CDR: Muzik Aktiv (March 1999) AKTIV000
Edition of 10. Re-edition of 10. 73 minutes long. Tracks: 1. DelayCanyon 2. Monoverlode 3. Rumble-ooze 4. Loose Wub 5. Cries& Missy Screamers 6. Vokul-Upe 7. CWAK-FM (Wacked Radio) 8. What Beat? 9. Grand Delay Canyon 10. Hangar Blues 11. Music On Wires 12. LooseLoops I 13. Loose Loops II 14. Loose Loops III.
CDR: Muzik Aktiv (May 1999) AKTIV001
Edition of 15. Re-edition of 10. 67 minutes long. Split release: Experimental, each piece quite different from the other. Philippe investigates the sounds of cells using a photo he took in Provence, resonance, voice samples and convolution. skycrow investigates the sounds of molecules using FFT filters, parametric equalizers, looped samples. One piece is an improvisation for bicycle (in motion), contact mic and digital delay. Tracks: 1. collage à trois 3. 10 seconds in provence 5. ekzerco resonanta 7. 10% cerebrum (fragments=chaos) 9. convolvulus volubilis 11. bactérie1 (2,4,6,8,10 = bruitlets/noiselets) 12. crow separator 13. 5 second sustain 14. a tinkling note a (vinyl) 15. vegetable sounds 16. earplugs 17. spin machine
CDR: Muzik Aktiv (June 1999) AKTIV002
Edition of 11. Re-edition of 10. 69 minutes long.
Calm, ambient soundscapes recorded using radio waves between AM stations & interference from computer equipment.
Tracks: 1. Heaviside Up 2. Receptive, Deceptive
3. 'Tag Muller 4. Maintain Radio Silence Noise 5. Station 2 Station
6. Ghost Helicopter 7. Wireless Intentions.
MP3: No Type (October 2000) NT 032
23 minutes long. Freely downloadable from notype.com. Several reworked, remixed old or new pieces. Tracks: 1. monoverloded 2. a shimmering a 3. aeriala 4. spincycle 5. waterous life.
2xCD: No Type (December 2001) IMNT 0201/02
One 5-minute track called "radio collision" by James Schidlowsky on an eclectic compilation of No Type artists.
CDR: Muzik Aktiv (June 2002) AKTIV005
Edition of 10. 60 minutes long. Three long pieces, which resemble loops, but aren't quite. The first piece is the original field recording of a prepared record-player, and the other two are the results of several treatments of it. file under: music to sleep by. Tracks: 1. lungs 3. furrows 5. orbits.
MP3: Sine Fiction (August 2002) SINE 003
20 minutes long. Freely downloadable from notype.com. For the No Type sublabel "Sine Fiction", inspired by the classic sci-fi novel by John Brunner. Tracks: 1. intro 2. haflinger 3. kate 4. tarnover.
CDR3: Déluge (August 2002) DS-6
18 minutes long. 4 remixes of a forgotten quebecois country&western song by Rodrigue Frappier about the great Huron chief. Tracks: 1. saccacomie = glitch commie [ a_Dontigny] 2. tontonnom [James Schidlowsky] 3. saccacomie [ le chien borgne] 4. aku [ malade mojo].
CDR: Muzik Aktiv (March 2003) AKTIV006
Edition of 20. 47 minutes long. 16 pieces recorded straight to disc using prepared guitar with spoon, wood, plastic, metal and bicycle parts... Tracks: 1. spoonschlag 2. tymplate 3. flutters 4. rusty chains 5. spoonring 6. doigt de digit 7. chitinous surfaces 8. aluminum fuzz 9. flickers I 10. flickers II 11. transmission dust 12. chimewand 13. jar of ghosts 14. Loeffelstreichen 15. stretchsing 16. skje.
2xCDR: Muzik Aktiv (March 2004) AKTIV007
Edition of 20. Approximately 18 hours 30 minutes long. Almost everything ever created during the period 1999-2003 that could be found and fit onto 2 CDRs in mp3 format, each with a one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maze for the cover art. Tracks: 130 or so.
CDR: <no label> (July 2004) -
Edition of 13. 67 minutes long. 2 mini-releases on one CDR. space = improvised psycho-electronic music suitable for a space voyage in a Russian rocket, recorded May 2003. frogs = improvised music using prepared zither, bowed cymbal and music-stand whilst a prepared CDR of frog sounds plays randomly, and toy pipe organ on the other track. Recorded July 2004. (frog sounds stolen from the brilliant "Sounds of North American Frogs" CD on Smithsonian Folkways). Tracks: (space) 1. Vostok 2. Molniya (frogs) 4. frogs & bows, ribbits & ribbons 5. frogs in fog.
