I for one would like to know what the heck this sign is about. The phrase “radio frequency emissions” is pretty tantalizing on its own. The preceding “all” is next level — like, versus what? Is there a different sign that stipulates a subset of signals? And what made this situation an “emergency”? Was something being disrupted? How were the offending emissions first noticed, identified, and triangulated? I would really like to know. (Also, my phone took this photo from about 25 feet away through a windshield, and the sign is barely the size of an 8 1/2” x 11” piece of paper, and this is only the top third of the sign. Kind of amazing.)
The Assignment: Do something you do too much even more.
/ By Marc Weidenbaum
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions.
Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align.
Disquiet Junto Project 0745: Double Down The Assignment: Do something you do too much even more.
Step 1: Think about something in your music that you feel like you do too often.
Step 2: Make a piece of music in which you double down on what you focused on in Step 1. Own it. Turn a crutch into a superpower.
Tasks Upon Completion:
Label: Include “disquiet0745” (no spaces/quotes) in the name of your track.
Upload: A person participating in the Disquiet Junto should post only one track per weekly project (SoundCloud account preferred but not required). If on occasion you feel inspired to post more than one track (whether to a single account or across multiple accounts), you should clarify which is the “main” rendition for consideration by fellow members and (if on SoundCloud) for inclusion in the SoundCloud playlist.
License: It’s preferred (but not required) to set your track as downloadable and allowing for attributed remixing (i.e., an attribution Creative Commons license).
Please Include When Posting Your Track:
More on the 745th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Double Down — The Assignment: Do something you do too much even more — disquiet.com/0745.
Got one of those little Xteink X4 epub ereaders. Fits in a shirt pocket. Flashed it, upon arrival, with the alternative firmware called CrossPoint Reader, which has a tidier interface and some useful features. (MIT Data Science book, by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney, from Humble Bundle.) The X4 has no light or touchscreen or highlighting capability (though it does allow for screenshots), and that’s OK, and should a future version come with such things, I can turn this one into a TRMNL.
It’s sort of amazing to think that Bill Frisell, despite being as prolific as he is, also has so much unrecorded music sitting around that he can hand enough to constitute a concert-length program to another ensemble, here the Westerlies, and on top of it, that program introduces a new album that is apparently, per its title, the first in a planned series: Have You Heard? The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1. The unusual format of the Westerlies, a quartet, is two trumpets (Riley Mulherkar, Chloe Rowlands) and two trombones (Andy Clausen, Addison Maye-Saxon), and despite the fact that essentially between them at any time there are two fewer notes than Frisell can, on his own (not even counting his various electronic processing devices), ring out of his electric guitar, they masterfully summon up his earthy mix of jazz and Americana, of tradition and experimentation, and bring an enticing attentiveness to their brainy arrangements, which also serve as a testament to Frisell’s substantial legacy. The video was recorded live in concert at Roulette on March 26, and it sounds like it’s from some alternate universe where the OG Knitting Factory and Preservation Hall are/were one and the same place. More on the group at westerliesmusic.com. And check out the album’s Bandcamp page for the informative liner notes, which include a message from Frisell himself.
