Touch Newsletter #238
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #238. We come toward the end of the first stage of Touch: Isolation, with new recordings by Sohrab and Fennesz.
For the last two months we have published new pieces twice weekly each Monday and Thursday… To follow: the last post on Monday by Charlie Campagna, an artist who will be unfamiliar to many of you – a desert recording from Joshua Tree…
We trust you will see this as a whole work; it’s never too late to catch up. We view it as a narrative hoping that ecology and the future of this earth is going to win through against the dreadful political and mediated mendacity that can only worsen the situation. Fuck them all.
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“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 May 2020.
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Sohrab
“In the World”
“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle… Perhaps…” – Jean-Pierre Melville.
I read from the ending of Maxim Gorky’s book “In the World” (the second in his autobiographic trilogy). These books depict Gorky as a child, discovering the cold, brutal and lonely world he encountered and felt completely alienated from. As a young boy, he always found the forest a magical, holy place, a chance to be away from it all. He writes bitterly about the alienation of humans, and his desire to isolate himself from the world. I found that this short section offered a glimpse of optimism.
Fennesz
“Per Aspera (ad Astra)”
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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 116…
Guerrilla Audio
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