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Marc Weidenbaum
@disquiet.bsky.social
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Disquiet.com since 1996: ambient/electronic music, field recordings, sound studies. I moderate the Disquiet Junto community of weekly music projects. I've written for The Wire, Pitchfork and Nature. I publish ThisWeekInSound.disquiet.com. Offline weekends.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7h
Have a good weekend. Open a window as soon as you wake up. Search an ebook of your favorite novel from childhood for the words “sound” and “listen” and note the results. Play an album very loud from the next room over. See you Tuesday — or maybe Wednesday.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7h
That's pretty cool. I didn't realize that the Spanish edition of my 33 1/3 book on Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II was the first book in the series of Spanish translations. Some background on the publisher here (in Spanish).

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Dale play - La Agenda Revista
La colección 33 1/3, de la editorial inglesa Bloomsbury, ofrece libros pequeños, dedicados cada uno a un disco. Dos editoriales argentinas se juntaron para traducirlos
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 13h
My video playlist on YouTube of live performances of ambient music is up to 225 tracks. It is, apparently, 31 hours, 48 minutes, and 1 second in length.

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ambient drone eurorack modular live 20250830_2
YouTube video by OTSUBO Kazuhisa
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 13h
Filthmilk, I have been helpfully informed!
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 14h
Bonus points to the musician who set up across the street from the Autechre concert at the Regency and drew a crowd when the show ended, around 11:15pm
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 15h
Got a good photo of Autechre's awesome show at the Regency
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 1d
Disquiet Junto Project 0719: Riding on the Metronome

The Assignment: Play with and against a steady beat.

Deadline: Monday, October 13, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0719

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A pendulum swings over a person's head, plus the number and name of the project
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 2d
A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 9, 2025) at disquiet.com/0719, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores metronomes.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 2d
My wallet survived a gashapon encounter
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 4d
Sitting here in the mall by myself with my earbuds in noise cancellation mode, listening to abstract music, I can tell you that just about any track of abstract music would work as a music video if you just set up a camera in a mall and let the world saunter by. A minimalist-budget Koyaanisqatsi.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 4d
I need to hack my TV to include serial commas in captions
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
Current status, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
Thanks. And yeah, I dug the opportunities big time.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
I don't need to put Bandcamp Friday on my calendar. I can tell it's Bandcamp Friday first thing when I look at my inbox that morning and there's a 100 more emails than usual.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
Ha! Good one.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
Ha! I've interviewed him twice. I need to look back at the transcripts to see if he said that. Here's the longer story:

www.sactownmag.com/the-man-who-...
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Man Who Fell for Earth
The New Yorker has called him “one of the most important political writers working in America today.” Time magazine has called him a hero of the environment. But it’s being a science fiction author th...
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
Most of the time in an interview, if the interviewee says, "That's an interesting question," what they mean is "I don't have a prepared answer for that, and so I'm gonna buy myself a few valuable seconds of thinking time by instinctively complimenting you."
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
I briefly thought the shutdown might mean a quiet Fleet Week, but no, there still will be jet fighters (Canadian ones) LARPing WWIII.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Blue Angels on 'pause' for SF Fleet Week, but air show set to go on
The federal government shutdown means the legendary squadron is likely grounded.
www.sfgate.com
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
An underappreciated feature of Apple's Find My Phone service is that after using it to play a sound on your lost phone you are left with an earworm of Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough"
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 8d
Disquiet Junto Project 0718: Planet Jam It

The Assignment: Record the sound of an advanced alien civilization.

Deadline: Monday, October 6, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0718

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A drawing of planets in rotation around a central mass, perhaps a sun, plus the name and number of the project
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 9d
A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 2, 2025) at disquiet.com/0718, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores space exploration.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 9d
The start of October in San Francisco is when you traditionally sweep away the actual spiderwebs in order to then put up fake spiderwebs
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 9d
Saw two bands at the Stork Club last Friday. Particularly dug Sachi's Mirror, which involves electric violin through guitar pedals. The other, quite fun, is Angoisse Magazine.
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 9d
Sign me up
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 9d
I’m seeing Marc Ribot on Friday, Nick Lowe on Sunday, and Autechre the following Thursday — it’s the mid-1990s all over again.
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