Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:15:52 +0000 Touch http://www.touchradio.org.uk Podcast Maker v1.4.0 - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker Touch »»» TouchRadio »»» TouchPod TouchPod is the podcast for TouchRadio, which offers a selection of recordings, live or otherwise, from artists who are affiliated to or whose work appear on Touch, including Biosphere, Leif Elggren, Christian Fennesz, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Philip Jeck, Jacob Kirkegaard, BJNilsen, Stephen O'Malley, People Like Us, Peter Rehberg, Simon Fisher Turner, Chris Watson, Jana Winderen, Pascal Wyse, z'ev, and others. en Touch Music [MCPS] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ Touch info@touchmusic.org.uk http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/podcastImage_144.jpg http://www.touchradio.org.uk 144 144 Music Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod no Chris Watson Chris Watson - A Journey South Chris Watson journeys to the South Pole for the forthcoming David Attenborough series 'The Frozen Planet' (BBC, 2011). Here he reports back with his experiences... Photos by Chris Watson & Jason Roberts http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio/Radio49/Radio49.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchradio/Radio49/Radio49.mp3 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:55:28 +0000 Music no 00:50:20 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Biosphere Biosphere - Live in Den Haag This concert was part of Todaysart, Den Haag, Netherlands on 27.09.09. Also appearing as part of the Touch events were Hildur Gudnadottir, Philip Jeck, Jana Winderen and The Eternal Chord. It was recorded straight from the mixing desk to an Ares Pll Nagra digital recorder. Born in Tromso (Norway), Geir Jenssen is better known as Biosphere, a key figure in contemporary Norwegian music. In 1992, Jenssen shot to fame with his Biosphere-debut album "Microgravity", becoming one of the pioneering ambient artists from the 90's. He was one of the first to come up with the mix of soundscapes, voice samples and atmospheric noise with trancey melodies and solid beats. Biosphere gave an intimate performance in the Lutherse Kerk, a very small church. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/denhaag.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/denhaag.mp3 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:18:07 +0000 Music no 00:37:05 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Pascal Wyse and Tom Haines Pascal Wyse and Tom Haines - A Rock and a Hard Place Eighty miles off the coast of mainland Scotland, the archipelago of St Kilda is host to almost a million seabirds each summer. Beginning underwater, this journey takes in the remote island group – with its gurgling seawash, gannets and storm petrel – before sailing east to the Shiants, home to puffins, guillemots, fulmars and razorbills. Finally, a mix of the exotic and commonplace – Carrion crow, wren, herring gulls. heron, ringed plover, cuckoo, oystercatcher, song thrush, common sandpiper – heard at dawn on the island of Rhona. 
Sound and photography: Pascal Wyse and Tom Haines. Recorded in June 2009 with Dolphin Ear hydrophones, Sennheiser and DPA microphones and Sound Devices recorders. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/hebrides.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/hebrides.m4a Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:18:50 +0000 Music no 00:11:45 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Ken Montgomery Ken Montgomery - 1 / f noise | Smoothing Out The Press 1 / f noise While teaching sound art in Cincinnati Ohio's art school DAAP, Montgomery organized sonic tours of the Ceramics Department. The audience was blindfolded and led one by one down 8 flights of stairs into a series of listening stations where ventilators, burning kilns and other machinery were in use (2008). Smoothing Out The Press was composed using the Sound of Sanding from the Crest Hardware Show plus recordings made at Ben Owen's Middle Press in Brooklyn while printing the Ministry of Lamination’s Almost Blank Notebook letterpress edition (2007). http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/TouchRadio46.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/TouchRadio46.m4a Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:01:08 +0000 Music no 00:59:55 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Sohrab Sohrab - Live in Tehran Biking in Holland | Tears (Sohrab version) | Tanhayi | Satyr | Tears (Esteban Olenikov version Tundra) | There is an ashtray between us | Tears (Yozhik version) | New Zealand | Barf Recorded and played live in October 2009. Sohrab used reason3 his midi controller (R)evolution uc-16 and a sampler, recorded live through ambrosia recording software. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/sohrab.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/sohrab.m4a Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:26 +0100 Music no 00:42:24 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Laurent Jeanneau Lauren Jeanneau - Ghulja Xinjiang ("new frontier" in Chinese) or Eastern Turkestan is without doubt the first extremely sensitive zone in China, at least in terms of ethnic conflict between the Hans newcomers and muslim minorities who have a longer history of occupation of those areas. Spread from Mongolia to Afghanistan, it is the biggest Chinese province. I was in the north western part of Xinjiang in the prefecture of ILI, called Yining outside of China and Ghulja by the Turkophones, in May and June 2009... http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/gulja.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/gulja.m4a Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:35:24 +0100 Music no 00:44:20 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod BJNilsen & Philip Jeck Philip Jeck & BJNilsen - Rehearsal Tapes Rehearsal tapes from The Suffolk Symphony. On August 22nd 2009 Touch will present a multimedia perfomance of The Suffolk Symphony - the culmination of the week's work undertaken during the residency. Faster than Sound comes to the Snape Proms for more experiments in sound and image. Faster Than Sound bring more imaginative experiments with sound and image to the Snape Proms with The Suffolk Symphony, a specially commissioned residency and new work by leading sonic and visual production company Touch. Inspired by the historic coastline of Aldeburgh and its surrounding area including Aldeburgh Music's Snape Proms and its history, Touch will create a new audio-visual symphony from scratch, using only locally sourced sounds and images. Beginning on 16 August, Philip Jeck, BJNilsen, Jon Wozencroft, Philip Marshall and Mike Harding will go on a week-long treasure hunt to unearth old records, field recordings, home-made sounds and images to create a new multimedia Suffolk Symphony, culminating in its first performance on the 22 August. