TouchRadio
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Touch Radio 30 | Enrico Coniglio
01.05.08
Enrico Coniglio - 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.
Touch Radio 29 | Novi_sad
29.03.08
Novi_sad - 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]
Touch Radio 28 | Jana Winderen
20.01.08
Jana Winderen - 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
Touch Radio 27 | Gudni Franzson
02.12.07
Guðni Franzson - 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
TouchRadio 26 | Lasse Marhaug
21.08.07
Lasse Marhaug - 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.
TouchRadio 25 | Chris Watson
12.06.07
Chris Watson - The Sound of Islay: a report from The Hebrides - 24:20 - 192 kbps
Saligo Bay sits in the north west 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. [Photos by Chris Watson]
TouchRadio 24 | Steve Roden
12.05.07
Steve Roden - 9-Sided Room - 27:00
"'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."
TouchRadio 23 | Leif Elggren
21.03.07
Leif Elggren - Live in London - 20:11
Live concert as a part of the xxxxx23, Limehouse Town Hall, London, March 23rd, 2006.
"This basic sound material was recorded in my biological mother's uterus with my not-yet developed teeth used as a fundamental and simple recording device a few days before my birth. This sound material was kept recorded and hidden until recently inside one of my wisdom teeth, but has now been brought to daylight and exposure."
TouchRadio 22 | Scott Taylor
13.02.07
Scott Taylor - Silver - 25:00
'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..
