Touch Newsletter #235
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #235. Boris. Doris. Fakery florist. Quite a speech. Did you think you were on the Antiques Roadshow version of Top of the Pops? Was the make-up department properly Covid-19 tested before entering the building? Do your lips move in sync with your brain while you are sleeping in your long night?
Following this performance (it was a performance, no, in so far as any pre-recorded stitch-up can be?) come the responses, such as this, attributed to @GeorgiaCox_ on Twitter (though she admits it wasn’t hers).
It voices the binary disease of our political/digital systems…
“Go out. But stay in. Go to work. But don’t. Play sport. But don’t. Go to school. But don’t. Sunbathe. But don’t. All of this is conditional. Or not. Stay safe. Stay home. But don’t stay home. Go out. But don’t. Stay alert. Stay alert on public transport. But only in Phase 3”.
Haggard Hawks writes:
“Derived from a Latin word for a child’s rattle, a CREPUNDIAN is someone who blathers empty words”. Alexander, you should have learnt that at Eton, but obviously you were too busy in your metaphorical bike shed.
Touch: Isolation enters its next phase. Carl Michael von Hausswolff pays tribute to the resonant tones of Gamelan artist Dewa Alit, and Philip Jeck demonstrates the campanology at the heart of his sound world.
The project intensifies, as the response to the situation gets worse. Protest. How? By doing what? Is this the first time that difference is achieved by doing nothing, and staying at home… Our perception and mental health is under attack and it is as important to exercise the brain, the heart and the mind as it is to play football in the park. And use your masks, as you remove your blinkers…
We upload new pieces twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays… Still to come are works by Fennesz, Claire M Singer, Sohrab, Heitor Alvelos and Rosy Parlane, amongst other gems. There is still time to support independent music and its fragile support systems. Click here to subscribe.
“Touch: Isolation”
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Touch: Isolation – more than 20 new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists. Photography by Jon Wozencroft, Hampstead Heath, March to April 2020.
Subscribe at any point. 21 tracks are now available including, as of today, two new tracks from Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Philip Jeck.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
“Solo Dance For Dewa Alit”
Composed at the Castle in Stockholm in April 2020.
Special thanks to Chandra, Elisa, Ivan and Shannon.
Philip Jeck
“Followed by Bells”
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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 115…
Guerrilla Audio
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