- Gotta love form-emails from music publicists that start, "Dear ," #
- Twitter apps of the stars: @ryuichisakamoto uses @echofon, @chris_carter_ @tweetie, @shocklee @hootsuite, @kronosquartet the web interface. #
- The @facebook film is Fincher/Sorkin but feels like Soderbergh experiment. Anyhow, Reznor/Ross MP3 set just $2.99 http://www.nullco.com/TSN/ #
- Long before @twitter, book-reading as a form of ambient awareness for "forgetful majority" http://is.gd/ffF6y (by James Collins @nytimes) #
- Anyone see a film called La Linea (The Line) with Ray Liotta? Looks a bit like Traffic. I may need to watch, if only for David Torn's score. #
- #ff Some feeds that shouldn't have fewer "followers" than mine: @sfemf @gregdavis @mapmap @npseaver @mariplasma @soundscrapers @carlstone #
- Turning your ashes into an LP puts the "forever" into "perfect sound forever," a true "vinyl resting place" http://www.andvinyly.com/ #
- "The Gentle Hum of Anxiety": a cue from @trent_reznor / Atticus Ross Facebook film score; 5 free MP3s http://nullco.com/TSN via @brandonnn #
- Sound-recycling Organ of Corti wins new-music prize. Congrats to liminal (composer David Prior & architect Frances Crow). http://is.gd/fe8bL #
- Yes, dear, when I was your age, we did use that weird word "and" but we started to use the ampersand around 2009/2010 because it's shorter. #
- Looxcie's "wearable camcorder" always-on earpiece (think Jawbone + video) makes me wanna reread Two-Step by @warrenellis http://is.gd/fdzdA in reply to warrenellis #
- According to Matmos' myspace page, its http://brainwashed.com/matmos/ page will be updated more regularly. Current post on Baltimore fest. #
- Dancing with my two-week-old kid appears to put her to sleep. Who says music is without functional value? #
- Based on "Hamburg Hotel" off the new Underworld, will be listening to a lot more Appleblim and Al Tourettes. #
- Silent-car plot device. Last night on Sons of Anarchy, comment after fugitive is hit by car: "Damn hybrids! Dangerous!" http://is.gd/fc0Ow #
- Name drop of Underworld on Covert Affairs, so close to the release of Barking. Someone's got good timing. #
- Tuesday noon air-raid/emergency-alert alarm in San Francisco almost always triggers Cold War flashback, kindles desire for tinned-meat lunch #
- Continuously misreading "drone war" stories as being extensions of Steve Goodman's Sonic Warfare. #
- Seeking first soundscape @alexismadrigal notes primacy of visual: "Decades when we can see our places, but not hear them" http://is.gd/faCer #
- The incremental rewinds inherent in transcribing an interview always make the process sound like a Scott Johnson composition. #
- ICV2 on digital sales/piracy's role in comics (vs. music). Argues comics, in essence, too small to not grow http://is.gd/faqVF Seems wishful #
- Two time-honored staccato traditions (blippy modular synths, jittery time-lapse photography) yoked by @robotdancerobot http://is.gd/f9vR2 #
- I second this: RT @pheezy I'd love a bookmarklet [to] highlight date/time on a page & it's added to calendar w/ url as description #lazyweb #
- Feels like 90% of the emails from djshadow.com are about designer hoodies, but today brings two free MP3s — when the website isn't overrun. #
- Afternoon chamber music: dishwasher, babbling baby, typing, hard drive, neighbor cleaning house, wind outside, occasional bird/plane/car. #
- Bittersweet audio anecdote: an old reel-to-reel + the hope to hear a father's voice + a demo of the Norelco 100 recorder http://is.gd/f7Jom #
- ♫ Afternoon tune: blood-in-the-ear drone + hot-jazz drums = a beat named "Cheat" by @rieces_pieces http://is.gd/f7EkJ #
- Misread this @nytimes headline today as being about music: "Some Ask if Ozawa Is the Force That Japan Needs" http://is.gd/f7cqm #
- Maybe once in a while the foghorns could have a guest DJ? #
- Remain convinced that the @aquariusrecords record-store emailer is one of the best music publications going. #
- "Paying for free" differs from "it pays to be free": @bandcamp to charge for free downloads (over a threshold) via @vuzhmusic @hecanjog #
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Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects. He has written for Nature, Boing Boing, The Wire, Pitchfork, and NewMusicBox, among other periodicals. He is the author of the 33 1⁄3 book on Aphex Twin’s classic album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Read more about his sonic consultancy, teaching, sound art, and work in film, comics, and other media
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• December 13, 2022: This day marks the 26th anniversary of the founding of Disquiet.com.
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• April 16, 2022: I participated in an online "talk show" by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier).
• March 11, 2022: I hosted a panel discussion between Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and James Bradbury in San Francisco as part of the Algorithmic Art Assembly (aaassembly.org) at Gray Area (grayarea.org).
• December 28, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the Instagr/am/bient compilation.
• January 6, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.
• December 13, 2021: This day marked the 25th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.
• There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the book The Music Production Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the Classroom (Oxford University Press), edited by Adam Patrick Bell. Ethan Hein wrote one, and I did, too.
• A chapter on the Disquiet Junto ("The Disquiet Junto as an Online Community of Practice," by Ethan Hein) appears in the book The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (Oxford University Press), edited by Stephanie Horsley, Janice Waldron, and Kari Veblen. (Details at oup.com.) -
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• My book on Aphex Twin's landmark 1994 album, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, was published as part of the 33 1/3 series, an imprint of Bloomsbury. It has been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018).
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Since January 2012, the Disquiet Junto has been an ongoing weekly collaborative music-making community that employs creative constraints as a springboard for creativity. Subscribe to the announcement list (each Thursday), listen to tracks by participants from around the world, read the FAQ, and join in.
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• 0541 / 10BPM Techno / The Assignment: Make some snail-paced beats.
• 0540 / 5ive 4our / The Assignment: Take back 5/4 for Jedi time masters Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
• 0539 / Control Breath / The Assignment: Let your slow breathing guide a piece of music.
• 0538 / Guided Decompression / The Assignment: Get someone from tense to chill.
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