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Beat and Melody, Cat and Mouse

In “Par Manque de Temps” by Arbee Monkey, beat and melody play a cat and mouse game. There’s a deep synth tone, like something that might not have been out of place from a mid-1980s pop group, but it’s used for if not dirge-like effect, then certainly something atmospheric, even maudlin. It plays against a beat that’s only slightly more fleshed out than a click track. But as the piece proceeds, the roles change. At first the tone exerts a rhythmic intent, suddenly pulsing, and then the beat dissolves, eventually flanging and losing itself in its own atmospheric foray.

The piece is the opening of Arbee’s Libre Arbitre, released on Recycled Plastics. The full album is at recycledplastics.bandcamp.com, there’s a suite of remixes (by Darren Harper, among others) at soundcloud.com/recycledplastics, and a CDR at .

Track originally posted for free download at soundcloud.com/arbeemonkey. More from the musician, who is based in Québec City, Canada, at twitter.com/arbeemonkey.

Disquiet Junto Project 0051: 2012 in 60 Seconds

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 the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just (join and participate.

This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, December 20, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, December 24, as the deadline. Below are translations into six languages in addition to the original English: Afrikaans (for the first time), Croatian, German, Japanese, Polish (for the first time), and Turkish, all courtesy respectively of Kurt Human, Darko Macan, Tobias Reber, Naoyuki Sasanami, Grzegorz Bojanek, and M. Emre Meydan.

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto).

Disquiet Junto Project 0051: 2012 in 60 Seconds

This week’s project is a sound journal, an audio history of the past year. You will select a different audio element to represent each of the past 12 months of 2012. You will then select one five-second segment from each of these audio elements. Then you will stitch these dozen five-second segments together in chronological order to form one single one-minute track. There should be no overlap or gap between segments; they should simply proceed from one to the next.

These audio elements will most likely be of music that you have yourself composed and recorded, but they might also consist of phone messages, field recordings, or other source material. These items should be somehow personal in nature, suitable to the autobiographical intention of the project; they should preferably of your own making, and not drawn from third-party sources.

Deadline: Monday, December 24, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be 60 seconds long.

Information: Please, when posting your track on SoundCloud, list the source of each of the 12 elements.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0051-audiojournal” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting your track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in Afrikaans:

Diquiet Junto Projek 0051: 2012 in 60 sekondes

Hierdie week se projek is ‘n klank-joernaal, ‘n klank geskiedenis van die afgelope jaar. Vir elke maand van die jaar sal jy ‘n verskillende opname moet uitsoek, en uit elk een van hierdie opnames, moet jy ‘n gedeelte 5 sekondes lank uitsoek. Die 5 sekonde lank gedeeltes moet jy dan ,in volgorde van maand, as een opname tesaam sny. Daar durf geen gapings of oorlappings tussen die verskillende gedeeltes wees nie. Hulle sal eintlik naatloos van die een na die ander vloei, sonder onderbreking

Hierdie klank-elemente sal waarskynlik musiek wees wat jy self geskryf en opgeneem het, maar hulle kan ook uit telefoon boodskappe, field recordings of ander materiaal bestaan. Al die gebruikte opnames moet in elk geval van ‘n persoonlijke aard wees om die autobiografiese bedoeling van hiertoe projek te pas. Jy moet hulle alle self gemaak het en nie van derde party bronne kom nie.

Sperdatum: Maandag, 24 Desember, 11:59 NM, waarookal jy is.

Lengte: Jou stuk sal 60 sekondes lank wees as dit klaar is

Inligting: Wanneer jy jou track op SoundCloud plaas, laai asb. ook ‘n lys met al die bronne van jou 12 klanke op.

Titel/Tag: Wanneer jy jou track by die Disquiet Junto groep byvoeg op SoundCloud, sluit asb. die begrip ‘disquiet0051-audiojournal’ in die titel in, en ook as ‘n tag

Download:
Dit is verkiesbaar dat jou jy track als ‘downoadable’ gestel is en dat jy die moonltikheid biet vir ‘n toegeskryfde remix (bv. ‘n Creative Commons lisensie dat nie-kommersiële deel met toeskrywing toelaat).

