The list of the main iOS music-making apps I used heavily and followed closely in their development this past year is somewhat boring, in that it largely consists of backend software. A whole sui...
https://disquiet.com/2017/01/01/best-2016-ios-android-music-sound-apps/
A lightly annotated clipping service: Horse Bests Other Horse: News came this week that old music outsold new music for the first time in recorded history — or, in this case, recorded recorded ...
The above image is from the initial promotional material for the Android-powered LG G Watch. It is showing support for “Ok Google,” which listens for that phrase as a prompt. Of course, in or...
https://disquiet.com/2014/07/04/sound-research-log-smartwatches-are-always-listening-lg-g/
There are several dozen tracks thus far in the “sound diary” credited on SoundCloud to Corruption, who gives as a residence Funabashi, Japan. Many are noisy escapades, tagged simply as “sou...
The recent San Francisco MusicTech Summit held, on May 28, a panel on “The Future of Music Creation Tools,” featuring Daniel Walton of app developer Retronyms, Sam Valenti of the Ghostly labe...
https://disquiet.com/2013/06/18/panel-discussion-future-of-music/
This current weekend’s Disquiet Junto project, the 75th, takes the Vine app (more at vine.co) as its subject. This isn’t just because the app’s six-second format allows for an interesting s...
â—¼ Faulty Notation: The 73rd weekly Disquiet Junto project was a collaboration with Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG. The Junto participants read segments of a map of the San Andreas Fault as if t...
https://disquiet.com/2013/05/30/cues-bldg-notes-33-13-facebook-alarmism/
¶ Android Music: There is a heap of Easter Eggs hidden in the holding page for the upcoming Google I/O developers’ conference, at which various Android subjects will be unveiled. These Easte...
https://disquiet.com/2013/03/06/stems-android-eggs-tape-loops-martinezskrillexkorine/
¶ The deadline for signing the White House petition to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” is February 23. This is a serious issue that relates to many subjects of importance to this site: ...
https://disquiet.com/2013/02/17/stems-phone-tinkering-mri-beatboxing-ambient-journalism/
â—¼ Power Station: Fascinating piece at bbc.co.uk on how forensic police detection can use the ~50Hz hum of the power grid as a date/time-stamp for confirming legitimacy of audio evidence: Th...
https://disquiet.com/2013/01/12/stems-50hz-forensics-italian-horror-url2-la/