Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #191. Announcing two live events in Los Angeles – “Perpetual Drone” and “Touch Presents…”. Further details below.
“Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone”, Jana Winderen’s new recording for Touch, is close to selling-out on CD…
On 19th September, Ancienne Belgique presented a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson. The unique event at Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Béguinage, Brussels, featured a complete live performance of “Virðulegu Forsetar”, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s second album, which we released in 2004, following his debut “Englabörn”. AB recorded the night – the video is now available on YouTube.
“Journey’s End” (Saul Dibb, 2017) used music taken from Hildur Gudnadottir’s Touch releases and has just been reviewed in Rolling Stone, stating: “This World War I story has been filmed several times, most notably by James Whale (Frankenstein) in 1930. But Dibb’s version is the finest to date, accentuated by the haunting music of Icelandic cellist Hildur Guónadóttir. Only Stanley Kubrick’s 1957’s anti-war masterpiece Paths of Glory, which also tackled life in the trenches of The Great War, can top it for ferocity and feeling. Journey’s End is a bleak, sobering experience that puts audiences through a wringer. It’s also an emotional powerhouse you will not forget.” You can now watch it on Amazon Prime (UK / US). Click here to watch the trailer.
Perpetual Drone | 17th-18th November @ Human Resources, Los Angeles
Featuring:
Robert Crouch
Mark Van Hoen
The Eternal Chord with Zachary Paul
Yann Novak
Geneva Skeen
Pinkcourtesyphone (Richard Chartier)
and many more…
Touch presents… | 6th December @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
Touch presents…
Kid606
Geneva Skeen
Byron Westbrook
Zachary Paul
Jasmin Blasco & Franz Kirmann
Coaxial 1815 S Main St
Los Angeles CA 90015
Tone 65 | Jana Winderen “Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone”
CD + booklet – 3 tracks – 77:49
Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft
Booklet photography by Philipp Assmy
Mastered by Denis Blackham, Skye
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 excerpt here
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.
In view of the recent UN Climate Change report, this release is most timely…
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.
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www.janawinderen.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 78…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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