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio43.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio43.mp3 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:37:58 +0100 Music no 00:16:44 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Hildur Gudnadottir Charles Matthews & Hildur Gudnadóttir - Nacre Nacre was composed for the experimental music festival 'Skanu mezs' in Riga, Latvia. The premiere of Nacre was held there on 23rd May 2009 in St. Saviour's Anglican Church. [With thanks to Viestarts Gailitis.] For a church organ and light organ Composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir Performed by Charles Matthews and Hildur Guðnadóttir Installation by Elín Hansdóttir and Hildur Guðnadóttir Light organ programmed by Derek Holzer Nacre is dedicated to Hildur's grandmother Margrét Guðnadóttir, who celebrated her 80th birthday in July 2009. The title refers to her name, since both the noun 'Nacre' and the name 'Margrét' mean 'Mother of Pearl'. Nacre is a written for 2 types of organs; a church organ and a light organ, therefore the score is twofold. 1. Church Organ/DNA: Nacre's score is in the shape of a 360 degree helix of a double strand DNA. This form was chosen as a connection to Margrét's passionate work as a virologist. DNA forms the basis of inheritance in all organisms, except viruses, although DNA can be found in a few viruses such as herpes. DNA also connects grandmother and granddaughter, whereas it holds genetic information to be passed on from one generation to the next. 2. Light Organ/Newton: The basis of the light organ is Newton's color circle. He was the first person to connect colour to wavelengths of light and made the colour circle based on that theory. His circle consists of 7 colours and he assigned musical notes to each colour. Newton's scale starts with red, to which he assigned the note D. The scale continues as a diatonic scale from D (also known as the Dorian mode); E=orange, F=yellow etc. A light system was made specially for Nacre, which reads the frequencies being played on the church organ and triggers coloured lights for each note in Newton's color circle. When the note D is played on the organ, for example, a red light shines in the light organ. The light organ hangs above the audience. 70 LED lights are arranged in mirror-origami modules that are held up by giant balloons. The floating lights are therefore multiplied and create a slight spatial distortion. Score/Performance: The 21 angström width of the DNA is divided into 3 sets of Newton's 7 colour circle. Each set of colours are played on different manuals of the organ; one set is played on the pedals, another set is played on the 1st manual and the third set is played on the 2nd manual. The 34 angström length of the DNA serves as a timeline for Nacre. The form of the DNA determines when each note should be played. When the DNA rises or falls to a note in Nacre's score, it should be played until the DNA rises or falls on the same note, then the note is released. All the notes are indicated in the score with corresponding colours lighting up in the color organ. The result of this is a giant chord, where the overtones engage in a war as to which note shines the brightest in the light organ. Newton's colour circle is also spread horizontally over the length of the DNA, starting at red with low frequencies and working its way up the frequency scale up to purple. The "musical colours" of the chord are controlled by the 2nd performer next to the organist, who pulls or pushes the church organ stops in and out, creating an overtone resonance beat according to the horizontal colour circle. Starting with the lower stops and slower beat, working its way up to the higher stops and faster beat. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Nacre.m4v http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Nacre.m4v Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:12:19 +0100 Music no 00:44:16 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod The Honey Bees of Cherry Garden Farm The Honey Bees of Cherry Garden Farm - The Act of Being Stung Mike Harding was commissioned by The Southbank Centre to record bees for The Bee Symphony, to be performed on Sunday 6th September 2009 at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London as part of Pestival. The Bee Symphony, with music composition by Marcus Davidson (Spire) and bee recordings by Mike Harding diffused by Chris Watson, will be performed at “Cross Pollination – An Evening of Experimental Insect Music”, curated by Chris Watson. The recordings took place at Cherry Garden Farm, Stelling Minnis in Kent, England. The hives are owned by Olivia Grove on her seven acre small-holding. Also present were Marcus Davidson, who took the photos, and bee expert Mary Hill from Old Wives Lees. You can hear the voices of all four on the episode... Equipment used includes 2 x dpa 4060 mics, recording onto a Nagra Ares P-ll at 48k 24bit, and of course, a coathanger and bee suit... with thanks to Jane Beese at The Southbank Centre. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio41.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio41.m4a Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:26:45 +0100 Music no 00:08:48 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Edwin Pouncey Edwin Pouncey - R'Occult 'n' Roll Recorded 02.04.09 “R'Occult 'n' Roll – Music and Magic on the Wild Side” Readings by Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey at Treadwell's Books, London. “The connections between rock music and the occult range from the legends of bluesmen selling their souls to the Devil for success, through to the influence of Aleister Crowley on the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin in the 60s and 70s, and the Satanic music and imagery of today’s Black Metal underground. This talk will cover all these subjects, together with lesser-known examples of ‘rockultism’. You may even get to hear some mad, bad and occasionally dangerous musick too. Earplugs optional. Sandy Robertson is the author of The Aleister Crowley Scrapbook (now in print for 20 years) and has written for Mojo, NME and other publications. As well as being a music writer and illustrator for The Wire magazine, Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil/Sav X) is an artist whose work has been shown in galleries in the UK, Europe and America. Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey were colleagues at the legendary rock paper Sounds during the 80s.” In this excerpt, Edwin Pouncey discusses the genealogy of Black Metal. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/roccult.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/roccult.m4a Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:45:05 +0100 Music no 00:23:52 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Paolo Raposo | Joao Silva Paulo Raposo | João Silva - Book of Hours guest: Carlos Santos Recorded 12.12.08 Dome of the National Pantheon, Lisbon João Silva: crystal bowl Paulo Raposo: space multi-channel diffusion and real-time processing Carlos Santos: glass and bell "Book of Hours" was recorded in the remarkable baroque central dome of the National Pantheon in Lisbon. The musicians (and the audience) were 40 meters above ground level on a narrow circular balcony looking out over the abyss. The main sound source was a crystal bowl, played by João Silva, which was struck and resonated with a stick. Paulo Raposo processed these sounds and diffused them throughout the space via 6 channels, 4 of which were small self-powered speakers, arranged symetrically around the circumference of the dome. Carlos Santos also moved throughout the space and the audience with a small glass and a Tibetan bell. The sonic interactions in "Book of Hours" aimed to reveal the inherently active qualities of the space, itself a performer in this acoustic dialog. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/book.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/book.mp3 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:21:45 +0000 Music no 00:23:24 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Philip Marshall Philip Marshall - Ost An edited version of the track "Ghost", commissioned as part of "The Space Between Seeing and Knowing is Haunted," an exhibition curated by D–L Alvarez at Exile and Arratia, Beer, Berlin [07.02.2009 – 04.04.2009]. Arranged and produced by Philip Marshall. Voices sourced from "The Ghost Orchid – an Introduction to EVP" [PARC, 1999]. Rain recordings courtesy of Dale Cornish. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/ost.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/ost.mp3 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:24:24 +0000 Music no 00:14:21 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Pascal Wyse Pascal Wyse - Barbialla How to catch a truffle   Ancient Greeks, as much in the dark as anyone else when it came to where the white truffle is to be found, shrugged and announced that the tuber magnatum occurred wherever lightning struck the ground. Cobblers, of course, but that’s the excuse for beginning this piece with a burgeoning thunder storm — in September 2008, on the Barbialla Nuova estate near San Miniato, Tuscany. This is an area famed for its white truffles.   Then a truffle hunt, with Imperio, Bobbi and Sabali. Bobbi is a dog, a breed called Lagotto. Imperio is the hunter. Sabali translates Imperio now and again, but most of the time he is chatting to the dog, saying “Find!”, “Is it or isn’t it?” He gets very angry with the cat (“Go home!”) who, feeling sociable, joined us on this three-hour walk.    A truffle is found and Bobbi, having pulled up a 12-inches of earth, doesn't want to surrender it. At least with a dog you can yank him away by the scruff of the neck, and Bobbi was occasionally seen flying over Imperio’s shoulder. Not so easy with pigs, who used to be employed as truffle hunters — but enough of an excuse to include the sounds of Silvio here, the biggest of the farm's Cinta Senese breed.   There the tenuous links end, unless anyone knows of a connection between truffles and the crickets, tawny owls and mystery birds that chattered deep in to the night.   [Recorded on DPA miniature omni microphones and Sound Devices 702 recorder]  http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/barbialla.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/barbialla.m4a Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:30:15 +0000 Music no 00:12:50 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Will Montgomery Will Montgomery - Submarine A submarine-like structure sits on a traffic island in the middle of Akerman Road, London SW9. It was built in the 1970s above the large underground boiler room that provides heat for the Myatt’s Field estates, which lie on either side of the road. The boilers still heat more than 300 buildings to the south of the road, but their unreliability caused the north-side estate to switch to another heating source in the early 1990s. The heating system was sited underground because to do so was considered ‘best practice’ at this stage of the Cold War, when a nuclear conflict sometimes seemed a distinct possibility. At the time the estates were built, both the US and the USSR maintained large fleets of weapon-bearing submarines: ocean-going doubles of the Akerman Road structure. In spring 2008 I made some recordings of the machinery in the boiler room. These have been organised into a composition. I have filtered some of the sounds but no digital processing has been used. Photography by Dollan Cannell. Thanks to Stuart Dixon and Lambeth council for letting me in. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/submarine.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/submarine.mp3 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:08:48 +0000 Music no 00:09:12 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Diane Hope THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA freq_out 7 took place in September 2008 as part of The Happy New Ears Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. There was also a performance by THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA on Saturday 13th September, which was recorded by Finnbogi Pétursson and mastered by BJNilsen. