I just got back home from the “Music That Listens to Itself” event that I hosted in Berkeley at the Alembic. Here, quickly, is the evening’s 80-minute playlist (I trimmed one track to get the full set to fit). The first six tracks came from the recent Disquiet Junto project (0611) that engaged with the […]“I’m all lost in the supermarket / I can no longer shop happily” I’ve been working on an essay about how broken modern consumer technology (software and hardware) is when it comes to downloadable files, like MP3s and FLAC. And then Bandcamp.com, a leading retailer of DRM-free audio files and a cultural force in independent music, […]Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just under five days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure […]On loan from a generous friend. Any tips, recommendations, or experiences with what is contained here? Note the heavy emphasis on modules from Snazzy FX. These are all new to me, with the exception of the Doepfer, the Make Noise, and the Tiptop.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. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social […]