About
The Aftershock of the Invisible
Produced by Touch, Faculdade De Belas-Artes, and Orange Communication Ltd. in London and Porto.
Digital scans and film origination by Orange Communication Ltd.
Impressão: Arcanjo Ribeiro – Porto, Portugal
Edição da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
Depósito Legal 136162/99
© 1999 Jon Wozencroft
CD – 13 tracks – 38:27
This is Ryoji Ikeda’s fourth solo CD and his second for Touch, following the highly acclaimed +/- [1996]. He previously released 1000 Fragments on his own cci recordings, and Time and Space, a double 3inch CD, for Staalplaat.
Ryoji was constantly touring as part of the Japanese performance group Dumb Type, but now works as a solo artist.
“My music is a mirror for the listener”
OºC is an exploration at the edge of one’s perception – an extension of +/-and the next step.
C adds a velocity axis and a density axis to factors, Oº amalgamated numbers, structures, frequencies and sounds.
Track list:
C (1997-8)
01. C1 : : check
02. C2 : : cacoepy
03. C3 : : circuit
04. C4 : : contexture
05. C5 : : cuts
06. C6 : : counterpoint
07. C7 : : continuum
08. C8 : : can(n)on
09. C9 : : cadenza
10. C0 : : coda (for T.F.)
0º (1998)
11. 0º : : zero degrees [1]
12. 0º : : zero degrees [2]
13. 0º : : zero degrees [3]
CD – 22 Tracks
The purr of a cheetah close up against a baobab tree, waiting. Whales surfacing, breathing in cold air. Coll starling imitate the noise of farm machinery from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy. The rattle of wood over a black stream… Chris Watson’s second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of “Stepping into the Dark” (Touch TO:27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, “Outside the Circle of Fire” enlarges our awareness of the sound universe, intimate with voices from the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures cannot conjure.
Akin, IRDIAL:
“An exhilarating journey into nature’s most private sonic ceremonies. Dreamily voyeuristic. Mysterious, perplexing, shocking and beautiful all at once. The Jaguar will destroy you.”
Track list:
1. WAITING
Close up against a baobab tree, a cheetah, waiting… resting by Beobab tree. Pamuzinda, Zimbabwe, June 1994. Sennheiser mkh 416 to Nagra 4s
2. BREATHING IN COLD AIR
Breathing in cold air, Southern Right Whale
3. HORSE OF THE WOODS
Capull coille, ‘horse of the Caledonian woods’
4. SONG
Red rumped tinkerbird song
5. AT DUSK
The Maasai say hippos spend the day on the river bed telling jokes. At dusk they surface, laughing. Hippopotami emerging from the River Mara at dusk Itong Plains, Kenya. Sept. 1994. Sennheiser mkh 0/30* via SQN4s to TCD-D3.
6. WINTER FLAGS
Winter Flags on a spring tide. 20 000 knot find a roost
7. MACHINE NOISE
In the hollow ring of a ruined bothy, a starling mimics the noise of farm machinery
8. CANOPY
Dry topical contact calls follow spider monkeys through the canopy
9. SONG
Lemon rumped tinkerbird song
10. ACROSS THE IRIS BEDS
An evening chorus of corncrakes across the iris beds
11.THREAT
A lioness threatens
12. CRACKING VISCERA
Vultures taste the dry, crackling viscera inside the rib cage of a zebra carcass. Nine birds feeding on a zebra carcass. Itong Plains, Kenya. Sept. 1994. Sony ECM 77’s x 2**, 250m cable via SNQ4s to Sony TCD-D3.
13. DEEP ROAR
The deep roar of a red deer stag
14. UNKNOWN FOREST
Unknown forest duet, singing hidden in tree canopy. Dry tropical rain forest, Nancite, Costa Rica. Feb. 1995. Telinga mic and reflector to Nagra SNN.