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/freq_out.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/freq_out.mp3 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:36:16 +0100 Music no 00:28:48 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Diane Hope Diane Hope - Elk Song Headphones are recommended. Recorded 24/48 with a Rode NT4 stereo mic. The forests and meadows of Northern Arizona's high country are populated by herds of elk, packs of coyotes and a variety of frogs, owls and other wildlife. Camping out overnight can be an exhilarating acoustic experience - as I found out... Waking up in my tent just after one am my immediate thought was that I had entered some weird spirit realm and was hearing the wail of a banshee - what turned out to be a bugling elk. The initial recordings were made on 4th September 2007. The main portion of the recording, an ethereal song consisting of a series of explosive elk calls, was made more recently on 10th June 2008. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/elk.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/elk.m4a Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:03:26 +0100 Music no 00:11:13 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod AER AER - Without Number "The earliest tape used in this radio show comes from 1982 and the most recent is ten years old. AER is/was a name I gave to sound recordings used for the Touch samplers (in particular) and this is no more than an opportunity to “clear the cupboards” and make the best of them available in one location. None of them benefit from studio production and in the age of easily-available sound recording software, I suppose part of the point is that they are all cassette or minidisk recordings assembled on pre-digital recording equipment." http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/aer.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/aer.mp3 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:22:59 +0100 Music no 00:45:53 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Dr. Tom Lawrence Tom Lawrence - Donadea Forest Donadea Forest Recordings, December 2007 to May 2008. 00:00-04:27 Castle Crow's Cacophony (31st December 2007, 7.20am) 04:28-10:23 January Gales 9th January 2008 10.45pm (contains references to 9/11 forest monument and the avenue of trees, captured with contact mics) 10:24-14:48 Forest Rain 12th January 2008 1.15am (extensive flooding) 14:49-20:36 Forest Harmonics 8th March 2008 6.20-11.50am (sampled forest chimes, forestry felling, and the 'carbon chorus' [surrounding motorways]). 20:37-30:47 The Dawn Chorus (recorded on National Dawn Chorus Day 20th May 2008, 4.35am) Tom Lawrence is a composer/sound recordist. He is on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University. Principle photography by Eddie Mallin from Dublin, currently living in Kildare. Using film-based cameras, he prints using traditional darkroom techniques and favours fibre-based papers. Images for this project are mainly scanned negatives. Supplementary photography captured during recording sessions by Tom Lawrence. These recordings were made using a Sennheiser mkh20 binaural rig, a Neumann kmr82, contact microphones, a hydrophone, a Sony C1 and a Sound Devices mixer and recorder. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/donadea.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/donadea.m4a Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:06:38 +0100 Music no 00:30:46 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Simon Fisher Turner Simon Fisher Turner - Lifesounds 1. Lindsay Anderson recorded at the memorial service for Andrei Tarkovsky [1932-1986] at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London 2. Filming The Garden [Derek Jarman, 1990] at Dungeness, Kent. 3. Mrs. Oyler in conversation with Derek Jarman 4. Brick Lane Man, 1988 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Lifesounds.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Lifesounds.m4a Sat, 17 May 2008 14:17:13 +0100 Music no 00:23:08 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Enrico Coniglio Enrico Coniglio - Sapientumsuperacquis As part of an ongoing series of recordings of unusual sounds of the Venice lagoon, these tracks were made on 29th april 2008 at 2100 in a night-depot of boats of the public transport service at “Riva dei Schiavoni”, not far from San Marco square. Headphones are recommended. Recorded 24/96, with binaural stereo mic. "Sapientum super acquis" is the title attribuited to the "Magistrato alle acque" of the Serenissima Venetian Republic, an organ istituited on 1501 by the "Council of ten", that had the job of keeping safe the delicate natural/artificial balance of the lagoon, and looking after the "health" of the water. Today the water is mostly polluted because of Porto Marghera, one of the biggest industrial areas in the whole Europe. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Sapientumsuperacquis.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Sapientumsuperacquis.mp3 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:03:24 +0100 Music no 00:23:13 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Novi_sad Novi_sad - Dramazon Recorded, assembled and produced by Novi_sad, March 2008. Mastered by Electroware and Novi_sad at Dsp Lab, Athens The whole piece is based on field recordings from: Mamori Lake, Amazonia, Brazil Alphios Bridge, Ancient Olympia, Greece Vibrations from the bridge which connects Denmark with Sweden The Heineken Brewery, Greece and hydrophone recordings* from Mamori Lake. Also use were sounds and notes from a church organ. Output signals have been manipulated and electronically treated. Dramazon is made in memory of a long rainy night in Amsterdam... In the era of 0111001100011101011o, one thing remains stable and it will remain stable and non-mutated for eternity. The way people kiss, the way bodies are connected... [*thanx to Scott Konzelmann] http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/dramazon.