Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #189. Hildur Guðnadóttir and Philip Jeck both perform in London this weekend as part of Organ Reframed at Union Chapel, curated by Claire M Singer. Further information on the festival can be discovered below. Click here to purchase tickets.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Touch Presents… Desert Daze – curated by Epicenter Projects and Touch, featuring Jasmin Blasco, Robert Crouch, Yann Novak, Zachary Paul, Simon Scott, Geneva Skeen & Mark Van Hoen in Moreno Beach, Lake Parris, California.
The Tapeworm returns with three new tapes for the Autumn: “Second Saturation” by Kostis Kilymis, “Infinite Vice” by Jon Wesseltoft and Balázs Pándi, and “Entrop” by Zeno van den Broek. Shipping now from the TouchShop.
TTW#109 | Kostis Kilymis “Second Saturation”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies. Illustration by Arne Borgan.
Tracklist:
A1: Control Baggage
A2: From This Here Edge
A3: In Slow Metallic Grace
A4: Voices Go Back
B1: Voices Return
B2: Haringey Versions
B3: Which Area Describes You Best?
Recorded live in Stockholm and at home in Haringey, 2016. Mixed at Stegi Orila, Mets. Mastered by Panos Alexiadis.
“Following up on Arctic Saturation, this is a “live” record of sorts, its mood and good chunk of material captured live at a gig in Stockholm brilliantly organised by Masskultur Stockholm – they brought in a quad PA, and after the gig I traded one of my 7”s for a drink. The rest is me in a little lonely room overlooking the garden in Haringey trying to do dub ambient field recordings on the B-side. It’s all quite languid but slippery, vague tonal ebbs weave through the field recordings. Never really settles on anything obvious, rather pulls you into its own hole of spiralling echoes – did I already mention the word moody? It features some of my most cherished sound captures, the seagulls of Gothenburg and a young soprano practicing next door, not to mention a gratuitous amount of audible delay effects. And anyway, just when you think it might stay in the zone forever, it all gets dry and matter-of-fact and checks out… I took the files and mixed them at the house of ORILA during the hottest week I’ve ever come across in in Athens, stuck indoors and treating the music as my lifeline. Properly sat on the results, almost forgetting about them in one of those aimless periods that you begin by thinking you'll have it all sorted by November, but two years down the line you’re in a different town in another tiny room not sure where the plot is anymore, yet all of a sudden you realise there’s nothing actually to achieve or realise, just you should let things go and move on. Panos Alexiadis was then kind enough to master it. Hope you enjoy this.” – Kostis Kilymis, Bristol, 4.x.2018.
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More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.kostiskilymis.com
TTW#110 | Jon Wesseltoft / Balázs Pándi “Infinite Vice”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies. Carrot-beaked monsterthing with its evil undoings streaming off it in vapour lines illustration by Simon Wesseltoft-Rao
Tracklist:
A: Infinite Vice I
B: Infinite Vice II
Jon Wesseltoft: computer and electronics.
Balázs Pándi: drums.
Recorded live at Nonfigurativ musikk, Tønsberg,
Norway, 2017 by Håkon Lie.
All music performed live and improvised.
Jon Wesseltoft is an Norwegian musician and composer working both with acoustic sources and electronics in the fields of improvised music, sound-art, metal, noise and long-form music. He has a keen interest in the physical and phenomenological appearance of sound and of musical systems.
Balázs Pándi is an idiosyncratic Hungarian drummer with a broad range of styles. Pándi has previously collaborated with Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, K.K Null and Trevor Dunn.
Buy Jon Wesseltoft / Balázs Pándi “Infinite Vice” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
TTW#111 | Zeno van den Broek “Entrop”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies.
Tracklist:
A1: Untitled
A2: Untitled
A3: Untitled
A4: Untitled
B1: Untitled
B2: Untitled
Formed in Copenhagen, February 2018, using a modified Ciat-Lonbarde Esoterica Spike Ring.
"Typically in my work I deal with fixed concepts and defined parameters. With “Entrop” the concept was to not deal with such notions and instead to embrace chaos. I built a noisy little synth – a Ciat-Lonbarde Esoterica Spike Ring – which I modified with further feedback loops to intensify its unpredictable nature. The drum track is not programmed – instead the drum computer follows the pulses of the synth. The recordings on this tape are edited and layered from several sessions. I find it to be one of my most musical works – less rational, almost purely instinctive.” - Zeno van den Broek, Berlin, 22.vi.2018
Buy Zeno van den Broek “Entrop” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.zenovandenbroek.com
12/13 October 2018 | Organ Reframed, Union Chapel, London
The third annual Organ Reframed returns to Union Chapel with a truly experimental approach to this culturally important instrument. The only festival of its kind in the UK Organ Reframed focuses on commissioning innovative new music and introducing new artists and audiences to how versatile this instrument is.