Skakeling:
Wanneer jy jou track plaas, maak sekser dat jy die volgende inligting ook insluit:

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in Croatian:

Disquiet Junto Projekt 0051: 2012. u 60 sekunda

Ovotjedni projekt je zvučni dnevnik, audiopovijest prošle godine. Trebate izabrati različit audioelement za svaki od 12 mjeseci 2012. Zatim izaberite petosekundni odsječak iz svakoga od tih audioelemenata te spojite tih tucet petosekundnih odsječaka kronološki kako biste dobili cjelovit jednominutni zapis. Odsječci se ne smiju preklapati ni biti razdvojeni: moraju se nastavljati jedan za drugim.

Ti će audioelementi najvjerojatnije biti glazba koju ste sami komponirali i snimili, ali mogu to biti i telefonske poruke, terenski snimci ili materijal iz bilo kojeg drugog izvora. Materijali bi trebali biti osobne prirode te time primjereni autobiografskoj nakani projekta; bolje će biti ako ste ih sami načinili nego ako su preuzeti od treće strane.

Rok: Ponedjeljak, 24. prosinca, minutu do ponoći po lokalnom vremenu.

Trajanje: Završni snimak treba trajati 60 sekunda.

Informacije: Kad stavljate svoj snimak na SoundCloud, molim vas dodajte i porijeklo svakoga od 12 elemenata.

Naslov/Tag: Kad stavljate svoj snimak na Disquiet Junto grupu na Soundcloud.com, molim vas da uključite “disquiet0051-audiojournal” u naslov snimka te u njegov tag.

Downloadiranje: Draže mi je ako omogućite download svoga snimka te ako je omogućen remiks uz citiranje izvornika (n.pr. licenca Creative Commonsa koja dopušta nekomercijalno dijeljenje uz navođenje izvornika).

Linkanje: Kad stavljate konačni snimak, molim vas da dodate sljedeću obavijest:

Više o 51. Disquiet Junto projektu na:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at/Više o Disquiet Juntu na:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in German:

Disquiet Junto Projekt 0051: 2012 in 60 Sekunden

Im Projekt dieser Woche geht es um ein Klangtagebuch, eine klangliche Geschichte des vergangenen Jahres. Du wählst zwölf Klangelemente aus, die die Monate von 2012 repräsentieren. Danach bestimmst du einen 5-Sekunden-Ausschnitt aus jedem dieser Elemente und fügst sie in chronologischer Reihenfolge zu einem einminütigen Stück zusammen. Zwischen den Elementen sollte es keine fliessenden Ãœbergänge geben – einer folgt schlicht dem anderen.

Die Klangelemente werden am ehesten aus Musik bestehen, die du selber komponiert und aufgenommen hast. Elemente wie Telefonnachrichten, Field Recordings oder andere Quellen können aber genauso vorkommen, solange sie einen direkten, persönlichen Bezug zu dir haben und zur autobiografische Natur des Projekts passen. Bevorzugterweise hast du sie selber gemacht und nicht anderen Quellen entnommen.

Deadline: Montag, 24. Dezember, 23.59 Uhr in deiner Zeitzone.

Dauer: Das Stück sollte 60 Sekunden dauern.

Information: Bitte füge deinem Track auf SoundCloud eine Liste mit den 12 verwendeten Elementen bei.

Titel/Tags: Füge dem Titel deines Tracks die Bezeichnung “disqiet0051-audiojournal” bei wenn du es der Disquiet Junto-Gruppe auf Soundcloud.com beifügst, und verwende sie ebenfalls als als Tag für dein Stück.

Download: Es würde bevorzugt dass du deinen Track downloadbar machst und ihn für attribuiertes Remixing frei gibst (z.B. unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz, die nichtkommerzielle Verwendung mit Attribution erlaubt).

Links: Füge deiner Track-Beschreibung bitte auch die folgende Information bei:

Weitere Informationen über dieses 51. Disquiet Junto-Projekt (auf Englisch):

http://disquiet.com/2012/08/30/disqui...

