Marc Weidenbaum

There is a unique quality to the siren of an emergency vehicle stuck in dense traffic two blocks away, just the same ongoing volume as the light changes over and over, without movement. I’m used to sirens passing, fading, not at a sustained level of loudness for minutes at a time.

ICE Spy With My Little Eye (disquiet0722 - Spook Street) music for a haunted spy film Made w/ a Martin through a mic, split into Hologram Microcosm (stereo) and Empress Zoia - 4 Track Punk patch, then into Logic

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For once I got mine done fast, instead of agonizing until five minutes before the deadline.

Not 100% proud of the solo, but that's the kind of thing that I decided to not obsess over.

Colophon:
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When I'm back in New York, I always listen for whose music I'll hear first: Billy Joel's, Bruce Springsteen's, or Bon Jovi's. After a week and a half on Long Island free of all of them, I stepped off the LIRR and into Penn Station, only to be greeted by a busker playing "Uptown Girl" on Melodica.

Disquiet Junto Project 0722: Spook Street

The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film.

Deadline: Monday, November 3, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0722

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (Oct 30, 2025) at disquiet.com/0722, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores Halloween, naturally, but with a specificity to the creative constraint.

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The excellent You Are Listening To website got a relaunch/reskin/reboot:

youarelistening.to

An Oblique Strategies hack. Choose two, and contemplate how they play together and what tension surfaces between them:

phone: “Cut a vital connection”

laptop: “Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing”

The quartet is foundational to my sense of how music functions; a double quartet is especially interesting to me — lots of pairings and echos and ambiguities and tensions. That's what Sō Percussion and Bergamot Quartet are up to here. The composition is by a Sō member.

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A suburban sidewalk with a no trespassing sign

Sidewalks can end in more ways than one

Protocols, not platforms!

IMAP is still magic

"Rows and rows of disused milk floats / Stand dying in the dairy yard / And a hundred lonely housewives / Clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts"

The Jam's "Town Called Malice" could be re-titled "Town Called Ballard," as in JG, and you wouldn't have to change another word.

I believe you’ve discovered the Shel Silverstein Memorial Sidewalk Termination.

Photo showing a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood where the concrete just stops.

A sidewalk can, apparently, simply end

Yeah, that became my read, too, over the weekend. Part of what confused me is some initial glitching in how the whole thing responded to my clicking on the options. I kinda get the personalized alerts, but the fact is, I click alert on very little, and kinda don't need more alerts in my life. :)

Have a good weekend. Hum along with your refrigerator's drone. Meditate to your HVAC system's whir. Dance to the rumble of a clothes dryer. See you Monday — or maybe Tuesday.

Very excited the second book, The Faith of Beasts, in James S. A. Corey’s The Captive’s War series will come out … in mid-April 2026. Very excited this new Cyberpunk card game, Cyberpunk Legends: Into the Night, will come out … in late July 2026.

So this new YouTube system converted all my channel subscriptions to "personalized" and I need to go through hundred of the channels and manually switch to "all"? This seems ... odd.

I want an iSurfboard

Me: My 11” iPad is old and slow and can’t hold a charge for as long as it once did. Maybe I’ll get the 13” one when I upgrade

[Someone walks by with a massive 13” iPad]

Me: Uh, I think I’m good.

Thanks for that

The lock screen of a phone with the time in bright yellow

Main thing I like about the new iOS upgrade is the massive time displayed on the lock screen. Every time I glance at it, I feel like the movie that my life is has begun some momentous, title-card-deserving new phase. It's 4:18!

Let me just say, Marc Weidenbaum has been coming up with a creative composition prompt per week for the last 721 consecutive weeks, and he has not remotely run out of ideas. This one is a banger. disquiet.com?p=72990/

Now, I am not in the market for a fog machine, but this Craigslist ad certainly makes a compelling case

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Subset of iPhone users who still have U2's Songs of Innocence on their phones

Step 4: Listen several times in a row to the section selected in Step 3. Get to know its sounds, and the overall shape of the recording.

Step 5: Record a track in which you play along with the storm.

Step 1: On freesound.org, find a recording of a bad storm. Or use one of your own.

Step 2: Listen to the recording from Step 1.

Step 3: Select a section of the recording from Step 1, perhaps 3 to 5 minutes in length.

Frogs falling from clouds, plus the name and number of the project

Disquiet Junto Project 0721: Well Weathered

The Assignment: Play along with a storm

Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0721

#DisquietJunto

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 23, 2025) at disquiet.com/0721, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores inclement weather.