Disquiet

This old white van is something of a neighborhood white board. It gets written over, and then it’s painted over, and then the circle of urban life begins anew.

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/22/white-van-whiteboard/

As I type this, I’m preparing to drive over to Berkeley, from San Francisco, to see guitarist Bill Frisell in a sextet that will be premiering new music. The group, who will play at Freight & S...

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/21/pre-show-bill-frisell-co/

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/2024/04/20/scratch-pad-wenders-frisell-manhattan/

Way back in March 2013, I recorded the Tuesday noon siren that used to resound throughout San Francisco. The siren has since been silenced for municipal budgetary reasons, but the recording lives...

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/19/vinyl-surfacing-of-siren-recording/

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/2024/04/18/disquiet-junto-project-0642-kick-from-champagne/

Two days ago I posted a preview video I recorded of some virtual synthesizer modules being developed by my friend Mahlen Morris, who does so under the name Stochastic Telegraph. What appears here...

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/17/more-memory-module-music/

I wrote about one of my favorite movies of all time for hilobrow.com, as part of a series of 25 pieces on “the topic of ‘offbeat’ movies from the Eighties” (the decade loosely defined). H...

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/16/day-groundhog-day-groundhog-2/

I was talking, some time back, with a friend of mine about my fascination with buffers in the making of music, with the way digital memory access has become a normal function of sound production....

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/15/some-time-back/

A Keith Haring boombox illustration from 1984, displayed as part of the Urban Art Evolution exhibit at the Nassau County Museum of Art through July 7, 2024

https://disquiet.com/2024/04/14/haring-1984-boombox/

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/2024/04/13/scratch-pad-nyc-diploma-block/