Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet

RIP, Peter Bergman (b. 1939), founding member of Firesign Theater, ingeniously used audio in satiric comedy: http://t.co/YPM7KzyG #
RIP, Moebius (b. Jean Giraud, 1938), comic book artist. #
Never checked out the Stones Throw Beat Battle (big influence on Junto)? It’s in its 261st week, and it’s a great one: http://t.co/W3PXB5KD #
Yowza. The Disquiet Junto 1 one track away from its 500th track in 10 weeks: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
Dear Hivemind: Is there a AAA version of the AA USB battery that USBCell makes? #
Excellent reason to skip a week. RT @arbeemonkey: My new project is takin all my studio time, not sure I’ll submit for the 10th junto. #
That premonition of typing on a keyboard becoming an antiquated practice. #
Remembering Samuel Johnson’s emphasis on the weighting of words in drama has made me more empathetic toward emoticons. #

If an email starts with my name there’s a 80% chance it’s from someone I don’t know; without my name: 80% chance it’s from someone I know. #
Best bad-PR email of the week began “Dear [:name],” and second best began “Dear,” — but the week isn’t over yet. #
RT @jbutlerjbutler: @disquiet Can we add sounds to our remix? [Yes. Additions are OK unless a specific project says they’re not.] #junto #
Sole “new iPad” comment: Was hoping it’d be lighter. But I’m a 90lb weakling. Well, more like 155lbs, but still weakling. #
RIP, Jimmy Ellis (b. 1937), lead singer of the Trammps, perhaps best known for “Disco Inferno”: http://t.co/QvaQ1zAp #
Nice: @webbedhand + @mystified131 remixed a track by each other for the 10th Junto project: http://t.co/anQFre9l #
RT @jbutlerjbutler @disquiet Looking forward to this Junto project…so much material to go through! [Hoping folks go back to a fave track.] #
10th Disquiet Junto project: remix track from previous project. Info in English/French/Spanish/Turkish: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
Disquiet Junto project #10 announcement goes out via email and to the Soundcloud group Info page momentarily. #
Instructions for the 10th Disquiet Junto, to be announced later today, will be in English, French, Spanish, and Turkish. #
RIP, computer-graphics innovator Carl Machover (b. 1927), father of musician & MIT Media Lab figure Tod: http://t.co/aDY0IlsE #
If you volunteered to translate Disquiet Junto instructions into French or Spanish (or another), could you shoot me an email or DM? Thanks. #
The end of The Shield is so perfect, it should be watched not just as a lesson in ending a series, but in starting one. #
If the word “selected” works then the word “curated” probably doesn’t. #
The text equivalent of a stock photo. #
Thanks, @swissnexSF, for hosting the game event last night. Krautscape was so beautiful it distracted me during conversations. #
Thursday will start the 10th weekly Disquiet Junto. It’ll be an exercise in collective reflection. #
Nanomalism. #
“Oh, I know: Let’s release our new album to coincide with SXSW.” #
Was on phone with @operafella yesterday when Tuesday noon siren rang. Held phone out window so he could enjoy. #
Someone please explain to me that I should be more excited by @sfsymphony‘s 2012-13 modern works than I am http://t.co/a2DDFA5J #
http://t.co/PUGLKmGE says $480 to close block so I can tape wind chime, or $150 for block party, which defeats purpose (via @markrushtoncom) #
Wondering how much it would cost to have the police block off my block for a few hours so I could get a good tape of this wind chime. #
In which I thank (http://t.co/x3jktxwX) the thoughtful @otolythe for this @hilobrow interview: http://t.co/5CevNhcI #
Glad my neighbor across the street has a wind chime. I like it more than if I had a wind chime. Distance makes the ear fonder. #
Great interview with my friend Charles Hatfield about academia, comics, and his new book (Hand of Fire) on Jack Kirby: http://t.co/3ZJDc2wv #
71 tracks this week. RT @benjamindauer: It’s Tuesday: time to visit the @SoundCloud Junto page & begin a fresh round of listening/comments. #
