Various Artists

Photography and design by Jon Wozencroft

Track listing:

1.  Sohrab – Kharabat 21:44
2.  Olivia Block – Wuther 15:31
3.  Bana Haffar – Intimations 17:59
4.  Chris Watson – Station Chapelle 14:35
5.  Richard Chartier – Recompletion (3-1)18:36
6.  Robert Crouch – A Drowning 09:31
7.  Geneva Skeen – The clap of the fading-out sound of your shoes 17:43
8.  Carl Stone – Namidabashi 14:36
9.  John Eckhardt – 48k 27:23
10. Philip Jeck – This is the Hour of Lead-13:30
11. Bethan Kellough – Underlying 18:58
12. Oren Ambarchi – Celeste Confit 31:52

Now available as a full album for the first time, released 5th November 2021 on Bandcamp

Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK, Touch: Displacing was a new 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.

This album supersedes the Touch: Displacing subscription and is now available as a stand-alone release.

Twelve exclusive tracks recorded by Touch or Touch-affiliated artists for one year’s subscription, with contributions from Oren Ambarchi, Olivia Block, Richard Chartier, Robert Crouch, John Eckhardt, Bana Haffar, Philip Jeck, Bethan Kellough, Geneva Skeen, Sohrab, Carl Stone and Chris Watson, leading with ‘Kharabat’ by Sohrab – all mastered by Denis Blackham, to whom once again grateful thanks are due. Receipts will, as with Touch: Isolation [the collection is still available], be shared amongst the artists. A time to support independent music while it still exists!

Each of the releases is mirrored by a cover/counterpoint by Jon Wozencroft – not fixed to one location, as they were with Touch: Isolation.

Touch: Displacing is necessarily a global action. Everybody knows of the water crisis facing the planet. Few may be aware that we are running out of sand, with equally dire consequences, owing to the demand for concrete…

In the current state of the world, the process of displacement has been accelerated by politicians whose techniques of disinformation, U-turning and barefaced lies scramble any attempt to form a perspective on the events taking place. In the physical realm, the fracture of once stable glaciers, the erosion of coastlines and the constant stream of migration from one state of upheaval to another consolidates the force of digital systems to amplify a maelstrom of change – but not change as we know it, rather the consolidation of power and vested interests that have seized this opportunity to raise the roof on previous systems of protection and stability.

The advent of the personal computer in the late 1980’s was mirrored by the promotion of a new way of coming to terms with the scale of the world as we knew it, though chaos theory, fractal geometry and the idea that the most delicate of actions could have massive consequences – the saying went, that a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan could create a storm front across the Midwest of the USA.

Chaos theory is now chaos practice, with the caveat that initial actions are no longer born of delicacy nor collective expansion but the non-stop displacing of any position of longer term vision.

Displacement theory has its roots in psychology to denote the process of shifting one state of perception to another, in an unconscious and generally automatic form of behaviour – shifting the blame, ‘taking it out on someone’ and on a greater scale, highlighted by the rise of nationalism and the growing intolerance of detail.

‘The devil is in the detail’. ‘The Beauty of Fractals‘ made it clear that the smallest element was intrinsic to the harmony of the whole*. Instead, the world seems to have finessed the promotion of disharmony as a form of entertainment, at the very time when artistic, musical, cultural challenges to the perceived ‘fait accompli’ are needed more than ever. To counter the policies of rapid confusion, the forward/reverse procedure, we shall endeavour to slow down the pace, turn things up and respond.

* ‘The Beauty of Fractals’, Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Peter Richter, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1986

All tracks mastered by Denis Blackham, to whom once again grateful thanks are due.

Vinyl + DL only – 15  tracks
Limited edition of 300 – white sleeve + sticker – white labels

Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered & cut by Jason @ Transition

There Where the Avalanche Stops by Various Artists

For track listing and further information, please visit the release page here

Reviews:

Boomkat (UK):

Revealing a spectra of folk styles to the vast majority of us who have never visited the quinquennial folk festival, held in a castle overlooking the town of Gjirokastra in southern Albania, the set speaks to the remarkable breadth of unique instruments and styles native to the region since ancient Iliryrian times (pre-Roman).

It’s a truly enchanting collection presenting selections from six of the 26 participating districts – Vlora, Gjirokastra and Lorca from the south, and Shkodra, Debra and Tropoja from the north – and covering a gamut from spine-freezing, elegiac, layered vocal harmonies to bouzouki-sounding strings and flutes, and pinch-yourself scenes of pastoral bliss in the ‘Untitled Melody’ piece that is worth the price of entry alone.

