This Never Happened

by If / When

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Total runtime 57:30

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1.	That Place Will Never Be the Same 09:49	buy track
2.	They Tried to Run Away 09:27	buy track
3.	How the Voice Falls 09:22	buy track
4.	Wedding Day 02:19	buy track
5.	Captured in Suspension 10:43	buy track
6.	She Kept Calm on the Waves 15:46	buy track

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"This Never Happened" is the debut cassette by If / When, a solo project of Stuttgart, Germany-based musician and sound artist Chris Williams. Across six tracks spanning more than 57 minutes, this release brings field recordings, manipulated objects, and other found sounds into dialogue with instruments such as piano, guitar, and synthesizer. The results are both structured and aleatoric, filled with warm melodies, syncopated noises, and subtle shifts of phase, settling somewhere between collage and musical composition. In the end, snippets of sound recorded independently at many different times and locations find new expression through unexpected juxtapositions, providing a listening experience that is both inviting and rewards close attention.

Field recordings, object manipulations, piano, keyboards, guitar, processing, arrangements, and design by Chris Williams.

Mastering: Roderik Vanderstraeten
Tape Duplication: Tapedub

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released July 8, 2021

Smooth Space Editions is a cross-media publishing project based in Stuttgart, Germany. This is Smooth Space Edition #1. First edition of 50 copies released in 2021.

For more information about our other editions, visit smoothspaceeditions.net.

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