This would be roughly the week of January 6 through January 12.
***5 Years Ago (2009):*** I wrote about the 246 and Counting exhbit, which had closed the previous Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. By my rough estimate, [exactly one of those 246 pieces had sound](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/06/a-corporate-drone-at-sfmoma/). It was by Diller + Scofidio. … I wrote about [my experience at a Richie Hawtin concert in Chiba outside Tokyo](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/07/tokyo-200812-part-15-hawtin-kitsune-in-chiba/) the month prior, and I reflected on how cellphones had changed raves. (The photo here was shot at an outdoor mall near the Makuhari Messe, where the concert was held.) … I made a list of 11 things I wished at the time that my fifth-generation (“classic”) iPod could do. It’s [kinda sad](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/08/1-things-i-wish-my-ipod-could-do/) how few of them were ever implemented. … There was a review of Monolake’s [*Atom/Document*]((https://disquiet.com/2009/01/11/heavy-rotation-monolakes-balloons-baraclough-live-noise/)) album. … The image of the week was of a [“recording studio as art installation”](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/11/image-of-the-week-kusmirowskis-studio/) by Robert Kusmirowski. … The quote of the week was [RZA talking about the late Isaac Hayes](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/10/quote-of-the-week-rza-on-hayes/): “One Isaac Hayes song has made over 20 hip-hop songs. Look at ‘Walk On By.’ It’s a nice three-minute song by Dionne Warwick, but when Isaac got ahold of it, it became soulful, pimp-daddy, ride-in-your-car, lean-back, 12-minute song, restructured with organs and a flute.” … And the Downstream entries for the week included [one-song hip-hop/r&b mash-ups](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/12/one-song-mash-ups-from-yarcka-mp3s/) by Y?Arcka, [funk hidden by Hiroshi Kumakiri](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/09/hiroshi-kumakiri-jessica-rylan-mp/) in squelchy noise, [cello-tronic wonderment](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/08/cello-tronic-live-performance-mp3/) by Ted Laderas (aka the Ooray), material from Taylor Deupree’s [“one sound each day” project](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/07/taylor-deuprees-one-sound-each-day-mp3-resolution/), and [quiet noise from Baraclough](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/06/uk-quiet-noise-trio-baraclough-mp3/).
***10 Years Ago (2004):*** This week I posted a lengthy interview ([“The Organization Musician”](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/11/the-organization-musician/)) with Robert Henke, aka Monolake. I posted [the transcript](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/11/the-organization-musician/) along with the profile article, written for the magazine *e|i*, that had resulted from it. … The quote of the week was from a lyric sung-spoke by Cake’s John McCrea on [“The Headphonist,”](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/07/quote-of-the-week-kinky-headphonist/) a song off the Mexican rock band Kinky’s then new album, *Atlas*:
>At this moment, I’m listening to a very, very quiet song / I’m walking alone again, with my headphones on again ”¦ sometimes it seems like everything I see has a sound and if it does — what is the shape of silence?
And these were the Downstream entries of the week: music on guitar for film shot out train windows by [Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski)](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/06/hrvatski-guitar-mp3/), a lovely [reworked Parisian field recording](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/07/parisian-field-recording-mp3/) by Soundvial (aka Ken Reisman and Matt Simon — if anyone knows what came of them, please let me know), video of [Brian Eno talking about the Long Now Foundation](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/12/eno-interview-videostream/) (which marks its 10th anniversary in 2014), Robert Willim (aka Selko) making much of noises from [a sugar refinery in Sweden](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/09/industrial-cool-mp3/), and electronica from [Alexander Wendt](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/08/two-wendt-mp3s/).
***15 Years Ago (1999):*** Nothing this week.