We are devastated to hear about Mika Vainio, who has passed away. It was an honour to have worked with him. All our thoughts are with his friends and family. Mike & Jon.
Welcome to Touch Newsletter #165. Jana Winderen’s “Daybreak; Kochi, Kerala, India” is now broadcasting freely on Touch Radio.
We are pleased to announce that Ash International is now on Bandcamp. Go delve! More info below…
Finally, reminders of drøne’s Record Store Day vinyl and recent tapes from Pinkcourtesyphone and Rishaug/Marhaug.
Touch Radio 129 | Jana Winderen
14.10.16 – Jana Winderen “Daybreak; Kochi, Kerala, India” - 38:03 – 320 kbps
This crepescular recording was made from 4:45am on the 14th December 2016 in the south Indian city of Kochi. I was there to play "Drifting", a performance at Vasco da Gama Square, for Convening #2 hosted by the TBA21 Academy on the following day.
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www.janawinderen.com
www.touchradio.org.uk
Ash International on Bandcamp
We are pleased to announce that Ash International is now on Bandcamp.
New items will be added in due course, but for now we have ready a number of archive releases including Daren Seymour and Mark Van Hoen’s “aurobindo: involution” from 1995 (including two bonus tracks), Simon Scott’s “Insomni”, the long deleted compilation “Chiky(u)u”, rogue aircraft intercepts (Blind c/w Fragment) and Ánde Somby and Chris Watson’s “Yoiking with the Winged Ones”.
Go delve!
ashinternational.bandcamp.com
PRLP3 | drøne “A Perfect Blind”
Limited edition vinyl (500 copies)
Release date: 22 April 2017, Record Store Day – available only from participating stores
Cover image by Maria von Hausswolff
Cut by Jason @ Transition
Font by Nico
Track list
A: Back to the Station
B: Cutting the Screen
“I love everything about this release. Such a great presentation and exciting project! And most important: the music is sublime.” (Label boss Anna von Hausswolff)
Oleg Belyaev – baroque ‘cello
Charlie Campagna – ‘cello
Paul Haslinger – piano
Philip Jeck – pulse
Bethan Kellough – violin, viola
Marie Takahashi – baroque viola
Anna von Hausswolff – voices
Disruption between then and now/memory and presence, dulcimer, psaltery, ‘cellos, violas and violin embroider radio, static, stray voices and electronics… “A Perfect Blind” is the second album by drøne (Mark Van Hoen and Mike Harding) with an array of guest artists, including label supremo Anna von Hausswolff, dreamer and composer Paul Haslinger, field recordist and sound designer Charlie Campagna and Touch artists Bethan Kellough & Philip Jeck. Strings by Seattle-based Marie Takahashi and Oleg Belyaev are also layered into this complex and perhaps more musical offering. Moving in all directions, “A Perfect Blind” continues where “Reversing Into the Future” (Pomperipossa Records, 2016) left off.
“A Perfect Blind” was conceived and designed in Los Angeles with organ recordings from London (at Union Chapel), short wave radio, treated voices and other archaic sound sources.
A stunning front cover image by Maria von Hausswolff and miss-taken typography by Nico embrace this sense of dislocation; as the mediaeval language which enfolds our collapsing 19th Century institutions fails to find relevance, our sense of entrapment in the old is accompanied by an assault on the senses. The destabilising effect of “post-truth” adds to our sense of unbelonging, of being elsewhere, observers not participants.“A Perfect Blind” is the term used for the best possible observation point where the viewer is unseen by the object of interest. Is this the best place to be? Memories which slowly fade away, also reverse back from the past shoving us into the future…
www.recordstoreday.co.uk
www.field.nu/drone
22 April 2017 | drøne live at Touch Vinyl, Los Angeles
To launch the new album “A Perfect Blind” on Record Store Day, drøne is playing live at Touch Vinyl record store on Sawtelle, Los Angeles. Modular synths, theremin, shortwave radio, cassettes… not to be missed.
Touch Vinyl is a cozy, laid-back record shop specializing in new releases & reissues, plus turntables & live music.
Address: 1646 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
Hours: 12–9pm
Phone: +1 310-933-5540
www.touchvinyl.com
TTW#94 | Rishaug Marhaug “Corneal Clouds”
Cassette only – limited edition of 125 copies
Illustration – SavX
Track List
A1: Seeing Eye Dog
A2: Subjective Refraction Error
B1: Gentle But Willing
B2: Dogs for the Blind
Norwegian sound artists Alexander Rishaug and Lasse Marhaug have worked together as a duo for almost 20 years. In this time they have produced one album, 2004’s “Feel Free At Home”.
Now, the pair are ready with their follow-up: “Corneal Clouds”. The music was recorded in 2012, then put through an extensive and meticulous fermentation process of five years until now – at last – it is ready for the public. Rishaug Marhaug promotes positive thinking through their unique brand of electronic music.
Buy Rishaug Marhaug “Corneal Clouds” in the TouchShop
Buy Rishaug Marhaug “Corneal Clouds” on Bandcamp
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.arishaug.com
www.lassemarhaug.no
TTW#95 | Pinkcourtesyphone “Something You Are Or Something You Do”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies, plus a special Bandcamp edition of 50 hot pink copies
Track List
A: But It Felt/In Other Dreams
B: She Who Controls
Formed from plastics and particulars by Richard Chartier, 2015 – “I am lonely, yet I feel wonderful…”
Pinkcourtesyphone is a continuing project by Los Angeles-based sound artist Richard Chartier. He is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist sound art which has been termed both microsound and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.
Pinkcourtesyphone is a more emotional, dare one say musical side of his work. Pinkcourtesyphone is dark but not arch, with a slight hint of humor. Pinkcourtesyphone is amorphous, changing, and slipping in and out of consciousness. Pinkcourtesyphone operates like a syrup-y dream and strives to be both elegant and detached.
Pinkcourtesyphone has collaborated with the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, harpist Gwyneth Wentink, AGF, William Basinski, and Evelina Domnitch. Pinkcourtesyphone’s work has been released internationally on labels including: Editions MEGO (Austria), Room40 (Australia), LINE (US), Important Records (US), Dragon’s Eye Recordings (US), Farmacia901 (IT), Champion Version (UK), Boomkat (UK), and IO Sound (Canada).
Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.
Buy Pinkcourtesyphone “Something You Are Or Something You Do” in the TouchShop
“Something You Are Or Something You Do” hot pink edition on Bandcamp
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.pinkcourtesyphone.com
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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