Touch Newsletter #116


Welcome to the 116th Touch Newsletter. The limited edition vinyl of “I Am Here” by Jóhann Jóhannsson & BJNilsen on Ash International is shipping this week from the TouchShop.

Roger Semsroth is an artist of many guises, Sleeparchive being the best known. For The Tapeworm, he appears as Television Set, with “Emma Hauck’s Letters”.

Paul H Williams tape for The Tapeworm, “Aeroforms”, was made around 1984/85 using a BBC Microcomputer with a Music 500 outboard synthesiser and Ample music software. Williams developed a generative music programme that created sound pieces within a set of boundaries. Every time the programme was run a different performance would occur. This recordings feature the first 45 minutes of each piece, which are eternal in length…




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TTW#75 | Television Set “Emma Hauck’s Letters”

Cassette only – edition of 150 copies.
Illustration – Beth Arzy

Track Listing
A1: Drawings On A Bus
A2: Demo 40
A3: North Atlantic Defense Coalition
A4: Plans And Maps
B1: Instructions To Shunters
B2: Lampada Annuale
B3: Trajectories
B4: Disused Stations

“TV as eyes. TV eye on you. Television, the drug of the nation. The ultimate seduction, the realm etc. Control, by them… This Television Set, however, is just a television set. No abyss you gaze into, with the known consequences. It’s a mere nocturnal distraction. Pastime, but no paradise. Refusal, and no participation. A light in your room. It is a translation of observational notes into sound. You have not lost control again. Roger Semsroth is an artist of many guises, and this is one of his finest. Music written for the loneliest boys in town, who get the girl in the end. Or vice versa. And there are no references either – none! Trip the switch.” – Finn Johannsen, Berlin, 10th November 2014


Buy Television Set “Emma Hauck’s Letters” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.sleeparchive.de




TTW#76 | Paul H Williams “Aeroforms”

Cassette only – edition of 150 copies.

Track Listing
A: Aeroforms 2
B: Aeroforms 1

Paul H Williams writes: “Aeroforms 1 and 2 were made around 1984/85 using a BBC Microcomputer with a Music 500 outboard synthesiser and Ample music software. This release has been mastered from that original cassette recording.

I developed a generative music programme that created sound pieces within a set of boundaries. Tones were produced within a range of sound qualities, frequencies, periods and start times. Once the parameters were selected randomisation was used so that the programme “chose” which tones to play, how to play them, when and for how long.

The parameters used made for completely different sonic experiences. Aeroforms 2 is a meditative drone piece. Aeroforms 1 is an ambient backdrop that doesn't even require the listener - like a piece of audio furniture. Side one is for deep listening. Side two is for not-even-listening…

Every time the programme was run a different performance would occur. The recordings feature the first 45 minutes of each piece which are eternal in length…” – Paul H Williams, London, 13th November 2014.


Buy Paul H Williams “Aeroforms” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk




Ash 11.1 | Jóhann Jóhannsson & BJNilsen “I Am Here”

Limited edition vinyl LP + WAV download

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming release of “I Am Here” by Jóhann Jóhannsson & BJNilsen on limited edition vinyl. This release is now in production and we are expecting finished copies before the end of November 2014.

Based on the original score for the film “I Am Here” (due to be released in 2015), written and directed by Anders Morgenthaler, starring Kim Basinger, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper - All music written and Produced by Jóhann Jóhannsson and BJ Nilsen.

This is the first collaboration between Jóhann Jóhannsson and BJ Nilsen… very much a mix between their two worlds (you can hear both their signatures) and with the help of additional musicians, including Hildur Guðnadóttir on cello and the remarkable voices of Elfa Margrét Ingvadóttir and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson, they together create a world of great beauty and mystery.

You will receive a full digital download WAV version of the tracks plus a bonus track which does not appear on the final album when you place your order - the link to your download is contained in your email receipt.


Buy Jóhann Jóhannssen & BJNilsen “I Am Here” [LP + WAV download] from the TouchShop
www.johannjohannsson.com
www.bjnilsen.com
www.ashinternational.com






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