Touch Newsletter #231
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #231. A further two new tracks, from Geneva Skeen, an artist and composer working in Los Angeles, and Simon Scott, are now available to subscribers of Touch: Isolation – the project evolves further…
We upload new pieces twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays… Still to come are works by Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi, UnicaZürn, Philip Jeck, Claire M Singer and Strafe FR, amongst other gems. There is still time to support independent music and its fragile support systems. Click here to subscribe.
In other news… Dale Cornish’s new tape is now shipping – further details below. Tracks by Simon Fisher Turner, BJNilsen, Mike Harding, Philip Marshall and more appear on a free download compilation curated by The Dead Mauriacs’ Olivier Prieur. Download here.
“Touch: Isolation”
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Touch: Isolation – We present at least 20 new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists.
Subscribe at any point. Twelve tracks are now available including, as of today, two new tracks from Geneva Skeen, an artist and composer working in Los Angeles, and Simon Scott.
Any comments we might add following the political events of the last few days seem at this point counterproductive. Let the music speak for itself, and the photography a celebration of this rare moment when the city air is relatively free of pollution.
Geneva Skeen
“Perhaps You Understand My Question”
Student: I’d like to ask a question about loneliness and love. In my experience, the kind of love where two people try to be together in order to protect themselves from loneliness hasn’t worked out too well. When you come in contact with the loneliness, it seems to destroy a lot of things you try to pull off in trying to build up security. But can there be love between two people while they continue to try to work with the loneliness?
Trungpa Rinpoche: That’s an interesting question. I don’t think anybody can fall in love unless they feel lonely. People can't fall in love unless they know they are lonely and are separate individuals. If by some strange misunderstanding, you think you are the other person already, then there's no one for you to fall in love with. It doesn’t work that way. The whole idea of union is that of two being together. One and one together make union. If there’s just one, you can’t call that union. Zero is not union, one is not union, but two is union. So I think in love it is the desolateness that inspires the warmth. The more you feel a sense of desolation, the more warmth you feel at the same time. You can't feel the warmth of a house unless it's cold outside. The colder it is outside, the cozier it is at home.
(from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s The Path is the Goal - “Loneliness”)
Simon Scott
“Stridulation”
Recorded above and below water in the Fens during March 2020 by Simon Scott.
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Dale Cornish
“Thug Ambient”
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Cassette in an limited edition of 100 copies – now shipping. Composed and performed by Dale Cornish. Mastered by Phil Julian. Buy on Bandcamp.
“I see we’re letting thugs into the concert hall…” Eleven tracks about the reconstruction of club music, Nag Nag Nag,
masculinity, Finland and Vatican Shadow memes.
Born, raised and current of London (south), Dale Cornish has released a series of acclaimed albums for Entr’acte including “Ulex” (2015), “Aqal” (2017) and “Enhex” (2019) along with releases for labels including Halcyon Veil, Where To Now? and The Tapeworm. In addition he has done remix work for artists as diverse as Merzbow, Perc and Billie Ray Martin and collaborations with Powell, Adam Asnan and Andie Brown. A regular duo with Phil Julian is memorably/horribly described as “Coil for the Trump age”.
Buy Dale Cornish “Thug Ambient” on Bandcamp
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
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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 114…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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