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Disquiet Junto Project 0696: Chain of Layers The Assignment: Make music change by altering its layers. Deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0696

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We're again collaborating with Musikfestival Bern, for the 7th year in a row. A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (May 1) at disquiet.com/0696, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores layers.

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Yes, I’m enjoying Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, which I’ve owned for almost as long and started twice and am finally getting into.

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I love when it's clear a website has tweaked its backend because suddenly the RSS reader is full of a dozen or so old posts

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Listened to some old Power Station albums for the umpteenth time and remain astonished by Tony Thompson's drum production

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Many venues regularly post performances live, often in real time, sometimes archived in perpetuity. Among my favorites: Mezzrow, Smalls, and Emmet’s Place in Manhattan, Roulette in Brooklyn, and Bird and Beckett in San Francisco, all on YouTube. Any favorites you have?

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Hey Google, what is stigmatic ambient music? disquiet.com/2025/04/28/s...

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I sometimes wonder if the Algorithm processes that much of the music I Shazam is stuff I can't stand, so I can avoid it in the future

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On repeat this past week: Barker's Stochastic Drift; live concert footage of bassist Linda May Han Oh leading a trio of Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet) and Tyshawn Sorey (drums), and Rutger Hoedemaekers' score to a scifi TV series, Moresnet, I haven't actually watched. disquiet.com/2025/04/27/o...

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What does music sound like when it has been dried in a tumble dryer? This great question was posed by @disquiet.bsky.social in this week's Disquiet Junto project. I thought about this metaphorical question and put a track into the dryer. #disquietjunto #disquiet0695 soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/...

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I'd like to play more video games, but I end up reading novels. I'd like to listen to more podcasts, but I end up listening to audiobooks.

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Hyper-local* post: the macapuno ice cream at Polly Ann in the Sunset District is extraordinary, entirely distracting me from the chocolate with which it shared a small cup *San Francisco

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Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer. Deadline: Monday, April 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0695 #DisquietJunto

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A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (April 24) at disquiet.com/0695, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores clothes dryers.

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Dunno if this Apple case I got on eBay for my aging iPhone 13 is legit but it's more legit than the previous iPhone case I got on eBay

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Pro tip: something is likely wrong with either your headphones or software if the speech-to-text tool you're using keeps transcribing everything you're saying as "[gunshots] [gunshots] [gunshots]"

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The latest Frame by Frame comic from illustrator Hannes Pasqualini and me. It's our 14th so far in the ongoing series. Full index at disquiet.com/fxf.

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Deconstructionism: everything is a text A nearby library:

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The house stereo in this cafe is playing one cover song after another, and it's a bit like being transported to an alternate reality where different people wrote and performed all these songs. That said, I like our reality better. Or liked — perhaps I'm stuck here forever.

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"Your experience order number is ..."

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Afternoon trio for dryer, bathroom fan, and passing bus

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Changing from one brand of earbuds to another means learning a whole new range of controls and context-specific sounds, and getting used to a different set of options, and to the unique tonality of the sonic artifacts resulting from digital processing.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music. Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0694 #DisquietJunto

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A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (April 17) at disquiet.com/0694, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores 5/4 time.

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Yeah, there's a new installment coming soon in the Frame by Frame comics series I'm collaborating on with Hannes Pasqualini. Here's a detail of a rough draft of one of the panels. Full archive at disquiet.com/fxf.

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Vibe aspirations

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Yeah, Earth were pretty darn good last night (at The Chapel), especially in this quartet formation. Adrienne Davies is amazing, playing in what for most drummers would be a quarter their regular speed. Dylan Carlson has said he aimed for "ambient metal" with the band, and this was like "zen metal."

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Picked up my Earth ticket Sunday evening when I happened to walk by the Chapel on Mission. Can’t remember the last time I bought a physical ticket at a venue days in advance of a show.

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I probably should have turned on the lights in the kitchen before preparing granola this morning. If it's possible to overdose on nutmeg, I'll know shortly.

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How did I not know there is a small jazz club in San Francisco, just off Market Street, with a menu consisting of dim sum and a cocktail called the Oxford Comma? (That's Kevin Goldberg's quintet performing at Mr. Tipple's Jazz Club on Herbie Hancock's birthday, April 12, 2025.)

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