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about Drumcorps’ Glitch-Mediated Metal Marc Weidenbaum founded the website RIYL your fond memories of Prong, Slayer, Fugazi, and Godflesh processed by Max Headroom's Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of digital-native grandkid sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has [ March 5, 2021 / Department: downstream / Comment: 1 ] moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects. He Better Days buy share has written for Nature, Boing Boing, The Wire, by drumcorps Pitchfork, and NewMusicBox, among other periodicals. He is the author of the 33 1⁄3 book on Aphex Twin’s classic album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Read more about his sonic consultancy, teaching, sound art, and work in film, comics, and other media 1. The Importance of Stealth 02:31

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downstream Recommended listening each weekday To say this isn’t ambient would be an understatement, and it’s noted here simply because I veer less and less in my writing about music from the quiet zone, whether interviews unnatural or natural or hybrid environments. So, yeah, don’t sit too close to your Conversations with musicians/artists/coders speakers, and attenuate that volume if you’re using headphones. This is, on a Friday, studio journal exactly what I needed. It’s Drumcorps hitting hard with not just his trademark Video, audio, patch notes glitched-up drum’n’bass-mediated metal, but the raw thing, as well. It’s RIYL your fond memories of Prong, Slayer, Fugazi, and Godflesh processed by Max projects Headroom’s digital-native grandkid. The first track is a trick, a sleight of ear, in Select collaborations and commissions which the metal starts off without the seams showing, cut and plastered so suddenly that it could be mistaken for (heck, maybe it is) simply a break-neck live subscribe performance by someone capable of playing back in realtime what we once craved To the This Week in Sound e-newsletter software to accomplish for us. Either way, the realism soon enough fades in favor of email the computer-addled automatic mash-up that Drumcorps is so good at.

current activities It’s interesting how songs like Prince’s “Dance On” and Prong’s “Prime Cut” (prime Upcoming aesthetic examples to me of human-machine music interface) once seemed so • July 28, 2021: This day marks the start of the intense, and now don’t. They broke norms at their time, but they’re more (easy) 500th consecutive weekly project in the Disquiet Junto music community. listenable now, the tension gone. What’s great about Drumcorps is it has some of the • December 13, 2021: This day marks the 25th intensity those songs had when I first heard them. And he’s been at it a long time, anniversary of the founding of Disquiet.com. and still keeps it fresh. • January 6, 2021: This day marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Disquiet Junto Drumcorps is Aaron Spectre, originally from Massachusetts and now based in music community. Amsterdam. More at drumcorps.co. Recent • There are entries on the Disquiet Junto in the forthcoming book The Music Production By Marc Weidenbaum Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the [ Tag: recommended stream / Comment: 1 ] Classroom (Oxford University Press), edited by Adam Patrick Bell. Ethan Hein wrote one, and I « Disquiet Junto Project 0479: Truck did, too. Radio Rain • A chapter on the Disquiet Junto ("The Disquiet

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