Touch Newsletter #160


Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #160. Here we present a round-up of still-available 2016 releases on Touch, Ash International, The Tapeworm and The Wormhole.

Available now exclusively from the TouchShop – “Gong/Ear: Shaman” by American composer, musician and visual artist Philip Corner. An important addition to his Gong/Ear: Dancer series, in a CD edition of 250 copies only.

TouchShop is now shipping The Tapeworm’s latest three tapes too – Mark Fell, Le Forbici di Manitù and Biting Tongues. Limited quantities remain.

Touch’s website has been given a responsive-friendly refresh by Yann Novak – please visit touch33.net to see the new site.

UnicaZürn (David Knight and Stephen Thrower) will release “Transpandorem”, their Touch debut, in January 2017. Details and pre-order links to follow on our next newsletter. The duo will make a rare live outing at Café Oto on Wednesday 25th January. Tickets are now on sale at www.cafeoto.co.uk

Last dates to order from TouchShop to “guarantee” delivery before the holidays:
EU – 14th December / UK – 21st December




WHO#09 | Philip Corner “Gong/Ear: Shaman”

CD – limited edition of 250 copies
Mastered for release in September 2016 by Jacques Beloeil
Collages by D.M. Nagu, October 2016


Track List:
1: Schloß Elmau, June 20, 1988 – 12m50s
2: Trento, July 2, 1988 – 17m27s
3: New York, April 22, 1989 – 35m15s


Philip Corner (b. 1933) is an American composer, musician and visual artist. His teachers include Henry Cowell and Olivier Messiaen. While on military duty in Korea in 1960-1961 he studied calligraphy with Ki-sung Kim and many of his works have calligraphic scores. A founder member of Fluxus, Corner has performed with George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. From 1967 to 1970 he taught the course in Experimental Composition at the New School for Social Research, which John Cage initiated in 1956. He was a member of Judson Dance Theater as both dancer and composer and has written scores for dance pieces by James Waring, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs and Elaine Summers among many others. He lives in Reggio nell’Emilia with his wife and performing partner, the dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. His wide-ranging output includes numerous works for gongs, bells, metal percussion and gamelan orchestra.


Buy Philip Corner “Gong/Ear: Shaman” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk




2016 Roundup

A roundup of of 2016’s editions from Touch, Ash International, The Tapeworm and The Wormhole, available in the TouchShop (if no longer available, they are not listed below). You can subscribe to Touch in the TouchShop, and choose which releases you want in advance, along with a 10% discount…

Vinyl

Fennesz “Mahler Remix”

Ande Somby “Yoiking with the Winged Ones”

Dale Cornish and Phil Julian “Laughing Out”

Paul H Williams “Fallen To Earth”

CD

Lustmord “Dark Matter”

Claire M Singer “Solas”

Bethan Kellough “Aven”

Yann Novak “Ornamentation”

Philip Corner “Gong/Ear: Shaman”

Cassettes

Cristian Vogel “'mist Tape”

Acid Fountain “Sabina”

Marta De Pascalis “Anzar”

Le Forbici di Manitu “Saliva Calda”

Biting Tongues “Still On Hawaiian Time”

Mark Fell “Focal Music #3, #4, #5a, #5b”

“The Inauguration of the Elgaland-Vargaland Consulate for Portugal ~ Lisbon 2009”

Download-only Editions

Anna von Hausswolff “Kallan (Prototype)”

“Gravitas – a frequency crescendo in 11 movements”

Jez riley French “Portable Music”

Iain Chambers “Bascule Chamber Concert”

T-Shirts

“Drøne” T-Shirt + WAV Download






Guerrilla Audio

Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.

guer·ril·la
ɡəˈrilə/
noun
noun: guerilla
a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.

Each audio edit will be posted for 14 days and then removed from the site, although the information about each guerrilla activity will be archived, but without the audio. There will be two postings per month with the first (also featuring Klara Lewis & Rainier Lericolais) on 1st August 2015, so please check in regularly to listen to the latest offering.


Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com




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