I made one edit of significance below. The Judge Dredd quote was “4,000 frames per second” not, as I’d initially tweeted, “4,000 frames per session.”
- A favorite netlabel returns after two-year absence with music from a favorite musician: http://t.co/ep7PbWr2 Kenneth Kirschner on SHSK’H. #
- Dates for @djunto concerts added to “upcoming events” sidebar: Manhattan on Nov 27, San Francisco on Dec 6: http://t.co/Yh8y3liM. #
- It’s nice to be able to do simple math functions in the OS X Spotlight bar. #
- Guy on cellphone in quiet café talking about “break support.” People look at him and each other and smile, like, “What are you thinking?” #
- An answer about what @trent_reznor‘s “Yes.” tweet was about: https://t.co/BnMcomhw New band, new EP, signed to Columbia. #
- Production video from which previous tweet’s quote originated: http://t.co/HHQQAOHa #dredd #slomo #3d #
- “None of us really understands what happens at 4,000 frames per second.” Very much looking forward to Dredd. #
- Waiting for Tea Party to complain it isn’t video games but specifically co-op play that’s weakening America’s youth. #
- Dumfounded when CCA dropped “craft” just as gen-Etsy was rising, and again that SF’s Museum of Craft & Folk must close: http://t.co/dmCvnbjB #
- I hope this week’s @djunto project holds interest for folks. Employing “foley” techniques to create a “faux field recording” is enticing. #
- RIP, Miss Monitor aka Tedi Thurman (b. 1923), at one time perhaps “the most recognizable female voice in the country”: http://t.co/BxoiGcBl #
- This week in the @djunto we’re making a “fake field recording”: http://t.co/XdREURGZ + http://t.co/vpYbWL93 #
- bouncy house music #
- Baby’s first mosh pit. Hope my recording of this bouncy house comes out OK. #
- Nice. Free 9-track solo 9-finger piano Nils Frahm set: http://t.co/mLJvWsMl. My interview with Frahm: http://t.co/2lCYZjwV #
- My reward when I get all of this done is to (finally) read the (1979) novel on which the (1981) movie Diva was based. (Er, in translation.) #
- This is the chart of the cornet’s development, which I mentioned last night @gaffta: http://t.co/ChLUAcsZ #
- Extended DVD cut of Looper hinges in part on rights to Chopin Étude: http://t.co/S9T1k0T0 What year is it? Couldn’t a new recording be made? #
- So, what’s going to be the “best” (for lack of a more useful term) T-Mobile Android phone in November, when my contract’s denouement begins? #
- I dig my Touch & Macbook, but why my phone remains Android: widgets (notes, calendar, buttons); drag’n’drop; SD card; standard USB charging. #
- 10am bells pierce the collective shroud of silence in the floor of the library dedicated to “quiet study.” #
- The term “indie” is at best evidence of rock’n’roll recovering from its long held delusion of its inherent exceptionalism. #
- Adding “ear training” alongside “audiophile” as a word ripe for — in need of — redefinition. #
- The ungainly Taylorism of “I wanna rock’n’roll all night and party every day.” So sad to think that rock’n’roll cannot itself be a party. #
- The 3D effect of new iPad maps tool makes my ‘hood look like it’s built of soggy paper mache. I mean, it’s humid here, but not that humid. #
- The iPad 2 updated to iOS 6. Seems faster. Do Not Disturb is nice. Free is nice. Doesn’t feel like 200 updates. Absence of widgets is silly. #
- The first @trent_reznor tweet in four months is simply “Yes.” Anyone know what it’s in reference to? I am hopeful for a new film score. in reply to trent_reznor #
- Great @gaffta conversation this evening: musical interfaces, virtuosity, tradition, networked participation, live coding. #
- Headed to @GAFFTA for panel on alternative musical interfaces. I’m moderating, but given the panelists I’ll mostly be quiet and just marvel. #
- Today’s “sound” class: Whitney Houston instrumental, Cage on Van der Rohe, Eno on perfume, ancient Greeks on how recording diminishes memory #
- Key among San Francisco’s benefits: living in same city where The Conversation takes place when I’m assigning it for my class on “sound.” #
- Maybe iOS 6 will be the first OS I do not early-adopt. #
- Dug the Last Resort pilot OK, in part because it resuscitates the Unit part of Shawn Ryan’s work, but sure didn’t sound submerged/sub-like #
- Short interview I did with Nils Frahm regarding his busted thumb, current tour, & lightly prepared piano: http://t.co/2lCYZjwV #
- Guitar looks like Tom Petty’s, sounds like Brian Eno: acoustic 12-string cover of “An Ending (Ascent)”: http://t.co/WiCIaOxo #
- Evening music: lovely little OP-1-recorded bit of phases, beeps, and attenuated drones by @jbutlerjbutler: http://t.co/xp43X56M #
- Class I’m teaching tomorrow at Academy of Art is A Brief History of Sound: celebrity death, oral culture, anatomy, perception, synaesthesia. #
- “Those places don’t exist except in the imaginations of those who sit in the editing suite.” #
- Re-familiarizing myself with the Soundtracker doc about Gordon Hempton in advance of tomorrow’s sound class. #
- One of those weeks when PDF-reading management on the iPad is hurting my brain. #
- The 38th weekly @djunto will be an inverse take on the 37th. Details as Thursday approaches. Cc @notrobwalker @apexart #
- Morning sounds: garbage truck, students chattering as they walk by house, yappy dogs, buzz of overhead plane, low-level electric whine. #
- “First, the key goes in real quiet.” Watching The Conversation for the umpteenth time. Watching is the wrong word. Observing? Surveilling? #
- From an Apple store to Akihabara to Macy’s: 24 (and counting) audio recordings of commercial space: http://t.co/lSzme8ob #
- Have any of the USA network’s past few years of summer-season shows had a crossover? #
- Deee-Lite/Thomas Dolby hits reworked in pair of commercials during one break. My memories, another’s jingle. May the circle be unbroken. #
- So many pumpkins in the back of the car it looks like a Peanuts version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. #
- “It’s easy to forget how pervasive music is in retail until you go looking for place it’s not”: @notrobwalker on the current @djunto project #
- Looking forward to moderating this discussion @gaffta on Wed evening, Sep 19, on “alternative musical interfaces”: http://t.co/13MzzocC #
- Ghost bus. #