Touch Newsletter #279
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #279. March and April see two Touch.40 live events in California – details on both below. Touch.40 events are being added as we header deeper into the year… so please keep so dates free. Here’s what we have so far for the first half of the year:
Los Angeles: 11–13th March
The Bay Area: 29–30th April
Chicago: 20th May
London Iklectik: 24–26th June
…and further events in September/October in Europe. Please check on the dedicated website for updates: touch40.net
Good news! UK > EU Shipping – we can now say with some confidence it’s safe to order from our Bandcamp shop without paying tax at your end. Royal Mail (UK) was very slow to catch up with the new IOSS system, but for all orders there should now be no extra tax at all. Any problems contact Mike at Touch through the Bandcamp contact page. Touch on Bandcamp / Ash International on Bandcamp / The Tapeworm on Bandcamp
A repress of Fennesz Sakamoto’s 2x10” edition of “Cendre” is now available via Kudos – details below, alongside a reminder of two preorders from IHVH (Mark Van Hoen and Zachary Paul), and Éliane Radigue and Frédéric Blondy.
As we celebrate Touch’s 40th anniversary, we'd like to thank for your amazing support. More information about live events here for Touch.40: touch40.net
Touch.40
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, USA
11-13 March 2022
We are excited to present peformances, installations and demos from leading experimental musicians and sound artists; a panel on film sound with Allison Anders, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Jonathan Thomas Miller and Brooke Wentz; and scientists Dr. Yewanda Pearse, Dr. Katja Seltman and Professor Robert R. Gaines give keynote talks.
Further info, full schedule and tickets.
Touch.40
The Lab/Indexical, Santa Cruz, USA
29-30 April 2022
Chris Watson - the world premiere of sound installation “NAMIB” from the Namibian Desert. Further info and tickets.
Live performances by Patrick Shiroishi and Bana Haffar. Further info and tickets.
Fennesz Sakamoto
“Cendre”
Tone 32V
Repress of 2x10” vinyl now available, via Kudos. Mastered by Denis Blackham. Cut by Jason Goz. Design and photography by Jon Wozencroft.
“Cendre” was recorded between 2004 and 2006 in New York City by Ryuichi Sakamoto and in Vienna by Christian Fennesz. They came together for the mix in New York City in February of that year. Fennesz would send Sakamoto a guitar or electronic track and Sakamoto would compose his piano piece. This process was also reversed – Sakamoto initiating the track with a piano composition and Fennesz responding. Meanwhile they met for live shows, or communicated via digital means to compare notes, swop ideas and develop themes… And the cyclical process continued right up until the final mix.
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz blend the unstructured and imaginative qualities of improvisation with the satisfying sculpture of composition. Sakamoto’s piano, his style reminiscent of Debussy and Satie, perfectly complements Fennesz with his powerful blend of shimmering guitar and passionate electronics.
Together they have combined to create 11 tracks of satisfying and challenging possibilities…
Buy “Cendre” via Kudos
IHVH
“The Agnostic”
Ash 14.2
CD album + digital. Preorder on Bandcamp, releasing 11 March 2022. Mastered by Denis Blackham. Photography by Nico Van Hoen. Designed by Philip Marshall.
1. In Permanence
2. This Most Excellent Canopy
3. Heat Rhythm
4. Eyn Sof
5. Moondog Devotional
6. Sister Ferdinande (Kolkota)
7. Benedictum
8. Black Angels (Part l & ll)
9. The Backwaters
10. The Night
IHVH are a duo composed of Touch artists Mark Van Hoen of Locust fame, and violinist Zachary Paul.
Preorder on Bandcamp
Éliane Radigue and Frédéric Blondy
“Occam XXV”
OR1CD
CD album in a matt A5/DVD style digipack with a 16p booklet + digital. Preorder on Bandcamp, releasing 4 March 2022. Mastered by Denis Blackham. Photography by Daniela Sbrisny, Maxwell Pritchard and Jean-Christian Rieu. Designed by Philip Marshall.
1. Occam XXV
In 2018 experimental festival Organ Reframed commissioned Éliane Radigue to write her first work for organ, “Occam Ocean XXV”. Radigue worked closely with organist Frédéric Blondy at the Église Saint Merry in Paris before transferring the piece to Union Chapel for its premiere at Organ Reframed on 13 October 2018. The recording on this compact disc was made at a private session at Union Chapel on 8 January 2020.
“Occam XXV” inaugurates the very special record series of works exclusively commissioned by Organ Reframed, the organ-only, one of a kind experimental music festival, carefully curated by Touch artist and London’s Union Chapel organ music director Claire M Singer.
Preorder on Bandcamp
Watch “The Making of Occam XXV” on YouYube
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 156…
Guerrilla Audio
Long Wave
“Suspending time and immersing the listener in a widescreen of sound.”
Each month on the second Friday, Mike Harding and Bana Haffar present two hours of audio for dublab, Los Angeles.
You can catch up with the dublab archive on dublab.com, and for the entire Long Wave history (11 series so far for dublab and resonancefm) visit mscharding.net
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