RIP, songwriter Robert B. Sherman (b. 1925), whose work in the splendid “Theme Park Songs” Wikipedia category includes “It’s a Small World.” #
Silence is seductive according to this sign at the SF Zoo. #415 #design http://t.co/larzJaHL #
Today in “Fun with Doppler Shift”: sound of crying child riding carousel in San Francisco Zoo heard from outside the building #
Yow. The @soundcloud podcast that covers Junto & Instagr/am/bient is 200 listens shy of 10,000: http://t.co/JGWMqeHB #
63 avian/guitar hybrids in Junto #9 project. With a little less 1/2 a day to go, an uptick in slide-guitar entries: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
Definitely. I’m fine-tuning some ideas. RT @hecanjog: @disquiet any plans for a Junto that doesn’t require use of electronics? (beyond mics) #
Pediatrician’s office is like 40-Part Motet, but with crying babies behind doors, rather than singers emanating from speakers. #
The fog horns seem to have a little more pep this evening. #
With more than a full day to go, already 51 guitar/birdsong pieces in the 9th Junto project: http://t.co/lSzqLIp5 #
Walked to my bookshelf and found my beloved The Star Wars Portfolio by Ralph McQuarrie (b. 1929). He died yesterday. (via @robotdancerobot) #
Cross-species avian/guitar collaboration by @iamseams, who produced that great @soundcloud #junto podcast: http://t.co/bqBcOUeO #
The room is electrical. It says so right on the door. #415 #richmonddistrict http://t.co/RI3ecAv8 #
RIP, Robert R. McElroy (b. 1928), whose photographs documented the art Happenings of the 1950s and ’60s: http://t.co/52WDcr9k #
The @soundcloud podcast by @iamseams about the Junto & Instagr/am/bient projects is nearing 8,000 listens in three days. #
Note to @otolythe: the musician @markrushtoncom, who bowed out of the Junto to reflect on what he’d absorbed the first month, is back for #9 #
Junto folk: freesound-dot-org is back online, but please use the links from the group’s info page for the source audio: http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
The #netlabel list maintained by @dpnem is due for an update: http://t.co/tTZFsXam. He’s looking for additions, if you see anything missing. #
Guess I meant “wordular” not “text/ural.” RT @alien_artifex: @disquiet every line of melody is ‘text’, too, even without words! 8-/ #
Do the characters on Fringe have multiple versions of @SoundHound on their phones, or is there a single multiverse database? #
Zagat must add a number to its rating system: DPC. That’s the average number of “devices per customer.” This cafe is 2.8. #
Cover versions are so persistent in cafes, they are producing an alternate-universe history of pop music. #
John Cage work at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. #415 http://t.co/edTFUdlx #
Already 23 duets for acoustic guitar and bird song in this week’s Disquiet Junto: http://t.co/kel3Tiwn #
I always think Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” is a lost track from Moby’s Play. #
“If you’re not interested in the text, play an instrument”: soprano Patricia Racette in today’s @metopera quiz. #
Title of the day: Director of Supernumeraries. The one from the @metopera is talking during the break in the Aida broadcast. #
The @metopera play-by-play is a riot. Audience is giving standing o at intermission. Ovation inflation a symptom of our time. #
Listening to @metopera on KDFC 90.3FM in San Francisco. Apparently my buddy @operafella is part of the Opera Quiz today. #
Disquiet Junto update: 3 ways to download source audio for Project #9 (while freesound-dot-org is inconveniently down): http://t.co/XdRJsrQ9 #
Disquiet Junto update: 3 ways to download source audio for Project 0009 (while freesound-dot-org is inconveniently down). #
Junto-samples update: freesound-dot-org still is down but I should have a working link to the 4 samples by 11am PST today. #
Attention: Junto folk. The freesound-dot-org site is down. If anyone has the 4 samples available to share, please let me know. #

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