Weitere Informationen über die Disquiet Junto (auf Englisch):

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in Japanese:

Disquiet Junto Project 0051: 60秒間の2012年

　今週のプロジェクトはサウンド・ジャーナル、昨年のオーディオ・カレンダーです。2012年の過去12ヶ月それぞれの月を表現する音素材を選んでください。その後、これらのオーディオ要素からそれぞれ5秒の部分を選びます。次に、それらを時系列順につなぎ合わせて一分の長さのトラックを作ってください。素材の重なりや隙間があってはいけません、次から次へと順々につながっていなければなりません。
　使用するオーディオ素材は誰かの素材集を使うのではなく、あなた自身が作曲し録音した電話の伝言メッセージや、フィールドレコーディング、他の音素材など、個人的な自分の記録という今回のプロジェクトの目的に合致したものにしてください。

〆切：12月24日月曜日11:59pm あなたがどこに住んでいるかかわらず

長さ：作品は60秒の長さでなければなりません

情報：作品をサウンドクラウドのグループに投稿する際には、あなたの採用した12の音素材のリストを添えてください。

タイトル／タグ：Disquiet Juntoグループに作品を投稿する際には“disquiet0051-audiojournal” という言葉をタイトルとタグに付けてください。

ダウンロード：いつものように必ずしもダウンロード可能にする必要はありませんが、望ましいです

リンク：投稿する際には以下の情報を追加してください

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in Polish:

Disquiet Junto Project 0051: 2012 in 60 Seconds (2012 w 60 sekund)

Projekt na ten tydzień to dźwiękowy pamiętnik – dźwiękowa historia mijającego roku. Należy wybrać różne składniki dźwiękowe, które będą reprezentować każdy z mijających 12 miesięcy roku 2012. Następnie należy wybrać jeden 5-sekundowy segment z każdego składnika. Potem należy poskładać wybrany tuzin 5-sekundowych segmentów w porządku chronologicznym, tak by stworzyć jednominutowy track. Segmenty nie mogą na siebie zachodzić, ani nie może być między nimi żadnych przerw’ po prostu powinny następować jeden po drugim.

Składnikami najprawdopodobniej będzie muzyka, która sami skomponowaliście i nagraliście, jednak mogą to być również wiadomości z telefonu, nagrania terenowe, lub jakikolwiek inny materiał źródłowy. Składniki muszą nieść w sobie element osobisty, dający poczucie że projekt niesie w sobie pierwiastek autobiograficzny. Najlepiej by były to składniki, które sami stworzyliście, a nie takie, które zostały pobrane ze źródeł zewnętrznych.

Deadline: Poniedziałek, 24 grudnia 2012, do godziny 23:59, gdziekolwiek mieszkacie.

Długość: Ukończony utwór powinien trwać 60 sekund.

Informacja: Po uploadzie na SoundCloud proszę podać listę składników dźwiękowych, które reprezentują każdy z 12 miesięcy.

Tytuł/Tag: Przy dodawaniu utworu do grupy Disquiet Junto, proszę dodać informację “disquiet0051-audiojournal” w tytule utworu i także na liście tagów.

Download: Byłoby dobrze, gdyby utwór można było pobrać, tak by można było wykonać remiksy (dlatego proszę o ustawienie licencji Creative Commons, które pozwalają na wykonaywanie prac pochodnych)

Linki: Po załadowniu, proszę o załączenie następującej informacji pod “chmurą”:

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

. . .

Project in Turkish:

Disquiet Junto Projesi 0051: 2012 in 60 Seconds (60 saniyede 2012)

Bu haftanın projesi, geçtiğimiz yılın bir ses günlüğünü, sesli tarihçesini yapmak üzerine. 2012′nin 12 ayından her birini temsil etmek üzere 12 ayrı ses öğesi seçeceksiniz. Bu ses öğelerinin her birinden ise 5′er saniyelik birer bölüm alacaksınız. Sonra bu bir düzine sesi kronolojik sırayla art arda dizerek 1 dakikalık bir parça oluşturacaksınız. Kesitler arasında üstüste çakışma ya da boşluk olmamalı; sırayla birinden diğerine geçilmeli.

Bu ses elemanları büyük olasılıkla kendi besteleyip kaydettiğiniz müzik çalışmalarından parçalar olacak, ama aynı zamanda telefon mesajları, kaydettiğiniz çeşitli sesler (field recordings) ya da başka herhangi bir kaynaktan alınmış materyal olabilir. Bu sesler, projenin otobiyografik amacına uygun şekilde bir miktar kişisel olmalı; tercihen 3. kaynaklardan alınmış seslerden ziyade kendi yaptığınız sesleri kullanın.

Son Teslim Tarihi: 24 Aralık Pazartesi, 23:59 (bulunduğunuz ülkenin saatine göre)

Uzunluk: Çalışmanızın uzunluğu 60 saniye olmalı.