Can’t afford a holiday this year? This LP will surely suffice.

Download only
Reorganised by Philip Jeck

30 is the number of upright stones that originally encompassed the Sarsen Circle, Stonehenge’s best known feature.

feat. Marcus Davidson – percussion | Mike Harding – Conductor | Philip Jeck – Casio SK1 keyboard, effects, mixing desk and MD player | Dave Knapik – radio, iphones, Buddha Machine, Polaroid 450 Land camera, Knockman toys: the Pororon and the ChaCha, and police scanner | Lary 7 – contrabass | Ken Montgomery – Slepian Modified Casiotone M-10, Trogtronics 655 Black Box & Kaoss Pad | JG Thirlwell – laptop, keyboard | Brian Turner – guitar/amp | Andrea, The Enchantress of Bioluminosity – Zils

Recorded live at EI, New York City, on 16th September 2012. With thanks to Phill Niblock and Byron Westbrook. Live photo by Dave Knapik. Stone by Jon Wozencroft.

Track listing:

1. The Sarsen Circle 30′ 00″

2 x USB cards in white outer, with 2 colour sticker, and two inner wallets
Strictly limited edition of 50

AUTODIGEST ● BIOSPHERE ● FENNESZ ● BRUCE GILBERT ● CM VON HAUSSWOLFF ● PHILIP JECK ● THOMAS KÖNER ● GARRY MOUAT ● PEOPLE LIKE US ● JON SAVAGE ● DAVID TOOP ● JON WOZENCROFT

Most of these recordings were made direct from the mixing desk onto our Nagra Ares Pll digital stereo recorder. In three cases we have used the original files provided by the artist – autodigest, People Like Us and Jon Savage. (The performance by Hildur Gudnadottir was not recorded).

USB Card One:

David Toop – 16 bit aiff audio recording of his presentation of “Yanomamo Shamanism”, released on ‘Touch Travel’ [Touch # T4, 1984]. 12′ 45″
Fennesz – 24 bit wav recording of his performance (unedited) 34′ 16″
Garry Mouat – m4v slide show of his scans of his artwork for Touch
Philip Jeck – 24 bit wav recording of his performance (unedited) 33′ 20″
People Like Us – mp4 of “4′ 33” and mp3 of “Cage Silenced” 4′ 33″

USB Card Two:

autodigest – 16 bit wav file of “30 releases in 30 years of Touch fitting into 30 seconds and 3 bonus seconds…” 0′ 39″
Biosphere – 24 bit wav recording of his performance (abridged) 15′ 32″
Bruce Gilbert – 16 bit aiff recording of “Sliding off the World”. Live performance of his piece originally released on Touch 25 [Touch # Tone 25, 2007] 3′ 07″
CM von Hausswolff – 24 bit wav recording of his performance (unedited) 26′ 48″
Jon Wozencroft – m4v slide show of his cover art
Jon Savage – 16 bit wav recording of “Ritual”, from his pirate broadcast for Network 21 in 1987 1′ 05″
Thomas Koner – 24 bit wav recording of his performance (unedited) 36′ 53″

Touch # T33.2V
Edition of 500 vinyl and download only
A new series of vinyl and download only releases, “from the archives…”. Islands Inbetween was originally released on cassette in 1983 [Touch # T33.2]. Three tracks, by John Keliehor & Orlando Kimber, have been removed from this edition for copyright reasons. The second in this series, “Drumming for Creation” [Touch # T33.3V] will be released in the spring of 2013.

Track list:

Side One 20’31”
Day and Night
Gending Gending
Suling
Degung Instrumental
Genggong
Cremation Gamelan
Dag combination dance
Ramayana ll

Side Two 17’05”
Watermark
Temple Gamelan
Frog Sound
Degung instrumental no. 2
Ducks
Tenun
Anjung

NOTES:

Indonesians often use the name ‘Nusantara’, meaning ‘the islands in-between’, when referring to the archipelago that forms their Republic. This cassette covers only some of the cultural activity on Java and Bali, the best known islands out of the 13,700 counted by statisticians, so it is not intended to be in any way definitive. The selections are more like musical postcards of two cultures balanced between tradition and tourism.
legend: meridian 105º – 115º east

Side one:

