Touch Newsletter #276

Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #276. In 2022 Touch (the UK-based imprint and publisher) will celebrate forty years of activity; so we thought we'd organize a few events to mark this achievement, not only to reflect on the long journey but also cast our eyes on what the future might hold for the creative arts.

Since the community we share is worldwide and multi-cultural, our activities will reflect diversity in various locations throughout the world. Do check back in from time to time, since new events will be added as the year unfolds.

There is now a dedicated website for Touch.40 – touch40.net – this will be updated regularly so please make sure to check back in from time to time. 2022 promises to be another challenging year for us all, but we will do our very best to keep the information as current and accurate as possible.

KEEP THE DATES FREE (all subject to change and addition, of course)

UK:
June 22nd-24th – Iklectik (London)
September 30th-October 1st – Café Oto (London)

Europe:
January 31st – Silent Green @ CTM (Berlin) –
Tickets now on sale, further details below…
October 15th – Göteberg
TBA – Brussels

North America:
March 11th-13th – 2220 Arts + Archives (Los Angeles) –
Tickets now on sale, further details below…
April 29th-30th – Indexical (Santa Cruz)
April 29th – The Lab (San Francisco)
May 20th-22nd – NorthWestern (Chicago)



Touch.40 at CTM
Kuppelhalle, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
31 January 2022

Artists: Oren Ambarchi & crys cole, Youmna Saba, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ipek Görgün. Produced by CTM.

Further info and tickets: ctm-festival.de

With longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches, Oren Ambarchi’s immersive ambient explorations are punctuated by collaborator and sound artist crys cole, who re-tunes the ear with subtle and imperfect sounds created through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials. Youmna Saba is currently focused on the interrelationship of traditional Arabic music and electronic and electroacoustic treatments. An attentive and (com)passionate listener of the world around him, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay inquires into the materiality, objecthood, site, and technological mediation of lived experiences, and considers the aspects of subjectivity, contemplation, mindfulness, and transcendence inherent in listening. In her rich, ambient drone soundscapes that explore the complexity of the human psyche, Ipek Görgün balances technical precision and emotional potency to spin fine-tuned sounds that stay resistant to blur no matter how thick her mix becomes. Philip Marshall aka The Tapeworm, who alongside his long standing work at Touch runs the cassette-only label The Tapeworm, soundtracks the night with his signature experimental sets, manipulating audio from cassettes with sound effects.


ctm-festival.de
touch40.net



Touch.40
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, USA
11-13 March 2022

Artists: Jasmin Blasco, Charlie Campagna + Ian Wellman, Richard Chartier, Faith Coloccia, Robert Takahashi Crouch, Robert R. Gaines, Bana Haffar, Jim Haynes, Bethan Kellough, Pauline Lay, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Yann Novak, Zachary Paul, Dr. Yewande Pearse, Rotary ECT, SPS, Dr. Katja Seltmann, Chandra Shukla, Geneva Skeen, Gabie Strong + Peter Kolovos, Travelogue, CMvH, Mark Van Hoen, Byron Westbrook and more to be announced… In collaboration with dublab.

Further info and tickets: dice.fm

To celebrate their fortieth year, Touch are organizing a 3-day festival, Touch.40 which features a series of live performances, video screenings, talks and community workshops scheduled for the weekend of March 11th-13th at the new 2220 Arts + Archives cooperative (formerly The Bootleg Theater), located in Historic Filipinotown of central Los Angeles. The festival intends to showcase not only the label’s extensive repertoire that includes international, regional and local artists, but to also engage with young and underrecognized community artists through a series of seminars focusing on sound, recording, composition, performance, production, engineering, and art discourse.


dice.fm
touch40.net



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 154…


Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com



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