Touch Newsletter #254
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #254. The Tapeworm ends 2020 with two new editions. Jim Haynes, of the Helen Scarsdale Agency, presents “Shortwave Radio Recordings On MiniDisc (2001-2012)” – 60 minutes of the more interesting finds from his collection of MiniDisc recordings. “How It’s Not Meant To Be” by venoztks is the result of hours spent surfing the airwaves, with often surprising results… No synths were used during the making of this album.
This month’s Long Wave broadcast on Dublab – today, Friday 11 December at 2pm PST/10pm GMT/11pm CET – is a special focussing on The Tapeworm, co-hosted by Mike Harding and Philip Marshall, and presented by Nigel Wrench. Visit dublab.com to listen
Jim Haynes
“Shortwave Radio Recordings On MiniDisc (2001-2012)”
TTW#137
Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “Shortwave Radio Recordings On MiniDisc (2001-2012)” on Bandcamp. Artwork: venoztks.
“I acquired my first shortwave radio back in 1998 or 1999. Living in San Francisco at that time, I found a wealth of signals being broadcast from across the Pacific towards the US. This was before cellphones became ubiquitous, so the radio spectrum was relatively free of interference, even living in a city. I quickly found that when I got out of any urban environment, I could receive more signals and with better clarity. So with every opportunity for travel, I took a shortwave. By 2000, I had upgraded by then to a smaller Grundig portable with a wind-up antenna and a MiniDisc recorder in tow. I held out acquiring a flash-drive digital recorded until the summer of 2012, with the technology of the MiniDisc already obsolete by then. This collection represents some of the more interesting finds from that collection of MiniDisc recordings.” – Jim Haynes, Northern California, 19 August 2020.
This tape’s contents is detailed on The Tapeworm’s website and on Bandcamp.
Buy “Shortwave Radio Recordings On MiniDisc (2001-2012)” on Bandcamp
venoztks
“How It’s Not Meant To Be”
TTW#139
Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “How It’s Not Meant To Be” on Bandcamp. Mastered by Franz Kirmann. Illustration – “The Map Is Not The Territory” by Bana Haffar.
A: Secret
B: For 52 Years
Many hours were spent surfing the airwaves, with often surprising results… No synths were used during the making of this album. The mysteries of the ether continue to enthral and provide.
Listen to a sample by clicking here…
Buy “How It’s Not Meant To Be” 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, Sohrab, Chris Watson and others – 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
ɡəˈrilə/
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 129…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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