now posted at http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. #
    • If you contributed a @disquiet #junto remix of @wildUp (project #13 that was a WAV file titled “thanksJOE2″ please get in touch with me. #
    • I was cautious about creating a @facebook page for http://t.co/xdF6qCg1 but it’s led to good discussions: https://t.co/38iqLD8R #
    • A few more hours before the 18th Disquiet Junto begins. The theme: “four minutes, four sounds.” #
    • Quite unfortunate how large a number of netlabels don’t include allowance for derivative works. #
    • Great interview w/ Brian @boondesign Scott, longtime graphic designer of Disquiet projects [Instagr/am/bient, LX(RMX)] http://t.co/avdtBruD #
    • Been slowly rereading Count Zero by @greatdismal. Increasingly convinced it’s my favorite of his novels. #
    • Hey, @markuspopp_oval (aka Markus Popp / Oval) is now on @twitter. #
    • Would someone with the power to do such things please make the Boxhead Ensemble put out another album? Thanks. #
    • Congrats to @Crewest Gallery for 10 graffiti-infused years. Proud to have had a (non-graffiti) piece there back in 2009 http://t.co/kMiSFgr8 #
    • Domestic sonic warfare against the homeless: http://t.co/Vn1SN7y1 #
    • Instagr/am/bient track by @mapmap featured in new @newmusicbox mix: http://t.co/S3wY3Lco Full mix is streaming & downloadable. #
    • San Francisco cultural institutions persist in having seasons, but the city sure doesn’t, not in the traditional sense. #
    • RIP, Charles “Skip” Pitts (b. 1947). That’s his wah-wah guitar in the Shaft theme, among other prominent places. #
    • If the Best Music Writing books were Best Sound Writing, Chiara Barzini’s Italian film dubbing essay in the May Harper’s would be a shoo-in. #
    • Didn’t hear the Tuesday noon siren because the dim sum restaurant was quite loud. #richmonddistrictproblems #
    • Grains in this enlarged comics image from @hilobrow (http://t.co/VpJnINCN) are like if Roy Lichtenstein had been a textile artist. #
    • If you’re part of Disquiet Junto and don’t have a Vimeo or YouTube account, please set one up. It’ll be necessary in the next week or two. #
    • Good to see Luke Fowler listed among the four shortlisted Turner Prize nominees. #
    • Word processors made it easier to write longer. Tablets made it easier for readers to lug around the longer texts. #
    • There’s a guy near me in the cafe who is also 1/2 way through Neal Stephenson’s Reamde. I feel like I’ve been there for months. #
    • Very excited about this. RT @barrythrew: OvalDNA player Iteration 1 Released http://t.co/xSllWnVH #
    • Got requests to be added to the Disquiet Junto project announcement list. It’s now an automated process: http://t.co/f2aaVTe0. #
    • 26 entries in 17th Disquiet Junto project, with half a day to go. A half dozen are by first-timers, which is great: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
    • DropBox helped train me to keep all documents in one place. SugarSync’s (hack-free) ability to sync desktop is a nice backup, so to speak. #
    • UI Lewis and the News #computerbands #
    • Tragically Chip #computerbands #
    • ASCII Crimson #computerbands #
    • USB40 #computerbands #
    • Stevie UNIX #computerbands #
    • The (manhole) cover to an album I would like to hear: http://t.co/YUqZDpAA #
    • Domecile Tetris: http://t.co/yM3XAZDD #
    • Visual evidence of unintended sound art installation: box of dry macaroni left strewn on sidewalk: http://t.co/NEzepvY3 #
    • Disquiet Junto email-alert list now on @tinyletter: http://t.co/f2aaVTe0. If you were already subscribed you’re on the new list #
    • Tested out http://t.co/GoTVCZOx. Went straight to Gmail’s spam folder. #
    • Still largely inured to the charms of Burial. Maybe I need edits without the runway-model vocals. #
    • Discussion between Google Music & Drive teams must be interesting: what’s free, what isn’t, what’s a service, whose territory is whose? #
    • If you take too long between chapters of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde, it just gets longer. #
    • Woke to 17 in Disquiet Junto 17. Two more 1st-timers: from Muncy, PA (US), http://t.co/CZ4nMokl and Armagh, Ireland, http://t.co/pk34wqqr. #
    • Splendid. Thanks. RT @markrushtoncom: Nail It Down, my submission for this week’s @disquiet junto (“Transition”): http://t.co/AbemvpBu #
    • Recommended Saturday plan. RT @lownote: Off to grab some field recordings for this weekend’s @disquiet Junto. #
    • Neighborhood sound art installation: box of tiny dry macaroni strewn along sidewalk. #
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    Five of the 10 most popular posts were drawn from the daily recommended free downloads: (3) thoughts on hotel bedside radio (“The ‘Classical’ Button”x), (4) a sound collage by Jane Burton and Doris Lake (together working under the moniker Public Domain), (5) Carl Ritger (aka Radere) working with a tape-based four-track recorder, (6) the static-based work of C. Cu, and (7) a preview track from the forthcoming IoNiZeR album.

