Two Quiet Suns · Album · 20 Mar 2012
An eleven track album.
Lovingly recorded using many synths owned and borrowed. Recorded to multitrack and mastered to two-track tape. Inspired by a film that never was, a journey to the edge of our solar system to install a telescope, with which to better see the Universe.
Tracklist
- Sphere World: 5:27
- Mass of the Planet: 4:45
- The Voyage: 4:51
- Kepler Mission: 4:02
- Sidereal: 3:11
- Light Curve: 4:12
- Meteor Passing: 3:37
- Gateway: 4:27
- Drifting: 4:24
- Backwards Finger: 3:28
- Span: 4:31
Runtime: 46:54
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About the album
The TQS Kepler Mission began as an intensive, week-long collaborative improvisation by Bob and Rob, transforming the Hampton studio into an experimental lab filled with noodle machines. Through looping, layered synthesis, and extended jams, they recorded a broad splurge of material that Bob edited into the final album.
Over the next two years, the output was sculpted and arranged in Pro Tools before being recorded onto multitrack tape and finally mixed down to 2-track tape through an analogue mastering chain. The project combines exploratory electronic performance with old-school studiocraft.
This auditory adventure was created with synths and effects, including the DSI Evolver, Kurzweil PC3, Eventide pedals, and the Eventide Orville for those huge verbs; all piled into the OG Hampton studio. Final mixes were achieved using classic analogue hardware, including an SSL bus compressor, 1176 dynamics processor, and analogue EQ stages to create this glorious production.
Additional mixing and mastering by Gareth Green
Light Curve, selected by DJ Food
“Light Curve” was selected by DJ Food for O Is For Orange, his first solo audio-visual mix. It grew out of “A Few Old Tunes”, a night built around music and TV that inspired Boards of Canada and music inspired by them. The AV mix was presented alongside DJ Food’s set on Solid Steel (28 June 2013, parts 3 and 4), whose show notes name Two Quiet Suns among the featured artists. In the published O Is For Orange tracklist, “Light Curve” appears at number 12, after The Books’ “Group Autogenics I”. The radio show The Golden Apples of the Sun reposted the AV mix and its tracklist on 16 March 2014.
These are versions and write-ups of a single DJ Food selection, not separate radio plays. Sources: Solid Steel, 28 Jun 2013 (Mixcloud) · self-titled · The Golden Apples of the Sun, 16 Mar 2014
Sound design
Two Quiet Suns also designed Binary Pulsars, a 128-patch sound bank for the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08, Mopho and Tetra, published by Boxed Ear.