It’s getting real when you find yourself measuring the height of your synthesizer’s joystick.
Fit Check
Category: field notes
News, essays, reviews, surveillance
All the Way Down
A certain display of doorbells makes each residence seem a worse option than the next
Scratch Pad: RSS, Pedals, Barbershop
From the past week
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ I’m not, by any means, planning on getting a vanity plate — but if I were to …
▰ Yeah, I played hooky this week and went to the de Young Museum for the manga exhibit, which is pretty darn great
▰ I’ve only really used modulargrid.net for Eurorack, so when I looked in the (guitar) pedals section, I was surprised to find things like an Akai MPC1000 and an Elektron Digitakt listed
▰ Was holding out for number 1 but so be it
▰ Barbershop update: The barber who usually has oldies playing was out for the day, the other barber was enjoying the silence, and who am I to argue?
▰ Read a ton, finished nothing.
Under Control
Great opening act for Rolando’s Make Noise synthesizer showcase
Always Be Doing
And the benefits of a deadline
This paragraph is from the email newsletter that will announce tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. It provides context for the week’s effort. This will be the 720th consecutive Disquiet Junto project.
This week’s project involves reworking recent work. It was inspired by a few different observations, one of which comes in the form of a memory from college. I worked for a spell on one of the literary magazines published by students. Early my first year, the editor-in-chief had quickly announced a due date for submissions. My immediate sense was this impending date didn’t provide sufficient time for potential contributors to write something. I came to understand that the sort of writers this publication was looking for didn’t need to be told to do something in order to start it. They would already be writing regularly. They just needed to be given a deadline to finish one of the things they were working on. I think about this experience all the time.