    Also in the top 10, not (8) one but (9) two weekly automated collections of what is posted at twitter.com/disquiet, and (10) the top-10 list from March 2012.

    The most popular searches on the site during the month of April were: junto, salvagione, weidenbaum, mallet, would-be messiahs, autobiography, automaton, bitlabrecords, modular, Peter 7 Paelinck, rjdj, subotnik, Vitiello, ableton, amirkhanian, autechre, bars, cacophony, friends.

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  • RIP, Swiss artist David Weiss (b.1946) of Fischli/Weiss: Rube Goldberg-ish video The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) http://t.co/05DZynwH #
  • RIP, Joe Muranyi (b. 1928), latter-day Dixieland clarinetist in Louis Armstrong’s band: http://t.co/5xUFnQiN, http://t.co/KrGmazuP #
  • 17th Disquiet Junto project already has 2 new 1st-time participants: Biel, Switzerland’s @tobiasreber & NYC’s @clownfacee. #
  • Somehow got a http://t.co/ygIzHsQ1 MBAir cover at Apple store in @soundcloud orange/grey today even though they’re not on the @acmemade site #
  • Note from daycare today says my kid has started a band with two other kids. My kid turns 20 months on Monday. #
  • The telltale pocket-fabric swish with which begins the semi-surreptitiously recorded bootleg of a lecture. #
  • Anyone have any experience with the mailing-list services of http://t.co/abAJFrlp or http://t.co/2oFj6v4s? #
  • Read my first Kindle Single: Jonathan Biss’ Beethoven’s Shadow. Pondering his informed critique of the shadow cast by recording equipment. #
  • Wonderful! RT @tobiasreber: posted my 1st disquiet #junto contribution on soundcloud. glad I could finally participate http://t.co/0d6EsmUR #
  • Downtown San Francisco is like a busker convention today. #
  • Coldplay’s “Trouble” is Pink Floyd fan fiction. #

  • Kickstart that! RT @mutagene: @disquiet we need noise canceling headphones that exploit shazam-like service to identify/suppress ambient pop #
  • Familiarity even more than volume can make a song on a cafe’s in-house stereo soil the intended solitude of your headphones. #
  • Disquiet Junto project 17: record the world around you; make a seamless transition to an existing song http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • Instructions for the 17th Disquiet Junto project going out shortly to the email list and to the @SoundCloud group page. #
  • Odd thing about Chicago’s elevated trains was hearing things like “now boarding” from blocks away without tracks or train in sight. #
  • Jonathan Lethem name-checks Pete Fornatale, who died today, two pages into his Fear of Music book as an emblem of ephemeral pre-Google audio #
  • RIP, DJ and rock chronicler Pete Fornatale (b. 1945). via @stevesilberman #
  • Reworking my hotel static: RT @jmmy_kppl: Free Artificial Lawn Sample: AntiGravity Certification #4 [@disquiet's radio] http://t.co/xdOxEvG4 #
  • The compositional theme for this week’s Disquiet Junto will be “transition.” #
  • About 24 hours until the next Disquiet Junto, Number 17. #
  • No, my Google Drive isn’t on yet. #
  • Can’t remember last time I heard the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner” on a radio. #
  • The NEA’s underlying issue with games-as-art: games fall outside the art world’s financial model. Which is to games’ credit. #
  • Speaking again with Markus Popp (aka Oval) tomorrow. If you have any questions, pass them my way. #
  • I’d say more about the extent to which iOS’ UI fails to keep up with the rapid growth in apps, but I can’t remember which app has my notes. #
  • The TV series Fringe is fan fiction about the weather patterns in San Francisco. #
  • Thanks! RT @GuyBirkin: Discussion in @disquiet Junto is very healthy: 749 tracks, 340 comments. No other SoundCloud group has that ratio. #
  • Talking Heads’ Fear of Music came out on my 13th birthday. I didn’t know it existed at the time. All I cared for was my TRS-80. #
  • Talking Heads : Fear of Music, Remain in Light :: The Beatles : Rubber Soul, Revolver #
  • Beginning to read Jonathan Lethem’s book on Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. #
  • Wondering when/if a consumer-focused cloud price war will kick in, now that Google has finally unveiled its Drive structure. #
  • When @soundcloud goes down, my site looks nekkid. #
  • Many thanks to @sadlypanda for the videos of last week’s Disquiet Junto show in Chicago: http://t.co/LO1OyXWT #
  • Week 16 of Disquiet Junto @soundcloud: 749 tracks, 170 contributors, 334 discussion items, 1 concert. Much more to come http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • MP3 of 4/19 Disquiet Junto Chicago concert now available http://t.co/jyku2XIx Context to be added on the Disquiet site tonight. #
