Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to t...
When the final season of the TV series Fringe debuted this past Friday, September 28, there were many pressing questions: Would all our heroes emerge from amber in distant 2036? Would this dystop...
https://disquiet.com/2012/10/05/fringe-yaz-only-you-walter-bishop/
Why does altering a photograph differ from altering a song? Or does it? The discussion that followed my recent post about the Kind of Bloop/Kind of Blue legal melee involved some questions, each ...
Arguably no modern musical form until hip-hop was as unabashedly appropriative as jazz. This is one of the two great ironies of the recent brouhaha that erupted over reputed copyright infringemen...
https://disquiet.com/2011/07/03/kind-of-bloop-eff-chiptune-jazz-appropriation/
If memory serves sufficiently, then the purportedly imminent Singularity, such as it is envisioned in various novels by the esteemed Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan, is no more evenly...
Three months in a row, which is something of a record at least for the past year or so, the hexawe.net netlabel has served up healthy doses of unhealthy chiptune-derived music. The MP3s on Hexawe...
It was nearing the half-year mark for the hexawe.net netlabel — a half year since it had last made public one of its tantalizing bits of abstract chiptune-flavored sample-packed near-anarchic m...
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere: ¶ Tinkerer, Hacker, Solderer … Felon?: The idea that when we purchase consumer electronics devices we’re not free to do with them as we w...
https://disquiet.com/2010/12/04/dj-hero-xbox-mod-beat-battle/
This sneak peek of a forthcoming video game says a lot about generational iterations in digital entertainment and culture. In the game, Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, the player leaps between not ...
It’s kinda funny that it’s called “program music,” given what such a term suggests in our age of computer-assisted cultural activity. That’s the term for the classical tradition in whic...
https://disquiet.com/2010/08/25/moldilox-chicken-george-fourteen-umezu/