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Kat Walsh from Creative Commons joins us to talk about the history of Creative Commons as a 'hack on copyright.' Marc Weidenbaum speaks on the history of the Disquiet Junto, a long-running online distributed community creating new music in response to a weekly online composition challenge. Episode notes, credits and transcript In this season of the podcast we're working in collaboration with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law. In addition to our usual crop of artists and programmers we're adding in legal scholars to help us unpack some of the thorny issues for those working in art and code as they unleash their work into the world. In this episode we dive into the world of Creative Commons, which is now over 20 years old. It is both an organization as well as a collection of copyright licenses used by artists, musicians, writers, directors and creators worldwide to communicate to the world how they want their work shared and potentially to be used as a source to build upon. We also speak to Marc Weidenbaum, founder and steward of the Disquiet Junto, an online “community of practice.” Each week Marc sends out an email newsletter with a creative prompt, consisting of a title, and instructions. These instructions may read like a Fluxus event score, a recipe in sound, a concept or technical description. Those who choose to participate create a single piece of music, then post it online, to be shared, listened to and potentially discussed by the online community. Marc has been leading Disquiet Junto since 2012, and from the beginning has encouraged participants to share their work with Creative Commons licenses. In fact the creative re-use of Creative Commons licensed sound and music has often been an integral part of Disquiet Junto creative prompts. Guests Kat Walsh is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. She has a nearly 20-year history in the free and open culture movements, including many years on the boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Free Software Foundation, and has previously worked in library policy, technology startups, and online community management. As General Counsel, she oversees the legal support for all aspects of CC's activities, provides strategic input, leads the stewardship of CC's legal tools, and advises the organization on new programmatic initiatives. image description: a black and white image of Marc looking to the right. He has dark hair and a close cropped beard, wearing a high collared knit sweater and black frame glasses. Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996 at the intersection of sound, art, and technology, and since 2012 has moderated the Disquiet Junto, an active online community of weekly music/sonic projects that explore constraints as a springboard for creativity and productivity. Links Creative Commons Licenses and Tools Creative Commons talks with Marc Weidenbaum Email announcement list for the Disquiet Junto Marc's website Disquiet, on the intersection of sound, art and technology Credits Our audio production is by Max Ludlow. Design by Caleb Stone. Our music on today's episode is all taken from Creative Commons licensed music created as part of the Disquiet Junto. all at fives, sixes and sevens by wasabicube, CC BY NC SA. three euclidean rhythms, CC BY NC SA, by Lee Evans/Hippies Wearing Muzzles, both from disquiet0567 Three Meters. Ways, CC BY NC SA, by the artist analoc for disquiet0482 Exactly That Gap. Little Green Aura, CC BY NC SA, by he_nu_ri and lako by Ohm Research, for disquiet0566 Outdoor Furniture Music four voice folly by caustic_gates, CC BY NC SA, part of disquiet0565 Musical Folly much too young to…, CC BY, by NolanVerde for disquiet0066 Communing with Nofi, a posthumous collaboration with the artist Jeffrey Melton, aka Nofi, who passed in 2013. This episode is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
We're crash-landing back into regular podcasting with the Max original animated series Scavengers Reign. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the seeds of Scavengers Reign were planted in an Adult Swim short before blossoming into a brilliant sci-fi series teeming with surrealist detours and bits of body horror. Paul and Arlo rave about the show's Cronenberg-meets-Miyazaki vibe, laud the series' refusal to provide easy answers, and hope against hope that this beautiful, otherworldly thing will continue to thrive in a second season. Plus, Arlo is the worst. NEXT: more Western adult animation with heavy influence from the East, as the boys confront Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai. BREAKDOWN 00:00:45 - Intro / Arlo is the worst! 00:27:55 - Scavengers Reign 01:53:45 - Outro / Next LINKS Scavengers Reign's Writers on Creating a Beautifully Hostile Sci-Fi Show by Justin Carter, Gizmodo One With Nature, Stranded in Outer Space by Kambole Campbell, Variety The Sonic Ecosystem of Scavengers Reign by Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet Max's Scavengers Reign captures the beauty and terror of a truly alien world by Andrew Webster, The Verge The sci-fi adventure Scavengers Reign is an anomalous alien wonder by Toussaint Egan, Polygon Scavengers Reign Might Be the Most Underrated Show of the Year by Zach Kram, The Ringer MUSIC “Interstellar Outer Space” by Anderson East, Maybe We Never Die (2021) “Slime Creatures from Outer Space” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Dare to Be Stupid (1985) GOBBLEDYCARES National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Abortion Funds in Every State: https://bit.ly/AbortionFundsTwitter Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/ Support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ The Trevor Project provides information and support to LGBTQ youth: thetrevorproject.org Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ National Center for Transgender Equality: transequality.org Advocate for writers who might be owed money due to discontinuance of royalties: https://www.writersmustbepaid.org/ Help teachers and classrooms in need: https://www.donorschoose.org/ Do your part to remove the burden of medical debt for individuals, families, and veterans: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