CDR: <no label> (July 2004) -
Edition of 7. 79 minutes long. Unearthed from the sound of rust studio vaults (or perhaps it was the trashcan), some bizarre electronic experimental improvisations using a messed up cassette player, a rhythm machine and voice passed through a ridiculous amount of effects. Recorded by someone in May 2003. Limited to 7 copies in a hand-made envelope wrapped with actual mangled cassette tape. Tracks: 1. Psychotronic Particle Accelerator 2. Vegan Apples 3. Mountain Crunch 4. Water on the Moon 5. HMLX 6. 840 immobilités sérieuses 7. Burroughs Adding Machine 8. Wishpers 9. Valérie et Véronique vont vexer Violette 10. The Scratch Spiral.
CDR: <no label> (August 2004) -
46 minutes long. Private edition of 11 copies for friends with handmade jacket. A live-to-disc mix of Terry Riley's classic "IN C". Used in the mix were Terry Riley "In C" (original 1968 version), Shanghai Film Orchestra "In C" & "Music of a Thousand Springs", L'Infonie "In C" A.K.A. "Mantra", Fly Pan Am + Alexandre St-Onge "Dans ses cheveux soixante circuits", Jean-Luc Hérelle "Clarines et Sonnailles" CD, Tape Mangler "In C Whizz", undo: squint00a CD, and a telephone pickup.
CDR: 405 Heatley (October 2004) HEATLEY6
57 minutes long. Group performance using bicycles and violin bows, recorded live in a park in Montreal. Original composition by Gavin John Sheehan. Also contains a "remix" by James Schidlowsky entitled 'spinninground'.
CDR: Muzik Aktiv (November 2004) AKTIV008
Edition of 20. Reissued in MP3 format in December 2006. Freely downloadable from No Type. 55 minutes long. Recordings made 2000-2004 using a homemade binaural microphone underground in the montréal métro subway system. Slight EQ & editing & montage at sound of rust studio. Each copy contains a transfer from a different station. Tracks: 1. joliette, 2. stations1, 3. escalators1, 4. stations2, 5. escalators2, 6. hum, 7. sweeper.
CDR: <no label> (December 2004) -
Edition of 11. 65 minutes long. Electric guitar recorded straight to minidisc. The first piece is a simple transformation of the second. My homage to the New Zealand noise/guitar drone scene and the Corpus Hermeticum label. The jacket is handmade using kraft paper with a wave-star shuriken design printed using the old potato-stamp method. Death to the E-Bow, long live the B-Bow! Part 1 of the WaveStar Trilogy. Tracks: 1. shine with a fitful light, 2. shine with a fitful light (reprise).
CDR: <no label> (February 2005) -
Edition of 11. 37 minutes long. Inspired by doom & sludge metal, this is a noisy doomdrone piece made with electric guitar, 3 distortion pedals and an octaver, plus processed cymbals and sonic transmogrification. The jacket is a shuriken design printed using the old potato-stamp method. The title is from the long poem "The Culprit Fay" written in 1817 by Joseph Rodman Drake. Part 2 of the WaveStar Trilogy. Tracks: 1. folded & slowly upon itself.
CDR: <no label> (February 2005) -
Edition of 11. 38 minutes long. Inspired by doom & sludge metal, this is a noisy doomdrone piece made with electric guitar, 3 distortion pedals, an octaver, some reverb, plus sonic transmogrification and montage. The jacket is a shuriken design printed using the old potato-stamp method. Part 3 of the WaveStar Trilogy. Tracks: 1. melt away in the process of decay.
CDR: <no label> (March 2005) -
58 minutes long. Private edition for friends with handmade jacket. A live-to-disc mix of Terry Riley's classic "IN C". Used in the mix were Terry Riley "In C" (original 1968 version), Shanghai Film Orchestra "In C", L'Infonie "In C" A.K.A. "Mantra", Fly Pan Am + Alexandre St-Onge "Dans ses cheveux soixante circuits", Jean-Luc Hérelle "Clarines et Sonnailles" CD, Tape Mangler "In C Whizz", undo: squint00a CD, Richard Youngs "Advent, Part III", Steve Reich "Phase Patterns", Gruppo di Improvvisazione nuova consonanza "omaggio a giacinto scelsi", Gerry Lopez, and live electronics by J.S.
CDR: <no label> (March 2005) LBN 01
Edition of 22. Le Black Noise coax beautiful music from nothing but the internal noise inside their machines. Comes in a potato-printed jewel case. 79 minutes long. Tracks: 1. noircissisme, 2. noircissement, 3. noircissure, 4. noircisseur, 5. noircissitude.
CDR: <no label> (May 2005) -
Edition of 20. 77 minutes long. A multiplied chorus of 4 sortof ring modulators built from the displays of discarded VCRs and magnets of ancient hard-drives sing to shortwaves. Beautiful hallucinatory drones from stuff found in the garbage. Each copy has a unique hand-made "diffused rings" sleeve. Many thanks to the Electronic Peasant for the idea for the VFD ring modulators. Tracks: 1. Ringen I, 2. Ringen II.
