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. S...
https://disquiet.com/2024/03/09/scratch-pad-reuse-unicode-vlc/
Thanks for sending me your latest album for review consideration but today I’m just kicking back on Barton IV and listening to the humming of the defense perimeter sensors. (This is a Star Wars...
These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the February 16, 2024, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. I’ve been a bit busy — shifti...
https://disquiet.com/2024/02/17/this-week-in-sound-reverberation-mapping-singing-bacteria/
Excellence in interface design. I should mention: this is a real guitar pedal (it’s the Dead Bat from Audio Alchemy). You place this device between a power source and an analog pedal and it sim...
These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the January 30, 2024, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. This Week in Sound is the best way ...
https://disquiet.com/2024/01/31/this-week-in-sound-how-owls-achieve-silent-flight/
Martin Yam Møller asks people more or less the same nine questions about music equipment for a running series of informative interviews on his website. These have included the musicians Sofie Bi...
https://disquiet.com/2024/01/14/interview-with-me-about-music-technology/
I always love coming upon this three-dimensional piece by Roy Lichtenstein at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Painted in 1962, it’s a great example of how the artist, best known for his...
A few thoughts on the iOS Journal app that debuted with the latest update of the software, 17.2: 1: Limited Tool Kit: It’s nice to see a sound recording option in there right from day one (so t...
Some sounds and sound-related things I’ve been thinking about: ▰ When I open the refrigerator in the morning, it makes a sound like a Star Trek spaceship warp core cooling suddenly when comi...