http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ Touch Sevens is a new series of 7" vinyl releases, manufactured using pro-printed cardstock sleeve with spine writing. All vinyl is cut by Transition, London, with design by Jon Wozencroft. en Copyright 2011 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:42:25 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A: Ingress 2:42 B: Re-Exit 2:42 Cut by Jason @ Transition Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft TS12 - the next in the series of vinyl-only Touch Sevens [TS11 and TS13 to follow in 2011] - is Monad by Bruce Gilbert, whose career stretches back to late 1960's British avant garde art & music scenes, and has since played an important and influential role with his involvement in various rock based formations, work for choreographic projects and art installations... Instruments: Korg Monotron Analogue Ribbon synth, Zoom RFX-200, Korg Kaos Pad 2, Apple GarageBand Coruscating | Metallic | Hard | Structured Chaos | Loud Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts12_bruce_gilbert_monad.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts12_bruce_gilbert_monad.html left Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:42:25 +0000 A: London Tenderberry 4' 09" B: Tenderberries Version 4' 22" Cut by Jason @ Transition Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft Live at the The Museum of Garden History, London, 8 May 2009. Keyboards: Marcus Davidson. Record players, editing & overdubbed bass: Philip Jeck "Trains of blossom, trains of music." Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick. His latest album for Touch is due in the summer of 2010. Marcus Davidson was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral. He read Music at Birmingham University, studying composition with Vic Hoyland, and later received a masters degree in composition at City University, London, studying with Rhian Samuel. Marcus has worked particularly in the fields of music for dance and music-comedy, arranging and writing for stage, radio, video and television. He specialises in playing for Ballet and Contemporary Dance at London professional schools, and is a member of Spire, the Organ based project by Touch. Spire has performed at the Hardingtonar Festival 2008, York Minster in 2007, the Festival of Holland 2006, the Fuse Leeds 2006 contemporary music festival, the Gas Festival 2005 in Stockholm, La Batie Festival 2004 in Geneva, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has recorded an album of Celtic-inspired music, Ribbon of Time, with Rob Millner, and is also writing a ballet. Here the two artists collaborate on vinyl for the first time... Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts10_philip_jeck_marcus_davidson_spliced.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts10_philip_jeck_marcus_davidson_spliced.html left Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:41:42 +0000 A: Without Sanctuary 4' 59" B: One Thousand Miles of White 4' 24" Cut by Jason @ Transition Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft These pieces were composed for Circa's Regarding the Joy of Others. Recorded and produced at 158, Brisbane, 09/09-01/10 Lawrence English is media artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English's work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He utilises a variety of mediums including live performance, audio/visual environments, found sound/vision to create his work that typifies his interests in creating experiences that create subtle transformation of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception. English's work over the past decade, both in performative and gallery settings, has earned him a strong reputation as one of the unique voices producing sound artworks from within Australia. He has presented concerts and installed pieces for numerous festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Observatori (Spain), Outro_Rio (Brazil), Unsound (Poland) and AltMusic (New Zealand) amongst others. He also curates the burgeoning ROOM40 imprint, the Someone Good label and organises numerous events and festival throughout Oceania. His solo album, Kiri No Oto [Touch # Tone 31] was released in 2009 and has been described variously as "gorgeous", "A great piece of subconscious architecture" and "sublime". Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts09.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts09.html left Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:41:30 +0000 Side A: In the Waking 5:55 [Locked groove] Side B: Withers in the Whist 4:27 The 8th in the series of Touch Sevens, and the first to introduce melodic narrative. Both songs are results of the WFMU podcast series "Codpaste", in which Vicki & Ergo publicly composed a series of collage compositions, deconstructing their respective practices, and a live soundtrack to Christian Marclay's "ScreenPlay". The series and soundtrack resulted in the online only album "Rhapsody in Glue", from which these two songs are alternative versions. "Withers in the Whist" takes one of Vicki & Ergo's current staple obsessions: the melody line of Prokofiev's 'Troika' from the Lieutenant Kije soundtrack (originally used in V & E's work during a particularly snowy sequence of the Marclay film). This treatment dispenses with sampling entirely, instead using instruments to create variations on Prokofiev's deceptively simple melody-line, tied together with impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. It is playing with Prokofiev like a bad child who loves it's toys. "In The Waking" began with Ergo replaying with multitracked guitars the main melodic motifs Vicki collaged in the composition "Carmic Waltz", with Vicki then ornamenting the guitars with splashes of colour like a real painter of sound, all blended into a pot of carnival steam with Ergo's wordplay. It is a fantasy for the dream the fairground has when the world is sleeping, but only takes place five minutes before the carousel wakes up. Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts07_people_like_us_ergo_phizmiz.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts07_people_like_us_ergo_phizmiz.html left Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:42:15 +0000 Side A: Despite the Water Supply Part 1 4:12 Side B: Despite the Water Supply Part 2 4:05 Recorded at Steamroom Tokyo, May 2008. Thanks to Makino Takashi and Takayama Yumiko. Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts08_jim_orourke_despite_the_water_supply.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts08_jim_orourke_despite_the_water_supply.html left Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:58:47 +0000 Side A: Behind the Radiators 1 2:52 Side B: Behind the Radiators 2 2:58 Recorded in Berlin, February 2008. Special thank you for Lary 7 Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts06_mika_vainio_behind_the_radiators.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts06_mika_vainio_behind_the_radiators.html left Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:56:48 +0000 Side A: Highway of Diamonds 5:55 Side B: Bleeding Shadow 6:38 Electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorised cymbal recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs made at home 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D Hegenbart. Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts05_oren_ambarchi_highway_of_diamonds.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts05_oren_ambarchi_highway_of_diamonds.html left Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:18:46 +0000 7" vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a "healthy" popular culture. ]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/touch_sevens_series_of_7_vinyl.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/touch_sevens_series_of_7_vinyl.html right Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:36:06 +0000 Side A: On a desolate shore 5:14 Side B: A shadow passes by 3:21 These three tracks [including the download-only track, "On a desolate shore a shadow passes by"] are based on 8 different guitar recordings made at Amann Studios, Vienna, between 2005-07. The acoustic guitar was recorded with an AK c12 microphone. Other sounds were made using a Fender Stratocaster and a Vox ac15 amp. Available Now ]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts04_fennesz_transition.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts04_fennesz_transition.html left Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:27:07 +0000 Side A: Headphones Side B: Speakers Film soundtrack for Now.here, "The Overcoming of Hazard" by Brad Butler/Karen Mirza, August 07. Uses four atmosphere recordings, radio and an organ stop - an attempt to confuse inside and out. Mixed with Mathias Gmachl at Loop.ph using Digital Performer. 16mm projector loaded by Al Rees. Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts03_aer.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts03_aer.html left Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:26:54 +0000 Side A: 3m Side B: 10m The voices and rhythms of the Humboldt current around the Galapagos Islands recorded April 2006 using a pair of Dolphin Ear Pro Hydrophones onto a NAGRA ARES-Pll digital audio recorder. Locked grooves on both sides... Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts02_fennesz_transition.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts02_fennesz_transition.html left Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:26:37 +0000 Side A: Fennesz plays Charles Matthews Side B: Philip Jeck plays Charles Matthews Charles Matthews plays the Grand Organ in York Minster, during Spire Live on 20th January 2007. This release is a homage to Arvo Pärt... Available Now]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts01_fennesz_jeck_matthews_amoroso.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/ts01_fennesz_jeck_matthews_amoroso.html left Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:26:10 +0000 Transition; The Touch Sevens Series of 7" vinyl-only releases are available directly from the TouchShop. You can now order a bundle of all 8 produced so far from the TouchShop here A full list of Touch distributors throughout the world may be found here]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/availability.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/availability.html right Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:52:59 +0000 TS01 | TS02 | TS03 | TS04 | TS05 | TS06 | TS07 | TS08]]> http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/reviews_features.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/reviews_features.html right Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:57:40 +0000 Bruce Gilbert | Stephan Mathieu | Biosphere | Ryoji Ikeda | Philip Jeck | Rosy Parlane | BJNilsen | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Robert Hampson | Kode 9 ... http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/future_releases_2008.html http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/touchsevens/future_releases_2008.html right Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:10:28 +0000