About Touch Radio
[96 Kpbs/44.1 Khz/Stereo unless stated]
When you click on the audio title link, a single .m3u file will be downloaded to your hard disk. If your default mp3 player is iTunes, open the application and drag the file into the window. If your default player is QuickTime, Audion, Realplayer, VLC or Winamp, double click on the file. Individual tracks may also be accessed in this way.
Touch Radio 33 | AER
33. 5.08.08 - Without Number - 45:53 - 128 kpbs
Jon Wozencroft writes: "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."
A full index of the tracks and information can be downloaded here
Touch Radio 32 | Tom Lawrence
32. 1.07.08 - Donadea Forest - 30:47 - 192 kpbs
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. Further details can be found here.
Principal 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. Monochrome images © Eddie Mallin. For more information, click here.
Supplementary photography captured during recording sessions by Tom Lawrence.
Special thanks to Karen Bothwell, Forest Manager Kildare & E.Laois and all the staff at Coillte Teoranta. For more info on Donadea Forest, click here.
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.
You can read an article from Leinster, Ireland here and a review by John Coutanche here
Continue reading: Touch Radio 32 | Tom Lawrence
Touch Radio 31 | Simon Fisher Turner
01.06.08 - Lifesounds - 23:08 - 96 kbps
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
Continue reading: Touch Radio 31 | Simon Fisher Turner
Touch Radio 30 | Enrico Coniglio
01.05.08 - Sapientumsuperacquis - 23:13 - 192 kbps
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.
Continue reading: Touch Radio 30 | Enrico Coniglio
Touch Radio 29 | Novi_sad
29.03.08 - Dramazon - 22:52 - 259 kbps
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
A bottling plant in operation
and hydrophone recordings* from Mamori Lake.
Also used 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 01110011000111010110, 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]
Continue reading: Touch Radio 29 | Novi_sad
Touch Radio 28 | Jana Winderen
20.01.08 - Utvær - 12:24 - 192 kbps [headphones listening recommended]
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.
Directions: Guided tours are available
Continue reading: Touch Radio 28 | Jana Winderen
Touch Radio 27 | Gudni Franzson
02.12.07 - notturno - 55:18 - 96 kbps
Snipe, redpoll, redwing...
"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 hour's 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 wet low-land 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."
Continue reading: Touch Radio 27 | Gudni Franzson
Touch Radio 26 | Lasse Marhaug
21.08.07 - Into The Pandemonium - 32:11 - 194 kbps
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.
Continue reading: Touch Radio 26 | Lasse Marhaug
