Touch Newsletter #275

Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #275. Four new tapes from The Tapeworm are now on sale, all shipping Friday 3 December.

Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a visual and sound artist based in Kingston, New York, and co-owner of Notice Recordings. “No Water Recordings 2011” was created using a hydrophone against a bridge, above water, and a contact mike and ceramic insulator against a brick.

Bill Thompson’s “Black Earth Tongue” is based on material composed when working with the contemporary dance group In the Making for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

“Destroy All Monsters” by acclaimed writer and ‘pop culture alchemist’ Ken Hollings was made in 2001 in the weeks before September 11 and constitutes a unique historical document. They are spoken-word adaptations of selected scenes taken from the book of the same name.

Opal X’s “Twister” is ‘Goth ASMR Hardcore’…

“Jungle Shuffle” by Jay Glass Dubs x Laura Agnusdei was named Bleep’s single of the week. More details on this release below.



Evan Lindorff-Ellery
“No Water Recordings 2011”
TTW#147

Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “No Water Recordings 2011” on Bandcamp. Illustration: Stefan Fähler.

A: Fringes and Singing (Hydrophone, Bridge)
B: Meditation (Contact Mic, Ceramic Insulator, Brick)

Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a visual and sound artist based in Kingston, New York, and co-owner of Notice Recordings. "No Water Recordings 2011" was created in Ravenswood, Chicago using a hydrophone against a bridge, above water, and a contact mike and ceramic insulator against a brick. The recordings were captured to cassette which was transferred 10 years later by Branic Howard. This album exists as an antithesis of much of Evan's recent fascinations with water, yet accommodates similar poetic endeavours.


Buy “No Water Recordings 2011” on Bandcamp



Bill Thompson
“Black Earth Tongue”
TTW#148

Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “Black Earth Tongue” on Bandcamp. Illustration: Heitor Alvelos.

A1: Stone Ear
A2: Ashen Knight
A3: Devil’s Urn
B1: Amethyst Deceiver
B2: Angel Wings
B3: Earth Star
B4: Nru Slived

Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. His work is concerned with various aspects of perception and embodied presence. Using found objects, field recordings, repurposed electronics and digital media, his installations encourage active attention to each moment. He applies this same strategy within his compositions which often include sustained tones, densely layered textures and indeterminate or improvised structures.

“Black Earth Tongue” is based on material composed when working on the project Mushroom! with the contemporary dance group In the Making for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. Track titles are taken from (mis)translations of Japanese or Latin names for various fungi.


Buy “Black Earth Tongue” on Bandcamp



Ken Hollings
“Destroy All Monsters”
TTW#149

Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “Destroy All Monsters” on Bandcamp. Illustration: SavX.

Part One: 007 Hellfire Thermal Tracking 073 Altasaurus 074 Stay Awake 031 Information Explosion 076 Majestic 12 078 Street Waves.

Part Two: 081 Lockdown in Robot City 082 Implements of Mass Destruction 085 Out of the Heart of Destruction 093 I Am Always Yours 089 Off Silent Corridors 094 Target Lock On Survivor 115 People Come and Go So Quickly Here 124 Let Me Hide Myself In Thee.

These recordings, made in 2001 in the weeks before September 11, constitute a unique historical document. They are spoken-word adaptations of scenes taken from Destroy All Monsters, the first book by acclaimed writer and ‘pop culture alchemist’ Ken Hollings. A multistranded postmodern epic, Destroy All Monsters offers a radical retelling of Desert Storm, America’s military operation targeting Iraq, using imagery derived from MTV videos, CNN news reports, Japanese kaiju movies and anime, Hong Kong action flicks and tales of alien abduction. The book’s entire narrative nervously unfolds in an unstable of world of terror monsters, wrecked cities and dangerously tall buildings: where an event like 9/11 is inevitable. The book was officially launched on September 13, but distribution in the United States was delayed when ports on the Eastern Seaboard were closed to shipping post 9/11, leaving copies of the book stranded in the Atlantic. ‘Published the very week of the “attacks on America”,’ Toby Litt wrote at the time, ‘Destroy All Monsters is genuinely, spookily prescient…as a progress report on Planet Earth, it seems to have timeslipped onto the front pages.’ Lydia Lunch praised it as ‘a hallucinogenic spiral into future nightmare’, while The Scotsman called it ‘mind bending reading.’ — [Read more…]


Buy “Destroy All Monsters” on Bandcamp



Opal X
“Twister”
TTW#150

Cassette in an edition of 100 copies. Buy “Twister” on Bandcamp. Illustration: Gabie Strong.

A1: Enter Guest, You Are Moving Toward The Light
A2: Gold Coin Win
A3: Diamond Breaks
A4: Rose In Rain Shimmers Brightly After Dark
A5: Coral
A6: Arcade X
A7: Show Me Your Card
A8: Access Memory
A9: 36th Chambe
A10: Twister
A11: Stacked Memory
A12: Chrome Bird
A13: Humble Walk With Their Heads Held High
A14: 7 Breaths
A15: Strange Union
A16: Amygdala Preference Pane
Programme repeats on the B-side.

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Buy “Twister” on Bandcamp



Jay Glass Dubs x Laura Agnusdei
“Jungle Shuffle”
WHO#21

12” screen printed white label vinyl (three colour options, 100 of each) + digital. Buy on Bandcamp. Cut by Jason Goz.


Two Jay Glass Dubs reworkings of “Jungle Shuffle” from Laura Agnusdei’s debut album “Laurisilva”. This limited white label 12" has been screenprinted by Jonas Ranson with three different slogans selected by the artists – green, orange or purple prints, 100 copies of each.

Written by Laura Agnusdei and Jay Glass Dubs. Original track composed by Laura Agnusdei. Produced and mixed by Jay Glass Dubs.


Buy on Bandcamp



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 fifth year and have just posted episode 152…


Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com



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