Month: June 2022

11: Percentage of flights curbed at Amsterdam airport since 2019 to cut noise pollution 95: Reportedly the expected percentage accuracy for voice AI ordering at the McDonald’s drive-thru window 80: Reportedly the effective percentage accuracy for voice AI ordering at the McDonald’s drive-thru window ________ ¹Footnotes Amsterdam: reuters.com. McDonald’s: mashed.com. Originally published in the June 27, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter. Get it in your […]

Patrick Clarke rounds off his Glastonbury round-ups with Herbie Hancock, Diana Ross, and a showstopper from Kendrick Lamar. Photos by Jim Dyson

Akusmi crafts an often-jubilant, forward-thinking sound from a vocabulary of past futures, says Bernie Brooks

Patrick Clarke delivers his second dispatch from Pilton, where Paul McCartney, Yves Tumor, Black Midi, Pa Salieu and more deliver a sterling Saturday. Photos by Jim Dyson

Our man on Worthy Farm reports back from the Friday of Glastonbury Festival 2022, which sees imperious sets from Little Simz, Confidence Man, Arooj Aftab, St Vincent and more. All photos by Jim Dyson

I do this manually each Saturday, usually in the morning over coffee: collating most of the tweets I made the past week at twitter.com/disquiet, which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up sooner in expanded form or otherwise on Disquiet.com. I’ve found it personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud. This isn’t a full accounting. Often there are, for example, conversations on […]

For his new exhibition at Mother’s Tankstation, London, Dublin-born artist Yuri Pattison looks at the invisible substrate of the information economy