Into the Distance
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Author: Marc Weidenbaum
On the Grid
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Grid of oscillators in the structure of a building’s air conditioners
Ambient : Sounds
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
Did a little record browsing. This section is from Paradise of Replica on Grand Street in Manhattan.
Infrastructural Snore
With a view
The phone’s microphone doesn’t do justice to the experience of how being in this hotel room means being immersed in the building’s HVAC drone, the way the tonal utterances of the multi-story edifice cycle over and over, and how with each new cycle there is a brittle whir like an infrastructural snore. But it’ll do.
Scratch Pad: Belew, Dissonance, Roden
From the past week
I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media.
▰ Kinda wish sleeping laptops snored
▰ Adrian Belew was great as David Byrne for the Remain in Light tribute. I imagine he’ll be at least as good as Adrian Belew.
▰ My guitar teacher, stating what should be patently obvious to me: “So, we can agree this chord is more dissonant.”
Me: “Er, not if you listen to the music I do, apparently.”
▰ Step 1: I use Chrome.
Step 2: For privacy I’ll use Safari. A few things run better in Chrome.
Step 3: Safari’s slow. I try Brave, but it’s not great with sound. I’ll use Safari and Chrome, too.
Step 4: I try Firefox, but I’m too busy to tweak all its privacy stuff. Now I have four browsers going.
▰ I spent the morning scanning documents related to comics I edited in the 1990s, which led to me using an ancient device called a staple remover. For lunch I wanted some lentil soup, and the pull-top broke, so I had to use a can opener. I swear the day won’t end before I am required to fax something.
▰ Just listening to an old Steve Roden album in the car while it rains