  • Painting at third-hand shop near my home. #415 http://t.co/IJOPC2Zo #
  • Tuesday noon siren in San Francisco on a sunny day, straight out of a Roger Corman disaster film. #
  • So great. RT @debcha: Dug @disquiet post on ‘classical’ button on hotel radio: http://t.co/YpZRmIWB Relevant Sesame St: http://t.co/HptQuHZM #
  • Thanks again to @cdmblogs @verge for covering the Disquiet projects Junto, LX(RMX) and Instagr/am/bient this past week. #
  • Waking at home. Sounds are familiar. More welcome is not being sonically sealed, customary in hotel construction, from the world. #
  • Woke to 34 tracks in 16th Disquiet Junto http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 and great discussion about the nature of back/foreground http://t.co/WRFtIOta. #
  • The in-house music at Chipotle Grill and Virgin America always has me expecting a KCRW station ID break. #
  • OK, Bluetooth novelty time is over. Would someone please make a simple, portable hardwired keyboard for tablets? #
  • Back in San Francisco. #home #
  • Our Virgin America plane from ORD to SFO is named Unicorn Chaser. #peaknerd #
  • Got word the Chicago Disquiet Junto recordings are all cleaned up. I’ll have data today. Flying home to SF, and will upload soon as I can. #
  • Indeed. Thanks, @jeffblagdon. RT @naotko: In case you missed, We’ve got theverge’d: http://t.co/Bvdkel51. #
  • Welcome to Disquiet Junto first-timer @pasztor, from the UK: http://t.co/E5KZTWMV #
  • Ooh, my typing in red. RT@boondesign: @salvagione Vessels A5 inked in Dutch Fireball @sfcb http://t.co/sig94eQE http://t.co/4cDxxNbH #
  • The foliage in Chicago’s Millennium Park looks more like architectural-drawing foliage than anywhere else I have ever been. #
  • Finally got to the Bean in Chicago’s Millennium Park. It’s like having Frank Quiteley draw your portrait. #
  • Guy who posted video of Chicago Disquiet Junto show also posted Terence Davies, Barry Gifford, Keith Fullerton Whitman: http://t.co/i3tA04E6 #
  • … And provided context to the static vis-à-vis Donald Moffit’s science-fiction novel The Jupiter Theft: http://t.co/SJcsT7Td. #
  • The Internet means 78 people in 12 hours have listened to 18 seconds of radio static that I recorded: http://t.co/Yhdva67r. … #
  • 10 shufflings of back/foreground so far in Disquiet Junto 16, including this one by (Chicagoan) 1st=timer StaticOceans: http://t.co/kKU2ACbN #
  • Morning in Evanston hotel: airplane emerges from the droning of the HVAC. #
  • Video of Jason (@cranksatori) Soliday with Michael Esposito from 4/19 Disquiet Junto show: http://t.co/ARcRzYTZ (expanded glass harmonica) #
  • Video from Jason @cinchel Shanley’s performance at the 4/19 Disquiet Junto show: http://t.co/o8B5NAy8 (expanded glass harmonica) #
  • From poem by Wes Tank read at the 4/19 Junto concert: “i’m inventing a month called ‘revember’/where there’s reverb on every life sound” #
  • The radio in my hotel room is leaking sounds from the future: http://t.co/YpZRmIWB #
  • Olfactory art installation by @salvagione on 4/22 at Marin Headlands; @boondesign card features my essay. Details: http://t.co/wQpmTVem. #
  • Honking outside my Evanston hotel at 9:20pm seems to be Morse code for some manner of sports victory. Or a wedding. #
  • Videos of Vapor Lanes’ two pieces from 4/19 Disquiet Junto show at Enemy in Chicago:
    http://t.co/VeNVXZk5 http://t.co/iZQFkBsa #
  • Excellent. RT @ethanhein: New track for junto — beats made from sandpaper, abstract percussion from rolling dice. http://t.co/bmkat17l #
  • In our generative-music future, Record Store Day will be Fixed-Recording Day, MP3s included. #
  • Parenting pro tip, toddler edition: get a hotel near a public library. #
  • Sticker from Jeff Kolar’s Radius broadcast in Chicago. http://t.co/rgRftlU0 #
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  • Video of my introductory statement at the 4/19 Chicago Disquiet Junto Enemy group concert: http://t.co/lmuhx2AE #
  • Funny: The sound of a raging Dyson hand dryer from the bathroom of a small quiet cafe. #
  • Many thanks to @peterkirn for this thoughtful overview of Disquiet Junto, LX(RMX), & Instragr/am/mbient: http://t.co/5qSdxXDy #
  • More on this when time frees up, but I have a piece on San Francisco’s sonic-arts infrastructure at @artpractical: http://t.co/zwKL1lW2 #
  • The 16th Disquiet Junto project is at http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Due Monday, April 23, at 11:59pm wherever you are. #
  • RIP, graphic designer David Hillman Curtis (b. 1961), who directed Ride, Rise, Roar film about the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour. #
