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Plane passing close to midnight. Very glad to be on the ground. # Do all the great Neptunes productions follow the cadence of Sean Combs/Hitmen/LL Cool's "Phenomenon"? # RIP, Tony Peluso (b. ca. 1950) who went from Carpenters guitarist to Motown producer to Gustavo Santaolalla collaborator: http://is.gd/cUNmd # Once again astounded by how loud vacuum [...]
Marvels of data sonification: What the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sounds like, listening for the "god particle": http://www.lhcsound.com/ # 661: Number of songs sampled by DJ Premier according to whosampled.com # 154: Number of songs sampling music produced by DJ Premier according to whosampled.com # 6: Number of songs sampling Aphex Twin according to whosampled.com [...]
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 [...]