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the complete No Noise Reduction (1995)
A collection of small tracks recorded with an exploratory/ experimental spirit, by João Paulo Feliciano and Rafael Toral
Moneyland records (Lisbon, Portugal), MR$ 0495 (CD)
Produced by No Noise Reduction.
Recorded between SEP 1990 and AUG 1993 at PF’s place (Caldas da Rainha) or RT’s place (Lisbon).
1. WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? 1’40”
excerpt from a 4-simultaneous-texts lecture by John Cage (1961).
Rafael Toral- voice, filters
Paulo Feliciano- voice
2. PEACE BOOST 1’25”
PF- noise burst guitar, random tape edits
RT- bowed cymbals, mute switching, mariachi-tuned silvertone guitar
3. TWISTER BLUESY 2’24”
Raquel Feliciano- wired harmonica
RT- harmonica wire jamming, keyboard (sinewave)
PF- les paul guitar, harmonica wire jamming
4. CD PLAYERS 1’14”
the sound source is not the disc, but the mechanical sounds of the player
PF- cd player
RT- sampler (cd player)
5. ARTSCRATCH 1’04”
RT- silvano turntable, videotape
PF- sunny-vox turntable, videotape
6. TWO LOVING GUITARS 1’00”
PF- two guitars touching each other
7. VYNIL-A-CRISP (NO NOISE REDUCTION No. 2) 1’17”
RT- vynil records, sampler (vynil records)
PF- sampler (vynil records), vynil records
8. BLACK CDTH 1’46”
PF- prepared compact disc
the prepared compact disc is a CD with narrow slices of tape stuck in the back. the laser beam stumbles on them and behaves in very unpredictable ways.
9. ONE GUITAR . . 1’43”
one take recorded with us two playing on the same guitar.
RT- wet finger rubbing, metal scraping
PF- guitar strings
10. TWILIGHT ZONE 1’54”
PF- guitar feedbacks, turntable
RT- guitar, feedback treatments
11. STEWART MIX 1’59”
the first thing ever recorded by nnr
RT- roland TR 808, guitar, turntable
PF- guitar, sampler
12. GROOVE GRINDER 0’50”
PF- sunny-vox turntable
RT- silvano turntable
13. BOOTS RANDOM 1’38”
RT- 808, processing, turntable
PF- 808, sampler, hifi switch (turntable)
14. THE A2000 SPEECH 2’02”
pronounciation errors were generated by the software, left to itself
PF- a2000 voice generator and sampling software
RT- inverted guitar, modulated video monitor radiation
15. EVERYONE ELSE’S UNIVERSE 1’45”
RT- sampler, videotape
PF- drum machine programming, guitar, sampler
16. GUITAR THING 0’59”
PF- guitar
RT- turntable
17. MOTORWAY 2’04”
RT- sampler (jeep), beat box, mystery tape recycling, guitar
PF- guitar solo, fake bass
18. CARUSO REFLECTOR 1’28”
PF, RT- shaving machine-excited cymbals, microphone scanning, turntable
19. SONIC SPRING 1’38”
RT- spring resonator
PF- sampler (spring resonator)
a spring resonator is a long coil spring with a contact microphone attached to one end.
20. GHOST 0’45”
PF- sampler
RT- guitar
Raquel Feliciano- clusters guitar
21. GOING UP? 1’32”
RT- contact microphone-recorded elevators
PF- early tape, mxr noise gate
22. NEGATIVE SUNDAY 2’05”
PF- prepared guitar, sampler (bells)
RT- turntable, sampler
23. LANDSCAPE GENERATOR 2’03”
RT- computer games
PF- computer games
24. NOT ENOUGH ATOMS 1’05”
PF- korg synthesizer, sampler
RT- aliased guitar, r5, midi jamming
25. SCRATCH FILTER 1’19”
RT- roland r5 beat box, turntable, filtering
PF- turntable, filtering
26. THE INCREDIBLE MARVIN 1’02”
PF- prepared compact disc
27. A, PATTI, B 1’21”
a 7″ single found broken in two halves glued back facing opposite sides
RT, PF- turntable
28. FEET PIECE 1’25”
no hands here
PF- guitars (played with the feet)
RT- foot pedals, footswitches
29. DIE AND LIVE 4’45”
RT- guitars
PF- voice, sampler (bass)
30. HAM-A-RING 1’36”
PF- prepared guitars
RT- prepared guitars
31. STOP LOOPIN’ AROUND (exit) 0’06”
RT- 808, sampler
PF- records, sampler
32. THE SECOND GHOST 0’39”
PF- guitar
RT- guitar
33. JIMI SETS THE SAMPLE ON FIRE 1’02”
RT- guitar
PF- sampler (fire), guitar
34. NO NOISE REDUCTION 0’33”
PF- noise
RT- noise
35. TOY CLOUD 2’32”
RT- guitar
PF- sampler (little music box)
36. PLASSTICK 0’20”
PF- mouth-taped plastic mic
RT- radio
37. TALKING HEADS 1’43”
hand-held tape playback heads gestually reading magnetic tape panels on the wall. a mono recording.
RT- tape head
PF- tape head
38. YR BACKYARD 0’52”
PF- prepared guitar
RT- field recording, prepared guitar
39. INTRO, THE GROOVE, 2’00”
RT- turntables, sample edits, midi
PF- scratch eq, r5 prog
40. 0’0,060″ FOR A ROCK’N’ROLL BAND 0’06”
tina and the top ten blasting at full volume for 60 milliseconds.
PF- guitar
Falcon D- drums
Captain MD- bass
Johnny “boy” Santini- guitar
Mimi – silent
RT- precision edit
41. SHOOTING ASLEEP 3’17”
two e-bowed guitar duets; paulo actually fell asleep while recording one of them
RT, PF- guitars
42. SOUTH WARP 6 0’43”
RT- revox A77 tape recorder
43. LICKABILITY 2’44”
RT- drone guitar
PF- sampler (his voice), guitar
44. ECHO DOGS 1’37”
PF- television, field recording
RT- drums, field recording, processing
45. SWEETEST VOLTAGE 3’00”
RT- resonating fender jaguar, analog delayed ibañez.
PF- prepared gibson les paul deluxe, fender jaguar
46. NO NOISE REDUCTION No. 3 0’00”
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