Bilgi: Yaptığınız parçayı Soundcloud’da paylaşırken, lütfen kullandığınız 12 öğenin kaynağını açıklayın.

İsim/Etiket: Parçanızı Soundcloud.com’daki Disquiet Junto grubuna eklerken, lütfen “disquiet0051-audiojournal” kelimesini hem parçanın isminde, hem de etiket (tag) olarak kullanın.

Download: Parçanızın indirilebilir olması ve “atfedilmiş (attributed) remix”e izin vermesi tercih edilir (orijinal sahibine atıf yapılarak ticari olmayan şekilde paylaşmaya izin veren bir Creative Commons lisansı gibi).

Linkler: Yaptığınız parçayı paylaşırken, şu satırları eklemeyi unutmayın:

More on this 51st Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/20/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...

The Shadow in a Shadow

The folks behind touchradio.org.uk must be major fans of New Criticism, since they posit their audio on the web regularly with little enough contextual information for the word “scant” to sound generous. In the end, though, what is generous is the audio itself. The podcast series is a marvel of experimental audio, often though not always drawing from field recordings as source information. Among the latest is “The Only Known Photograph of Bruce Gilbert,” the photograph in question, reprinted above, a dark box with barely the outline of a figure. The sound is a rapture-inducing shadow itself, low key clangs, a simple dirge of a rhythm, and dusty ambience in full effect.

Download audio file (Radio87.mp3)

The work was performed on November 1, 2012, as part of a show featuring Gilbert, Mike Harding, and Achim Mohné. Details on the show at khm.de.

Running the Tabletop

There are various ways to discern an individual’s presence in social media, key among them is the simple integer associated with the individual in a given network. Take SoundCloud.com for example, where Richard Devine has north of 55,000 of what we’ve become accustomed to call “followers.” His reputation as a tech clothes horse precedes “Glitch Breaker Demo,” a track he produced on the iOS app Tabletop, which is a kind of meta-app, containing assorted mini-apps that emulate various audio tools and instruments, from effects filters to drum machines to a simulated turntable. Devine’s track is IDM by way of EDM, a slowly raging deployment of the various tool at hand:

In related news, the iMPC — the iOS version of the classic Akai drum machine — is the first “Tabletop ready app,” which is to say it comes with a free unlocked version that appears within the Tabletop system. More on that at the Tabletop developer blog at retronyms.com. It’s pictured in the screenshot that accompanied Devine’s track, shown up top.

Track originally posted at soundcloud.com/richarddevine. More on Devine at richard-devine.com.

“Losting” with Mark Rushton

Following up an app-related note in an earlier post here, Iowa-based musician Mark Rushton has posted another example of his work with the Samplr tool, a recently released app for the iOS operating system. The track is titled “Losting,” and it’s a slowly undulating bit of atmospheric effluence. Writes Rushton of the core of the track’s development: “It’s based around a melodic ostinato, and while the motif repeats over and over you’ll hear things changing in the background ever so slightly.” The result is like a miasma with a pulse, a threadbare haze that comes and goes with the elegance of a fragile, rotating machine. Oh, and he recommends good headphones.

More from Rushton at markrushton.com.

The Radiant Darkness (MP3)

Fire can sound like water. Passing traffic can sound like the rush of waves. And in the hands of Thomas Park, aka Mystfied, what appears to be the sounds captured in a dark cavern are transformed into something radiant. The album, a single track more than 20 minutes in length, is titled The Luminous Deep. Phillip Wilkerson is credited with “some of the sounds,” and the cover art depicts just the sort of place one might come upon fellow Deep Listening spelunkers like Pauline Oliveros or Stuart Dempster. The sounds may be sourced from somewhere other than the pictured location, but the effect would remain the same: less the soundtrack of the place than the internal soundtrack of the experience of the place.

The Luminous Deep by Mystified

Track originally posted for free download at deprofundisnetlabel.bandcamp.com. More on Park/Mystified at mystifiedmusic.com.

Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet

Well, this is fortunate. In the past few months the two main semi-automated content features employed on this site stopped working. One was the monthly list of most-read posts, the other the production of weekly Twitter compendiums. The latter happened when the plugin Twitter Tools for WordPress (the backend of this site) stopped supporting weekly compendiums. Enter a plugin called Twitter Digest. This post was the first test. It worked OK. In advance of next week’s compendium, the reply tweets (the ones beginning with @) won’t appear. Previously, these ran in reverse chronological order, but this chronological setup below works well, so it’ll remain the way these will be formatted. (Two copies of this post appeared, and I have vague recollections of a similar issue with Twitter Tools. I’ll keep an eye on it.)

RT @nlt_1840: Undiluted version of this week's @djunto challenge: http://t.co/UMRA1j0Q ->



@happypuppyrecs It's here: http://t.co/WRFpbek0. You have manually enter it. It's not part of design currently. In progress, I've been told. ->



@echosonic I had no idea. That's cool. Thanks. in reply to echosonic ->



Congrats! MT @ethanhein: Peace reigns in Labor & Delivery. Btwn heart monitor, IV titration devices, beeps & distant voices, a @djunto vibe. ->



@benjamindauer Yeah, happened to me in Canada a few years back. A rental car I'd never rented. in reply to benjamindauer ->



@aleksk Thanks for including me & Disquiet in this week's Guardian podcast about SoundCloud. ->



@happypuppyrecs I'm intrigued by the need for these big, switch-flip re-launches, versus more general iterative change. in reply to happypuppyrecs ->



Finally seeing Skyfall. ->



@happypuppyrecs Where is that option? in reply to happypuppyrecs ->



Man, worse ways to wake up than to discover Marke Morse — aka (dj) morsanek — has joined the @djunto: https://t.co/hkjL0X3i ->



@happypuppyrecs Thanks! in reply to happypuppyrecs ->



@happypuppyrecs I made a little post where people might want to discuss the changes: http://t.co/iokhvyk4 in reply to happypuppyrecs ->



All I can say is, futurepruf (.com) does very good work. ->



I've loved so much recent @djunto music, this rhythmic reworking of Three Legs Duck netlabel releases in particular: https://t.co/OW8xDgT1 ->



@vuzhmusic Stellar. Will listen shortly. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



Now in possession of a Nexus 4, my new phone. So far, pretty nifty. ->



@lownote @mlaffs @Marcissist I have been pondering a drone-of-drones project. I think @demilit would be particularly interested. in reply to lownote ->



Any recommendations on a thumbdrive-based Linux that works easily on Macbook Air? ->



So far, my single word review of the Nexus 4 is: Wow. ->



Shot note to the @djunto list, seeing if enough folks in the Miami area are available for a Disquiet Junto show in 2013. ->



The motherboard egg in downtown Palo Alto. http://t.co/iTcTawTw ->



For those interested in cassette culture, 16 (and counting) pieces of music composed to meld with sound of tape deck: https://t.co/y3jcxmRa ->



French phishing email this morning, faux-iTunes variety. Phrench phishing? Phaux? ->



@soundscrapers I have mental images of tiny John Deere machines trimming the clouds. in reply to soundscrapers ->



"Stereo speaker wire was her final weapon of choice." Grisly story about decline and suicide of university dean: http://t.co/G2yox9Hx ->



The sad news that boats are far behind hybrid cars in the noise pollution they emit: http://t.co/IVRBZr4A ->



Tomorrow in "sound" class: personal music technology from Thomas Edison to Pete Campbell to William Gibson to Dr. Dre. ->



@emarg0ed Congrats! in reply to emarg0ed ->



Dear San Franciscans, Unsilent Night this Saturday, Dec 15. Dear Remainder of Earth, full schedule here: http://t.co/gRgxUMO8 ->



@Apopotamus Howdy. Most classes I'd say sure but this one's largely in-class work on an assignment due next week. in reply to Apopotamus ->



@Apopotamus I am due to teach the course again next semester, so maybe you could join in one of those classes? in reply to Apopotamus ->



@Apopotamus Much appreciated. in reply to Apopotamus ->



Listening to narrator of unabridged version of James Gleick's The Information recite Gleick's distinction between written & spoken language. ->



@benjamindauer Yeah, I got a bunch of J Crew emails thanks to someone who'd snagged my info somehow. But nothing creepy to my mail. in reply to benjamindauer ->



Tried to upgrade the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, and it created a bunch of single-tweet posts. I think they're deleted now. ->



Now just the WordPress plugin Twitter Tools solely for sidebar of recent tweets, and trying out Twitter Digest for weekly compendiums. ->



