- 9/11 had some people wishing Superman existed. Occupy just has me wishing Public Enemy was still fully functional. #
- RIP, Gary Garcia of Buckner & Garcia, best known for early-'80s novelty hit "Pac-Man Fever" #8bit #
- You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but you can far too often judge a netlabel release by its first track. #
- Copyright Timecops head to 1731 to keep Benjamin Franklin from founding early peer-to-peer system, the Library Company. #
- Says man with em-dash eyebrows. RT @improvingthomas: I think emoticons have begun to affect people's actual facial gestures. #
- â–º Late-week audiostream of drone + guitar by @ChisatoOhori of Tokyo: http://t.co/hTHaBJyg #
- Got email from band saying how many gigs they'd played in 2011. Briefly thought it meant accumulated data not live performance. #
- RIP, Lee Pockriss, author of “Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,”a #sonicweapon in Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three”http://t.co/dSccI0JF #
- The word "drone" is not unlike the word "punk" in the way it offers to annihilate itself. #
- Good webcitizens don't set their webpages to curtail copy/paste of selected text. The result isn't hypertext. It's stolidtext. #
- Have nothing against Spotify, just the loud pre-US-arrival buzz. Killer feature of Spotify appears to have been that it wasn't yet available #
- As the Kindle Fire gets more coverage, just revisiting my disappointment with its lack of a microphone: http://t.co/wtLGOfa6 #
- Whenever you're about to use the word "meme" please consider using "theme." If "theme" isn't appropriate then, sure, go ahead. Thanks. #
- "I've only seen guns like this in my wargames" –Juice, on Sons of Anarchy #
- Dear Macbook, it's neat I can use my mic-enabled earbuds with you. It'd be nice if you didn't launch iTunes every time I moved my shoulder. #
- Apparently I have unlocked a dimension (Flux) in #dimensionapp http://t.co/05vhCojO #
- I am 117.6MBs from being deep in the #dimensionsapp Multiverse. #
- According to WordPress, four of the top five words leading people to http://t.co/xdF6qCg1 involve "gif"; I blame/credit @tommoody. #
- 6:00pm bells forcing their way through house-stereo piano trio, semi-hushed conversation, and a burbling water feature. #
- Noisily fluttering helicopters hover over San Francisco city hall, seem to challenge: Occupy this sky. #
- Honored that artist link from new @whyarcka (hip-hop) album (http://t.co/ZK7YChrL) goes straight to my 2009 interview: http://t.co/CRJvC3Pw #
- Yeah: studying, dissecting, critiquing, all good. Learning "how to sound like"? Worrisome. (From back'n'forth with @Le_Berger.) #
- After a dozen swings and with several assists. @Le_Berger: @disquiet Nail on the head, right there. #
- [email protected]_Berger "Mimicry" is right. I get musicians imitate before innovating. But it's one thing to imitate an individual, and another a style. in reply to Le_Berger #
- [email protected]_Berger You were clarifying not nitpicking. Appreciated. I could have been clearer. With, say, a link: http://t.co/DcaDcuFr in reply to Le_Berger #
- [email protected] Yeah, I would be hopeful were the class not also teaching "trance, dub, electro, minimal, downtempo, house," and so on. in reply to wayneandwax #
- Something wrong w/ music class purporting to teach "glitch" production. Glitch is (was?) music of error. Once teachable it's style not error #
- Troubled that senators from state I'm from (Schumer) and state where I live (Feinstein) have their names on PROTECT IP Act. #
- Disappointed that Google's logo doesn't reflect #americancensorshipday #
- But for good measure, here's the netlabel manifesto translated into Italian: http://t.co/autU60wD #
- D'oh! Wrong link on that Hungarian reference. That's an old interview about netlabels of mine that was translated into Hungarian. #
- And, for good measure, this is a link to a PDF of my netlabel manifesto someone translated into Hungarian: http://t.co/mn6eVtDA #
- So neat. My netlabel manifesto has been translated into Japanese: http://t.co/kqhUYYJJ. * Original English here: http://t.co/A3mc0LFP #
- The improvised architecture of this cafe is fascinating. At 6pm, half dozen people inside; couple dozen pulling chairs outside to hang. #
- As the day gets longer and darker, the laptop's screen seems brighter and its speaker louder. #
- "The artist doesn’t demand money for her music, so instead, I give back to the community" sez @dpnem. Speaks to/for me. http://t.co/FELk9SnQ #