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/dramazon.m4a Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:57:05 +0000 Music no 00:22:52 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Jana Winderen Jana Winderen - Utvaer Latitude: 61° 2 Min. 12 Sec. Longitude: 4° 36 Min. 36 Sec. Name: Utvær Light Nearest Town or City: Hardbakke, Norway Location: About 4 miles west of Ytre Sula. Managing Organization: Coast Directorate Tower Height: 101 Height of Focal Plane: 148 Characteristic and Range: White flash every 30 seconds; range 19 nautical miles. Description of Tower: Red round cast-iron tower. This light is operational Date Established: 1900 Date Present Tower Built: 1900 Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? Yes. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/utvaer.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/utvaer.m4a Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:34:00 +0000 Music no 00:12:24 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Gudni Franzson Gudni Franzson - notturno It was last July, summer 2007, we went to a party at Laugarvatn, one of the few places where there grow natural trees in Iceland, approximately one hours drive east of Reykjavik. The party was good and went far into the bright night but we had put up a tent to lie down in the morning. I wasn't at all tired in the morning but started listening to the incredible birds in the woods and down in the mob until day broke. I was sorry not to have the recording machine with me that night but decided to return the night after with my gear, hoping the birds would still be there. They were and this time I was alone in the place, did but up a small mic and pressed the rec. button, the result is on the Touch Radio. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/notturno.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/notturno.mp3 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:44:48 +0000 Music no 00:55:17 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Lasse Marhaug Lasse Marhaug - Into The Pandemonium (Touch Radio Mix) A commissioned sound installation for the Hole In The Sky festival in Bergen, Norway August 21-25th 2007. The installation was made using six channels. This is an edit/simplified stereo mix made for Touch Radio. " Into The Pandemonium" is a de-composition/ celebration of 25 years of extreme metal music. Fragments of classic moments in death/thrash/black metal music have been mangled, disfigured and reworked into a festering pulp of distortion, doom and noise. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Pandemonium.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Pandemonium.mp3 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:16:44 +0100 Music no 00:31:22 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Chris Watson Chris Watson - The Sound of Islay: a report from The Hebrides Saligo Bay sits in the nw corner of the Island of Islay in the Scottish Hebrides. Atlantic waves break on the shore and westerly winds drive straight up the beach and create mosaic patterns of sound in the low-lying vegetation. 'The Sound of Islay' then waits for the winds to die and the sun to dip into the ocean before investigating the nocturnal sounds on the wetlands of Loch Gruinart. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Islay.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Islay.m4a Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:30:55 +0100 Music no 00:24:20 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Steve Roden Steve Roden - 9-Sided Room "'9-sided room' was created in May 2007 by layering 9 sides from some of the vinyl I've released over the years. it is basically what would happen if I had 9 turntables in my studio and was able to play these records all at the same time. There's a bit of mixing things in and out but no processing or manipulation. Along with some recent things, I've included the very first record I ever made - a 6" cardboard recording from a phono booth machine at a Los Angeles amusement park c. 1969. '9-sided room' is intended to be heard at a relatively low volume." http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/steveroden.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/steveroden.mp3 Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:27 +0100 Music no 00:27:00 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Leif Elggren Leif Elggren - Live at Limehouse Town Hall, London, March 23rd 2006 Leif Elggren - Live in London http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/leif.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/leif.mp3 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:49:57 +0000 Music no 00:20:11 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Scott Taylor Scott Taylor - Silver 'Silver' was conceived for TouchRadio as part of their 25th anniversary. As a starting point, electronic sounds were created using a malfunctioning Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synth, recorded in 5 improvised passes of 25 minutes each - 5x5=25. The title also reflects this, silver being the material that denotes a 25th anniversary. Field recordings were made in Thailand and New Zealand over December 2006 and incorporated into the sonic jamboree - the piercing, feedback like tone at the start is the actual sound of cicadas in the Thai sub-tropical rainforest, untreated, the sound they produce as individuals synchronizing every 60/90 seconds to produce almost a pure sine wave. Further on is the dawn chorus in Wellington, New Zealand with the distinctive, clacking call of a bird called a Tui sounding out. Close to the end of the piece is the singing of a young Thai lad, sat around the neck of an elephant as we both rode into the rainforest, 'home' never too far away for me as he was wearing a t-shirt on the back of which was printed the front page of a US newspaper from 1979 announcing the death of Sid Vicious! Recordings made with an Edirol R-09 and Soundman binaural, in-ear microphones.. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/scott.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/scott.mp3 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:52:03 +0000 Music no 00:25:00 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod The Skull Defekts The Skull Defekts - Live at Fylkingen, Stockholm, November 12th 2007 Recorded at iDEAL Noise Fest, Stockholm. On this occasion, The Skull Defekts were Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Henrik Rylander, Joachim Nordwall and Jean-Louis Huhta. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/skull.