There is no specific translation for ‘Gending Gending’. The term generally means ‘orchestra’ or ‘gamelan composition’. The Javanese word for hammer is ‘gamel’, and the music is said to encourage the growth of plants. ‘Suling’ – the end blown flute. ‘Degung instrumental’ – from the Sudabese region of West Java to the speakers of tourists cafes. ‘Genggong’ – the first Balinese instrument, a mouth harp made from the palm and played by Igusti Ngurah Togog at his homestay in Peliatan, Bali. ‘Cremation Gamelan’ – a portable ensemble plays while the cremation tower is raised from the death pavilion. Before travelling a mile along the Peliatan road to the Temple of the Dead, the tower is spun around on its bearer’s shoulders to confuse the soul, preventing its return home to trouble the living. The overture played as the tower is set alight (with a magnifying glass – matches are thought to be unclean), is recorded on ‘Touch Travel’. Dag combination dance – in Bali, individual dances are sometimes merged into modern adaptations, not only as a result of tourism – the gamelan elders think popularisation is the best way to attract young people to dance, though dividing lines are difficult to draw. ‘Dag’ is a combination of ‘Kecak’ and ‘Kebyar’, performed from the squatting position in a pantomime style very popular with children. Attention is focused on the facial expressions of the dancers which interpret man’s ever-changing moods. ‘King Rama’ – the story of the ‘Kecak’ (monkey) dance is taken from the Hindu Ramayana epic and portrays Rama’a search for his wife, Sita, who has been abducted to the monkey forest. Rama is an incarnation of Vishnu, The Creator, and serves as an ideal for the Hindu man. ‘Ramayana ll’ – the opening sequence of the gamelan acvcompaniment to the 4 part ballet held on the full moon-lit nights of June, July and August at Prambanan temple complex. The largest central temple is dedictade to Shiva, the destroyer. The voices that follow were recorded on a train at Bandung station at 3am, en route to Yogjakarta. Local sellers board trains whatever the hour, and every carriage becomes an indoor market.

Side two:

‘Watermark’ – nightfall by a bridge near the Monkey Forest, Ubud. ‘One Language’ – there are c. 300 different languages and dialects in Indonesia. After independence in 1945, Bahasa Indonesian became the universally accepted language, though its use had already been encouraged by Nationalists as a political tool against the Dutch colonisers, and sanctioned by Japanese invaders who wished to spread propaganda to the villagers. ‘Temple Gamelan’ – musicians play while women bring ornately prepared offerings to the temple shrines on auspicious days of the Hindu calendar. Spirits and demons cannot live without food and drink, so the women fan the essence towards the divine recipient before offerings are placed on the ground to waiting dogs. Smaller offerings made daily, are left at strategic points around the house and alongside the ricefields. ‘Frog Sound’ – the sound comes from the reed mouthpiece of the genggong harp. Played by Togog and his son. ‘Ducks’ – every morning young boys and old men direct the family ducks out of their pens and along narrow paths into ricefields that are wet enough to paddle in. ‘Tenun’ – the Balinese weaving dance depicting women working at this traditional craft. ‘Anjung’ – the name given to the hordes of semi-wild dogs that roam Bali’s villages, barking instinctively at any approaching white man. ‘Garuda’ – Indonesia’s national symbol is the Garuda bird. Vishnu’s chosen vehicle and thus the king of flight associated with creative energy. Garuda is a dominant motif in Indonesian art, the name of the national airline and the seal of the official state coat of arms, beneath which appears the words ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’ – literally ‘many are there but there is only one’.

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[vinyl only through Autofact, USA]
Art Direction & Design by Jon Wozencroft
Compiled and edited by Mike Harding October/November 2006
Cut by Jason at Transition, London, on a Neumann VSM 70 March 2007

Track list:

Side One
Philip Jeck – Live in St. Michel & St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels
[as part of Les Nuits Botaniques] 7th May 2006
16:36

Side Two
1. Charles Matthews – Live in St. Michel & St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels
[as part of Les Nuits Botaniques] – plays Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis 7th May 2006
11:29
2. Marcus Davidson – Live in Masthuggs Church, Göteborg
[as part of the GAS Festival] – Standing Wave 4th October 2005
9:11
locked groove

Side Three
BJNilsen – Live in Masthuggs Church, Göteborg
[as part of the GAS Festival] 4th October 2005
19:36

Side Four
Fennesz – Live in St. Michel & St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels
[as part of Les Nuits Botaniques] 7th May 2006
16:02