@showcaseJase A hassle, but a truly minor one. I think the plugin's documentation could be stronger. in reply to showcaseJase ->



@vuzhmusic Tried the Social Plugin with Twitter Tools, and true enough it no longer handles weekly archives. Trying another plugin now. … ->



@vuzhmusic … so, we'll know Saturday if it works and/or if I set it up right. ->



@vuzhmusic Our tweets crossed in the night — we'll know on Saturday, which is when I have set it. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@vuzhmusic You know it. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@vuzhmusic I think that's like what Twitter Digest does, right? I find this more confusing than it need be. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



Two days until Disquiet (.com) is 16 years old. On the same day, the Disquiet Junto will begin its 50th weekly music project. ->



@vuzhmusic Ah, gotcha. Twitter Tools appears to do that; there's a "tweet" section in my dashboard now. Seems like overkill for a widget. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@vuzhmusic Tantalizing! I'll be at dinner by then, I think. Will check in later. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



RIP, Ravi Shankar (b. 1920), synonymous with the sitar: http://t.co/eI9MAj0P ->



@vuzhmusic I'll let you know what comes of it Saturday. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@BrewCrewJess The past was a funny place. in reply to BrewCrewJess ->



@crumblereshape I am very much enjoying it. in reply to crumblereshape ->



The way a jet overhead sounds so much like a skateboard passing on the sidewalk below. ->



@compactrobot I sometimes wonder if there are copyright issues with that score because it appears to contain sounds from the film. in reply to compactrobot ->



@compactrobot But I love that a computer thought your score Zip is the film. That'd be a pretty modestly sized compression of the video. in reply to compactrobot ->



@compactrobot Yeah, perhaps they're just scouring for that. in reply to compactrobot ->



@compactrobot Try posting three family photos in a Zip file with the same name. ->



@compactrobot I'm about 20 pages from the end of @doctorow's Pirate Cinema, so your entanglement is on my mind. ->



@compactrobot If it's the full score, wouldn't be hard to just match file size and title. If they're scouring innards, all the easier. in reply to compactrobot ->



@compactrobot Yeah. They likely have the same files. Whoever "they" are. in reply to compactrobot ->



@compactrobot I have no doubt they have rights to the soundtrack. in reply to compactrobot ->



There's about a week gap between when LinkedIn warns you there's 1 day left to sign up for free Premium & when it starts offering it again. ->



@compactrobot I'm interested, for sure, if you hear back. in reply to compactrobot ->



RIP, Galina Vishnevskaya (b. 1926): soprano, dissident, wife of cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. http://t.co/fJILKop2 ->



Nicely done. RT @jeffkolar: Now all of my @djunto contributions are in one spot: http://t.co/GxBBxi5r ->



@cinchel I'd love to hear what you make of the project after this lengthy period of distance from it. in reply to cinchel ->



The Salvation Army guy isn't so much ringing his bell as letting its clapper anxiously roll around on the inside. ->



Got my blink(1) from thingM! http://t.co/a3iiuiqJ ->



Open: Yeats. Close: Dr. Dre. In between, students presented on formats, Blues Brothers, noise pollution, silence-in-yoga. Good class today. ->



@boondesign A nifty programmable cross-platform indicator light. Blew up on Kickstarter, where I was a pre-goal funder: http://t.co/nbxi6p7n in reply to boondesign ->



@vuzhmusic Woot! And this is Twitter Digest, right? Or is it Tweet Tweet you're using? in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@boondesign That's funny. It could be, if your bike has USB. in reply to boondesign ->



And tomorrow, Disquiet (.com) turns 16 years old. Time for reflection. ->



@vuzhmusic Cool. I am hopeful to see what pops up on Saturday, when it's set to post. in reply to vuzhmusic ->



@boondesign I look forward to it, or them. in reply to boondesign ->



Paul McCartney is playing as part of Nirvana to make the case that "Angry" off his album Press to Play was a progenitor of grunge. ->



Thunderbird, we spent many years together but I think I need to try the stock Mail app in OS X because you're draining me. Well, my battery. ->



@idontlikewords I gave it a try and it didn't click with me, but may again. Thanks. in reply to idontlikewords ->



Dear OS X Hive: After removing Thunderbird, how do you get rid of all the invisible files in /Library? Safe to just delete the directories? ->



