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. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media. ▰ Multiple devices in the house ring out, slightly out of sync, all pinged semi-but-not-quite-simultaneously by an ongoing sequence of text messages — the same ale ..read more

Yes, I’m enjoying Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod. It’s the first book in his Lightspeed trilogy. And l love this reminder that included among the sounds of nature are the trademark sounds of the people who tell us about nature ..read more

Happiness is when one of your favorite neighborhood dumpling shops (we have more than our fair share) also sells them frozen ..read more

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 project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to the SoundCloud playlist for the duration of the project. Additional (non-SoundCloud) trac ..read more

There’s plenty of great writing and music-making happening on the web, folks acting like it’s still the mid-1990s (through the early 2000s). No clickbait, no press release regurgitation, no hot-topic parasitism/bandwagoning, no SEO-optimized topic laundering, no artificially typed word salad, no social media histrionics, just deep dives into topics the individuals have spent meaningful time exploring. Two recent examples: ▰ Ethan Hein writes about isolated tracks (like the ones in which you can listen to just Paul McCartney’s bass line from a Beatles song) in the context of his work as an ..read more

It felt like if I waited long enough, Max Headroom would make an appearance ..read more

It’s nice living in Ralph McQuarrie’s imagination ..read more

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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. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. I take weekends and evenings off social media. ▰ There was a period of time during which I’d receive “dark ambient” releases on CD-Rs and it felt totally appropriately futuristic and now I receive “dark ambient ..read more