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/skull.mp3 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:48:36 +0000 Music no 00:36:02 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Daniel Menche Daniel Menche - Apostate These 'fragments' were constructed for TouchRadio throughout 2006... Daniel Menche says: "Sound of Vehemence!" Music is like one's own blood, so amplify it! As loud as possible - make the speakers bleed!" http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Apostate.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Apostate.m4a Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:27:55 +0000 Music no 00:36:50 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Fennesz/Rehberg/Toral/Feliciano Fennesz/Rehberg/Toral & Feliciano - Live at Vila Nova de Foz Coa, May 29th 1999 Performed in a garden at the top of a hill in Foz Coa, at the remote northeast of Portugal. Overlooking the valley and the far slope of the opposite hill, at dusk, Pita, Fennesz (computers) and Rafael Toral (modular synth) played as João Paulo Feliciano mixed live into a sound-modulated light generating cube. The scale of the cube, the throbbing, rich colors emanating from it and the electronics setting gave the event an otherwordly feel, pretty much as if an alien spaceship had landed there. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/fozcoa.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/fozcoa.mp3 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:15:50 +0100 Music no 01:01:53 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Chris Watson Chris Watson - Alcedo Volcano "The Alcedo Volcano sits, astride the equator 1000m above the Pacific ocean on the central ridge of Isla Isabella the largest of the Galapagos Islands. For tens of thousands of years within the micro climate of the Caldero a strange and beautiful habitat has been created - an isolated and lost world which I was privileged to live within for several days during May 2006." Chris Watson, June 2006 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/volcano.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/volcano.m4a Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:43:39 +0100 Music no 00:15:00 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Brandon Labelle Brandon LaBelle - CD=text (psycho-acoustical speech) 'CD=text (psycho-acoustical speech)' was recorded in different cities with different friends, inspired by other notions of sampling technology and the remix-format, and the dynamics of mishearing. Special thanks to Lupe Nuñez-Fernandez, Ken Ehrlich, Giles Lane, and Lun*na Menoh for their participation. Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound, location, and performance. His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio", will be presented this autumn as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He lives in Copenhagen and is a member of freq_out. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/CDText.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/CDText.mp3 Mon, 22 May 2006 11:33:10 +0100 Music no 00:36:57 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Jana Winderen Jana Winderen - Live at Ash 13, Fylkingen, Stockholm, February 26th 2006 This piece is solely based on Hydrophone recordings, made by Jana Winderen in Berlin, Mjøsa, Halifax (Canada) and Oslo. With thanks to Doug Quin, samples of whose work also were used in this piece. [Recorded in Stockholm by BJNilsen on the 13th anniversary of the founding of Ash International. Also performing that night were Alvars Orkester, Elgaland-Vargaland, BJNilsen and OCSID.] Jana Winderen is an artist, curator and producer who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is a member of freq_out. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Ash13.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Ash13.mp3 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:01:13 +0100 Music no 00:15:04 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Stephan Mathieu Stephan Mathieu - Radio One 'Radio One' is a live recording from the premiere performance of 'Radioland', played on September 24, 2005 during the EMF Festival at Igreja de Santiago, a 15th century chapel in Palmela, Portugal. 'Radioland' is based on live radio input re-arranged by Stephan's computer. The original 6-channel diffusion is presented here as a stereo mixdown. The piece is dedicated to Vitor Joaquim. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/RadioLand.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/RadioLand.mp3 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:13:36 +0000 Music no 00:28:35 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod IVAR/GRUTLE/AMBARCHI/O'MALLEY/TURNER/CSIHAR Press conference at Roskilde Festival, July 1st 2005 Press conference/panel at Roskilde Festival 010705 Panelists consisted of Ivar & Grutle (of the Norwegian group ENSLAVED), Stephen O'Malley, Oren Ambarchi & Attila Csihar (all of whom had performed with SUNN O))) that day), and Aaron Turner of ISIS. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Roskilde.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Roskilde.mp3 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:58:10 +0000 Music yes 00:31:55 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod Leif Inge Leif Inge - Naeae... Leif Inge - Naeae... Leif Inge is an Oslo-based idea-based artist, working with time-stretching sound to create beautiful, but thrilling and powerful, soundscapes. As in his epic 9 Beet Stretch, 24 hour long concerts with time-stretched 9th symphony by Beethoven, the work featured here is a granulated piece of sound sculpture made on the superb CLM software by Bill Schottsteadt http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Inge.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Inge.mp3 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:49:05 +0000 Music no 01:04:10 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod,Inge Jacob Kirkegaard Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall Live at Observatori Festival, Valencia, November 6th 2005 Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall Live at Observatori Festival, Valencia: "The sounds I here perform with were recorded in two ways: with an acoustic microphone and with an accelerometer. For the acoustic recordings I used a Sanken CSS-5 which I held very closely to the tiny bubbling surface. The accelerometer was inserted approximately 4 cm into the earth and picked up a denser timbre than the acoustic microphone. As opposed to the Eldfjall CD release (where I chose to let the sounds stand by themselves), I here mixed the different sounds with each other to create a more organic sound and a narrative. I began the concert with creaking ice from different lakes in Iceland. These were also recorded with accelerometers. None of the sounds have been processed." http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Eldfjall.