Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet

RIP, computer engineer Tom West (b. 1939), subject of Tracy Kidder’s 1981 Soul of a New Machine. @wired @ev_rat followup http://goo.gl/GOFrB #
After-midnight sounds: cars blowing past stop signs, house rattling as bus puts on brakes, TV crackling as it cools. #
RIP, Gil Scott-Heron (b. 1949). And whitey's on the moon. #
These noise-canceling earbuds are no match for Lionel Richie. #hello #
Thanks, @tmbobile & @samsungmobileus — got the OTA update to my Galaxy S 4G phone today. It's running smoothly — that is, more smoothly. #
YouTube autoplay gets credit for unintended first-of-the-morning duet between demos of SynthPad and Sound Cells. #
Otomata Quartet: four instances of the generative sound app working in tandem http://t.co/kq0rtSM #video #
Fahrenheit 450 #lessinterestingbooks #
The Thomas Crown Missed Connection #lessinterestingstevemcqueenmovies #
If I'm not mistaken, a friend of mine is each day changing it so that it is again his birthday on Facebook. #nanoculturejamming #
Waiting for plane to pass, just as I was about to play a visiting friend quiet audio from upcoming project. #
#busted RT @TheOnion: NEWSWIRE: Eject Button Hit Just To Hear Cool Little Servomotor Sound Of Disc Emerging via @entroporium #

Slate's em-dashes diatribe would have been more convincing had it employed them elegantly rather than emulated the hysteria it perceives. #
Somewhere a refrigerator door is waiting for me. #onecaption #
The @newyorker profile of Cory Arcangel cites his use of words "demo" and "Pro Tools" as evidence of his "penchant for marketing lingo." #
Previous tweet was title of work cited in seemingly begrudgingly respectful Cory Arcangel profile in May 30 New Yorker. #
“Photoshop CS: 84 by 66 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient ”˜Spectrum,’ mousedown y=22100 x=14050, mouseup y=19700 x=1800”#
iPad pro tip: super silent reading when near sleeping baby. No nasty page-turning noise. (Caveat: Needs cough-suppressant app.) #
What 121 prepared dc-motors and cardboard elements look/sound like, latest from Zimoun: http://t.co/Q2mDdGY #
Just learned http://www.loop-line.jp/ (gallery, venue) in Sendagaya Tokyo closed March 28. Makes me sad. Was my first stop on every visit. #
Should be a lofi Blade Runner remake in which Deckard is addicted to using web captchas to convince himself he's not an android #
Lovely pairing of generative webapp Otomata & iOS SoundPrism (gets going ~ 0:58, but watch in full for trial & error) http://goo.gl/aPo3G #
Photographic evidence that Dubai's architects play Minecraft: http://goo.gl/7TAH5 #
Afternoon audiostream: micro-waltz http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural/three-over-four-on-wood #
Flower Drum Ringtone #boringmusicals #
Mortgage #boringmusicals #
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chatroom #boringmusicals #
Tulsa! #boringmusicals #
The Muzak Man #boringmusicals #
Sunday in the Park with George Hamilton #boringmusicals #
Nice parallel in @ryuichisakamoto Red Bull interview: YMO wore fake Chinese garb; David Sylvian's band named after Japan http://t.co/uciqRJM #
Hoping that "RiYL" is a relatively common term, as I'm now tagging all Disquiet.com free downloads with such references. #
Morning sounds: desktop fan whirring, ice cubes clinking in coffee, cars rolling by. #
Just got music.google.com invite. The service would be more cloud-like if it didn't require software install to upload audio. #
Frustrating HTML5 audio players either do too little (no name tags) or too much (auto-pull all links on given page). WordPress tips welcome. #
Tuesday noon siren in San Francisco. Baby seemed to pause and look around when hearing it. #
RT @radiomaru GPS pronouncing Santa Monica in a way that I can't even begin to explain #eartwit #
RT @emarg0ed good eyes ;) can't believe you found that. well, I guess the secret's not so secret any more: http://kikapu.org/ #
Never delete a dead RSS feed, because you never know when the feed will suddenly show signs of life. #
For Bob Dylan's 70th, here's my 2007 @newmusicbox piece, parsing his autobiography for thoughts on electronic music: http://goo.gl/Q1C1x #
Anyone else having issues with the @soundcloud embeddable player visibly flashing on/off in Firefox 4? #
Congrats, @AlarmWillSound, on your 10th birthday. Their download gift to fans: an Ives-ian arrangement of the Shaggs: http://t.co/WZTzSnC #
10.5 more hours of writing. Then: Manchurian food. #
"For what is the present, after all, but a growth out of the past?" –Walt Whitman #
While in 7-Eleven today, found myself looking for a new issue of (defunct) Scratch on the magazine rack. #ghostpain #
Apparently today everything will be an unintentional mash-up with "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." #
RT @josephknight If you're in Firefox & having issues with Delicious security certificate, go to http://t.co/SdYl4c9 & create an exception. #
Worthy (if, sadly, unlikely to make goal) @kickstarter to send US audio artists to Brazilian Amazon http://kck.st/f3q2pX #
As of two days ago, there's an Android app for @sonicsquirrel — a major host of #netlabel audio http://goo.gl/pL37A #
Thought this track's opening was especially interesting. Turns out that was the earbud slowly expanding to fit my ear. #
Has @internetarchive been particularly iffy this weekend? #
Looking forward to afternoon tour of local Russian Orthodox church, whose bells resound in the neighborhood daily. #richmonddistrict #415 #
RT @osakimandias Left my recorder running when I started writing today. On playback, the typewriter sounds like a distant, fierce gun battle #

Leave a Reply Cancel reply