15. OUT OF OUR SIGHT
Out of our sight, motionless anticipation, along the dry sandy banks of the Zambesi a mozambique nightjar is sucking in all the remaining light, singing amongst sandy scrub on the banks of the river Zambezi, Zimbabwe.Oct. 1996. Sennheiser mkh 30/60* via SQN4s to PDR1000.
16. LEAF LITTER
Leaf litter insect detail. Rain forest, Cameroon. June 1997. Telinga ‘Science’ capsule at 50cm to PDR1000.
17. SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN
The souls of dead children are said to pass into kittiwakes
18. FOREST RIDE
Wood pigeon wings across a forest ride
19. SLEEPING IN WARM AIR
Elephants, sleeping in warm air, family group asleep in rough grassland. Maasai Mara, Kenya. Feb. 1996. Sennheiser mkh 30/60* via SQN4s to PDR1000.
20. RATTLE OF WOOD
Deathwatch beetles, the rattle of wood over a black stream
21. MOONLIT FOG
Tawny owls sing in moonlit fog
22. CONTACTS
Hyena contacts, contact whoops, Billashaka Luger, Maasai Mara, Kenya. Feb. 1996. Sennheiser mkh 30/60* via SQN4s to PDR1000.
CD
7 tracks –
Track list:
1. Demolition
2. Box Of Lamb
3. Surf Finger
4. Spirits Up
5. 1986 (Frank Was 70 Years Old)
6. Tilting
7. I Just Wanted To Know
AT A PLACE that is yours or mine. It is morning, evening, anytime. You are driving to work, to a theatre, home. You are in a crowd or all alone. You are in Rio, Chicago, Sydney, on a plane to Madras, a ferry to Dublin. You are at college, in a rest home; the children are sleeping, the grandparents are on the phone. You have your own time, own place. You listen to whatever comes out of now, the past. The sound can drip with well won laurels of acceptance, of transience, of longevity. There is a touch, a method that changes, adapts with the mood of the music and times. The touch is always personal, passionate: it embraces, repels, passes, returns.
Like blurry postcards of someplace you’ve never been, or a fleeting memory of someone you’ve never met, translated into sound. A sound so warm and thick, familiar and inviting, that it transports you to a sonic universe where a skipping record becomes your footsteps, and a repeated crackly phrase becomes the wind through the trees. Easily one of the most transcendentally perfect records ever.
Tracklist:
1. King Dread (6:09)
2. Higher Than That (5:58)
3. Scientific Exploitation (6:18)
4. Chant To Jah (7:10)
5. Spiritual Vibe (7:14)
6. Straight Forward Rasta (7:15)
7. Cockpit Country (6:22)
8. Unity Dub (6:26)
CD – 13 tracks
Track list:
1. HoneyLike (4:54)
2. Thirst (1:40)
3. Words And Thoughts (5:00)
4. Spread Your Wings And Fly (2:58)
5. Space (4:37)
6. Broken Down Beauty (2:35)
7. Ride On (7:22)
8. Mahatma (2:32)
9. Fearsome (3:33)
10. A Category (3:07)
11. Fuser (4:59)
Cello – Mikhael Junod
12. Hotel Room: Stream Of Light (3:05)
13. The Silence Of The Sirens (0:33)
CD – 27 tracks
Track list:
1. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:17)
2. Unknown Artist Hole In The Universe (1:36)
3. Panasonic Otaksuma (5:03)
4. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:08)
5. Chris Watson Out Of Our Sight (2:59)
6. AER Brightness Contrast Volume (5:22)
7. Unknown Artist A Television (0:23)
8. Biosphere Knives In Hens (6:35)
9. Unknown Artist Prediction (0:29)
10. Philip Jeck 16/17 Rehearsal (8:18)
11. Unknown Artist Temple Garden (2:52)
12. Unknown Artist North. Speed (0:35)
African Music Village, Holland Park, London: Instrument Demonstrations
13. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania I. Drums (1:04)
Featuring Basil Mbatta
14. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania II. 9-String Iseze (2:17)
Featuring Hukwe Zawose
15. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania III. 13-String Iseze (3:11)
Featuring M. Arnot
16. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania IV. Marimba 1 (1:24)
Featuring John Bohnar
17. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania V. Marimba 2 (2:16)
Featuring Hukwe Zawose
18. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania VI. Drum Chime (1:30)
Featuring Hamisi Waziri Digalu
19. Rehberg & Bauer Opla (1:31)
20. Disinformation Live At The MOI. Simulation (2:02)
21. Unknown Artist Kitchen Appliances (1:05)
22. Farmers Manual DspKILL (4:30)
23. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:13)
24. Bruce Gilbert Voice (1:38)
25. Chris Watson Demonic Laughter (4:05)
26. Unknown Artist Don’t Try This At Home (0:12)
27. Scala Fuser (4:53)
Cello – Mikhael Junod
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Track list:
1. Chris Watson A Cheetah, Waiting (1:53)
2. Scala Honeylike (4:54)
3. Philip Jeck Box Of Lamb (6:28)
4. Sandoz King Dread (6:14)
5. Ryoji Ikeda Zero Degrees [1] (3:34)
6. AER Evering (1:50)
7. Chris Watson Elephants, Sleeping (4:41)
About
Poster for Tone 7 and Tone 7.1.
Click here to download a .pdf [7.6mb] of Tone 7P.
CD – 6 tracks
Track list:
1. Pachacamac (11:42)
2. Epicycles (13:07)
3. Coyolxauhqui (9:53)
4. The Central Region (For Michael Snow) (18:27)
5. Tlaloc (4:07)
6. Solar Wind (8:23)
CD – 4 tracks
Track list:
1. Kelvin
2. Jos
3. Onko Parts 1-11
4. Viher
CD – 10 tracks
Track list:
1. Metro Zwei (5:58)
2. No. 2 (4:49)
3. Metro (5:42)
4. Supa (3:01)
5. Nix Fünf (5:26)
6. Supa Zwei 1-12 (3:52)
7. Nix Drei (6:39)
8. Fast Nix (5:55)
9. Supa Vier (3:28)
10. Aux (6:07)
9 tracks – CD – 64:07
Track list:
1. 1967
2. Another Light Casts Its Will
3. Night Sky Alternatives
4. The Once Green Hill
5. Suggestions
6. Xenophobe
7. Vessel of Flight
8. Channel of Light
9. A Glimmer of Forgotten Ancestors
CD – 19 tracks
Track list:
1. Dance Of Ka
2. Melody Of Nile
3. Pharoah Funeral Process
4. Sacred Lake
5. The Sinsimia
6. Melody Of Love
7. Dervish Dance
8. Sufi Dialogue
9. Promenade On The Nile
10. Rhythmic Dialogue
11. Valley Of The Kings And Queens
12. Collecting The Harvest
13. Inshad
14. Improvisation Libre
15. Pretense And Destiny
16. Ghost Dance
17. Echoes Of Memphis
18. Supplication
19. Clown Dance
Soliman Gamil was born in Alexandria in December, 1924. he years he studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and orchestration with the Italian professors Minato, Campizi and Hekman amongst others. In 1950 Soliman went to Paris to study composition for one year at the Ecole Normale de Musique. He has composed music for cinema and theatre, winning several national and international prizes, including one from Leipzig for his music to the film, ‘Drums’, and another from the Critics’ Society in London for the score to ‘Eloquent Peasant’. In 1967 he was awarded the Egyptian State Order of Merit, First Class, in Arts and Sciences. He represented Egypt at several international conferences on music. In 1969 he founded the Egyptian Folkloric Music Orchestra, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture. One composition, “Cantatta for Cello”, was chosen as ‘morceau impose’ in the cello composition for diploma studies at the Brussels Conservatoire in June 1982. Soliman Gamil lectured at the Higher Drama Institute, Academy of Arts, Cairo and he was a member of the International Association of Musicologists, Switzerland. He died in 1995.
