Touch Newsletter #251
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #251. Cristian Vogel returns with a new vinyl and digital release on The Wormhole, “Mind Control”. What is Mind Control? Making people believe by shaping what they hear; a sonata for the age of acceleration morphosis; a music born under punches. Play at any required speed.
Formed in Chicago in 2009, Apiary brought together four of that city’s most versatile and prolific musicians: David Daniell (guitar), Steven Hess (drums), Joseph Clayton Mills (electronics), and Jason Stein (bass clarinet). They entered the studio in the spring of 2010 in an attempt to document their unique sound, and the results are now available as a self-titled tape on The Tapeworm.
Trinovantes is a new collaboration between old friends Franz Kirmann and Stuart Bowditch. Their tape for The Tapeworm, “Hidden Codes”, employs a new approach. Songs by metal bands were interpreted by algorithmic functions into MIDI. The extracted data was then edited and played through a variety of software and synthesisers to generate warm, ambient layers that, whilst removed from the original songs, retains a sentiment of the original ideas.
On Friday 13 November at 2PM PCT a new episode, “Hymns Ancient & Modern”, of Mike Harding and Bana Haffar’s Dublab show “Long Wave” broadcasts, featuring special guest Norhal El Halwagy. More info at dublab.com
Touch: Displacing is a new subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, to be released on a monthly basis over the coming year and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work. Further details below…
Cristian Vogel
“Mind Control”
WHO#15
12” EP in an edition of 250 copies, plus digital. Buy “Mind Control” on Bandcamp. Mastered and cut by Jason Goz. Artwork: Federico Gargaglione.
A: Acceleration Morphosis
B1: Acceleration Morphosis (Mind Control Version)
B2: La Neta
All music written and produced by Cristian Vogel, Copenhagen, 2018.
What is Mind Control? Making people believe by shaping what they hear; a sonata for the age of acceleration morphosis; a music born under punches. Play at any required speed.
Cristian Vogel is a life-long innovator in the design, composition and performance of electronic sounds. His independent career in music and audio technology has won prizes and awards establishing him as an outstanding influence in the field of composition for studio, club culture and stage. He performs, remixes and produces original music and sound design at an international level. He has lived in Brighton, Barcelona, Berlin and Geneva and is now permanently based in Copenhagen where he continues creating technologically based music, sound and audio technology at his design studios Ekometic and NeverEngineLabs.
Buy “Mind Control” on Bandcamp
Apiary
TTW#135
Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy Apiary on Bandcamp. Illustration: SavX.
A: Apis (Day)
B: Apis (Night)
David Daniell: guitar. Steven Hess: drums. Joseph Clayton Mills: electronics. Jason Stein: bass clarinet. Recorded by Nick Broste on May 9th, 2010, at Strobe Recording Studio, Chicago, IL. Edited and mixed by Joseph Clayton Mills and David Daniell. Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab.
Formed in Chicago in 2009, Apiary brought together four of that city’s most versatile and prolific musicians: David Daniell (guitar), Steven Hess (drums), Joseph Clayton Mills (electronics), and Jason Stein (bass clarinet). Together, Apiary interwove disparate strands of Chicago’s improvised music community, seamlessly incorporating their influences—ranging from jazz to minimalism to noise—into a whole that was dense and hypnotic.
Having developed a reputation for the intensity of their live performances, Apiary entered the studio in the spring of 2010 in an attempt to document their unique sound. These recordings, uncovered and revisited a decade later, have lost none of their power or immediacy. If anything, the intervening years provide a sense of perspective and insight into how vital Apiary’s music—grounded in collaboration and possibility—remains. Apiary was reworked and brought to completion in 2020; it provides a fascinating window into a crucial moment in Chicago’s musical history, one that still vibrates with startling urgency.
Buy Apiary on Bandcamp
Trinovantes
“Hidden Codes”
TTW#136
Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “Hidden Codes” on Bandcamp. Artwork: Roman Gamaury. Type O Graphy: Stefan Fähler.
A1: Turn Loose The Swans [My Dying Bride]
A2: At Rest [Decomposed]
A3: From Ignorance to Oblivion [Gorefest]
B1: Hallowed Be Thy Name [Iron Maiden]
B2: Through The Collonades [Entombed]
B3: The Night Eternal [At The Gates]
All eponymous tracks made using MIDI data extracted by algorithmic processes. Produced by Franz Kirmann and Stuart Bowditch.
Trinovantes is a new collaboration between old friends Franz Kirmann and Stuart Bowditch, who originally met in 2007 at the Multivitamins events in Shoreditch.
The body of work on Hidden Codes employs a new approach. Songs by metal bands were interpreted by algorithmic functions into MIDI. The extracted data was then edited and played through a variety of software and synthesisers to generate warm, ambient layers that, whilst removed from the original songs, retains a sentiment of the original ideas. The layers were then arranged and further processed to form new pieces.
Buy “Hidden Codes” on Bandcamp
“Touch: Displacing”
V33:50
Touch: Displacing is a new subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, to be released on a monthly basis over the coming year and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work. It follows on from Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK.
Twelve new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch or Touch-affiliated artists for one year’s subscription, with contributions from Oren Ambarchi, Olivia Block, Richard Chartier, Ipek Gorgun, Bana Haffar, Philip Jeck, Chris Watson and others, leading with “Kharabat” by Sohrab – all mastered by Denis Blackham, to whom once again grateful thanks are due. Receipts will, as with Touch: Isolation [the collection is still available], be shared amongst the artists. A time to support independent music while it still exists!
Each of the releases will be mirrored by a cover/counterpoint by Jon Wozencroft – not fixed to one location, as they were with Touch: Isolation.
The subscription costs £33 for twelve tracks – please support the artists by investing in the Touch: Displacing project, and expect surprises – good ones for a change.
Subscribe at touchdisplacing.bandcamp.com
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 127…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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