  • Belated RIP, Dick Clark (b. 1929), eternal teenager, and the Band’s Levon Helm (b. 1940), who always seemed old beyond his years. #
  • Disquiet Junto 16: Make a new track from samples of dice and sandpaper; use one as background, the other as foreground: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #

  • So, er, tonight’s show went later than expected. The 16th Disquiet Junto project will go out shortly. Theme: “Background & Foreground.” #
  • Back at the hotel thanks to a ride from @xyzr_kx. Many thanks to @cranksatori & Enemy for hosting the Disquiet Junto concert. #
  • Tonight’s Junto show has had 4 Jasons and 3 OP-1s. #
  • Second set (three acts) of Disquiet Junto live at Enemy in Chicago about to begin at numbers.fm. #
  • Image from first piece, now moving to guitar. RT @colepierce: @cinchel @disquiet junto http://t.co/EJPYOtE9 #
  • The Disquiet Junto concert (7 musicians playing expanded works for glass harmonica) is streaming live from Enemy in Chicago on numbers.fm. #
  • Noise-cancellation speaker system at Enemy in Chicago. http://t.co/inik6mmL #
  • Nice surprise: Michael Esposito, whose EVP work I’ve enjoyed, is joining Jason Soliday’s set at the Disquiet Junto show in Chicago tonight. #
  • Great afternoon at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago: Marclay, Clark, Creed, Ahearn, Kruger, more. #
  • 5.5 hours until the live Disquiet Junto show at Enemy in Chicago (9pm Central), also to stream at numbers.fm. #
  • Waking up in Chicago. My cell phone, with its central-time NOLA area code, must feel more at home than in San Francisco. #
  • 24 hours from now we’ll be in the middle of the Disquiet Junto concert at Enemy in Chicago. #
  • Hotel HVAC in Evanston isn’t too overbearing. Less space station, more Biosphere. #
  • Twitter is doing crazy things with my DMs. Ones from the past keep popping up as new. Cc @Support #
  • Landed in Chicago. #
  • I interviewed Morton Subotnick in advance of his @communikey event: http://t.co/Z6QKqGBH (#shoutout: @ethanhein) #
  • Country music on the radio in a ramen restaurant (in Santa Clara). #
  • Man, I am so excited about this Chicago Disquiet Junto show: http://t.co/ak3PTwrj. Thursday can’t arrive quickly enough. #
  • Presentation by @voxeet on conference calls @demo. Smart. VU meters & freeform 3D-audio placement distinguish who’s talking. #
  • Most interesting thing on the radio while driving south on 101 was the scan button. http://t.co/SjoVuLwP #
  • RT @xyzr_kx playing noise show Thursday w/ @disquiet Junto. don’t expect singing…or notes. well there might be notes http://t.co/HPkcevKJ #
  • “Rendition” sounds clandestine. “Portal” makes me think of a video game. What word will I lose next to a reference? #
  • Everything I know about parenting I learned from the “Splicers” episode of Batman Beyond. #
  • 28th entry in 15th Junto (depicting RGB interactions in sound) is by 1st-time participant @joshcarr: http://t.co/CNDU1Dsj #
  • Anyone else going to @demo tomorrow? Anything in particular I should check out? #
  • I wrote on @SoundCloud -> @aworks commented about fluidity in listening habits -> people argue about audio formats http://t.co/qVHNvt56 #oy #
  • So far, my experience of the Jambox is only confirming my sense that Bluetooth is the fax of the digital era. #
  • Eager for Jonathan Lethem’s Fear of Music book from 33 1/3. His They Live fan-notes book was stellar. #
  • Excited to head to Chicago for a few days. If anything’s going on I shouldn’t miss (sound-wise/gallery-wise) lemme know. #
  • If you’re in Chicago Thursday, come hear/see Disquiet Junto live: http://t.co/j4fUeVOe #
  • Thanks, @aworks, for weighing in on my @newmusicbox @soundcloud piece, in regard to the slow march of music formats: http://t.co/8Ez6b6So #
  • Images of @salvagione book(let) (Element) due from new @boondesign venture (Extracurricular Press) with an essay by me http://t.co/rEScHDeH #
  • Street sounds, Golden Gate Park: http://t.co/cr2ADbIn #
  • Woke to, now, 19 renditions of the color-theory Junto sound project: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5. #
  • 13 different — very different — Junto responses thus far to interpreting color as sound: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #rgb #
  • Updated work I dod for @salvagione with better photos: http://t.co/nsuipzPL http://t.co/1tAsTBED http://t.co/w39ED2ok http://t.co/9EZZQ05U #
  • Cafe radio is channeling my college years: first Violent Femmes, now R.E.M. Guessing there will be no Metallica, John Zorn, or Cecil Taylor. #
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  • Patch Cordury #noisekidbooks #
  • Video of Grzegorz (@etalabel) Bojanek’s sound-generation process for Junto 15 (“RGB Interaction”): http://t.co/VlPluvXV #