Spire Live – Fundamentalis is a collection of live tracks recorded at various Spire events held throughout 2005 and 2006. Released in association with US label, Autofact, Touch presents a selection of tracks performed by the main performers of Spire: Fennesz | Philip Jeck | BJNilsen | Charles Matthews | Marcus Davidson. Improvised pieces from Fennesz, BJNilsen and Philip Jeck contrast with a performance by Charles Matthews of a scored composition by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, ‘In Nomine Lucis’, and Marcus Davidson’s self-penned ‘Standing Wave’, which ends side two with a locked groove. Cut to preserve and enhance the bottom end frequencies, Fundamentalis is not merely a document; the tension between and within the individual pieces is palpable. Fennesz’s set “…evokes the rolling centuries in all their pain and beauty, leaving us at once becalmed and energised, but never oppressed under the weight of time.” Electronics breathe new life not only into the organ, but also into the setting. But successor does not mean replacement. Ultimately, it’s the majestic sound of the organ, so steeped in centuries of tradition, that one remembers above all else.

Spire is one of the most innovative projects around, drawing on the full canon of organ works, from the very first annotation in the Robertsbridge Codex from the 14th Century, to max msp patches and software sampling… With two CD releases and 9 performances in cathedrals and churches throughout Europe, Spire remains a potent live force in harnessing the sounds of the ages.

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CD – 25 tracks

3rd EDITION OF THE CD [SAME AUDIO] IN A SLIP CASE [SAME FRONT COVER ART] WITH NO BOOKLET
Photography & Design by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham

TOUCH 25th Anniversary edition CD with exclusive tracks from:
Oren Ambarchi | Biosphere | Fennesz | Bruce Gilbert | Ryoji Ikeda | Philip Jeck | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Jacob Kirkegaard | Mother Tongue | BJNilsen | Pan Sonic | Rosy Parlane | Peter Rehberg | Rafael Toral | Mark Van Hoen | Chris Watson |

There are also several insert recordings and a live edit from Hild Sofie Tafjord & Tanja Orning

Touch was conceived by Jon Wozencroft in 1981, and released its first cassette magazine ‘Feature Mist’ in 1982 [more information on the early cassette releases can be found at www.touch33.net/catalogue/first.html].

This compilation was produced initially for the magazine, His Voice, to promote new music in the Czech and Slovak Republics. These questions [below] were originally in response to Hynek Dedecius and Pavel Klusak at His Voice. This edition was made for Qwartz 4, Paris.

Track list:

1 BJ Nilsen Gotland
2 minutiae
3 Oren Ambarchi Moving Violation
4 Fennesz Tree
5 quick and cold
6 actual time of arrival
7 Chris Watson Conversations
8 safety short
9 Chris Watson Oujela Mine
10 Mother Tongue Rewording
11 Peter Rehberg TT 1205
12 Tanja Orning & Hild Sofie Tafjord Live at Blå, Oslo
13 Pan Sonic Slovakian Rauta
14 Jóhann Jóhannsson Tu non mi perderai mai
15 Jacob Kirkegaard Heavy Water [Bärseback]
16 solent rd
17 Ryoji Ikeda Untitled #25
18 Rafael Toral Glove Touch
19 Philip Jeck Hindquarters
20 ATC graph
21 Bruce Gilbert Sliding off the World
22 Mark Van Hoen Put My Trust in You
23 chorale
24 Biosphere Spring Fever
25 Rosy Parlane Atlantis

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St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva, was the crucible of the Reformation in 1534…

The second release in the Spire series [cf Spire, organ works past, present & future, Touch # Tone 20, 2004] is more than a document of ‘Spire Live’, which took place as part of La Batie 2004, at St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva, on 5th September 2004. Curated by Eric Linder, from La Batie, and Mike Harding, the dynamism of the event, where the audience rotated between 3 separate venues within the Cathedral precinct, is reflected in the individual recordings: Philip Jeck goes heavy metal in the crypt: BJNilsen comes over all moody in the side chapel, and Fennesz soothes and seduces in the same place.

