{"id":394,"date":"2016-04-09T22:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2016-04-10T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T08:38:26","slug":"ryan-vail-for-every-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Vail &#8211; For Every Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ryan Vail <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For Every Silence (Hidden Arch)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey&#8217;ve done experiments with Egyptian pottery made on a wheel thousands of years ago &#8211; they play the plates backwards and receive a recording, a very primitive recording of what took place in the room. Your ghosts. So, I&#8217;ll buy that.\u201d &#8211; Tom Waits <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ryan-vail-for-every-silence-tn.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And I\u2019ll buy this also. Ryan Vail and an inherited piano. Reverberations, real and imagined. A room that that is animated by wood and wire, tusk and iron. Humans giving love and a piece of machinery that is complicit in the act. \u2018For Every Silence\u2019 catches the words, the histories and the soul of an instrument that came into his wife\u2019s family in 1927 and is sweetly operational again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ryan\u2019s work with Ciaran Lavery on last year\u2019s \u2018Sea Legs\u2019 project was about texture and depth, human voices pitched into a vast wash of sound. That is sustained here also. We hear doomy sonatas, electronic splutters and five finger exercises. There\u2019s a radio report about labour unrest and a missive from the piano itself, aching to be used and useful again. But always there is echo and resonance, a sense of other.<\/p>\n<p>The story opens with the mournful fragments of old Europe on \u20181927\u2019. Rachael Boyd\u2019s violin plays keening lines as the interbellum world is busted and the art traditions are being upended. The record is often lonesome, but Ryan insists on the solace of human relations. \u2018Wounds\u2019 is the neglected condition and love is the salve. \u2018Faces\u2019 has the sheer dimensions of New Order\u2019s \u2018Your Silent Face\u2019. On \u2018Mirrors\u2019, Ryan is speak-singing, frail and close, resisting the reaper.<\/p>\n<p>Eoin O\u2019Callaghan from Best Boy Grip is the feature on \u2018Above The White Wash\u2019. He literally takes it to church, soaring liturgy with a seeming kinship to Hildegard of Bingen. Finally there is \u2018My Mechanical Insides\u2019 where the microphones willfully pick out the extraneous sounds of the instrument \u2013 the hammers, levers and keys, made exceptional by fingers, intelligence and art. Big sigh at the end. Achievement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Bailie<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Vail For Every Silence (Hidden Arch) \u201cThey&#8217;ve done experiments with Egyptian pottery made on a wheel thousands of years ago &#8211; they play the plates backwards and receive a recording, a very primitive recording of what took place in the room. Your ghosts. So, I&#8217;ll buy that.\u201d &#8211; Tom Waits And I\u2019ll buy this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}