  • Got a Jambox. Gonna head home and listen to the new Junto entries on it. #
  • The @Le_Berger interpretation of color-as-sound for Junto 15 is even more witty than I had imagined it might be: http://t.co/d1rvNRPR #
  • Writing for @salvagione is a pleasure. #
  • Man, @echosonic http://t.co/laUyp7lv & @mystified131 http://t.co/x67DesU7 dove deep with their color-as-sound ideas in Junto project 15. #
  • Nothing about writing about what you wrote about to focus the mind. #
  • Curious George Gets Pink Floyd’s Meddle #noisekidbooks #
  • Goodnight Moondog #noisekidbooks #
  • Harold Budd and the Purple Crayon #noisekidbooks #
  • Heard something tonight one doesn’t often in San Francisco: thunder. As an East Coast kid, I was happy. My kid just went, Woah. #

  • 15th weekly Disquiet Junto begins: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Create 3 sounds representing RGB. Create a piece of music in which they interact. #
  • 15th weekly Disquiet Junto project just went out to the email list. If you didn’t get it, lemme know. (Definitely check your spam folder.) #
  • Sonic Color Theory #
  • 15th weekly Disquiet Junto project going out shortly. Theme: “color theory.” #
  • 19-month-old repeats everything. “Milk”? Check. “Toy”? Check. “Repeat”? Check. “Copy”? Check. “Meta”? Check. “Boogaloo”? Check. #
  • Google Doc for names of child’s numerous stuffed animals. #
  • Each day I learn something. Today: how to set a keyboard shortcut on a Mac to make Word go full screen. #
  • To Whom It May Concern: I received your email about the album with download link and no descriptive text. Will proceed accordingly. #
  • Best thing about writing for @NewMusicBox about @SoundCloud? The intended readership is musicians. http://t.co/qVHNvt56 #
  • I interviewed Prong about industrial music past and present: http://t.co/p8qYYMAh Bummer: my favorite song isn’t on their hits compilation. #
  • RIP, personal-computing pioneer Jack Tramiel (b. 1927), founder of Commodore, acquirer of Atari: http://t.co/nlw6hIyD #
  • Back in love with my (Android) phone. Got my calendar and a little sticky-style note on the home screen; tethering works well. #
  • I wish @MillsCollege would stream its noon concerts. #
  • RIP, Barbara Buchholz (b. 1959), Theremin virtuoso: http://t.co/OqOPB2AL http://t.co/GEQhCdjD #
  • Hey, iPad app-hounds: any recommended way to use your laptop’s keyboard (via, say, Bluetooth) to type on your iPad? #
  • Tuesday noon siren in the light rain, a resounding corridor of sequential echoes. #
  • Recommended listening while reading news stories about Facebook’s purchase of Instagram: http://t.co/vgxaQCya #
  • Junto’s sonic-narrative project, retelling @mmaddencomics‘ 99 Ways comic in audio, has had its 21st entry http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • What he said. RT @naotko あーこれは面白かった。脚本からサウンド解釈のクッションを挟んだ方が映像喚起力がすごい。@disquiet #junto14 http://t.co/anQFre9l #
  • PS: You can subscribe to the monthly Disquiet email list from just about any page of the site. It’s doing well. Over 1,200 subscribers. #
  • Got my copies of @JohnKannenberg‘s exhibit catalog with my foreword. Beautiful. I’ll give a copy away in the next Disquiet email newsletter. #
  • The @echosonic take on @mmaddencomics‘ strip used Audiopaint to turn each panel into sound http://t.co/QAPheWnj. And it’s 99 seconds. #junto #
  • I love how the waveform of @TheValiska‘s piece shows panel divisions in @mmaddencomics‘ original strip: http://t.co/5Uv84iDM #
  • Another good Fringe episode. How is it suddenly good again? Lee/Olivia-prime bonding while missing Lee-prime/Olivia? Splendid. #
  • First four sonic-narrative versions of @mmaddencomics‘ great 99 Ways to Tell a Story now live: http://t.co/1JOZV3wt #oulipo #
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  • Thanks to @SactownMagazine‘s new website my old interview with Pakistan-born rapper Bohemia is now online: http://t.co/rogKjZQh #
  • Interviewed Morton Subotnik and Tommy Victor (of Prong) in the same afternoon. I love the 21st century. #
  • The Disquiet Junto instruction email last night went into some people’s spam folders. Project is here: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • What he said. RT @Chegreco 14e Junto du merveilleux Disquiet sera un bel « excercice de style » musical | Oulipo ¬ Oubapo ¬ Oumupo | #
  • #junto I love it. Bonus points for 99-second entries. RT @mmaddencomics none of this 2-7 minutes mollycoddling: It’s 99 seconds or nothing! #
  • The 14th Disquiet Junto is a sonic-narrative rendition of @mmaddencomics‘ 99 Ways to Tell a Story: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • 14th Disquiet Junto project instructions went out to email list. No translations right now (I was traveling), but we may have some shortly. #