MP3: Bricolodge (May 2005) brico020
26 minutes long. Jon Vaughn selected 9 pieces from the original 2003 Wood & Wires CDR, remastered them and released them in MP3 format on the BricoLodge weblabel. Tracks: 1. spooning 2. doigt de digit 3. chitinous surfaces 4. aluminum fuzz 5. chimewand 6. jar of ghosts 7. Loeffelstreichen 8. stretchsing 9. skje.
CDR: <no label> (August 2005) LBN 02
Edition of 40. Le Black Noise, recorded live. A deep dark drone, rumbling along, like Sleep. 33 minutes long. Tracks: 1. noirnoirnoir
CDR: <no label> (August 2005) -
Edition of 20. 71 minutes long. Ringen revisited. The same sound recordings as used on the Ringen release, in different montages. III = faster version of I, i.e. all the octaves come in earlier. IV = improvised mix by hand, V = original idea for Ringen I, i.e. one octave at a time, crossfading to lower octave and ending on the lowest one. Tracks: 1. Ringen III (rapid pyramid), 2. Ringen IV (elves bells), 3. Ringen V (descending).
CDR: <no label> (December 2005) HEOTS 01
Edition of 100. Three acoustic drone pieces to get lost in. Artwork/collage by Maryse Latulippe. 55 minutes long. Tracks: 1. Forest of Cymbals, 2. Comme des nuages dans un fleuve, 3. Eyesun/Solœil.
MP3: No Type: Annexe (May 2006) NTA 016
Freely downloadable from notype.com. Recorded at the Avatar studios in 2001, Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt's infra-bass sounds, Érick d'Orion's distorted assaults and James Schidlowsky's radio interferences blend perfectly. Truly, an aesthetic of deforestation. Tracks: 1. Calme sur le lac, 2. Berceuse, 3. Signal de fumée I, 4. Signal de fumée II, 5. Fantômes en forêt, 6. Canoë dub.
CDR: <no label> (June 2006) -
Edition of 3. 79 minutes long. A montage using 24 different recordings of me singing a simple text over and over, in an almost monotone voice, multiplied over 10 times. different microphones and different room combinations were used. The theory was that eventually, a pure drone would emerge. Alas, it did not. Tracks: 1. iwishicouldsing.
CDR: <no label> (July 2006) -
Edition of 12. 33 minutes long. A recontextualization of insomnia. Music made while sleeping, but not really made for sleeping. Like a bunch of semi-random chimes. The original insomnia project having been abandoned due to technical problems, I decided to make a little something out of the three recordings that survived. These were made using a contact mic under my mattress, recording whilst I was in bed. This picked up my movements and stuff as well as the vibrations from the fridge. Then, each recording was sped up 32 times, run through some "5 combs" filters and bit of stereo delay to make them less mono. Tracks: 1. night 1 (6h11m), 2. night 2 (5h50m), 3. night 3 (5h30m), 4.
CDR: <no label> (July 2006) HEOTS 02
Edition of 100. Four pieces with loads of acoustic guitars and voice. Artwork/collage by Maryse Latulippe. 48 minutes long. Tracks: 1. Comme les ailes des libellules, 2. Dappled/Pommelé, 3. Shivers, 4. Sun Spiralling Down.
2xCDR: <no label> (November 2006) -
Edition of 6. 46 + 79 minutes long. Recontextualization of insomnia3, more suitable for sleeping. The 2 CDs are housed in a handmade cardboard/japanese paper sleeve. Tracks: CD1: 1. dark was the night, CD2: 1. cold was the ground.
CDR: digitalis limited industries (April 2008) LTD#5
Edition of 80. Three meditative pieces recorded with zither, banjo, chinese bowls and voice. For more info, see the label's page. 56 minutes long. Tracks: 1. Rayons/SunSpokes, 2. The Sun Reflected In Your Eyes, 3. Green Moss and Golden Bowls.
CDR: Givin' It Records !!! (December 2008) ??
60 minutes long. Release CANCELLED. Steel-string acoustic guitar solo improvisations. Living room recordings made in 2006-2007 before the wrist problems. Tracks: 1. I often crash into walls and especially doorframes, 2. Fill my sails, O wind, and blow me away, 3. May the Delphic bees swarm yer ass, asp, 4. When I was a kid walking home for lunch, I was a helicopter, 5. The apple is a pomaceous fruit, 6. A fool's bolt is soon shot, 7. Scordatura mon amour, 8. That, and other things I don't believe, 9. Hitting the wall with dust-bearing shafts of light, 10. In this game, you lose, and rust takes all, 11. Long after you're gone, my words keep running on.
VHS: squint fucker press (August 2012) squint 00V
Edition of 30 unique videocassettes in a translucent case. 44m44s minutes long. A VHS reissue of the main piece off the Ringen CDR from 2005, including a simple visualization of the piece. Tracks: 1. Ringen
The piece can be heard on the squintfuckerpress mp3 page.