***5 Years Ago (2008):*** This week I was in Tokyo, where I came upon a book titled [*Art Space Tokyo: An Intimate Guide to the Tokyo Art World*](http://craigmod.com/print/artspacetokyo/). I was headed to a concert at the club Super Deluxe, so I didn’t but a copy, which was unfortunate because it quickly went out of print and sold for hundreds of dollars in the second-hand market. Later, in 2010, the book was a successful [early Kickstarter project for a reprint and iPad edition](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craigmod/art-space-tokyo-ipad-edition-hardcover-reprint), which finally appeared [in mid-2012](http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/21/3257283/art-space-tokyo-relaunch-digital-publishing). There’s [a free browser-based version, too](http://read.artspacetokyo.com/). Anyhow, my [quote of the week](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/20/quote-of-the-week-cage-space-tokyo/) in mid-December 2008 was from the book. This is Roger McDonald: [“This sense of physical impermanence makes Tokyo something like a huge, ever-evolving John Cage composition, whirling itself through chance procedures and the interventions of its inhabitants/users.”](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/20/quote-of-the-week-cage-space-tokyo/)
The image of the week, [a 1940s listening device](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/21/image-of-the-week-sky-eavesdropper/) shown in this post, was found via the musician and sound artist Steve Roden’s ephemera-rich [blog](http://inbetweennoise.blogspot.com/2008/12/listening-to-sky.html). … In the Downstream department of legally free downloads: [C. Reider reworking nine other musicians’ work](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/16/constant-mix-mp3-from-c-reider/), mischievous [Morse code from Sublamp (aka Ryan Connor)](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/15/three-near-majestic-mp3s-from-sublamp/), the collaboration of [James Blackshaw and Jozef Van Wissem](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/19/blackshaw-van-wissem-psych-folk-downloads/), and [Jonathan Coleclough’s amplified sounds](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/22/free-jonathan-coleclough-performance-mp3/). Many of those offsite links have, inevitably, since expired.
***10 Years Ago (2003):*** I did [a holiday gift guide](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/16/gift/) this week, with recommendations based on category (a broader concept than genre), such as “quietly deceptive” (Doron Sadja’s *A Piece of String, a Sunset*) and “historic” (James Tenney’s *Selected Works 1961-1969*). … In the Downstream departent of legally free downloads: a [Nurse with Wound tribute album](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/19/nurse-with-would-tribute-mp3/), some [“songwriting as sine wave” by Sophrosyne (aka Jason van Pelt)](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/18/poppy-sophrosyne-mp3/), various [live recordings by Christopher Willits](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/17/five-live-mp3s/), and (https://disquiet.com/2003/12/16/kfw-video-file/). Many of those offsite links have, inevitably, since expired.
***15 Years Ago (1998):*** No posts this week 15 years ago.