New Disquietude podcast episode: music by Lesley Flanigan, Dave Seidel, KMRU, Celia Hollander, and John Hooper; interview with Flanigan; commentary; short essay on reading waveforms. • Disquiet.com F.A.Q. • Key Tags: #saw2for33third, #field-recording, #classical, #junto • Elsewhere: Twitter, SoundCloud, Instagram

Listening to art. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. Rewinding the soundscape.

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[ November 12, 2011 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
  • Be nice: Please record & share. RT @fishwhisperer: Someone is playing the church bells spectacularly somewhere in Astoria. #
  • Goodnight noises, frigidaire. #
  • New record from Prong due in 2012. First in over half a decade. #
  • After 11pm, the Macbook Air's speakers need several intervals between the lowest volume level and mute. #
  • If you (1) fiddle with Instagram & (2) make vaguely ambient electronic music & (3) would like to participate in a group project, lemme know. #
  • 6:00pm bells make neon-lit Geary feel like a village. #
  • Listening to precise, pinging music via Macbook Air, pondering how its brittle sound matches the formal purity of the vessel. #
  • Still not used to the idea that Bleep.com alphabetizes artists by first name. #
  • I used to dislike Instagram photos. Now I seem to see each one as the cover to a fictional record album. #
  • The 6:00pm church bells appear to be in tune with the solo piano music playing on cafe stereo system. #
  • Gonna take time to decide on core text editor on my new Mac, but for time being the beta of Sublime Text 2 by @sublimehq is in the lead. #
  • Municipal minimalism: the pulsing sound when the beeps of adjacent crossing signals go slightly out of sync. #
  • VLC looks pretty in OS X. #
  • In favor of #MuppetOscars only if Animal gets to be Music Director. #
  • If this guy treated his dog like he did his laptop, the ASPCA would be here by now. #
  • Q: What's Mac version of @addtips? A: RT @addtips: We are going to cover a lot of Mac apps (mostly freeware) soon. Just wait a few days. #
  • Oddly fixated, after Heavy D's death, on one's final tweet (mine and others'). #beinspired #
  • Dear Hive Mind, What's a solid Mac (OS X) equivalent of @addtips (aka addictivetips.com) — i.e., software tips, mostly free/shareware? #
  • Bad-sync day: iCal versus Google Calendar; Simplenote versus Notational Velocity versus Flick Note. #
  • RIP, rapper/producer Heavy D (b. 1967). Tried to interview him for recent Cake piece I did (re: Jay-Z's "Guns & Roses") but didn't happen. #
  • ”¦ and then the church bells, as if they had been waiting for their turn. #
  • Tuesday noon siren on cold day. Windows closed, muffling the alarm and the voice that follows it. #
  • Finished Isaacson's Einstein bio & 1st volume of Kadrey's Sandman Slim. Now want to read Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin bio and vol 2 of Slim. #
  • RIP, physicist Norman F. Ramsey (b. 1915), whose research led to the Atomic Clock, and who worked on Manhattan Project: http://t.co/ZuOLSAT2 #
  • [email protected] Yeah, the all-button trackpad initiated evident change to soundscape of libraries & cafes. "Tap to click," please. in reply to npseaver #
  • OS X Lion life is a lot more quiet when you switch from standard trackpad click to "tap to click." #whew #
  • Barely a month until December 13, the 15th anniversary of Disquiet.com. Crazy. #
  • The forums at steampowered.com and the goodreads.com site are down simultaneously. Are readers gaming too much, or vice versa? #
  • Is there a complete list online of OSX Lion keyboard shortcuts, or just 1,000 lists, each with between 5% and 66% of total? #
  • Duet for breath of sleeping baby and drone of refrigerator. #
  • Photo: Debussy, music concrete http://t.co/SWJjyoWf #
  • Day 7 w/ Macbook Air. Digging it. Some errors (Keyboard Shortcuts unresponsive, Mail doesn't always mark email as replied) but pretty sweet. #
  • Listening to field recordings at home. 14-month-old wondering where, exactly, all these birds are. #
  • The @nytimes alerts email came in droves today. Did they improve their search, or is today's just "the issue dedicated to stuff Marc likes"? #

By Marc Weidenbaum

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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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