That is from an Atlantic article by Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist, on lightning. . . . That is the opening of a poem by the late writer Jean Valentine (1934-2020) published in The New York...
https://disquiet.com/2024/03/05/on-the-line-lightning-poem-hell/
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the pro...
https://disquiet.com/2024/02/22/disquiet-junto-project-0634-bust-a-move/
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. So...
https://disquiet.com/2023/12/16/scratch-pad-clapping-punk-reading/
Another shot from Saint John the Divine in Manhattan where I attended a fantastic choral concert a couple weeks ago
This was a good evening, 70 minutes straight
The evening’s concert venue was, um, fairly large — at Saint John the Divine in Manhattan (concert details: stjohndivine.org).
The “His” is Steve Roden, the late artist (and a friend of mine), who died earlier this month. The “I” is Lawrence English, writing an appreciation in the Quietus. I fully subscribe to ...
https://disquiet.com/2023/09/19/on-the-line-roden-yong-furst/
These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the September 5, 2023, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. This Week in Sound is the best way...
https://disquiet.com/2023/09/06/this-week-in-sound-bats-birds-and-the-big-bang/
Kronos Quartet is shown here, celebrating its 50th anniversary with a free concert in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, August 26, 2023. When I took this photo, they had just begun a humorous piece b...
Went to Saint Mary atop Cathedral Hill here in San Francisco on Sunday for the weekly 4pm Musical Meditations, which meant listening to this starship of an organ fill the enormous interior space ...