Marc Weidenbaum
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.
- A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (February 5, 2026) at disquiet.com/0736, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores ... the dopamine rush of social media.
- Occasionally these speech-to-text voice apps I use for note-taking insert descriptions of the sounds they can’t transcribe. Today I got “(snow crunching)” which I’ve never gotten before, and I can’t help but wonder if it gave this San Francisco that interpretation because I’m (briefly) in New York.
- Blue Liz, Petrified Forest, Cosmic Cobalt — these are some of the many colors of crayons that #DisquietJunto participants are exploring for their sonic content in this week's project. Tracks will appear through the end of today, February 2. A list of the colors so far: disquiet.com/2026/02/01/c...
- Oh nice, Permanent Geranium Lake just showed up in the project — an old-school banger, as crayon color names go.
- Through an earbud, an incoming message is read to me mechanically. The message concludes with the emoji TY, short for thank you. I know this because I hear “tie” at the end of the sentence. Then I wonder if in the future people will say “tie” aloud when they mean thank you. Perhaps some already do.
- A little noise pollution humor. Have a good weekend. See you Monday — or maybe Tuesday.
- 5 jobs I’ve had 1. dish washer 2. laundry facilities attendant 3. laboratory* slide projector operator 4. music magazine senior editor 5. Japanese publishing company** vice president ___ *James Watson’s*** **Shonen Jump**** ***yes, that James Watson ****no, I don’t speak or read Japanese
- Just a reminder to listen to your messages, 'cause sometimes those transcriptions aren't accurate.
- I knew there was an automated fix
