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These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the June 20, 2023, issue of the Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. This Week in Sound is the best way Iâ€...

https://disquiet.com/2023/06/21/this-week-in-sound-serenading-the-coral-reef/

There’s a cool recent video game called Season in which you wander the rural landscape on a bicycle, taking pictures and, quite wonderfully, making audio field recordings — all in the shado...

https://disquiet.com/2023/05/09/scavengers-season/

These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the April 11, 2023, issue of the free Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. ▰ BACKING TRACKS: How does m...

https://disquiet.com/2023/04/12/this-week-in-sound-ways-of-listening-beyond-the-human/

I do this manually each Saturday, usually in the morning over coffee: collating most of the little comments I’ve made on social media (as well as related notes), which I think of as my public s...

https://disquiet.com/2023/02/04/scratch-pad-negativland-ai-comics/

These sound-studies highlights of the week originally appeared in the January 10, 2023, issue of the free Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter, This Week in Sound. ▰ PERIOD PIECE: Jill Linz,...

https://disquiet.com/2023/01/11/this-week-in-sound-the-aural-periodic-table/

Sound in video games isn’t merely about immersive reality. It can be a matter of life and death — for the player characters, that is, especially the ones operated by visually impaired gamers....

https://disquiet.com/2022/10/10/street-fighter-x-the-visually-impaired/

I started playing *The White Door* because people recommended this puzzle of a mobile video game for its use of sound. I stayed for the visual depiction of the objects making some of those sounds...

https://disquiet.com/2021/11/08/behind-the-white-door/

I do this manually each Saturday, collating recent tweets I made at (https://twitter.com/disquiet/), my public notebook. Some tweets pop up (in expanded form or otherwise) on Disquiet.com sooner....

https://disquiet.com/2021/06/05/twitter-com-disquiet-bookends-shadow-of-the-colossus/

The Uncanny Valley gets all the press, but there is another valley nearby, a Hyperreal Valley located in the Goldilocks Zone between the discomforting and the mundane, the failed experiment and t...

https://disquiet.com/2021/05/07/loitering-in-video-games/

I do this manually each week, collating tweets I made at (https://twitter.com/disquiet/), my public notebook. Some tweets pop up (in expanded form) on Disquiet.com sooner. It’s personally infor...

https://disquiet.com/2021/04/17/twitter-com-disquiet-doppler-cycling-avril-livecoding-car-alarms/