# downstream (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover downstream. Page: Feed: --- ## [On the Line: Pickleball, Audiobook, Soundwalk](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/21/on-the-line-pickleball-audiobook-soundwalk/) _2026-08-21 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ From the August 19, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: ▰ In a Pickle I can hear what’s happening behind that fence long before I see it: the pops, plinks, thwacks and smacks of pickleball matches. Players say the sound is joyous. Neighbors say it’s dreadful. That’s Bishop Sand in the Washington Post writing about why pickleball noise is \[…\] ## [Disquiet Junto Project 0764: Zoo Review](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/20/disquiet-junto-project-0764-zoo-review/) _2026-08-20 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no \[…\] ## [TWiS Back in Action](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/19/twis-back-in-action/) _2026-08-20 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Hey, I got out an issue of This Week in Sound, my email newsletter: pickleball noise, novel audiobook production, a long-ish essay about an old film noir and voice technology, sonic weaponry, acoustic rainbows, and much more. ## [Sound Ledger: Pickleball, Mulaney](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/19/sound-ledger-pickleball-mulaney/) _2026-08-20 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ From the August 19, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: 70,000: Estimated number of pickleball courts in the U.S. 22,000: Cost, in $U.S., of acoustic barrier mats placed at one Braintree, Massachusetts, pickleball court to reduce noise 3: The number of sound machines that comedian John Mulaney jokes he has installed by his infant’s \[…\] ## [Lamb’s Instrument](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/18/lambs-instrument/) _2026-08-19 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Stoked for the giant Monome Grid that Jackson Lamb plays in the trailer for the next season of Slow Horses. (I’m totally behind on the show, but totally up to date on the novels.) ## [Graffiti Memories](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/17/graffiti-memories/) _2026-08-18 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ The old Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street in San Francisco is long gone, and along with it the great hallway entrance that was festooned with graffiti. I walked up and, later, down that staircase many times to attend concerts. I can’t go back, but every once in a while one of the many pictures \[…\] ## [On Repeat: Seidel, Askari, Aarset](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/16/on-repeat-seidel-askari-aarset/) _2026-08-17 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ A characteristically deep and enveloping solo live set by Dave Seidel, aka Mysterybear, recorded \[…\] ## [Scratch Pad: Jazz, Thirlwell, Quake](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/15/scratch-pad-jazz-thirlwell-quake/) _2026-08-16 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing \[ \] ## [“Dolsot” Sounds](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/14/dolsot-sounds/) _2026-08-14 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Yes, the mushroom dolsot for lunch was excellent, and at some point the sound of the sizzling dipped below hearing level. ## [Disquiet Junto Project 0763: 3 Pedestals](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/13/disquiet-junto-project-0763-3-pedestals/) _2026-08-13 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no \[ \] ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/g38GEvSOrmvj) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [It’s Playtime](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/12/its-playtime/) _2026-08-13 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Random shot from recent trip to the UK. Every time I walked by one of these, I imagined I was in Jacques Tati’s Playtime. ## [Spy Books](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/11/spy-books/) _2026-08-12 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ I was trying to figure out what these were on a shelf in the spartan-chic apartment of the character Martian (it s a nickname, I believe), played by Michael Fassbender in the TV series The Agency. Turns out they are books in the Contemporary Artists Series published by Phaidon. ## [Not Conceptual](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/10/not-conceptual/) _2026-08-11 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ ## [On Repeat: Farrugia, Bojanek, Fullman](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/09/on-repeat-farrugia-bojanek-fullman/) _2026-08-10 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ Based in Malta, Robert Farrugia is a fairly prolific ambient musician. The track Projections is a melody-intrigued bit \[ \] ## [Scratch Pad: A Long One](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/08/scratch-pad-a-long-one/) _2026-08-09 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing \[ \] ## [Billy Edwards and Crew](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/07/billy-edwards-and-crew/) _2026-08-07 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Great show Wednesday night — August 5, 2026 — at Mr. Tipple’s (SF), a quartet led by bassist Billy Edwards, with Rico Jones (tenor sax), Joe Warner (piano), and Sylvia Cuenca (drums). Jamal Ramirez was listed as drummer on the venue’s site, but something must have come up. And then, during the second of two \[ \] ## [Disquiet Junto Project 0762: Lunch Break](https://disquiet.com/2026/08/06/disquiet-junto-project-0762-lunch-break/) _2026-08-06 · Marc Weidenbaum · Disquiet_ Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no \[ \]