  • Now: tunnel remix of aforementioned quasi-monophonic lofi surround sound version of public radio. With playful honking. #
  • Stuck in traffic. Public-radio broadcasts coming from multiple slow-moving vehicles. An automotive 40 Part Motet. #

  • The 14th weekly Disquiet Junto assignment goes out shortly. This week it’s “sonic narrative.” (Next week it’s “color theory.”) #
  • Dear @googl: It’d be excellent if a field could be added to allow for a line-item description of a given link. #
  • When is Reference Librarian Appreciation Day? #
  • Did graphic designer of CPR book consciously feed off anxiety of Barbara Kruger typography? http://t.co/EBv8c8ej #
  • RIP, the man synonymous with the amplifier, Jim Marshall (b. 1923) of Marshall Amps: http://t.co/PXdIKco3 #
  • At Apple Store person asked for Mac Counter to meet up with friend. Employee explained this is the Genius Bar; Mac Counter is another place. #
  • Graphics for @PropellerheadSW app Figure resemble Josef Albers’ album covers, don’t they? http://t.co/6seMNU8H (via @pheezy) #
  • Back home from LA. Familiar sounds: refrigerator drone, electrical whine, a particular nearing-midnight pace to traffic. #
  • My 19-month-old just talked with me on the phone for the first time. Apparently this ended with peering deep inside the phone. #
  • At the Theme Building at LAX. #
  • If you have two instances of same program open in different Desktops in OS X Lion, Command Tab doesn’t distinguish them. #grumble #
  • First ever Disquiet Junto concert scheduled for April 19 in Chicago. Details to follow as date approaches. #
  • Disquiet Junto this week will be sonic narrative, diving headlong into Oulipo. (Color-theory held off for plan refinement.) #
  • You send a note to a company’s help request, and you get a reply from someone you know. #
  • The hotel room is less Scylla and Charybdis than refrigerator drone and elevator rumble. #
  • MC Escher designed the topography of downtown Los Angeles. #
  • Pretty happy with Android version of Instagram, except it says some recent photos too small to publish. Maybe they are. #
  • Next Junto: color theory. Future Juntos: video underscore, sonic narrative, app deployment, pixel blues. #
  • Major thanks, @wildUp @orionrountree @mlaffs, for the Shostakovich source audio for the past week’s project. About 65 remixers participated. #
  • A couple hours to midnight, we’re at 60 (or 62, depending on search return exigencies) @wildup Shostakovich Junto remixes. #
  • This Monolake song is first time I’ve set a song as “my new jam” that actually feels like “my new jam” and not just “here’s something good.” #
  • “Afterglow” by Monolake is my new jam. ♫ http://t.co/7YyFkcLJ #
  • I like that take. RT @HXDK: listening to this week’s @disquiet #junto feeling a Soviet science fiction soundtrack vibe in a lot of them. in reply to HXDK #
  • Back from day on town with my 19-month-old to find 57 (!) remixes in the @wildUp Shostakovich Junto: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 @daysnotover #
  • Monolake: Ghosts: Afterglow. On repeat. #
  • Realizing I will be at about 35,000 feet on way toward L.A. tomorrow when the Tuesday noon siren occurs. #
  • Now 45 @wildup Shostakovich Junto remixes. Loving @djkaboodle‘s machinations: djkaboodle and 1st-timer @brokenhours‘ http://t.co/ssbJOXT2. #
  • Now 2 shy of 40 @wildup Shostakovich Junto remixes, and there’s still a day and a quarter left; either 3 or 4 first-timers too. #
  • 6:00pm bells, consumed by passing jet engine. #
  • The guilt of enjoying the resonance of a distant siren knowing somewhere for someone else the same sense of distance is a cause for alarm. #
  • What he said. RT @DETXL: Observing the world with noise-isolating earphones is bizarre. People open their mouths, and Philip Glass comes out #
  • Woke to find we’re now just 1 remix shy of 30 in the @wildup Shostakovich Junto: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5. Plenty of fine morning listens. #
  • I try to watch a commercial on YouTube but it forces me to watch another one first. Someday it’ll show the commercial I want to watch twice. #
  • 1 shy of 20th @wildup Shostakovich Junto remix. Latest: Chiara Zedek of Brooklyn; Linda Aubry Bullock of Cambridge, MA: http://t.co/1JOZV3wt #
  • I think the people at Apple who work on Mission Control and the people who handle CTRL-tab aren’t on speaking terms. #
  • Many thanks to @chutson99 for the amazing Shostakovich stencil at top of this post: http://t.co/WCcUKtJv. Cc @wildUp @mlaffs in reply to chutson99 #
