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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Touch Conference | USA 30th April – 10th May 2016
You can visit the Touch Conference micro-site, updated daily with photographs and recordings, here
A series of conferences featuring Touch artists on the west coast of America presenting and demonstrating their work to a discerning audience:
Touch (est. 1982) is one of the last surviving labels from the turbulent new wave period in London, which uniquely fused art, design and music. Hear artists from the label roster present and demonstrate their work to a discerning audience.
Philip Jeck uses turntables and sampler to create a unique sonic improvisation, both emotionally captivating and technically involving.
Mark Van Hoen, with modular synth and software pushed the analogue/digital envelope to create damaged melodies, drones and dense claustrophobia.
Simon Scott explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition.
Daniel Menche – In a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure, Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with an uncharacteristic sense of focus and determination. Rather than creating “noise,” he strives for order and cohesiveness. Aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listener’s imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music.
Bethan Parkes – Her work spans across field recording, sound design, ambisonic composition and multichannel sound installation practices, drawing a focus on sonic spatial experience. Her works are designed to open out spaces with sound, exploring spatial aesthetics and the interactions between sonic and visually articulated spaces.
April 29th, Aeterna Gallery, Los Angeles
Philip Jeck
Jon Wozencroft (photography exhibition, part of Touch Retrospective April 9th on…)
Touch
Jon Wozencroft will not be present
Further details on Facebook and in Artillery Magazine
April 30th, Volume, Los Angeles
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Bethan Parkes
Touch
Location: 5240 Alhambra Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Tickets
May 1st, Aquarius, San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Touch
May 2nd, The Gray Area, San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Touch
Tickets
May 3rd, private location (invitation only), San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Touch
May 4th, Holocene, Portland
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Daniel Menche
Touch
May 7th, Chapel Space, Seattle
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Daniel Menche
Touch
May 10th Dublab, Los Angeles (Radio)
Philip Jeck
Touch
www.philipjeck.com
www.markvanhoen.com
www.simonscott.org
danielmenche.blogspot.com
www.bethankellough.com
You can read a feature in Adventures in Sight and Sound here
Alejandro G. Inarritu – “The Revenant”
Music by Hildur Gudnadottir was used for The Revenant, including licenses for “Whiten“, from the album ‘Without Sinking’, and “Strokur“, [from ‘Saman’]. A track from ‘op.’ by Ryoji Ikeda was also included.
Information
Here we shall publish reports, photos, recordings from the series of Touch Conferences
Volume, Los Angeles
The Gray Area, San Francisco
Holocene, Portland
Chapel Space, Seattle
dublab
Websites of participants:
www.philipjeck.com
www.markvanhoen.com
www.simonscott.org
danielmenche.blogspot.com
www.bethanparkes.net
Touch Conference | USA 30th April – 10th May 2016
A series of conferences featuring Touch artists on the west coast of America presenting and demonstrating their work to a discerning audience:
Touch (est. 1982) is one of the last surviving labels from the turbulent new wave period in London, which uniquely fused art, design and music. Hear artists from the label roster present and demonstrate their work to a discerning audience.
Philip Jeck uses turntables and sampler to create a unique sonic improvisation, both emotionally captivating and technically involving.
Mark Van Hoen, with modular synth and software pushed the analogue/digital envelope to create damaged melodies, drones and dense claustrophobia.
Simon Scott explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition.
Daniel Menche – In a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure, Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with an uncharacteristic sense of focus and determination. Rather than creating “noise,” he strives for order and cohesiveness. Aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listener’s imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music.
Bethan Parkes – Her work spans across field recording, sound design, ambisonic composition and multichannel sound installation practices, drawing a focus on sonic spatial experience. Her works are designed to open out spaces with sound, exploring spatial aesthetics and the interactions between sonic and visually articulated spaces.
April 29th, Aeterna Gallery, Los Angeles
An archive for this Touch Conference event can be viewed here
Philip Jeck
Jon Wozencroft (photography exhibition, part of Touch Retrospective April 9th on…)
Touch
Jon Wozencroft will not be present
Further details on Facebook and in Artillery Magazine
April 30th, Volume, Los Angeles
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Bethan Parkes
Touch
Location: 5240 Alhambra Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Tickets
May 1st, Aquarius, San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Touch
May 2nd, The Gray Area, San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Touch
Tickets
May 3rd, private location (invitation only), San Francisco
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Touch
May 4th, Holocene, Portland
Philip Jeck
Mark Van Hoen
Simon Scott
Daniel Menche
Touch
May 7th, Chapel Space, Seattle
Philip Jeck
drøne
Daniel Menche
Touch
May 10th Dublab, Los Angeles (Radio)
Philip Jeck
Touch
You can read a feature in Adventures in Sight and Sound here
Jon Wozencroft | Aeterna Gallery, Los Angeles April 2016
Exhibition with limited edition prints of Jon Wozencroft ‘s album art. Show opens 9th April 6-10pm until 21st May (click on the image above to see a brief video)
Aeterna Gallery
949 Chung King Road
Los Angeles CA 90012
Tel: 213 457 3404
If you wish to purchase any of the prints, please contact the gallery directly – aeternalosangeles.com @AeternaGallery
Cover photos include:
Oren Ambarchi – Insulation | Fennesz – Black Sea | Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking [see above] | Philip Jeck – Stoke | New Order – Video 5-8-6 | BJNilsen – Invisible City | Scala – Beauty Nowhere | Spire Live – Fundamentalis | Mika Vainio – Behind the Radiators | Various Artists – Touch 25 | Various Artists – Touch Sampler 3 | Chris Watson – Stepping into the Dark | Jon Wozencroft – Touch & Fuse
Jon Wozencroft | Aeterna Gallery, Los Angeles April 2016
Exhibition with limited edition prints of Jon Wozencroft ‘s album art. Show opens 9th April 6-10pm until 21st May (click on the image above to see a brief video)
Aeterna Gallery
949 Chung King Road
Los Angeles CA 90012
Tel: 213 457 3404
If you wish to purchase any of the prints, please contact the gallery directly – aeternalosangeles.com @AeternaGallery
Cover photos include:
Oren Ambarchi – Insulation | Fennesz – Black Sea | Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking [see above] | Philip Jeck – Stoke | New Order – Video 5-8-6 | BJNilsen – Invisible City | Scala – Beauty Nowhere | Spire Live – Fundamentalis | Mika Vainio – Behind the Radiators | Various Artists – Touch 25 | Various Artists – Touch Sampler 3 | Chris Watson – Stepping into the Dark | Jon Wozencroft – Touch & Fuse
Denis Blackham’s Baked Tapes
Ampex 407 analogue tape had an issue in c. 1975 with the chemical composition of the glue that held the magnetic oxide onto the backing tape…
So when you played the tape, the oxide started to come off and the heads and the rollers started to gunge up and the tape would disintegrate. Every time you played it, you lost a bit of signal, mostly high end.
so…
the solution, and the recipe:
Bake the tapes at 50ºF for 4 days continuously, which solidified the glue.
after testing, 3 hours at 50ºC (fan oven) was sufficient, providing it was played within a couple of hours… which is enough time to master the audio.
So I would set the oven on auto to turn on at 3am and load the tapes in the oven (ex-box) before I went to bed. Arise at 7ish, breakfast, shower, start mastering at 9am when they had cooled down…