Learning to Be Silent

Learning to Be Silent is the third album by composer C. W. Vrtacek, released in 1986 through Cordelia Records. Despite never being individually issued on CD, the album can be found with only the last track, "Crooked Heart," missing, as well as the entire 1988 album "When Heaven Comes to Town" on the 1996 anthology Silent Heaven.^[2]

Learning to Be Silent
Studio album by C. W. Vrtacek
Released	1986
Recorded	August 1985 – January 1986 at Vrtacek's household
Genre	Electronic
Length	36:48
Label	Cordelia
Producer	C. W. Vrtacek
C. W. Vrtacek chronology
Days and Days (1982) Learning to Be Silent (1986) When Heaven Comes to Town (1988)

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Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

All music is composed by C.W. Vrtacek.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Poison"	1:20
2.	"War"	1:05
3.	"Tumbling"	3:30
4.	"Inside"	1:11
5.	"Revenge"	2:13
6.	"Song for Marcel"	1:59
7.	"Rain"	2:07
8.	"Emily, Are You Happy?"	3:21
9.	"Breathing"	1:01

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Silence"	0:24
2.	"When"	1:42
3.	"Thinking"	3:16
4.	"Fly/Wave"	6:01
5.	"Picture in an Empty Frame"	5:05
6.	"Crooked Heart"	1:33

Personnel

• Myles Davis – mixing
• Kim Gellatly – xylophone on "Emily, Are You Happy?"
• Michael Gellatly – illustrations
• Marc Sichel – bass guitar on "Crooked Heart"
• C.W. Vrtacek – synthesizer, acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, xylophone, ukulele, production, mixing, recording
• James Woodruff – narration on "Fly/Wave"