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Eldfjall.mp3 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:09:16 +0000 Music no 00:33:00 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod O'Malley/Carlson Devolution/Evolution: Stephen O'Malley interviews Dylan Carlson Devolution/Evolution: Stephen O'Malley interviews Dylan Carlson: "Last August I was invited by the american metal magazine, Decibel, to interview Dylan Carlson for a regular feature they call "Under the Influence". The idea of the feature is basically musicians interviewing their main inspirators from the prior time, or something. Although this could be a bit silly and demeaning, Dylan and I have become friendly over the past few years and we both thought it would be a fun opportunity to talk shop and have this published! I can't count the number of times we have been nerding out over tube talk, guitars etc... which is almost the result of this piece. The editor of this said mag agreed to handle the transcription, so I added some initially Ambarchi-inspired bass waves to the recording in order to increase the pressure and atmosphere for the sorry intern who inherited the work. The feature ran with a ridiculous editorial introduction recently, but I think the recording itself turned into a gem of interest. The most memorable part of the conversation included categorization of guitar models by religious persuasion, and speech metal as an athletic event. This marked the second time I interviewed Dylan formally, the first time being in 1993 for a fanzine I had at the time (which remains unpublished, I have the tape somewhere)." http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/SOMA.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/SOMA.mp3 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:41:56 +0000 Music no 00:30:58 Touch,TouchRadio,TouchPod,SOMA Vicki Bennett People Like Us - The Bits In Between People Like Us - The Bits In Between: From the digital gutter, here lie all the soundbytes edited out of mic breaks for People Like Us's radio show DO or DIY on WFMU from June to September 2005. The show is all about cutting together avant with pop, and the only aspect of this one hour a week that has ever felt slightly out of place has been the necessary mic breaks. So now we do them justice by taking the entire unedited 3 hours, and in Language Removal Service style we take out all the meaning and are left with 34 minutes of delicious background noise, voice glitches and hesitations. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/plu.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/plu.mp3 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Music no 00:34:26 plu KK.NULL KK.NULL - [Radio-Animus/Anima] for TouchRadio KK.NULL - [Radio-Animus/Anima] for TouchRadio: Track 1 - Radio-Animus (composition/improvisation with electronics + voice) 23:32 Track 2 - Radio-Anima 1 (improvisation with a piece of metal) 04:49 Track 3 - Radio-Anima 2 (improvisation with a piece of metal + voice) 04:10 All tracks were recorded live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, June 15, 2005. Final production at prima natura studio, August 30, 2005. Performed + produced by Kazuyuki Kishino (KK.NULL). http://http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio-Animus.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Radio-Animus.m4a Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:32:39 KKNULL Peter Rehberg Peter Rehberg - Paris Qui Dort - Live at Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 11th 2004 Peter Rehberg - Paris Qui Dort - Recorded live at Centre Pompidou, Paris 11.09.2004: "In June 2004 I was asked by Cinemix to perform a live score to the silent movie 'Paris Qui Dort' (directed by René Clair in 1923) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on September 11th of that year. 'Paris Qui Dort' ('Paris Asleep', or as the English version of the film is known: 'The Invisible Ray') was not only René Clair's first film but the first film to investigate the theme of the 'deserted city'. The night watchman on the Eiffel Tower comes off his shift to find people all over Paris frozen in motion. Eventually he meets a group of unfrozen people who arrived that morning on a plane. The group enjoys the luxury of the city, dining in restaurants and taking jewelry as they want, however boredom soon sets in and the men fight over the woman. Eventually they receive a radio message directing them to come to a particular address. There a scientist tells them how he invented a ray that has frozen the whole city. They were unaffected because the Eiffel Tower and plane were out of the ray’s range. And so on..... This is the recording of that live score." http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Paris.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Paris.mp3 Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:34:32 Pita,Rehberg Toshiya Tsunoda Toshiya Tsunoda - Appearance of physical vibration Toshiya Tsunoda - Appearance of physical vibration: These recordings are studies of the sonic effects of physical vibration Track 1 - high frequency on a plate glass - 05:46 "Seven piezo ceramic discs are connected with an sine wave generator - and the discs are on a plate glass. Same frequency is output to the piezo discs The frequency shifts slowly and continuously from 9000hz to 20000hz. Due to this, you can listen various sounds made by high-speed cyclic contact between piezo disc and a plate glass, like a ball dribbles. This recording is a private live performance at my room." Track 2 - top of amplitude - 08:25 "I detected the top and bottom of the amplitude from a certain audio signal by a precious gate device. L channel is top (plus level), R channel is bottom (minus level)." Track 3 - on electromagnetic siren - 05:26 "Output an audio signal to the coil of an 100hz