Touch Newsletter #223

Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #223. On Thursday 5 March, Jon Wozencroft brings his sound seminar to Iklectik, London. Tickets are now on sale. Wozencroft developed his sound seminars in the late 1980s as a means of highlighting the potential of sound-related research and practice in art and design education. Primarily, the seminars promote the art of listening and seek to rebalance the dominant bias of visual culture which favours the eye over the ear. Each session follows a theme. “The Listening Eye” is a broad introduction to the ethos of the seminars, and the interplay between storytelling, composition and experimentation. They take place in a darkened room, an echo of the collective cinema experience, whilst being avowedly personal and involving. Further info below…

Organ Reframed returns to London’s Union Chapel on 27-28 March 2020. In performance: Chris Watson, Anna von Hausswolff, Claire M Singer, Abul Mogard, Ipek Gorgun, Katherine Tinker, Jacob Lekkerkerker, James McVinnie and the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir. Tickets are on sale now. Full details below.

Christian Fennesz embarks on a tour of the United States this week. He will be playing at San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Montreal, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Dallas, Durham, Lakewood and Columbia. He will also be performing at the “Big Ears Festival” in Knoxville and at Iowa City’s “Mission Creek Festival”. He will be supported by Brooklyn-based composer Britton Powell on all headlining dates. For a full itinerary, please check fennesz.com

We are assisting Swedish artist Leif Elggren with his new Bandcamp site and the first three releases are up, with more to follow – leifelggren.bandcamp.com - all monies to the artist, 10% off all three, including the best drone in the world ever…

The Tapeworm has salvaged a few tapes from its US distro and these are now back on sale on its Bandcamp… Including titles by Jay Glass Dubs, Aaron Turner, Dale Cornish, Iceman Junglist Kru, Swantje Lichtenstein and Jono Podmore, Watkins/Peacock, and more…

“The Listening Eye” sound seminar by Jon Wozencroft
5 March 2020
Iklectik, London

An evening of immersive sound presented by Jon Wozencroft + exhibition.
Doors: 7pm. Start: 7.30pm. £7 advance, £10 on the door.
Buy tickets at tickettailor.com

Jon Wozencroft developed his sound seminars in the late 1980s as a means of highlighting the potential of sound-related research and practice in art and design education. Primarily, the seminars promote the art of listening and seek to rebalance the dominant bias of visual culture which favours the eye over the ear. Listening both enhances one’s perceptual awareness and creates an oasis away from 24/7 non-stop media. The seminars underline the power of sound and music as catalysts for change in a context in which recorded music has been progressively devalued in the digital environment. Drawing upon forty years of working in music publishing and performance, Wozencroft moves the audience between and beyond genre classifications and makes connections where past present and future come alive in the moment.

Each session follows a theme. “The Listening Eye” is a broad introduction to the ethos of the seminars, and the interplay between storytelling, composition and experimentation. They take place in a darkened room, an echo of the collective cinema experience, whilst being avowedly personal and involving.

The venue, Iklectik, is an old primary school assembly hall near Waterloo station, latterly becoming a Buddhist temple before being converted into an arts lab with an audience capacity of 100.

Buy tickets at tickettailor.com
Instagram: @sound_seminar
Facebook: @soundseminar

“Organ Reframed”
27–28 March 2020
Union Chapel, London

On 27 and 28 March 2020, the fourth annual Organ Reframed returns to Union Chapel with a programme packed full of innovative music. Alongside headline performances, the two-day international festival will also feature talks, masterclasses, an interactive soundscape and family-friendly workshops. Tickets are on sale now.

Organ Reframed launches with three new works composed and performed by artists known for redefining their fields: Anna von Hausswolff, renowned for her gothic organ creations; enigma Abul Mogard, a synth visionary; and Ipek Gorgun, a composer of energetic, textural masterpieces. All three works for organ, electronics and the London Contemporary Orchestra will push Union Chapel’s sonic possibilities to the extreme.

The Saturday afternoon will see the Chapel transformed by sounds and rhythms echoing the seasonal shift of the Highland year. This free installation by Chris Watson and Claire M Singer will feature the wind, weather and animals of Scotland. These sounds will interact with the organ played by James McVinnie, Katherine Tinker and Jacob Lekkerkerker.

The festival concludes on Saturday evening with the world premiere of “Voci del Vento” by Chris Watson and Claire M Singer. This collaborative work will combine organ, field recordings, modular synths, the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir to transport audiences on an epic journey from pole to pole.

Tickets now on sale at unionchapel.org.uk

Guerrilla Audio

Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.

guer·ril·la
ɡəˈrilə/
noun
noun: guerilla
a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.

Each audio edit will be posted for 14 days and then removed from the site, although the information about each guerrilla activity will be archived, but without the audio. There will be two postings per month with the first (also featuring Klara Lewis & Rainier Lericolais) on 1st August 2015, so please check in regularly to listen to the latest offering. We are well into the third year and have just posted episode 111…

Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com

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