Running from the 12th to 13th October the 2018 festival will see nine world premieres of cutting edge new
works from composers at the forefront of contemporary music. With a mixture of film, music and sound art,
the festival will conclude with a landmark performance of a new work by Éliane Radigue - widely regarded as
one of our greatest living composers and a pioneer of experimental music.
Friday 12 October – the evening performance features a special screening of “Visions in Meditation”, a collection of
short films by the legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The dreamlike silent films, often described as visual music, will be interwoven with three new works from electronic artists, whose aesthetics resonate with Brakhage’s work. Philip Jeck, Sarah Davachi and Darkstar will perform their new works alongside James McVinnie on organ and the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Saturday 13 October – Saturday evening’s programme opens with a new piece from one of Hollywood’s most sought after film composers, Hildur Guðnadóttir, currently making headlines as the newly signed composer for the upcoming film “Joker” with Joaquin Phoenix, making her the first woman to compose a score for a live-action DC Comics film. Previous scores include “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” and “Mary Magdalene”. Hildur has also released four critically acclaimed solo albums on Touch and written widely for theatre and dance. Hildur will be performing her new work live with James McVinnie and the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists.
Organ Reframed is curated by composer and Music Director of the organ at Union Chapel, Claire M Singer,
whose recent albums Solas and Fairge, released on Touch, received wide acclaim. Working closely with the
highly sought after London Contemporary Orchestra she has created a unique festival at Union Chapel,
Islington’s magnificent cultural venue and home to one of the finest organs in the world.
For full programme and to purchase tickets: www.unionchapel.org.uk
12/14 October 2018 | Touch Presents… Desert Daze, Lake Perris, CA
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world…
For full programme and to purchase tickets: www.desertdaze.org
TO:106 | Ipek Gorgun “Ecce Homo”
CD + full album download - 11 tracks - 47:06
Mastered by Denis Blackham @ Skye
Photography & design by Jon Wozencroft
Track listing:
1. Neroli – you can listen to this track by clicking here
2. Afterburner
3. Tserin Dopchut
4. Le Sacre l
5. Le Sacre ll
6. Bohemian Grove
7. Seneca
8. Knightscope K5
9. Reverance
10. Mileva
11. To Cross Great Rivers
All tracks recorded and mixed by Ipek Gorgun, Istanbul 2016 - 2018
Ecce Homo explores the lighter and darker shades of the human psyche, behaviour and existence, and humanity's ability to create beauty and destruction. What lies in the essence of such complexity has become a core idea for the album, while Gorgun seeks to figure out if there is a true meaning to being human, and human being.
Starting with “Neroli” as a human fascination with nature and finalising with “To Cross Great Rivers”; a never ending hopeless dream of the mankind to conquer and control the world, the album reflects the contemplations of a spectator being exposed to the human civilization, and witnessing human activity, including his/her own.
Trying to acquire a glimpse of the multiple layers of such narrative, the sound of the album aims to present a diversity of the sonic spectrum, with tracks varying between ambient and noisy landscapes.
Ipek Gorgun is an electronic music composer currently enrolled in the doctoral program of Sonic Arts at Istanbul Technical University's Center for Advanced Studies in Music. After graduating from Bilkent University with a degree in Political Science, she completed her Master's studies in Philosophy at Galatasaray University.
As one of the participants of the Red Bull Music Academy in 2014, she performed in Tokyo as an opening artist for Ryoji Ikeda’s “Test Pattern No: 6” and joined Otomo Yoshidide for a collective improvisation project.
As a bass player and vocalist for projects and bands such as Bedroomdrunk and Vector Hugo between 2001-2013, she also performed in an opening gig for Jennifer Finch from L7 and Simon Scott from Slowdive, as well as performing live with David Brown from Brazzaville. She has released two EPs with Bedroomdrunk, entitled “This is What Happened (2003)” and “Raw (2007)”.
Besides group projects and solo performances, she also composed the soundtrack for the documentary ‘Yok Anasinin Soyadi (Mrs. His Name) directed by Hande Cayir in 2012, portraying Turkish women’s struggle for keeping their original surnames after marriage.
Her debut album Aphelion was self-released in February, 2016 and is reissued by Touch in December, under the TOUCHLINE catalogue. In 2017 she released a collaborative album from Halocline Trance, with Canadian producer Ceramic TL (aka Egyptrixx) entitled “Perfect Lung”.
Aside from multiple performances following these albums, she also performed in Sonar Istanbul (2017), BBC Radio 3’s “Open Ear” at LSO St. Luke’s (2018) and opened for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Oggimusica Acousmonium with an electronic rework of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” (2018).
Ipek Gorgun also practices performance, street and abstract photography. She won the IPA honorable mention award in 2013-14 with her work entitled "Bubblegun Daydreamer" and in 2013, she worked as the advertisement photographer for Contemporary Istanbul Art fair.
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www.ipekgorgun.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. We are well into the 3rd year and have just posted episode 74…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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