CD – 2 tracks
Track list:
1. The First Letter (16:21)
2. Sexy And Rich (Janet) (8:35)
Track list:
Side One:
New Order – Video 5-8-6 (22:25)
Side Two:
Joy Division – As You Said (2:01)
“Video 5 8 6”, originally entitled “Prime 5 8 6”, is an electronic instrumental piece written and produced in 1982 by the British group New Order. In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch’s first cassette magazine, Feature Mist. Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.
Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, “Prime 5 8 6″/”Video 5 8 6” was an early version of “5 8 6” (from Power, Corruption & Lies) which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on “Ultraviolence” and the 1983 hit “Blue Monday”. After Factory Records’ Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of “pap”, it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on May 21, 1982.
On release it reached #81 on the main British singles chart and #19 on the British indie chart. Bassist Peter Hook has said the key to the title “5 8 6” can be found in another of the group’s songs, “Ecstacy”; 5, 8 then 6 is the song’s bar structure.
Track list:
1. Video 5-8-6 (22:25)
“Video 5 8 6”, originally entitled “Prime 5 8 6”, is an electronic instrumental piece written and produced in 1982 by the British group New Order. In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch’s first cassette magazine, Feature Mist. Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.
Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, “Prime 5 8 6″/”Video 5 8 6” was an early version of “5 8 6” (from Power, Corruption & Lies) which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on “Ultraviolence” and the 1983 hit “Blue Monday”. After Factory Records’ Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of “pap”, it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on May 21, 1982.
On release it reached #81 on the main British singles chart and #19 on the British indie chart. Bassist Peter Hook has said the key to the title “5 8 6” can be found in another of the group’s songs, “Ecstacy”; 5, 8 then 6 is the song’s bar structure.
CD – 22 tracks
Track list:
1. Unknown Artist Please Leave A Message (0:13)
2. Polyphony Group Of Lapharda Legenda E Tanës (3:53)
3. Unknown Artist Air Traffic Control (0:37)
4. Cold Warrior Yellow Square (7:02)
5. The Hafler Trio Replacement (1:27)
6. Philip Jeck Nelson Surfs (6:28)
7. Unknown Artist Runaway Train (3:39)
8. Unknown Artist The Education System (0:06)
9. New Order Video 586 (6:57)
10. Igusti Ngurah Togog & His Son Genggong Frog Sound (1:35)
11. Mark Van Hoen Channel Of Light (5:30)
12. Ryoji Ikeda Headphonics 0/0 (3:11)
13. Mother Tongue The Voice And The Ear (2:08)
14. Scala Hold Me Down (3:51)
15. John Duncan Priority (2:52)
16. Disinformation Loran-C VLF (4:17)
17. Unknown Artist Couldn’t This Lengthy Therapy… ? (0:05)
18. Anthony Phillips Danza Cuccaracha (5:44)
19. Chris Watson Guanacaste (2:13)
20. Chris Watson The Musiara Gate (1:55)
21. Folk Orchestra Of Albania Dite E Zeze Ish Kone E Honja (2:54)
22. Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen Omnipotent (6:45)
CD – 8 tracks
Track list:
1. Naked (5:19)
2. Torn (4:33)
3. Hold Me Down (3:55)
4. Think In Japanese (4:54)
5. Something About Brigitte Neilsen (3:26)
6. Happy In Her Skin (3:16)
7. Ride Me (4:28)
8. Heart Of Glass (5:15)
CD – 10 tracks
Track list:
1. Headphonics 0/0 (3:12)
2. Headphonics 1/0 (4:16)
4. + (2:50)
5. +. (5:07)
6. +.. (10:55)
7. – (6:36)
8. -. (11:51)
9. -.. (13:24)
10. +/- (1:05)
Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK, Touch: Displacing as a full album is now available; the focus falls on longer-form compositions, originally released on a monthly basis over 2020-2021 and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work.
Full album now available - 28 exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists,
with the final track delivered on 25th May 2020. A photographic counterpoint by Jon Wozencroft, the view from Hampstead Heath during the London lockdown.