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26 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.
25 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]
24 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."
23 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."
22 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..
21 29.12.06
The Skull Defekts - Live at Fylkingen - 36:02
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.
20. 29.11.06
Daniel Menche - Apostate - 36:50
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!"
19. 26.09.06
Fennesz/Rehberg/Toral & Feliciano - Live at Vila Nova de Foz Coa, May 29th 1999 - 1:01:53
Performed in a garden at the top of a hill in Foz Côa, at the remote northeast of Portugal. Overlooking the valley and the far slope of the opposite hill, at dusk, Peter Rehberg, Christian 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.
18. 1.07.06
Chris Watson - Alcedo Volcano - 15:00 | A 192 kbps version may be found here
Chris
writes: "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."
[Photos by Chris Watson]
17. 1.06.06
Brandon LaBelle - CD=text (psycho-acoustical speech) - 36:57
'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.
16. 6.05.06
Jana Winderen - Live at Ash 13, Fylkingen 26.02.06 - 15:04
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.
15. 1.04.06
Stephan Mathieu - Radio One - 28:35
"'Radio One' is a live recording from the premiere performance of 'Radioland', played on September 24th 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 my computer. The original 6-channel diffusion is presented here as a stereo mixdown. The piece is dedicated to Vitor Joaquim."
14. 9.03.06
Press conference/panel at Roskilde Festival 010705 - 31:55
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.
This piece contains explicit language
13. 13.02.06
Leif
Inge - Nææ... -
64:10
Leif Inge is an ideas-based artist who works with time-stretching sound to create beautiful but thrilling and powerful soundscapes. As with his epic '9 Beet Stretch' - a 24 hour long concert with the time-stretched 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven - the work featured here is a granulated piece of sound sculpture made on the superb CLM software by Bill Schottsteadt. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
12. 8.01.06
Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall Live at Observatori Festival, Valencia, 6th November 2005 - 33:00
"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. For more info please go here."
11. 21.12.05
Devolution/Evolution: Stephen O'Malley interviews Dylan Carlson - 30:58
"Last August I was invited by the american metal magazine, Decibel, to interview Dylan Carlson for a regular feature they run called "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 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 catagorization of guitar models by religious persuasion, and speed metal as an athletic event. This marked the second time I interviewed Dylan formally, the first being in 1993 for a fanzine I had at the time (which remains unpublished, I have the tape somewhere)."
10. 11.11.05
People Like Us - The Bits In Between - Mic Break Outtakes on WFMU - 34:26 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.
9. 10.10.05
KK.Null - [Radio-Animus/Anima] for TouchRadio - 32:11
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).
8. 17.09.05
Peter Rehberg - Paris Qui Dort - 34:32Recorded 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.
(ErikM also scored a soundtrack to the same film on the same day.)"
7. 21.08.05
Toshiya Tsunoda - Appearance of physical vibration -
19:37
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."]
6. 11.06.05
Philip
Jeck - from the archives - 35:42
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
5. 8.05.05
Chris Watson - The
Galapagos Islands - an audio diary - 37:05
Recorded
in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the west coast of
Ecuador... During March this year 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.
4. 1.04.05
z'ev - untitled 50:03
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"
3. 11.03.05
Fennesz/Nagl - Live
at Amann Studios 38:33
Christian
Fennesz & Max Nagl - live at Amann
Studios, Vienna 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
recording
2. 14.02.05
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 40:48
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 limited edition vinyl February 1997
[Ash
International # Ash 3.7]
1. 17.01.05
BJNilsen -
Land of Lions [touchradio edit] 37:46
January 17th 2005 - to coincide with the UK release date of his new album, Fade
to white [Touch # TO:65]. Live at Experimental
Intermedia, New York
City, on 15th December 2004 at 2145
"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"
