cory allen - hearing is forgetting the name of the thing one hears

quiet design presents hearing is forgetting the name of the thing one hears, a mesmeric, post-structuralist work which explores the very root of electronic sound. eloquent modulating networks of melody unfold throughout these tracks, revealing a musical sound with no edges and a new form of minimalism.

now available.



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'hearing is forgetting...' is featured as album of the month at tokafi.com


glen hall + glen charles halls   northern dialogues

quiet design presents northern dialogues by glen hall and glen charles halls. this striking album is a new sound to the quiet design catalogue, featuring improvised jazz by two premier canadian musicians. destined to be a classic.

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mark cetilia's anemoi is now available as a 3inch cd. this is a special limited edition of 99 copies numbered personally by the artist.

available in the quiet design webstore.


duane pitre - live at roulette

brilliant new release by composer duane pitre. this live recording of his work ed09 features 21 of new york's finest string/wind performers accompanied by subtle layers of bowed electric guitar. in this transcendent release, dream-like and floating textures unfold at a crawling pace, yielding the sound of slow-motion chamber music.

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spectra: guitar in the 21st century was featured in the wire magazine.

'forward-thinking, revelatory guitar reinventions'

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mark cetilia - anemoi

new release by sound artist mark cetilia, with source material gathered entirely from a 4 ft. square loop antenna during an electrical outage in the wetlands of florida. composed while traveling from continent to continent and completed in tel-aviv.




spectra: guitar in the 21st century

featuring

tetuzi akiyama
cory allen
erdem helvacioglu
jandek
kim myhr
duane pitre
sebastien roux
keith rowe
mike vernusky


‘These intriguing and often brilliant recordings will open your eyes, your ears, and very likely your mind. Highly recommended."

guitar player magazine, Barry Cleveland

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