    • ]]>     http://disquiet.com/2012/04/07/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-143/feed/ 0     Reflect, Remix: The Top 10 Posts & Searches of March 2012 http://disquiet.com/2012/04/01/march-2012/ http://disquiet.com/2012/04/01/march-2012/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:32:51 +0000 Marc Weidenbaum http://disquiet.com/?p=17410 The top ten most popular posts (out of 36 total) of the month included (1) the overview of the 10th Junto project: Disquiet Junto Project 0010: “The Reflective Remix,” in which participants in the weekly Disquiet Junto project at Soundcloud.com each reworked a track from one of the previous nine projects.

    Eight of the most popular posts of the month were drawn from the site’s daily Downstream department of freely legally intentionally downloadable MP3s: (2) Andras Hargitai‘s snare dub; (3) Nicholas Davis improvising with Natalie Chami (“Duet or Duel, or Both”); (4) Yasuo Akai‘s digital blues; (5) Craque, a split second before the funk; (6) Earsmack‘s apparent mistake (“Synth Almost-Pop”); (7) ioflow‘s exploration of improvisation and everyday sound; (8) Scanner‘s educational minute of listening; (9) Ambienteer‘s mining the dark side of a common door.

    Also in the top 10, (10) one of the weekly automated summaries of the past week at twitter.com/disquiet.

    The most popular post of the past 60 days is LX(RMX), a collection of originally commissioned works by Scanner, Steve Roden, and six other musicians, all reworking sounds of urban Lisbon in tribute to the late poet Fernando Pessoa.

    The most popular post of the past 90 days is a study in noises, white and otherwise, by Phil Julian.

    The most popular searches of the month were: junto, ghostly, hip-hop, bars, youtube, apparat, Autechre, buddha, harold budd live, illbient, ioflow, n4tural, rephlex, sitting, so percussion, squarepusher.

    ]]>     http://disquiet.com/2012/04/01/march-2012/feed/ 0     Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet http://disquiet.com/2012/03/31/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-141/ http://disquiet.com/2012/03/31/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-141/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:30:00 +0000 Marc Weidenbaum http://disquiet.com/2012/03/31/past-week-at-twitter-comdisquiet-141/
  • Now 14 @wildup Shostakovich Junto remixes: http://t.co/1JOZV3wt. Thoughts on source audio as Rashomon:
    http://t.co/WCcUKtJv #
  • Morning sounds: my wife and 19-month-old breathing in their sleep, and from just beyond the window a formidable wind. #
  • Most unexpected thing about Fringe tonight is that, suddenly, it is good is again. #
  • We need to do a Conet Project of people’s lottery-number tweets. #
  • The 6th @wildUp Shostakovich Junto remix, from Birmingham, Britain, is an exercise in considered restraint http://t.co/wXPGD7ho #
  • The fifth and latest @wildup Shostakovich Junto remix is a lovely murky piece by Québec’s @arbeemonkey: http://t.co/FngiKk37 #

  • “That static noise you hear isn’t your music.” Things my wife says. #
  • Just shy of 19 months, my kid officially has more dolls than I do. We both await a figure of the Authority’s Jack Hawksmoor. #
  • I like how the Twitter site’s Home button lights up to tell me there are new tweets—as if there ever aren’t new tweets. #
  • My office is haunted by ghosts of laptop drives and fans past. My laptop is SSD, but occasionally I hear antique buzzings. #
  • Four @wildup Shostakovich remixes already in: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5. In Discussion area, remixers discuss how far to veer from the original. #
  • Nothing against Nas, but is there an instrumental edit of the DJ Premier / Berklee Orchestra track from @regenerationmp? #
  • New David Byrne London project is a nice parallel to Juntos 5 & 11: http://t.co/z6Y4mtiy “I let the sounds dictate the groove.” #
  • Paris mayor employs mimes to subdue noisy nightlife: http://t.co/mebdrcrC: “silence is not repressive, but a form of sharing” #
  • Already some Shostakovich Junto remixes coming in: @mystified131, early as always; and we have first-timer @matt_borghi http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • I’ve interviewed some ridiculously accomplished visual artists the past month or so. More details as publication dates near. #
  • Great stencil of Shostakovich from @chutson99: https://t.co/6PKvF599 #
  • Stream audio of the Shostakovich track by @wildup we’re remixing: http://t.co/ct2NJ1dr: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a, movement 1. #
  • Reminder: the Shostakovich remix instructions are in English, Czech, French, Spanish, Japanese & Turkish: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
