Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #188. Announcing Jana Winderen’s forthcoming new album, “Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone” - the marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable... this album, a CD with full colour booklet, will be released on 9th November 2018. You can listen to an extract here.
20th September - Opening of 'Raft of Ice’, in collaboration with Tony Myatt, permanent live temperature interactive 6 channel sound installation for U.S. Embassy in Norway, Oslo
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
22nd September - Live Concert at Lisboa SOA in the Water Reservoir Mãe de Água, Lisbon, Portugal
Further information can be found here
2nd November - Opening of 'Through the Bones' for Edge of the Wonderland, Thailand Biannual 2018
Curated by Jiang Jiehong, Krabi
Further information can be found here
9th November - Release of new album "Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone"
Touch # Tone 65 - CD + booklet - 3 tracks - 77:49
Track listing:
1. Interview with Carlos Duarte 5:48
2. Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone - Headphones mix 37:00
3. Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone - Speakers mix 35:00
You can listen to an extract here.
Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft
Booklet photography by Philipp Assmy
Mastered by Denis Blackham, Skye
Published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd
The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable. The phytoplankton present in the sea produces half of the oxygen on the planet. During spring, this zone is the most important CO2 sink in our biosphere. In Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone the sounds of the living creatures become a voice in the current political debate concerning the official definition of the location of the ice edge.
The listener experiences the bloom of plankton, the shifting and crackling sea ice in the Barents Sea around Spitsbergen, towards the North Pole, and the underwater sounds made by bearded seals, migrating species such as humpbacks and orcas, and the sound made by hunting saithe, crustaceans and spawning cod, all depending on the spring bloom.
Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone is a Sonic Acts and Dark Ecology commission first shown as a 7 channel installation at the Sonic Acts festival (Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, 2017). It was supported by Art & Technology - Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, Tono stipendet, ARCEx research cruise on R/V Helmer Hanssen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Thanks to Paul Wassmann, Ingrid Wiedmann, Britt Kramvig, Berit Kristoffersen, Hilde Methi, Annette Wolfsberger, North Sailing, Arctic Encounters, Mamont Foundation & TBA21 Academy.
CARLOS M. DUARTE is Professor of Marine Science, Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, and is a world-wide leader in multiple branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology.
PHILIPP ASSMY is a researcher at The Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway. Current activities include species-specific studies of planktonic and sympagic communities and primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard. He is also studying the impact of changing sea ice conditions and associated effects (e.g. changes in light climate and surface stratification) on phytoplankton and ice algal communities.
30th November - Live performance at C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Spain.
Further information can be found here
Jana Winderen on Bandcamp
You can listen to a growing library of Jana Winderen's audio work on Bandcamp. It is not always possible to render stereo mixes of her multi-channel work, but where she can, she does...
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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. We are well into the 3rd year and have just posted episode 76…
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