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Actions Speak Louder – Act 1: SOLOS and a QUARTET

by Tim Brady

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Actions speak louder than words, it is often said. And the words we use to describe and categorize music – jazz, rock, tonal, atonal, classical, experimental, world, spectral, minimal, whatever – often focus on the technical and cultural differences between musical actions that are, at their heart, remarkably unified in intent. The act of making music, the passion of composing, the happiness of playing guitar, have always been for me a single continuum of ideas and possibilities, never a series of discrete styles and rules.

The initial COVID-19 crisis in the spring and summer of 2020 gave me the time to think about these ideas, and to create these three interconnected recordings. They explore this fundamental idea of a single musical continuum with three different approaches, but always with the idea of making connections through musical actions, rather than creating divisions through technical discourse.

The titles and simple programme notes give some clues as to how and why the music was created, but I don’t want to talk too much because, after all, actions speak louder…

ACT 1: SOLOS and a QUARTET: Simple loops in complex times  (TK486)
Four new works for solo guitar and electronics, and a quartet. The music build simple, transparent textures, using digital and analog guitar effects pedals and a basic phrase looper to orchestrate the music. The idea is to focus on the interplay of tones and timbres, rather than on more guitaristic instrumental techniques and “licks”. The final work – a quartet – was recorded in April 2020 using distance recording and virtual performance, necessitated by the COVID lockdown.

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released April 23, 2021

Performers: Tim Brady - solo electric guitar, electronics.

Track 10 performed by Instruments of Happiness:
Tim Brady, Jonathan Barriault, Simon Duchesne, Françis Brunet-Turcotte - guitars

Mixing, editing, and production: Tim Brady
Mastered by: Tim Brady and Morris Apelbaum
Cover photos by: Catherine Marcogliese
Liner notes by: Brian Morton
Tim Brady plays Godin guitars.
© and ℗ – Tim Brady

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