Since January 2012, the Disquiet Junto has been an ongoing weekly collaborative music-making community that employs creative constraints as a springboard for creativity. It has been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018). II, was published as part of the 33 1/3 series, an imprint of Bloomsbury. My book on Aphex Twin's landmark 1994 album, Selected Ambient Works Vol.A chapter on the Disquiet Junto ("The Disquiet Junto as an Online Community of Practice," by Ethan Hein) appears in the book The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (Oxford University Press), edited by Stephanie Horsley, Janice Waldron, and Kari Veblen.There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the book The Music Production Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the Classroom (Oxford University Press), edited by Adam Patrick Bell.December 13, 2021: This day marked the 25th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.January 6, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.December 28, 2021: This day marked the 10th (!) anniversary of the Instagr/am/bient compilation.March 11, 2022: I hosted a panel discussion between Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and James Bradbury in San Francisco as part of the Algorithmic Art Assembly ( ) at Gray Area ( ).April 16, 2022: I participated in an online "talk show" by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier).January 6, 2023: This day marked the 11th anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto music community.December 13, 2022: This day marks the 26th anniversary of the founding of.To the This Week in Sound e-newsletter on Substack It is a ceremony performed not on its originally intended instrumentation, but on a hodgepodge of stand-ins collected at local pawn shops and tracked down in the aisles of Home Depot and Walmart.Ĭonversations with musicians/artists/coders
The track is a midtempo mix of bowed string instruments, glottal vocalizing, dark-of-night animal calls, and chiming percussion. Corridor,” the music is downright otherworldly ( MP3). At times the music of Chairs, who are based in Houston, Texas, has the feel of a neighbor’s plaintive rituals heard through an inadvertently open window, of an old-world festivity restrained by the needs of privacy (by the challenges of assimilation), yet still seeping, relentlessly if patiently, into the world.Īt its best, as on “Weightlessness in the U.F.O. It is the sound of cultures rubbing up against each other and producing, as a result, these fractal associative patterns of chance aesthetic convergence and contrast. It’s Fourth World music, as sonic futurist Jon Hassell envisioned it. Puppet State Shaman by Chairs, on the TVK netlabel, is border-state music.
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