- Read @vuzhmusic on cassettes: http://t.co/FELk9SnQ Minicomics followed cassette-cult trajectory (network -> fetish), minus the decade gap. #
- Latest PR email from jrp-ringier.com is blank. It's either an error or an intriguing announcement about a forthcoming Robert Ryman monograph #
- Tuesday noon siren in San Francisco. Municipal preparedness on a particularly sunny day. #duckandcover #
- â–º "Sound of a train and some trees at night at Charlottesville, Va, USA" http://t.co/jLSnUeDc (courtesy of @wcraghead #
- Those street-work sounds are no less enjoyable than yesterday. However, as the work approaches, the rattling sensation gets less enjoyable. #
- Now mine will have, thanks to … RT @stevesilberman: 11 sounds your kids have never (and probably will never) hear. http://t.co/V5CuZE3H #
- Think my 14-month-old, judging by habit of pulling the book off the shelf, has crush on kid on cover of Life After God by @DougCoupland #
- Sound of construction on the block (something related to the road, or what's beneath it) just far enough away to be enjoyable. #
- The longer I wear these earbuds, the louder the band in this cafe seems to get. It's like a sonic cold war. #
- #415 shows: Ava Mendoza (Sun), Baraka/Reed/Mitchell (Mon), Theresa Wong (Tue), Cornelius Cardew Choir (Thu) #
- Terminal is pretty in OS X Lion. #
- [email protected] And now, reversing course, imagining the olfactory equivalent of tinnitus. in reply to bradleyallen #
- Just imagining how horrible it would be if the scent a skunk gave off were, instead, a sound. #
- "Play feedback when volume is changed." No thank you. #
- A generous association. RT @jredsmyth: church bells in the distance making me think of @disquiet #
- iOS 5.0.1: "Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation." (When a language becomes universal, accents become languages.) #
- Afternoon sonic diptych: overhead prop plane versus sleeping baby's breaths. #
- My friend Bob (aka Robert) Levine (aka @operafella) has his new book (Weep, Shudder, Die) reviewed in @operanews: http://t.co/yExLBt8R #
- Sound-app updates: Animoog now has background audio support, and Nanoloop is optimized for iOS5. #
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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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• July 28, 2021: This day marks the start of the 500th consecutive weekly project in the Disquiet Junto music community.
• December 13, 2021: This day marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Disquiet.com.
• January 6, 2021: This day marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.Recent
• There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the forthcoming 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.)Ongoing
• The Disquiet Junto series of weekly communal music projects explore constraints as a springboard for creativity and productivity. There is a new project each Thursday afternoon (California time), and it is due the following Monday at 11:59pm: disquiet.com/junto.• 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.Recent Projects
• 0479 / Truck Radio Rain / The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them.
• 0478 / Collage of Collages / The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.
• 0477 / Flying Blind / The Assignment: Record a piece of music in which some substantial portion is performed without looking.
• 0476 / IAH Forecast / The Assignment: Here's your next single's cover. Now record it.
• 0475 / Low End (4 of 3) / The Assignment: Remix a trio by doing forensics on its component parts.Full Index
And there is a complete list of past projects, 479 consecutive weeks to date.Tags
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- Marc Weidenbaum on Magenta Haze: “Oh, yes! I had forgotten entirely this was actually a thing. ”
- Ethan Hein on Magenta Haze: “Another iconic magenta haze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMqOSafM4Jw ”
- Marc Weidenbaum on Livestream Reviewstream: “Thanks for the thoughts, and the comments-from-work issue. If you could shoot me a note ([email protected]), maybe I can sort… ”
- Jochen on Livestream Reviewstream: “Marc, fyi, I seem to be having trouble posting comments from work, probably owing to our range being blocked by… ”
- Robin Rimbaud on Livestream Reviewstream: “A beautiful discovery Marc. Thanks for sharing this minimalist gem! I’m not familiar with her work at all but this… ”