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Outside in the Richmond District, a gorgeous symphony for foghorns and birdsong. # I think I need a self-imposed simile embargo. # The music section of the @make website is like some ongoing, geographically distributed electronica Manhattan project: http://is.gd/cDG50 # Enjoying new version of "open-source iTunes" program by @songbirdteam — major improvement: no longer see [...]
Not entirely surprised that in @songbirdteam the LyricMaster display pane doesn’t pull up the words to “u_07″ off Alva Noto’s album Unitxt. Morning sounds: two tinkling hard drives in living room (netbook, TiVo) sound like small backyard birds; car idling a block away. 27: number of downloads left in my emusic account; wondering what to [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]