All this is set up by Charles Matthews and Marcus Davidson on the main organ [4 manifolds, computer operated] which dominates the time and place. Davidson plays Gorécki’s extraordinary Kantata for organ, [full stops on max employed here] which segués into BJNilsen’s ultra-heavy live organ and electronics next door. This follows Charles Matthews’s excellent renditions of pieces by Jolivet and Alexandra which, as the text by Thierry Charollais says: “The event seemed provoking and iconoclastic in contrast to the severe and austere atmosphere of the cathedral. Though some of the musical pieces were audacious, the music focused mainly on spirituality. It generated a different perception of the organ pieces, thus modifying our perception of the cathedral and making the event truly exceptional.”

And to finish, Fennesz soothed us with sound. His set evoked the rolling centuries in all their pain and beauty, leaving us at once becalmed and energised, but never oppressed under the weight of time.

Track list:

CDOne 76:04
On the main organ in the cathedral: Charles Matthews plays tracks 1-4:
1. Marcus Davidson – Opposites Attract [10:05]
2. Marcus Davidson – Psalm for Organ 3 [1:24]
3. André Jolivet – Hymne à l’Universe [11:58]
4. Liana Alexandra – Consonances lll [6:52]
Marcus Davidson plays track 5:
5. Henryk Gorécki – Kantata for organ op. 26 [15:42]
In the side chapel: 6. BJNilsen – Live in La Petite Chapelle [29:59]

CDTwo 69:06
In the crypt: Philip Jeck – Live in the Crypt [44:14]
In the side chapel: Fennesz – Live in La Petite Chapelle [24:49]

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DCD – 17 tracks

1st fruits of collaboration between Fennesz and Sparklehorse – recorded in Geneva by Christian Fennesz and Scott Minor * Touch regulars Biosphere, Philip Jeck, Benny Nilsen [Hazard], Chris Watson… * Newcomers include US free music composer and designer Tom Recchion, UK’s Scott Taylor, Icelandic artists Finnbogi Petursson and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, and one of Sweden’s premier performance artists Leif Elggren [The Sons of God, Firework Edition Records etc.], and one of the Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland * UK finest organist Charles Matthews and classical composer Marcus Davidson * Highly regarded Japanese field recordist Toshiya Tsunoda

The story:

The thought of producing a compilation where the tracks were all either inspired by or more directly influenced by the organ had been frequently aired over the years. The conversations were always animated and expansive. The organ works of Arvo Pärt, those performed by Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, a pupil of Richard Rodney Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and others, have reached a wider non-classical audience. Eventually Benny Nilsen arranged to visit St. Mary’s Church, Warwick and work with one of England’s finest, Charles Matthews. Crawling around inside the instrument, positioning microphones most appropriately in the Church, or ‘capturing’ the psalms composed by Marcus Davidson, Nilsen explored the possibilities with all the familiar lust of the avant-garde. As the brief widened, so did the responses… some contributors referred to earlier versions of the organ and its often highly political usage, others explored aged instruments themselves. Some studied the effects of the sounds produced on the physique and the psyche, others conceptualised the brief and either built their own or recorded natural or man-made phenomena which utilised the same basic process, wind through pipes. The organ represents the marriage between acoustic complexity and ritualised space. It is impossible not to be drawn upward, towards the spire of the church or cathedral, or to the huge and daunting forest of pipes themselves. The organ dwarfs all comers, and unlike other instruments, it is this non-musical element which makes the organ stand apart.

Track list:

CDOne
12 tracks – 52:10.21
1. Leif Elggren – Royal Organ
2. Z’EV – if only that love lets letting happen (organ music for organs)
3. Philip Jeck – Stops
4. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – Details of a New Discovery
5. Zephyr
6. Marcus Davidson – Organ Psalm V
7. Scott Minor/Fennesz – dwan
8. Finnbogi Pétursson – Diabolus
9. Biosphere – Visible Invisible
10. Toshiya Tsunoda – Layered
11. Tom Recchion – Shut-Eye Train
13. Lary Seven & Jeff Petersen – Disorganised

CDTwo
5 tracks – 53:55.54
1. BJNilsen – Breathe
2. Scott Taylor – Droner
3. Jacob Kirkegaard- Epiludio Patetico: a tribute to Rued Langgaard
4. Ambarchi/Recchion – Triste Remake
5. Chris Watson – Askam Wind Cluster

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CD – 8 tracks – 33:34

Every two years or so, Touch has produced a sampler giving an overview of our current activities and affiliations. Following Touch 00 (2000), and even prefiguring its release, we wanted to make something that reflected the increasing reliance on the already recorded, whilst suggesting a more lateral approach to the use of source material. This first tendency is manifest everywhere, from tribute bands, to remixes, to updates or clones of earlier sound successes (Oasis and Blur vs. The Beatles and The Kinks, and so on). Another syndrome has developed whereby sounds are transformed by various software programmes, and what seems to be an innovation soon reveals itself to be generic.

