New Disquietude podcast episode: music by Lesley Flanigan, Dave Seidel, KMRU, Celia Hollander, and John Hooper; interview with Flanigan; commentary; short essay on reading waveforms. • Disquiet.com F.A.Q. • Key Tags: #saw2for33third, #field-recording, #classical, #junto • Elsewhere: Twitter, SoundCloud, Instagram

Listening to art. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. Rewinding the soundscape.

tag: mesostic

Holiday

A mesostic

[ December 2, 2021 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
                   tHere is an undeniable quiet
                   tO time and space, 
           a sudden Languor
                attrIbutable to the annual turkey 
break, a consensual DoS offline event in the U.S.,  
                    A superpower in hush mode,
             suddenlY gone dark as North Korea
[  Tag: / Leave a comment ]

Rain

A mesostic

[ October 17, 2021 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
That sound on the Roof, fully
   unknown to so mAny young ones,
echoes through theIr homes as
     though from aN epic horror 
or scifi movie.
[  Tag: / Leave a comment ]

Alarm

A mesostic

[ September 27, 2021 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
I wish someone hAd
              toLd me
              thAt the
            secuRity
           systeM was on before I opened
the window.
[  Tag: / Leave a comment ]

Huntington

A mesostic

[ September 22, 2021 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
                          THe bank is for
       sale. Long ago I broUght rolls
                 of dimes iN; 
                         goT my  
                          fIrst check 
 book. The Greek place has New proprietors;
                     the avGolomeno soup is
            remarkable, besT ever.
                      And fOr my after-supper
                walk, the iNsects seem louder,
though it could be my ears.
[  Tag: / Leave a comment ]

Radio

A mesostic

[ September 15, 2021 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]
WheneveR I visit my
      fAmily I listen for which 
     olD song from the area
       I'll hear that best encapsulates 
  the lOcale, the culture
[  Tag: / Leave a comment ]

  • about

  • Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects. He has written for Nature, Boing Boing, The Wire, Pitchfork, and NewMusicBox, among other periodicals. He is the author of the 33 1⁄3 book on Aphex Twin’s classic album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Read more about his sonic consultancy, teaching, sound art, and work in film, comics, and other media

  • Field Notes

    News, essays, surveillance

  • Interviews

    Conversations with musicians/artists/coders

  • Studio Journal

    Video, audio, patch notes

  • Projects

    Select collaborations and commissions

  • Subscribe



  • Current Activities

  • Upcoming
    • December 13, 2022: This day marks the 26th anniversary of the founding of Disquiet.com.
    • January 6, 2023: This day marked the 11th anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.

  • Recent
    • April 16, 2022: I participated in an online "talk show" by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier).
    • March 11, 2022: I hosted a panel discussion between Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and James Bradbury in San Francisco as part of the Algorithmic Art Assembly (aaassembly.org) at Gray Area (grayarea.org).
    • December 28, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the Instagr/am/bient compilation.
    • January 6, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.
    • December 13, 2021: This day marked the 25th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.
    • There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the book The Music Production Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the Classroom (Oxford University Press), edited by Adam Patrick Bell. Ethan Hein wrote one, and I did, too.
    • A chapter on the Disquiet Junto ("The Disquiet Junto as an Online Community of Practice," by Ethan Hein) appears in the book The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (Oxford University Press), edited by Stephanie Horsley, Janice Waldron, and Kari Veblen. (Details at oup.com.)

  • • My book on Aphex Twin's landmark 1994 album, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, was published as part of the 33 1/3 series, an imprint of Bloomsbury. It has been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018).

  • disquiet junto

  • Background
    Since January 2012, the Disquiet Junto has been an ongoing weekly collaborative music-making community that employs creative constraints as a springboard for creativity. Subscribe to the announcement list (each Thursday), listen to tracks by participants from around the world, read the FAQ, and join in.

    Recent Projects

  • • 0549 / Sidelines / The Assignment: Get intentional with stereo.
    • 0548 / Drone Vox / The Assignment: Make a drone using just your voice.
    • 0547 / Genre Melee / Combine two seemingly different genres.
    • 0546 / Code Notes / The Assignment: Make music that includes a secret message.
    • 0545 / Unself-Awareness / The Assignment: Learn from feedback intended for others.

  • Full Index
    And there is a complete list of past projects, 549 consecutive weeks to date.

  • Archives

    By month and by topic

  • [email protected]

    [email protected]

  • Downstream

    Recommended listening each weekday

  • Recent Posts