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Richmond Dist., San Francisco
Joined June 2007
This is my “keeping this account alive” tweet.
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This is my “keeping this account alive” tweet.
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Well, one good thing about that, uh, generous "humanity, whom I love" comment is it got this Miles Davis favorite stuck in my head: youtube.com/watch?v=3Fc_-VZl…
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(Teo Macero, whom I love)
I own thousands upon thousands of CDs, upward of 8,000, maybe more, having purchased my first discs (Remain in Light, Discipline, Violent Femmes, Thursday Afternoon) in 1985/86. Not one has ever been put in my CD player and failed to play. cc @BruceLevenstein @LeeRosevere
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My laptop is Maas Biolabs. My iPad is The Peripheral. My phone is Count Zero. I need a fourth device name, fellow @greatdismal readers.
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Your desk-bound workday sonic input?
42%music (identify in reply)
5%brown noise
14%other noise (which?)
40%nuthin' — ears wide open
88 votes • Final results
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You're awake. I'm not. This auto-tweet announces a new #DisquietJunto project: Make a piece of music inspired by the architectural concept of a "folly." Details: disquiet.com/0565. Email via tinyletter.com/disquiet-junt… when I wake. Tracks due Oct. 31, 11:59pm (your local time).
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Not sure why the link didn’t initially work, but the project is live now
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Either the electric car near me is in the process of dying, or the sound it normally makes when backing up has been replaced with a low fidelity MP3 titled “the sound of a dying electric car”
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Core material from yesterday's issue of This Week in Sound: ▰ Brian Eno's fake birds ▰ evolutionary legacy of cilia ▰ Tostitos' sound brand ▰ sound in casual games ▰ "oenesthesia" (pairing of wine and sound) ▰ voice privacy disquiet.com/2022/10/26/this…
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Every Tuesday I send out my ThisWeekInSound.substack.com email newsletter. Every Wednesday I wake up wondering if I'll have enough material for the following Tuesday. I rarely make it to the end of Wednesday without enough new topics. Which is why there's now also a Friday edition.
"Spreading Deadly Pathogens Under the Disguise of Popular Music" The authors designed music to trick the sensors in a biolab to leak hazards. The music triggers resonant-frequency thresholds used in the safety system. (My poor paraphrase.) tl;dr Weaponized Rickrolling
Audio terror: playing “malicious music”—a disguised resonant frequency embedded in an unrelated song—can fool a sensor into switching negative pressure rooms into positive pressure, possibly releasing biological hazards from sealed laboratories.
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Important life update: I have stopped having 8 browser tabs open with different Gmail accounts and now use the Mail app on my Mac.
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I’m still new to reading modern British crime novels. My Kindle kept pointing out stuff readers had highlighted, and I couldn’t sort out what was special about those particular sentences. Then I realized what was going on. The readers had marked clues as the book progressed.
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I should get some friends to all read the same mystery novel and we could all underline the same passages that have nothing in particular to do with the plot, totally throwing off subsequent readers.
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I also recognize that this is, to a degree, the plot of Heathers.
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“Deepfake Birds" & “Oenesthesia” on This Week in Sound thisweekinsound.substack.com…
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Oh, and this is, along with JFK and, of course, the first Star Wars movie, one of my favorite John Williams scores.