01.22.12

Happy new year. A short promotional video for the upcoming album seam by Steinbrüchel + Cory Allen can be viewed here. Cheers and best to everyone in 2012.

12.15.11

A preview track from the upcoming album seam by Steinbrüchel + Cory Allen can here heard here. seam will be available early 2012.

Some very kind Slaapwel Records artists included Cory Allen's Pearls in their 'Best 5 albums of 2011' list. You can check out all the lists at Slaapwel Records.

11.01.11

A few very kind reviews of Cory Allen's Still over at The Liminal and Textura.

"Sound that you can almost see and feel as well as hear." - The Liminal

10.01.11

Lovely new review of Cory Allen's album Still from Fluid Radio.

"Still should only further enhance his reputation as a maker of intelligent, perceptive, beautiful music."
- Fluid Radio

09.13.11

Cory Allen's new album Still is now available. You can read about and hear some samples over at the release page.

07.30.11

A new album by Cory Allen called Still will be available soon. In the meantime, you can preview the track 'Goodbye Ghost'.

05.29.11

New review for Guy Gelem's Tides at the always supportive and kind The Steinberg Principle.

05.14.11

Lovely in depth '15 Questions' interview with Mike Vernusky over at Tokafi. Have a read for Mike's thoughts on composition and the nature of sound. Also, Music for Film and Electro-Theatre has been reviewed by NewMusicBox.

Our new release by Guy Gelem has been reviewed by the always excellent Fluid Radio.

'An engaging and focused album' - Fluid Radio

05.01.11

A new photography and sound exhibition by Cory Allen is showing at Fluid Radio. Check it out for some exclusive photos, sounds and words on his thoughts about music in the digital age.

04.17.11

We are very excited to announce our new release, Tides by Guy Gelem. Gorgeous bell-like guitar tones weave in and out of lush cello lines, all fastened together by a thread of light electronics. On Tides, Gelem sculpts beautifully original sonic terrains. Check it out here.

04.10.11

Our new release Tides by Guy Gelem is almost wrapped up at the manufacturers and will be available later this month. You can sample a track from it here.

Also, thoughtful reviews of Cory Allen's Pearls have been posted at Igloo Magazine. and Textura.

02.02.2010

We are extremely excited to announce our new release by Fires Were Shot called awakened by a lonely feud. Its available as a double vinyl LP and CD. Check it out and have a listen over at the release page.

01.20.2010

More lovely reviews of Pearls out today. You can read them over at Fluid Radio and Static Sound.

01.18.2010

Our Alvin Lucier / Nick Hennies release is sold out. You can still purchase it as an mp3 download in our store.

01.15.2010

Very kind review of Cory Allen's album Pearls has been posted over at Was Ist Das.

'If you are after perfectly crafted experimental music, look no further.'

01.12.2010

Beautifully written review of Pearls by Scott McMillan from The Liminal. You can check it out at the release page.

01.11.2010

New reviews of Pearls and Music for Film and Electro-Theatre from Future Sequence, Etherreal, Liability Webzine, and Planet Dyne are now available on the release pages.

'Mike Vernusky succeeds beautifully in combining genres, using the evocative power of music to create an amazing and subtle electroacoustic atmosphere.' - Ethereal Webzine

12.21.2010

A lovely review of Pearls has been posted over at The Steinberg Principle. It was also reviewed in this week's Vital Weekly. You can check them both out at the Pearls release page.

‘Pearls is a masterful piece of music' - The Steinberg Principle

'Much needed on a cold winter's day.' - Vital Weekly

12.09.2010

We're excited to announce our new release Pearls by Cory Allen. This CD comes in a custom manufactured silk-screened package. You can read about the release and have a listen at the release page. Now available in our store.

11.18.2010

We have two new releases coming out this December. First is Awakened by a Lonley Feud by FiRES WERE SHOT, which will be available on CD and double vinly LP. You can check out a few tracks here.

Second is Pearls by Cory Allen, which will be available as a CD and digitally. You can check out a track here.

11.15.2010

Lovely review of Nick Hennies' recording of Lucier's Still and Moving Lines... over at Newmusicbox.

09.27.2010

Great reviews for Mike Vernusky's new release at Tokafi and Vital Weekly.

'Vernusky delivers an absolute fine release, which stretches out beyond the ordinary, serious acousmatic composer and that has a great quality of its own.' [Vital Weekly]

'A mysteriously glowing abyss of sound' [Tokafi.com]  

08.01.2010

Quiet Design presents the new solo release by composer and sound artist Mike Vernusky.  Handcrafted, cinematic textures of noise and acousmatic sound that comprise layers of orchestrated and collaged sonic tableaux. Inherently ephemeral and dramatically beautiful. Check it out here.
 
07.29.2010

Alvin Lucier + Nick Hennies' Still and Moving Lines was reviewed by The Wire Magazine and Cyclic Defrost. You can see what they had to say at the release page.

07.25.2010

Welcome to the new Quiet Design website. This version will have regular news updates so we can keep you up to date with all that's going on with Quiet Design. We've worked to create a cleaner site and more hospitable store, so please have a look around and enjoy.

07.15.2010

Mark Cetilia's limited 3" CD Anemoi is now sold out. For those of you who missed out on the CD, the MP3 download is available in our store. 
 
 
06.15.2010

Alvin Lucier + Nick Hennies' Still and Moving Lines was reviewed by Vital Weekly and Just Outside. You can give them a read at the release page.
 
05.01.2010

We are proud to announce the release of Alvin Lucier's Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas. This work is a collection of pieces for instrumentalists and fixed sine waves and is one of the earliest and most influential examples of Lucier's research into the nature of the basic building blocks of sound.

04.20.2010

Raphael Smarzoch did an hour long feature about Quiet Design on Germany's WDR3 Radio called Guitar 3.0. The feature focuses on our Quiet Design release, 'Spectra: Guitar in the 21st Century' and has samples of the release and interviews with Cory Allen, Tetuzi Akiyama, Erdem Helvacioglu, and Mike Vernusky.  Overdubbed in German, Check it out at WDR3.