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None So Silent

by James Bailey

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Bells in the Early Morn 06:29
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Fog Ringing 16:24
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Mist #1 03:04
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Mist #2 05:27
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Mist #3 09:57
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Some notes on None So Silent:

"Recommended listening level is as quiet as possible, in a room as dark as possible, but do as you like."

We wanted to give Toronto experimental composer James Bailey his due, lay it on nice and thick about how he's been humbly pushing the boundaries of home recording since the late 1970s, touch upon such career highs as the self-released "Dimensions" LP, while nodding to his collaborative work with Six Heads, Urban Refuse Group, and Lorde Awesome... So, now that we've done that, James is going to pipe up and tell you about None So Silent.

"As often happens with me, a sonic idea will present itself that I feel must be given a chance to be heard. On this occasion, it was to create sounds that were quite distant-sounding and diffuse, as well as sparse. My choice of sound source was the first "real" musical instrument I had purchased, a cheap Korean imitation of a Fender Telecaster guitar from which the frets had been removed - it also had only five strings due to a missing tuning peg. Flat strips of metal (similar in dimension to fettuccine noodles) from the brushes of a road-sweeping machine were woven through the strings which allows all strings to sound simultaneously. They can also, however, be struck or bowed to create vibrations in the strings, which is the method employed in these recordings. Sounds from the guitar, laid horizontally on its back, were then fed into an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man delay/looping pedal and the output from that into a Zoom RFX-300 multi-effects unit (also stereo). Different settings were selected for the effects in each piece, and the frequency of sounding events decreased as time progressed; this was not pre-planned, it was just something that happened as things unfolded. Subsequent auditioning at very low level in a darkened room inspired the recommendation that any listener do the same."

A note on the format: It deserves to be pointed out that CDR was determined to be the most suitable small edition format for this release, as it is too quiet for a cassette, where the natural tape hiss would obscure the lower volumes.

credits

released July 13, 2024

Performed on electric guitar prepared with street-sweeper bristles that were either struck or bowed, and processed through an EHX Stereo Memory Man into a Zoom RFX-300 with different settings on each, per track.

All pieces were recorded 8th February, 2018 in the sequence in which they appear.

Cover photo taken 8th April, 2024 at 3pm.

Thank You to Sarah + Kevin.

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