Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE) - Amplified Guitar LP + Accidents Book

Operating as a visual analog to the Amplified Guitar LP, the work in Mat Ball's book Accidents is also based on chance: chance in discovery, chance in process, or chance in accidental results. Whether found at rest and documented in that natural/untouched state, or assembled/touched by Ball's hand, the aleatoric element in each piece is vital.

Amplified Guitar is the first full-length solo recording by Mat Ball (of BIG|BRAVE). While listeners can enjoy Amplified Guitar at any volume, Ball was most assuredly turned way up when performing these pieces––each recorded in only one single take, live and unadorned, at Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Godspeed’s Efrim Manuel Menuck. Far from being a noise record, Amplified Guitar is an entirely musical and beautiful work and Ball’s use of amplified resonance and feedback often mimics the long gestures and sustained tones of bowed or woodwind instruments.

Accidents:

First edition of 100
78 pages (Lynx Opaque Ultra 100lb)
Perfect bound
6x9 inches
Book design: Joshua Ford

Amplified Guitar:

180gm Black Vinyl

Reverse Board Jacket

Photographs by Stacy Lee

Recorded by Efrim Manuel Menuck (Hotel2Tango)

Mixed by Seth Manchester (Machines with Magnets)

TRACKLIST

To Catch Light (i)

Within the Billow (i)

Steel Wound Arteries (i)

To Catch Light (ii)

Steel Wound Arteries (ii)

Within the Billow (ii)

To Catch Light (iii)

Within the Billow (iii)