electromagnetic siren. The electromagnetic siren vibrates, so you can listen to the amplitude changes according to an audio signal on R channel. L channel, connected by an electrical wire to small metal reeds on the siren which acts like a switch to transmit any vibration from the coil. You can listen intermittently to any change in the vibration. In this work, there are two ways of description; the R channel is continual or linear, the L channel is intermit or dotted." ["The audio signals of tracks 2 and 3 are field recordings source material - environmental sounds from the suburbs. Track 2 was recorded by me, in Fukada-dai, Yokosuka City, Japan, c. 1997. Track 3 was recorded by Steve Roden somewhere in California. Track 3 was made for Steve Roden's installation project several years before which was held in a certain museum of California. This material has not been released on any recording media." http://http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/highfrequency.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/highfrequency.m4a Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:19:40 Tsunoda Philip Jeck Philip Jeck - from the archives Philip Jeck - from the archives: Track 1 - Wholesome Sunday (A live mix from the 2004 Mor festival, Ireland 22.08.04) 9:20 Track 2 - In Loving Memory: Walter Gibbons and Arthur Russell (Originally recorded for the TRACE CD, Audio Research Editions, ARECD102, Liverpool, 1999) 2:04 Track 3 - Nelson Surfs [from Touch Sampler 2, 1997] 6:33 Track 4 - 16/17 Rehearsal [from Touch Sampler 3, 1999] 8:18 Track 5 - As My Shadow Passes... [from Touch Sampler 00, 2000] 9:37 and a special bonus - 12:00 Extracts from the live soundtrack "Instructions for Survival", a dance production choreographed and danced by Charlie Morrisey & Scott Smith on 3rd Fenbruary 2005 at the Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome. Recent performances were held at the Linbury Theatre, Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 22nd and 23rd July 2005. Track 1 - Instructions for Survival 1 5:59 Track 2 - Instructions for Survival 2 6:33 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/TheArchives.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/TheArchives.m4a Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:47:59 Jeck Chris Watson Chris Watson - The Galapagos Islands - An Audio Diary Chris Watson - The Galapagos Islands - An Audio Diary: Recorded in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the west coast of Ecuador... Chris Watson was out in the Galapagos Islands recording for a forthcoming tv film series. In particular Chris made a series of recordings throughout the unique and highly specialised Galapagos habitats; from the mist shrouded Miconia zone at the higher altitudes of Santa Cruz down to the dense cactus and thorn scrub bordering the coast on smaller uninhabited islands. This trip was also the first opportunity for Chris to try out location surround sound recording both on land and then underwater, exploring the sonic potential below the surface of the Pacific Ocean with a four channel hydrophone array. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/ChrisWatson.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/ChrisWatson.mp3 Sun, 08 May 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:37:54 Watson,Galapagos z'ev z'ev - untitled z'ev - untitled: 50 minutes and 3 seconds of binary-acoustics produced 12-14 February 2005, studio dop in Peckham, London "Note: if you listen with headphones you will as close as possible hear what I heard composing it as I always and only work wearing headphones for just this reason PS: contrary to some supposition I do not use audiophile headphones - just some old Sony mdr-cd580's" http://www.touchradio.org.uk/Radio4/Radio4.m3u http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/z%27ev.mp3 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Music no 00:50:03 zev,ZEV Fennesz/Nagl Christian Fennesz & Max Nagl - Live at Amann Studios, Vienna, December 22nd 2004 Christian Fennesz & Max Nagl - Live at Amann Studios, Vienna: Recorded by Christoph Amann on 22nd December 2004 at 2200 hrs Christian Fennesz and the renowned Viennese composer and saxophone player Max Nagl met at the studio during one of the studio's recent live recording sessions and spontaneously decided to do a show together. Originally intended as a secret gig, the details were leaked to a newspaper and a rammed studio witnessed a memorable live event... With thanks to Christoph Amann for making this possible, and for mastering the recordin http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/FenneszNagl.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/FenneszNagl.mp3 Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Music no 00:38:33 Fennesz,Nagl,Amann Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carl Michael von Hausswolff - AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER c/w MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA Carl Michael von Hausswolff - AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER c/w MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA: Track 1 - AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER: [Dedicated to John Cage] 20:42 Track 2 - MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA: [Dedicated to Arnold Schönberg] 20:06 Originally released on vinyl by Ash International [Ash # 3.7] in 1997 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Dedicated.m4a http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/Dedicated.m4a Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Music no 00:40:52 Hausswolff,KREV BJNilsen BJNilsen - Land of Lions - Live in New York City, December 15th 2004 BJNilsen - Land of Lions: "I was invited by Phill Niblock to do a performance at his loft in Chinatown, New York. A suggestion was made that the night would be shared with my friend Lary 7 who also performed that evening. The playback system was configured as a quadraphonic speaker set-up. This is an A/B microphone recording With thanks to: Phill, Lary 7, Dion, Tonic and all the good spirits of NYC, and the recording engineer, Byron Westbrook" http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/BJNilsen.mp3 http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/BJNilsen.mp3 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Music no 00:37:50 BJNilsen,Nilsen,Hazard