This week we celebrate 5 years of Pod Mod with Marc Weidenbaum (https://disquiet.com/), who is one of the few people responsible for kickstarting my electronic music career! New Systems Instruments Triphase Oscillator (https://nsinstruments.com/modules/triphase.html) SUPPORT POD MOD ON PATREON (https://www.patreon.com/podularmodcast) Featured Artist: Nick Turner (https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/under-dark-pines) Thank you: 4ms: https://4mscompany.com/ After Later Audio: http://afterlateraudio.com/ Patchwerks: https://patchwerks.com/ NOVATION: https://novationmusic.com/en/synths/summit WAVEFORM MAGAZINE: https://waveformmagazine.com/
Support YACHT on Bandcamp: https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/avril-14th-single YACHT Quarantine Cover Series No. 4 This is the most beautiful Aphex Twin song, "Avril 14th," from the album Drukqs (2001), composed originally for a high-tech Yamaha player piano called the Disklavier. It's been raining nonstop in Los Angeles and we've been spiraling inwards into all our favorite music; we read Marc Weidenbaum's 33 1/3 book about "Selected Ambient Works" recently and learned that Richard D. James does a lot of his best work in between naps. This is a song for the in-between period of sleep and waking. Credits: Released April 14, 2020 Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
Disquiet Junto ist eine Internet-Community mit Mitgliedern aus der ganzen Welt, die sich jede Woche einer Kompositions-Challenge stellen. So entstand auch die Klangkunst auf der Schützenmatte für das diesjährige Musikfestival. Zita Bauer sprach mit dem Gründer Marc Weidenbaum darüber, wie genau Disquiet Junto funktioniert.
There are voices in our lives that are always welcome. One of those, for me, is Marc Weidenbaum. Marc has a long history of writing about things that I (and, I'm guessing, we) care about, and has been one of those people that consistently opens doors of musical understanding for me. As the editor and chief bottle-washer of https://disquiet.com/, he uses his words to explore music and sound in a way that I find inspiring. As the 'stimulant' behind the Disquiet Junto, he is also prompting musicians to produce work based on an idea - using suggestions that aren't always specific, but can often lead artists to do things that are a little out of the ordinary. In our chat, we talk about everything from Marc's background working at Pulse, to his own musical practice, and also a lot about the inspiration and details behind the Junto. We also get to hear about the breadth of work that Marc pursues, and how he pulls it all together. Super inspiring, and a call-to-action to boot! Enjoy!
Marc Weidenbaum is an author, music critic and teacher among many other things. Today we discuss his 33 1/3 book about Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol II, the Disquiet Junto group and of courese, modular. Find all things Marc at www.disquiet.com
This is the second episode of the Disquietude podcast of ambient electronic music. All seven tracks of music are featured with the permission of the individual artists or, in one case, their record label: Naoyuki Sasanami, Geneva Skeen, Jeanann Dara and Jherek Bischoff, R. Beny, Bana Haffar, Scanner, and Yann Novak. The music is followed by commentary from the podcast’s San Francisco–based host, Marc Weidenbaum, and by a brief essay reflecting on the recording process. More information at disquiet.com/podcast0002.
This is the first episode of the Disquietude podcast of ambient electronic music. All six tracks of music are featured with the permission of the individual artists: a drone from Brian Hendricksen, music for piano and looping by Carl Mikael Björk, fractal sound processing by Erika Nesse, dual tape loops and piano from Marcus Fischer, ancient synthesizer explorations from Sarah Davachi, and a field recording by Mark Rushton. They are followed by commentary from the podcast’s San Francisco–based host, Marc Weidenbaum. More information at disquiet.com/podcast0001.
UncleBibby - "The Spidrman's (Nanoloop)" - Free Music Project Hey Exit - "Twenty Seconds" [http://luvsound.org/files/luv025/04-Hey_Exit-Twenty_Seconds.mp3] Bryan Teoh - "Fifths" [https://archive.org/download/luv011b-flac/luv011-2-02.flac] Trio Mopmu - "Prodava Se Konche (RF Remix)" [https://archive.org/download/luv011b-flac/luv011-2-10.flac] The OO-Ray - "Silhouettes" [Free Music Archive] Fredo Viola - "Lullaby" [http://www.luvsound.org/files/luv025/01-Fredo_Viola-Lullaby.mp3] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68161
I love making ambient music, because it feels like the equivalent of finger painting – you can smear things around by stretching out long tones and soaking them in reverb. No sound seems out of place if you bring it in gradually and keep it there for a while. In this episode, I talk about how to create tension in ambient music by holding notes longer than you think you should. This production lesson originally aired in Composer Quest episode 54 with Marc Weidenbaum. For more music production lessons and composer interviews, visit composerquest.com.
Every week, disquiet.com music journalist Marc Weidenbaum feeds his community of hungry sound artists a creative new challenge. In this project, called Disquiet Junto, Marc challenges composers to produce tracks based on an ice cube, or an Instagram photo, or the sound of space plasma hitting the Voyager I. Marc joins me for this episode of Composer Quest to share some of the coolest and most influential sound art pieces. Marc also explains why he believes music as we know it will be totally absent from films in a matter of decades.