Touch Music

Certain scores by Hildur Guðnadóttir are available to hire as sheet music:

Baer – arranged by Max Noth [which has been recorded by Mari Samuelsen]
Ascent (chamber, choral, string) – arranged by Rob Ames
Opaque (full score, double bass, viola, violin) – arranged by Rob Ames

For quotes please email Mike here

Natasha Pirard is the latest addition to our roster. Based in Belgium, her first album comes out late 2023.

Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles and a member of Fuubutsushi. You can read his responses to 15 questions on improvisation here.

We are thrilled to have signed the publishing rights of the song writer and performer Youmna Saba, the Paris-based Arabic composer, singer and performer. Youmna Saba (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a musician and musicologist whose current research focuses on the musical dimension(s) of the Arabic language, as a tool to generate new methods of working with electronics. She has released 4 albums so far and collaborated with musicians of different backgrounds, such as Kamilya Jubran (PL), Mike Cooper (GB), Jean Marc Montera (FR), Floy Krouchi (FR), Kyungso Park (SK), among others.

She took part in international programs and residencies (Hwaeom Residency, South Korea 2017, Sound Development City, 2016, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea 2013…) and is a 3-time laureate of the music residency program at La Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris (2020-2021).

Youmna holds a master’s degree in Musicology, focusing mainly on the parallels between classical Arabic music and Arabic visual art.

Anna von Hausswolff. is now published by Touch Music. Anna has recently released ‘All Thoughts Fly’ on Southern Lord (USA) and she also runs her own label, Pomperipossa Records and is constantly touring and working.

Hildur Gudnadottir, who composed the score for HBO series, Chernobyl, and won the OSCAR for Joker in 2019, also had her music licensed for The Handmaid’s Tale (HULU).

The final track on episode 4 of Series 1 of The Handmaid’s Tale is a new version of “Liður”, from her album “Saman”, which Touch released in 2014.

 

Listen

 

Oren AmbarchiCorkscrewWednesdaySalt

Jasmin BlascoSunrise On The Black Sea (Excerpt)

Richard ChartierRomantic Threat (as ‘pinkcourtesyphone’)

Robert CrouchI Melt With You

drønethis strange life (extract) – cold tip for dna (extract)

ELEH – coming soon…

Leif ElggrenMother?!!

Christian FenneszSaffron RevolutionRivers of SandLiveLiminalHimitsuAmoroso (with Charles Matthews) – Vacuum

Soliman GamilSupplicationSufi Dialogue

Ipek GorgunFata MorganaBloodbendersNightingale

Hildur GudnadottirErupting LightMyTorrek

Johanna Hedva

Jay Glass Dubs/Wild Terrier OrchestraCrocodiles into the OceanPage After Page

Philip JeckTiltingWholesomeAll That’s Allowed

France Jobin – Ph_excerpt – m_excerptn_excerpt

Bethan KelloughCanopy (extract)

Phill NiblockSethwork

BJNilsenMeter ReadingGotlandMeteosat

Joachim NordwallAlloy Ceremony [with Mika Vainio]

Yann NovakSan Marino (excerpt)

Rosy Parlane (Paul Douglas)IrisAtlantis

Zachary PaulLive at Human Resources

Natasha PirardSummon the Morning

Patrick ShiroishiInterviewLive at Roughage (with Zachary Paul on violin)

Claire M SingerA Different Place

Geneva Skeenmultnomah_fallerebus

SohrabSusannaHimmel Über Tehran

Gabie StrongThe Word for World is Forest

Rafael ToralDesiree

Mark Van HoenAll for You Froese RequiemSocrates’s Books

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Chris WatsonCrows, Doves & BellsWolvesQujela MineLioness Threatens Male, Itong Plains, Kenya

Jana WinderenAquacultureHeatedUltraworld (extract)

Youmna SabaAl Sohb | Hubūt هبوط 3

ZerocropDie ScreamingScum

 

Also representing:

The London Snorkelling TeamI’m A Little MouseMika VainioOutside the Circle of FireMAGNETOTACTICSwedenborgiaPascal Wyse

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