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ne quid nimis

by C. Reider

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coagulant 06:52
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waiting 08:25
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dying 05:22
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the hypnogog 06:13
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This is a remixed and mastered version of the album released on cassette in 1996. This remixed version released in 2009.
Each track has a blog post to go along with it, about methods & inspirations. Follow the links if you feel like reading that stuff.

www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/16/nqn-details/
(Introductory blog post with some historical details)

breathes in mists: Sunday, January 28, 1996 --- Malfunctioning Alesis SR-16, hand turned music box, guitar, Trigon Incantor (built by Q.R. Ghazala).
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/17/nqn-details-part-2
(Regarding that malfunctioning drum machine)

the hypnopomp: Sunday, November 13, 1994 --- Guitar, bass guitar, Casio PT-1, cabinet door, water pot, cast iron woodstove, purr mechanism from a plush cat toy, circuit-bent electronics.
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/18/nqn-details-part-3/
(My early concepts about "noise" as a music)

the poisoned lambs 2: Saturday, January 27, 1996 --- Bass guitar, scrap iron, malfunctioning Alesis SR-16
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/19/nqn-details-part-4/
(The poisoned lambs song trilogy & animal cruelty)

coagulant: Wednesday, April 20, 1994 --- Scrap iron and aluminum
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/20/nqn-details-part-4-2
(Scrap Metal)

the speaking holes: Monday, February 28, 1994 --- Polished stones
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/21/nqn-details-part-6
(Polished stones)

dreamdroneone: Tuesday, March 1, 1994 --- Re-tuned music box, destroyed compact discs, fan
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/22/nqn-details-part-7
(Composing while asleep)

waiting: Saturday, January 27, 1996 --- Destroyed and abused compact discs
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/23/nqn-details-part-8
(Skipping CDs, glitch, Oval and me)

dying: Saturday, July 18, 1992 --- Guitar
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/25/nqn-details-part-9
(Brian Eno and "not named")

the hypnogog: Sunday, November 20, 1994 --- Tapes (the voice of Bob Enyart), bass guitar, guitar, nose whistle, fabric
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/02/28/nqn-details-part-10/
(More thoughts about noise and Bob Enyart, Christian conservative asshole)

in a red time: Friday, April 15, 1994 --- Voice, guitar, tin can
www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2009/03/02/nqn-details-part-11/
(Ambient music and self sabotage)

Artist statement:
ne quid nimis was recorded in the early nineties. I was very poor, but I'd managed to scrape together some money for a used 4-track that I did not know how to use. I had a guitar and a bass, but otherwise no real instruments, so I used what was around me. This was my fourth recorded release.

'Ne Quid Nimis' is Latin for "avoid excess"... I was interested in very slow, very quiet music. It actually seemed rebellious to want to make music that was quiet and slow. Rebellious against the stupid aggression and machismo that is so popular in music and other fronts.

Because I wanted quiet music, I made the mistake of recording most of the sounds quietly, and so the signal-to-noise ratio was tilted the wrong way, making it difficult to mix through all the hiss. I have remixed and mastered these recordings in 2009, cleaning and equalizing all tracks to bring out the best in each one, but this is still by nature a very low-fidelity release.

The subtitle of this record was "a Diary of Tentative Ambient Drafts". While I don't think that much of the music presented here is ambient in the accepted modern sense, and although I wouldn't call this music ambient today, it is clearly a music of patience. Its whole point was to slowly explore a sound space that to me sounded quiet and calming. I had no idea that the sounds I was using were not calming to other people, but then I still wonder about that now!

Recorded to 4-track 1992-1996. Remixed 2009
Thanks to:
-Carl Howard, who originally released this on cassette on his label AudioFile Tapes.
-Karin A. Feltzing, who painted the cover art.
-Richard Hodges, who lent effects pedals, shelter and mixing equipment.
-Erinn Thorp, who engineered and recorded "dying" and played guitar with me on it as well.


Review by AUTOreverse:
The best words to describe this tape by C. Reider are AMBIENT ELECTRONIC MUSIC. And like all other ambient music that I listen to, the best quality it can have for me is that it can either be participatory or slip off into the background. Some of the time notice is paid to what is going on, while most of the time you just keep writing a letter or reading a book or cleaning your room. You don't have to be active unless you choose to be. This tape is like that. There were sections of this tape that caught my attention like light to a moth. Then there would be minutes of daydreaming about the sound of a neighbor mowing in the distance and how nice the breeze feels coming into my window against my face. For this kind of music, that is the perfect quality to have. This tape is great at night, when the world is still, the room lacks light, your mind is busy with thoughts of what came in the day, focus comes into your eyes and then focus leaves.

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released June 15, 1996

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C. Reider Berthoud, Colorado

C. Reider is a nonbinary composer living in Northern Colorado.
This music is antifascist.

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