The four free software modules that make up the Memory system for the also free VCV Rack virtual modular synthesizer became available earlier today. At their core, the modules enable a musician t...
https://disquiet.com/2024/05/06/memory-depict-embellish-ruminate-vcv-rack-stochastic/
Another gorgeous live performance by Andrew Tasselmyer, who here runs four often though not entirely unidentifiable piano samples through various processes, yielding a piece at once cinematic and...
https://disquiet.com/2024/04/30/tasselmyer-octatrack-piano-sample/
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...
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...
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....
This first appeared in the March 21, 2024, issue of the This Week in Sound email newsletter, also the newsletter’s 22nd Listening Post. Just over a year into the pandemic, Kelly Moran marked...
This appeared in the March 21, 2024, issue of the This Week in Sound email newsletter, also the newsletter’s 22nd Listening Post. Nils Frahm has become one of today’s great one-man bands. He...
This appeared in the March 21, 2024, issue of the This Week in Sound email newsletter, also the newsletter’s 22nd Listening Post. I don’t talk about the Disquiet Junto too often in my This We...
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...
A habit I had fallen out of and need to get back on: I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I’ll later regret having not written about in mo...