Touch Newsletter #257
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #257. This month we see the latest contribution to Touch: Displacing from Richard Chartier, a self-release from Bana Haffar and a very limited restock of Anna von Hausswolff.
“Touch: Displacing”
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Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK, Touch: Displacing is a new subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, released on a monthly basis over the coming year and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work. Contributors thus far: Sohrab, Olivia Block, Bana Haffar, Chris Watson…
Richard Chartier
“Recompletion (3-1)”
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham
The 5th offering for the Touch: Displacing subscription from Richard Chartier.
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Bana Haffar
“here, there, over, beyond there, in space”
Self-released album, Bandcamp only. Buy “here, there, over, beyond there, in space” on Bandcamp. Recorded and mixed by Bana Haffar in October 2020 in Asheville, North Carolina. Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering. Photography by Katherine Finkelstein.
“here, there, over, beyond there, in space” is an exploration of the immersive capability of sound with the isolated headphone experience in mind.
The pieces use a combination of field recordings, modular synthesis, and audio processed in MaxMSP.
Field recordings made in North Carolina were captured using a hand-built binaural microphone rig – a technology designed to mimic human hearing by capturing incoming sounds using a pair of microphones spaced head width apart. When listening back on headphones, the listener is capable of perceiving sounds as they occurred in the 3D sound field. Synthetically generated sounds from a modular synthesizer and MaxMSP were spatialized after-the-fact using various 3D audio plugins.
Created in the era of isolation, “here, there, over, beyond there, in space” invites the listener to go even deeper, isolating in headphones to experience an expanded sonic dimensionality.
Bana Haffar’s January dublab show “Disremember/Remember” from Beirut is now available to stream from their archive.
Buy “here, there, over, beyond there, in space” on Bandcamp
Anna von Hausswolff
“All Thoughts Fly”
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Cassette edition – very limited restock. Buy “All Thoughts Fly” on Bandcamp.
Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”) is the starting point for Anna von Hausswolff’s new album All Thoughts Fly, incoming on Southern Lord on 25th September. Here in solo instrumental mode, the entire record consists of just one instrument, the organ, and represents absolute liberation of the imagination. All Thoughts Fly radiates a melancholic beauty, and is distinguished by fluid transitions of contrasting elements; calmness and drama, harmony and dissonance, much like the place that inspires the music.
Sacro Bosco is a garden, based in the centre of Italy, containing grotesque mythological sculptures and buildings overgrown with natural vegetation, situated in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini. Created during the 16th Century, Sacro Bosco was commissioned by Pier Francesco Orsini, some say to try and cope with his grief following the death of his wife Guilia Farnese; others speculate the purpose was to create art.
About the album Anna explains “there’s a sadness and wilderness that inspired me to write this album, also a timelessness. I believe that this park has survived not only due to its beauty but also because of the iconography, it has been liberated from predictable ideas and ideals. The people who built this park truly set their minds and imagination free. All thoughts fly is a homage to this creation, and an effort to articulate the atmosphere and the feelings that this place evokes inside of me. It’s a very personal interpretation of a place that I lack words to describe. I’d like to believe Orsini built this monumental park out of grief for his dead wife, and in my Sacro Bosco I used this story as a core for my own inspiration: love as a foundation for creation.”
Anna summarises, “Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo is a creation carved out from one man’s head. A frozen thought lasting throughout time and touching people across generations. All thoughts fly, Ogni Pensiero Vola, is about this: the importance of sharing for surviving, creating space and evolving. Once you’ve shared your words they are not only yours anymore."
All Thoughts Fly ultimately embodies the exploration of any and all possibilities, and the audience is invited to listen, liberate the mind and let it wander.
Buy “All Thoughts Fly” cassette on Bandcamp
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
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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 fifth year and have just posted episode 133…
Guerrilla Audio
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