Music primarily for saxophone and electronic sounds with an intermission for electronic sounds and AI text to speech synthesis.
High quality audio, in stereo, divided into two sections, as this music was initially intended to be released on a cassette tape
The equipment used on this record are the following:
Selmer Series III Soprano, Make Noise 0-Coast, Koma Electronics Field Kit and Field Kit FX, Ableton, Keith McMillen Qunexus, Landscape Stereo Field, AKG C411, Critter and Guitari Organelle, Cool Edit Pro, Teufelsberg Convolution Reverb plugin, AKG C414.
This record consists of a series of edited improvisations which took place In the recording studio of Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Evanston IL throughout 2018/19, then these were edited and mixed in Kilkenny/Cork, Ireland.
Thank you to Chris, Alex, Hans, Jay, Ryan, Donna and Scott from Bienen. To Records to Burn. To the NU comp friends Noah, Ben Z, Ben RW, Isidora, Ben W, Luis, Ruud, Lisa, Niki, Andrew, Craig, Yi Ting, Mathew, Nick, Sam and loads more. To ~Nois. To Claire. To the Arts Council of Ireland,.
Design By Neil P. Quigley
Dr. Brandon Quarles is currently the Lecturer of Saxophone and Allied Areas at the University of Georgia where he co-directs the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and teaches a course on music entrepreneurship. Prior to his appointment at UGA, Brandon previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University.
Brandon was a founding member of ~Nois, a Chicago-based saxophone quartet, serving as the ensemble’s Executive Director and soprano saxophonist from 2016 to 2021. With ~Nois, Brandon was awarded top prizes at prestigious chamber music competitions such as the Fischoff and M-Prize, and performed over 75 concerts in 20 states. He has given over 50 world premieres of works for the saxophone, and has performed with groups such as Eighth Blackbird and My Brightest Diamond.
He holds degrees from Northwestern University (DMA and MM) and the University of Georgia (BM).
Neil Quigley is a Composer/Guitarist/Sound Artist. His work has been described as “all very synthetic, even sometimes comical” and “very confident” by The Journal of Music, as “also rather beautiful” by Nialler9, and as a “fine tasting plate of wonky beats, bleeps and drones” and containing “Black Lodgey Menace” by the Quietus.
His current work focuses, in part, on audio skeuomorphism and larger cultural skeuomorphism, the divination of objects (in particular Rhabdomancy) in late-stage capitalism and how it relates to historical divination, sonic representations of space both real and virtual, and the interpersonal politics of the musical “workspace”. His recent work had been released on Amalgam Records (US), Miúin (Irl), Destiny Trax (US), The Department of Energy (Irl) and Moot Records (Irl)
