Touch Newsletter #267
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #267. On Saturday 17 July at IKLECTIK, London, Touch’s Jon Wozencroft presents one of his famous “Sound Seminars” as a part of the first edition of “IKLECTIKA”. Details below.
The ninth contribution to the Touch: Displacing series is “48k” by John Eckhardt.
Touch Radio 151 is now broadcasting. “Another Goodbye” is an audio performance for an audience of one in your own home, combining spoken word and soundscapes.
“Touch: Displacing”
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Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK, Touch: Displacing is the second 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, Robert Crouch, Geneva Skeen, Carl Stone… After a brief hiatus, to give space to the new CD release by Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck (Touch Tone 79), we present our first collaboration with Hamburg-based artist John Eckhardt – johneckhardt.de
John Eckhardt
“48k”
In a recent series of sound installations, John Eckhardt employed a hypersensitive setup of bass guitar and live electronics to probe the acoustic features of variable spaces from caves to exhibition halls. During his on-site operations, he often includes further local sound sources as a second point of departure for the development of his ambient compositions. In case of this commission in the northern German coastal town of Kühlungsborn, the music emerges directly from underwater recordings he produced a few kilometers from the shore of this traditional sea spa, which was site of rigid border controls and thousands of (often tragic) flight attempts during the years of the inner-German division (1961-1989). The piece is dedicated to Peter Döbler, who in June 1971 swam 48 kilometers straight to the island of Fehmarn.
Photography and design by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham.
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“IKLECTIKA - Experimental Music and Book Fair”
17-18 July 2021, 12pm-7pm
IKLECTIK, London
On Saturday 17 July, Touch’s Jon Wozencroft presents one of his famous “Sound Seminars” as a part of the first edition of “IKLECTIKA”.
To celebrate IKLECTIK’s 7th anniversary and the return of live music, the London arts venue has invited pioneering experimental labels, publishers and magazines to take part in a two-day event full of talks, interviews, panel discussions, live acts and DJ sets. Jon will present a 90 minute set, “Timescale”.
Other contributors to the weekend include Aloes Books, Champion Version, Chinabot, CLOT Magazine, Colliding Lines, Earshots, Editions AcquAvivA, Flaming Pines, Fractal Meat, Goldsmiths Press, isolarii, Linear Obsessional, Nonclassical, Paradigm Discs, Phantom Limb, Psyché Tropes, Repeater Books, Salmon Universe, Sig’il Records, Studio C Plus and The Wire, with more to be announced. Craft beers and local food will be served too, in IKLECTIK’s outdoor space.
Tickets cost £3 per day. A two-day pass is available for £5.
Click here to buy a ticket and for further information
“Another Goodbye”
Touch Radio 151
“Another Goodbye” sits between live art and sound art. When artist Adie Muller’s mum decided it was time to stop intensive medical treatment, Adie promised herself that she would get to Germany and visit her regularly. Then the pandemic happened. This is the story of a letting go, a passing on, another goodbye. A story told to see if we can find a way to talk about death and grief and about coming to terms.
“Another Goodbye” is an audio performance for an audience of one in your own home, combining spoken word and soundscapes.
Created by
Adie Mueller: Writing and Performance
Peader Kirk: Direction and Dramaturgy
Armin Lorenz Gerold: Composition and Soundscape
This version is the outcome of the first project phase from April to June 2021 funded by Arts Council England and supported by The Place Theatre, Bedford and Cambridge Junction.
Listen at touchradio.org.uk
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 fifth year and have just posted episode 142…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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