  • Thanks to all retweeting the @wildup Shostakovich remix project: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Tracks are due by Monday at 11:59pm. #
  • The 13th Disquiet Junto announced here: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9. Please join in and remix @wildup‘s Shostakovich chamber symphony recording. #
  • Instructions for 13th Disquiet Junto project, in which we remix @wildUp‘s recording of a Shostakovich symphony, have gone to the email list. #
  • Please, if Disquiet Junto has interested you, inform people about (and participate in!) the Shostakovich project to be announced shortly. #
  • Got the French translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @chegreco!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
  • This fall I’ll teach “Sounds of Brands / Brands of Sounds” at @academy_of_art: http://t.co/F7FGRBmF. (Thanks, @artofplanning.) #
  • +1 for giggles. RT @Big_Pause: @disquiet Isn’t the question, Marc, redundant most of the time. #
  • Isn’t the question mark redundant most of the time. #
  • Got the Spanish translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks to Norma Listman.) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
  • Got the Czech translation for today’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @kocicenka!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
  • Got the Turkish translation for tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @m_emre_meydan!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
  • 2. I didn’t know the Anderson song was on the St. Elmo’s Fire soundtrack. 3. There’s a Brian Eno / Robert Fripp joke in there somewhere. #
  • 1. We know Dr. Bishop likes his Yes, but it was still a surprise to hear “This Time It Was Really Right” by Jon Anderson on Fringe. #
  • Got the Japanese translation for tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. (Thanks, @naotko!) #shostakovich (Cc @wildup @mlaffs) #
  • I find it incomprehensible what it meant, what it felt like, when a musician died prior to the rise of recorded music. #
  • RIP, bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs (b. 1924): http://t.co/nM6Ho8sc #
  • The hive giveth. I am all set with download providers for the @wildUp Shostakovich remix project that begins in about 20 hours. #
  • Disquiet Junto request: Can a few folks volunteer to help host the Shostakovich-remix audio files? It’s a half-gig Zip. Thanks. #
  • Cageian Audiophile: Enter acousmatic chamber and hear your pulse speed up as you imagine having such a chamber at home. #
  • Newly re-addicted to old Photek. #
  • Quick burrito accompanied by significant construction sounds just outside. #
  • The Shostakovich-remix Disquiet Junto details are with the translators. Instructions go live in ~30 hours. Cc @wildUp @mlaffs #
  • As always, if you are available to translate Disquiet Junto project instructions, let me know. It is greatly appreciated. #
  • Did I mention we start remixing a Shostakovich chamber work tomorrow as part of the 13th weekly Disquiet Junto? Very excited. #
  • RIP, art critic Hilton Kramer (b. 1928), synonymous with modernism: http://t.co/bNqIk9Pp #
  • Fun with truncation: received email whose header read “The Merger Is Off…” but the full text read “The Merger Is Official.” #
  • Tuesday noon siren downright freaky on this excessively windy day. #
  • Weighing in on the age-old “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” debate: http://t.co/ptNxIhNX #
  • Some people play music boxes better than other people do. #
  • Anything good going on in Los Angeles sound-art–wise next Tuesday (April 3)? I may be free in the evening. #
  • Mundane synaesthesia: decreasing your laptop’s volume when you had intended to decrease its screen brightness. #
  • How do Google Books and http://t.co/4jro55If handle straight-to-ebooks, like the Kindle Singles? There’s nothing to scan. #
  • Many thanks to @mlaffs @wildUp @orionrountree for helping set up the 13th Disquiet Junto, which starts this Thursday, 3/29. #
  • Man, the Disquiet Junto just racked up its 600th track — in just 12 weeks: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
  • XVth Activating the Medium electronic-music festival in San Francisco is all women. Nice contrast with the more common all-men festivals. #
  • A lot of these nursery rhymes only make sense if read with a British accent. #
  • Need something bright and upbeat to wake up with? Listen to http://t.co/YGKsUt52 by second-time Junto participant Chiara Zedek. #
  • Am beginning to get the value of PDFs. #
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