Disappointed the rumor that David Caruso would join the Who on drums turned out to be untrue. ->



Really maxing out memory on this Macbook Air. May go with a Nifty + microsd just to add 64gbs to the 128gb it came with. ->



@heimo01 @boondesign Them it will be. in reply to heimo01 ->



Late-night sounds: low-level rumble of refrigerator, low-level electric whine, distant drone of automobiles. ->



@ioflow I'm looking forward to IFTTT, but for now digging the Twitter search and sound organ. in reply to ioflow ->



@GlennF The reference was to the display of affection inherent in their public use. in reply to GlennF ->



Sound FX are the new animated GIF. Comment on an http://t.co/A7vxk3kq post: "When reached for comment, Nolan responded only with 'BRAAAM'" ->



Pro Tip: Best way to remember you have an external drive attached via USB: http://t.co/t9zPAktd ->



RIP, composer Otto Ketting (b. 1935), via @soundblog. ->



And the conversation returns to the sound of animated GIFs: http://t.co/fFpe1vTd ->



@SpectaCiera Yeah, almost painfully. in reply to SpectaCiera ->



Podcast planning. ->



@ethanhein Wonderful news. in reply to ethanhein ->



Nice. Another artist's @djunto set. MT @vuzhmusic: After http://t.co/nLjngYLl, I started working on @djunto: http://t.co/OTgyyRkG ->



And another's: RT @markrushtoncom: Soundcloud set of my @djunto contributions. 24 pieces (23 projects). https://t.co/AC5Tgqua ->



Tonight begins the 50th weekly project in the Disquiet Junto music series. It will require basic familiarity with Morse Code. ->



- – . . – RT @jmmy_kppl: @disquiet – - – - . – ->



And another: MT @benjamindauer: Proud of every one though not as many as I’d have liked. My @djunto collection: http://t.co/eeHSYWKO ->



This week’s @djunto project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content: http://t.co/ankPwiqS + http://t.co/XdREURGZ ->



@shonenjump My favorite is the tabletop, The Fantasy Trip (aka Melee and Wizard) by Steve Jackson. in reply to shonenjump ->



@countrymarxist @Schemawound @Nonwrestler Looking forward to what you make of it. in reply to countrymarxist ->



@toddbert – …. .. … / .– .. .-.. .-.. / -… . / …. . .-.. .–. ..-. ..- .-.. .-.-.- in reply to toddbert ->



An odd thing about the Nexus 4: it's the first cellphone I recall purchasing that didn't come with a pair of earbuds. ->



@Schemawound @countrymarxist Yeah, ham it up. Sorry, the joke demanded that I make it. in reply to Schemawound ->



@Schemawound Never read it. Recommended? in reply to Schemawound ->



@Schemawound Santa is especially generous with decade-old books. Inexpensive to come by, generally. in reply to Schemawound ->



And another musician's collection of @djunto projects: RT @SpectaCiera: @disquiet @djunto here's my set – https://t.co/bmfYyE2A ->



@countrymarxist Indeed. Must be tougher! in reply to countrymarxist ->



Getting closer to launching a small forum/discussion area on Disquiet (.com). If you've seen good implementations of bbPress, lemme know. ->



Man, that Kelly Link. So good. Why did I wait so long? ->



@publichistorian Man, just so good. This moment when a kid is covering its mouth while laughing like it's trying to "catch the laugh." Nice. in reply to publichistorian ->



Helpful & nifty. MT @Schemawound: #Supercollider text-to-morse function to assist in work on @djunto 0050: -…….–.-..-…- http://t.co/M8VTFo80 ->



Just noticed that in HootSuite the action button reads "Tweet" no matter which service you are sending information to. ->



@showcaseJase Excellent. And document your project. :) in reply to showcaseJase ->



"To represent the spaces I used a short hiss (aerosol spray can)": superb track from 50th @djunto: http://t.co/EOmUKO6l ->



@tobiasreber Yeah, I got a couple as part of a recent Humble Bundle. in reply to tobiasreber ->



My iPod and iPad have had the "Turning Off Reminders" (in iCloud) in-progress wheel spinning for, like, five minutes. ->



The primary purpose of iCloud seems to be to instruct the general public that UI and UX are not the same thing. ->



