{"id":131,"date":"2009-02-21T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T21:22:51","slug":"nqn-details-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/nqn-details-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"NQN details, part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Track five on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/releases\/nqn.html\">ne quid nimis<\/a> is &#8220;the speaking holes&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nThe track was recorded in February 1994 for inclusion on one of Epitapes&#8217; many themed compilations, but if it was included on any of them, I do not know about it.  I sent Mike Tetrault of Epitapes very many tracks for his regular compilations, (probably to his dismay and irritation!).  I now have five tapes in my collection from the label.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;the speaking holes&#8221; was one of the most minimal pieces of music I have ever conceived and recorded.  All of the sounds on this song come from polished stones rubbing against each other.  I had a small vase made of sedimentary fossil rock, and a ball made of the same stone that was about two inches in diameter.  The ball fit snugly into the mouth of the vase, like a ball in a socket.  I contact mic&#8217;ed the vase and rolled the ball around in the socket for the duration of the piece.  I recorded four tracks of this, and ended up with something that sounded like quiet mouth noises punctuated by snaps and clicks.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nDirectly after recording this song, I kept the same set-up and recorded another little experiment by tapping on the stones with various things.  That little experiment became &#8220;Tapping the Hole&#8221; on the release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/releases\/abandon.html\">abandon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track five on ne quid nimis is &#8220;the speaking holes&#8221;. &#8211; The track was recorded in February 1994 for inclusion on one of Epitapes&#8217; many themed compilations, but if it was included on any of them, I do not know about it. I sent Mike Tetrault of Epitapes very many tracks for his regular compilations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-ne-quid-nimis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eIxq-27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}