Marc Weidenbaum

Good morning music can mean something where the clink of a spoon inside a cereal bowl or the whistle of a tea kettle fit right in — and by those measures, Taylor Deupree makes for very good morning music, indeed.

It's 2026. If you're a musician, you should at least have a web page* listing your upcoming performances and your recent and upcoming releases. Bonus points for a newsletter. Gold star for a blog with some ongoing insights into your activities. *Sure also social media, but foremost your own page

Rewatched Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), which really holds up, especially the wall-to-wall soundtrack / score / sound design (which bleed into each other) and the cinematography (endless number of striking images and sequences).

Disquiet Junto Project 0773: Garden Glitch The Assignment: Let your garden go to waste. Deadline: Monday, October 26, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0773 #DisquietJunto

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 22, 2026) at disquiet.com/0773, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores gardens — like last week's, but different. Join in.

Wow, the new "capture" option in the Obsidian mobile app is fantastic. I never thought I'd remove the Bebop app from my iPhone, but this feature has permanently replaced it. (Also, Bebop was often getting hung up by not syncing through iCloud for some reason.)

The bubble's gotta burst on this ever-five-years reissue cycle

I’m on my third attempt at Middlemarch, and I’m fairly certain I’m gonna finish it this time, and for complicated reasons I’m also reading the massive new China Miéville novel, The Rouse, at the exact same time, and there are moments in each book when I could easily be reading the other one.

Disquiet Junto Project 0772: Garden Grow The Assignment: Tend to your music like Brian Eno might. Deadline: Monday, October 19, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0772 #disquietjunto

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 15, 2026) at disquiet.com/0772, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores ... gardening. Join in!

The personal touch never felt so impersonal

Nine is a very small number but sure I'll play along, and I no doubt will have a half dozen to switch in tomorrow

Was expecting a nice quiet day now that the holiday weekend's strafe LARPing has concluded, but instead a massive utility vehicle has been parked out front for two-plus hours, and the resulting heavy-equipment drone is so dense you can almost see it in the air

Yeah, Bill Orcutt was awesome last night, opening for Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. Have a great weekend.

Ah, Fleet Week. The World War III cosplayers yet again take over the skies.

The price of Nagra reel to reel tape recorders rose so steeply over the past 10 years or so that I'm convinced there's a loose group of six or seven speculators in the area buying these and selling them to each other, round and round, unaware there is no demand beyond their little circuitous bubble.

When I started the Disquiet Junto, it hadn't really occurred to me that the thing could last so long that we'd be revisiting projects a decade later. The Junto turns 15 years old in January, and here we are exploring a project about Steve Reich we did (a "mere") 10 years ago. Time is weird.

Disquiet Junto Project 0771: Phase Incident The Assignment: Celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday. Deadline: Monday, October 12, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0771 #disquietjunto

Long live the old web

Sure, my disquiet.com site celebrates the 30th anniversary of its 1996 launch in December, but @perival.com's amazing Don DeLillo website launched even earlier in 1996, and is still going strong: perival.com/delillo/deli...

It’s the time of year when there’s almost always an exclamation point next to the weather, but one day it’s extreme heat and the next it’s dense fog. (Bonus points for small craft warnings.)

I've gotten fairly conversant if not fluent in fog horn and today's mournful bleating means, "Yow this is thick."

I get to see Los Lobos tomorrow and Robert Plant on Sunday, and a ton of other musicians in between, all free, at the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival here in San Francisco, a couple blocks from home. There have been worse weekends for sure.

This week's Disquiet Junto project explores reverb. It is not a coincidence that the project started the day after I toured the massive space that is San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.

I’d say online bulletin board participation is sort of in between email and text messaging, and it’s at its best when it’s closer to email and further from text messaging (i.e., slightly slower pace, little more reflective).

#DisquietJunto Project 0770: Reverb x Reverb The Assignment: Use some reverb. Then use some more. Deadline: Monday, October 5, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0770

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (October 1, 2026) at disquiet.com/0770, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores reverb (and then some). Join in.

A category that occurred to me today: a band I never put on but also never turn off

If you're looking for that thread of my semi-solicited advice for active musicians during the perceived AI avalanche, I put it here, under the title "On Craft, Process, and Networks": disquiet.com/2026/09/29/o...

Drumcorps (aka Aaron Spectre) has been bashing together drum’n’bass and metal and whatever happens to be in his spam folder for at least 20 years now. And it’s as awesome as ever, and there’s an advance track from his forthcoming album, Breakdown, 10/2. drumcorps.bandcamp.com/album/breakd...