The street construction suggests I've chosen an odd day to work from home. ->



Little interview with me at my publisher about the 33 1/3 book I'm writing about Aphex Twin's SAW2 album: http://t.co/BkILLPd1 ->



@christianbok Major thanks. in reply to christianbok ->



@robotdancerobot It's very lovely. Now, please glitch it up. in reply to robotdancerobot ->



@robotdancerobot Now that's prompt service. in reply to robotdancerobot ->



Three tracks so far, all great, in this week's @djunto, exploring Morse Code's rhythmic sensibility: https://t.co/yp0QVW9T ->



Street sounds on a drizzly morning: http://t.co/8oIywVPm ->



The municipal noisemaker responsible for this morning's background score: http://t.co/m7TfVFcz ->



@robinrimbaud Thanks, man. A best-seller, it won't be. But I'm hopeful it'll find its audience, and vice versa. in reply to robinrimbaud ->



@solidsignal Very nice. I was unfamiliar. in reply to solidsignal ->



@solidsignal "Don't blame me dear, blame McLuhan. His media were your ruin." in reply to solidsignal ->



@marktavern Thanks for reading. in reply to marktavern ->



@alln4tural So glad you're in there. And I owe you an email. in reply to alln4tural ->



Video of NYC Junto show now includes my intro. At 2:17 into my clip is when I realize a good friend is in the audience: http://t.co/tpEBruk6 ->



Audbiobook of James Gleick's The Information skips during segment on irregularity of spelling at dawn of English dictionary. #mcluhansghost ->



Just loving the new comic from Jeff LeVine, Extra Time. ->



Didn't know in advance that tonight's episode of Fringe would mention Morse Code — but, in light of current @djunto project, happy about it. ->

Chris Watson, the Anti-Ahab (MP3)

Earlier this week, Touch Editions put together a two-night, three-day field recording event as part of its ongoing 30th anniversary. The event was headlined by Chris Watson, wildlife sound legend — at least to those who pay attention to wildlife sound.

The Touch podcast, over at touchradio.org.uk, has now posted a December 8 recording from Sea Palling in Norfolk, England, to commemorate the event (MP3. It’s the deep white noise of the ocean, and Watson is its anti-Ahab: determined in his pursuit of the ubiquitous. The fidelity and placidity are remarkable.

Download audio file (Radio88.mp3)

Track originally posted at touchradio.org.uk for free download. More on the recent event at wildeye.co.uk. The above photo accompanied the original post; it is credited to Sunouchi Motohiro.

The Beat in the Haze

If percussion is small enough, if its interplay is varied and random-seeming enough, it can pass through the appearance of percussion and become ambience. To listen closely to the first half of “Coldwave 1″ by A Scanner Darkly, all soft rhythmic patterning, it’s like taking a keen glimpse at some gossamer sheet hanging in midair. Sure, there’s a fairly recognizable grid of thread, but between the breeze and the light it might as well be cumulous. This lasts awhile for “Coldwave 1,” but eventually rhythm trumps atmosphere, and a thrilling little microbeat gets underway, the martial spirit of some nanotech army. The transition is well done, especially because both sides — the soft and the hard, the generative and the regimented — are equally balanced.

More from A Scanner Darkly, who’s based in Vancouver, Canada, at soundcloud.com/scannerdarkly. There isn’t much information on the musician, but there is in the brief accompanying bio a little statement of purpose that is intriguing: “All sounds are one take, no overdubbing recordings.”

Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-

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 the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate.

This assignment was made in the afternoon, California time, on Thursday, December 13, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, December 17, as the deadline. (There are no translations this week.)

These are the instructions that went out to the group’s email list (at tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto).

Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -…….–.-..-…-

This week’s project explores invokes Morse Code for its rhythmic content. The instructions are as follows: Select a word or phrase. Encode that word or phrase by the Morse method. Record a rhythmic foundation in which the dash is represented by a long beat and the dot by a brief one. Use that rhythmic foundation as a loop for the length of your track, at the speed you desire — speed can vary over the length of the recording. Record accompanying drone/melodic material that takes the underlying rhythm as its compositional foundation.

Deadline: Monday, December 17, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your finished work should be between 1 and 3 minutes in length.

Information: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0050-morsebeat” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: For this project, your track should be set as downloadable, and allow for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, be sure to include this information:

More on this 50th Disquiet Junto project at:

http://disquiet.com/2012/12/13/disqui...

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet...