Touch Newsletter #294

Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #294. You can now pre-order Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Chandra Shukla’s “Travelogue [Bali]”. The pair continue their intense globetrotting collaboration following Nepal in 2020.

Ted Reichman makes his debut for Touch with reworked discarded organ vinyl and Jon Wozencroft’s first sound seminar of 2023 takes place at Iklectik in March with a rare live set by Mark Van Hoen. (Anthony Moore is also playing at Iklectik on March 10th.)



Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla
“Travelogue [Bali]”
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CD - 5 tracks - 48:47. Release date: 24 February 2023. Pre-order “Travelogue [Bali]” on Bandcamp. Mastered by Denis Blackham. Photography by Jon Wozencroft + Travelogue. Design: Jon Wozencroft.

1: Kecak! (Sanghyang)
2: Rahajeng Semeng
3: Sekala Niskala
4: Gong Ageng
5: Ramayana Melukat

“Travelogue [Bali]” is the second in an ongoing series of collected international audio diaries (“Travelogue [Nepal]” was released by Touch in 2020). The premise is quite simple: the two meet at a mutually agreed upon destination along with the facilitation of something to record audio of these experiences on. The intent is to capture and augment these sonic documentaries of their travels which then are sculpted into soundtracks. This is done by sourcing the culture, environment, persons or events that make their voices available.

In February 2020, CM von Hausswolff and Chandra Shukla met in Bali, Indonesia, over the course of 9 days. Recordings were made at Pandawa Beach, Green Bowl Beach, Melasti Beach Ungasan, Uluwatu Temple, Pasar Senggol Gianyar, Pengosekan Kaja Ubud, Badung Market, Kintamani and Mt. Batur, Puri Saren Agung Ubud, Mandala Suci Wenara Wana (Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary) Ubud, Pura Tirta Empul Tampaksiring, Pandan Beach and Kelingking Beach Nusa Penida.


Buy “Travelogue [Bali]” on Bandcamp



Soundseminar
Iklectik, London
15 March 2023

Jon Wozencroft: “The Angle of Light” + live performance by Mark Van Hoen. Further info and tickets: iklectikartlab.com

Jon Wozencroft developed his sound seminars in the late 1980s as a means of highlighting the potential of sound-related research and practice in art and design education. Primarily, the seminars promote the art of listening and seek to rebalance the dominant bias of visual culture which favours the eye over the ear. Listening both enhances one’s perceptual awareness and creates an oasis away from 24/7 non-stop media. The seminars underline the power of sound and music as catalysts for change in a context in which recorded music has been progressively devalued in the digital environment. Drawing upon forty years of working in music publishing and performance, Wozencroft moves the audience between and beyond genre classifications and makes connections where past present and future come alive in the moment.


Further info and tickets: iklectikartlab.com



Ted Reichman
“Orgelwerke”
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DL - 4 tracks - 39:38. Released on 20 January 2023. Buy “Orgelwerke” on Bandcamp. Recorded and mixed at Subtext Sound System. Mastered by Simon Scott. Photography and design by Jon Wozencroft.

1: Fond du lac
2: Rondo
3: American Dream
4: Geisterorchester

“Orgelwerke” began when composer Ted Reichman picked up a pile of rare organ vinyl from a library’s discard box. As he listened to this forgotten music late at night, he developed a process of transformation. He digitized them, turning them into loops and gestures, then reshaped them with tape, broken amplifiers and analogue echo boxes. It became something like a ritual, an exhumation of long-unheard music reanimated as glacial drones and ghostly symphonic movements — the sound of the cathedral transmuted into an enveloping shadow of pulsation, echo and glitch.

Ted Reichman composes electro-acoustic music, open-form pieces for improvising musicians, and film music. His long career in music goes back to his first recordings with Anthony Braxton in the early 1990s and his deep involvement in New York’s music community in the 2000s. He was the original curator at Tonic on the Lower East Side of NYC, which became one of the world’s crucial venues for avant-garde music. He has made recordings for Tzadik, Skirl, and Tripticks Tapes, and produced and mixed albums for Wendy Eisenberg, Steven Long, Lina Tullgren/Alec Toku Whiting and many other experimental musicians. His film scores include “Rick” (with Bill Pullman and Sandra Oh), “The Memory Thief” and the award winning documentaries “Dear Mandela” and “Missing In Brooks County”. He has been on the faculty of the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts departments at the New England Conservatory of Music for over ten years, where he has developed a new curriculum on recording.

Burning Ambulance writes: “Composer Ted Reichman also has an album of organ music out this week, sort of. The genesis of “Orgelwerke” was a stack of organ LPs he grabbed from a library’s discard box. He began to pluck chunks of the music out, turn it into digital loops, then warp and process and recontextualize it into new pieces. The four tracks on the CD run between seven and 12 minutes, and they have a kind of William Basinski meets Thomas Köner meets Angelo Badalamenti’s “Eraserhead” soundtrack quality. The tones fade slowly in, and hover in a kind of glimmering but also gradually disintegrating cloud. There are multiple layers of things all happening at once, so it’s like being surrounded by organ players at times, and each track builds to a kind of ecstatic crescendo before washing away like the tide going out. If you play this loud enough, it’ll probably shake your speakers off the shelf.” [Phil Freeman]


Buy “Orgelwerke” 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 181…


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 (12 series so far for dublab and resonancefm) visit mscharding.net



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