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I founded Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology. Since 2012 I've moderated the Disquiet Junto, a community of weekly music/sonic projects. I publish the email newsletter This Week in Sound, and I've written for Nature, Boing Boing, The Wire, Pitchfork, and NewMusicBox, among other periodicals. I'm the author of the 33⅓ book on Aphex Twin’s classic album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. I spend weekends mostly offline.

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Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) is, like, amazing, right? So useful. So efficient.

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If you have trouble keeping a journal, I'd suggest starting a file called "tweets-not-sent.txt" and just put much of your negative thinking there rather than online

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If you have trouble keeping a journal, write down the most mundane aspects of your day. The things we take for granted are often the things that, down the road, experience a change that is otherwise hard to track back in retrospect — or foresee in advance. Just noting those items, duties, processes, and instances can cement thoughts and provide a foundation for something to linger on and write about.

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There's a unique memory hole related to software that's sunsetted before there's a Wikipedia page to document it having existed in the first place

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"Consent Mode is off by default" should be the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

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@andybaio Indeed. I've been assuming it's a reference to the movie of that name starring Bradley Cooper, based on a book by Alan Glynn, that's about artificially increased mental capacity as a superpower.

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@andybaio Ha! And there you have it. :)

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@andybaio What's especially funny is I vaguely recall the movie as a quasi-cautionary tale about unintended consequences.

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@kcivey @andybaio Bingo

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I find myself sitting in an electric car, currently turned off, listening to exactly the sort* of music that might make a passerby think the car is running

*slowmo granular synthesis

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Disquiet Junto Project 0637: Right (2 of 3)

The Assignment: Record the second third of an eventual trio.

While this is the second part of a three-part project, you can participate in one, two, or all three of the parts, which will occur over the course of three consecutive weeks, starting last week.

This week’s project’s instructions are pretty detailed, so check ’em out at disquiet.com/0637.

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Current status

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This week in the Disquiet Junto, musicians around the world are using the same field recording of a train as the backing rhythm track for new music compositions. Follow along as this playlist expands with each new piece. (And join in at disquiet.com/0635.)

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0635

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The blandly surreal AI cover image on your album does not express particular confidence in the music contained therein

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I'm currently reading Pedal Crush and a book called Boss Book that surveys of all Boss pedals. Anyone read a good book that provides insights into the transition from analog to digital guitar pedals? I'm especially interested in devices that store audio in memory (loopers, memory buffers).

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I buy most of my music gear used, as with this analog delay pedal (my first pedal for delay; I've only used a synth or iPad until now). I love marks of prior use, here three lines from an owner noting optimal settings. My sweet spots may edge higher, especially toward self-oscillation with feedback.

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Current guitar practice status (shoe for scale)

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Just enjoying the pretty side of my new (used) synthesizer module before I plug it in and, you know, actually use it

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Excellence in interface design

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I remember the first person to show and explain an MP3 player to me, and I remember the first person to rip and burn a CD (a mixtape, not a one-to-one duplicate) in my presence

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The top bar is a recording of some music for a project. The bottom bar is a recording of some freeform speaking toward an essay about the project.

Have a good weekend.

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I’m looking forward to listening to your next drone album but fair warning my microwave has really been upping its game. May be an end-of-life cycle for the machine, revisiting its hits with diminishing energy but greater depth.

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In the music community this week: Break a piece of your music and put it back together again. Full instructions at https://disquiet.com/0629. Tracks due Monday, January 22, at 11:59pm (your local time).

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Guitar class went particularly well, though it may just be because I turned the gain up

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In the music community this week: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments. Full instructions at https://disquiet.com/0626. Tracks are due Monday, January 1, 2024, at 11:59pm (your local time).

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The rules of concert attendance, in case you just landed on Earth:

Jazz: clap at the end of each solo, even though the band is still playing.

Classical: hold applause until the end of the piece; don't clap between movements.

Rock: talk through the whole show about how the band used to be better.

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