“Star Switch On” is not an answer to such questions, but it is a reflection of the current obsession with ‘mapping’, ‘storing’ and ‘modulating’. We were interested in what would happen when artists were given a ‘carte-blanche’ to work with recordings that had a definite and undeniable subject, location and atmosphere – the wildlife sound recordings of Chris Watson published on “Stepping Into the Dark” (TO:27) and “Outside the Circle of Fire” (TO:37) – imagining a perverse take on library music, sampling, remix, all inadequate in denoting the soundscapes we hoped such a brief would encourage.
“Star Switch On” features two new recordings by Chris Watson, alongside Biosphere, Fennesz, Hazard, Mika Vainio, Philip Jeck and AER. Chris Watson, former member of Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, has many credits to his name, not least the series of wildlife programmes made by David Attenborough to which he contributed. In 2000, “Outside the Circle of Fire” won a distinction for ‘Digital Music’ at Ars Electronica. Currently, he is on location in Kenya working on a new series of the BBC’s “Big Cat Diary”.

Track list:

1. Mika Vainio: Outside the Circle of Fire
2. Philip Jeck: Capriole
3. Hazard: Debugged
4. Chris Watson: Cassarina
5. Fennesz: Pannonique
6. AER: Goat Behaviour no.3
7. Biosphere: Night & Dawn
8. Chris Watson: Wolves

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CD – 177 ringtones – 99 tracks – 44:58.17

The process of transferring made-to-measure ringtones to your mobile phone is, at present, a fixed casino… Chart hits, cod celebrity voices, action heroes, lame keyboard melodies… so the likelihood of hearing one of these on the 07.34 from the suburbs is, at present, remote, although new ranges of mobiles are on hand to promise better things. Anticipating this, each of the included has been composed with exactly this eventuality in mind. They are in one way or another intended to be experienced as isolated, personal interventions: low-res loops, creature calls, in low-res environments… In whichever form you find them here, do sample remodel and employ these humble suggestions… we assume you already agree that the cheap ‘cheep cheep’ tones of Nokia, Ericsson and the others leave a lot to be desired.

Track list:

1 John Hudak cellular research
2 Oren Ambarchi Skadooor
3 John Dexter Zetterquist Uggue
4 Johannes Bergmark Psst… shsh!
5 the birth of newsprint
6 security clearance code
7 Chris Watson Tawny Owl/African Fish Eagles/Atlantic Puffin/Corncrake/Curlew/Golden Plover/Spotted Crake/Spotted Hyenas/Wolves
8 Thor McBurnie digi bird
9 Neophyte/hi-speed insect of the night
10 Doug Quin Arrowfrog/Baboon/Emperor Penguins/Hippopotamus/Hyrax/Oropendola
11 Touch 33 Cool in the North
12 Bigert & Bergstrom Four Seasons [composed by Antonio Vivaldi] Performed by the Tom Kling Orchestra
13 Radio Bulgaria
14 Cecilia Heisser Molar
15 Brandon LaBelle Eavesdrop
16 La Illaha… [There Is No God…]
17 AER Washing Machine
18 The World of Gilbert & George 1
19 Evan Parker mono
20 Ken Ikeda Yume
21 Raymond Cass Hello Everybody
22 Leif Elggren Help!/MansLaughter
23 Lily Otic Cowlick
24 Black Sabbath Riot Milwaukee 1980/The Japanese Imperial Army
25 Richard Bell Hell’s Bells
26 Regina Lund Come, Take Me
27 AER Arctic
28 Rosalind Waters Queen of the Night [composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
29 The Conet Project V2 “Attençion”
30 Åke Hodell 1234/Law and Order
31 Forty Thirty
32 Atau Tanaka Therering
33 Tobias Frère–Jones Trip/Tenthprime/Lighthouse/Octave/Demand/Asymptote
34 Crosby Binge Whirleygig
35 Brendon Walls Ipcress
36 People Like Us I Know…
37 Gen Ken Montgomery enotgnir
38 Grime Shifty Slippy
39 The World of Gilbert & George 2
40 Marcus Davidson Grand Organ/Ringer’s Revenge/Samba
41 Paul Williams SQK_0003
42 Lary 7 Waveforms 1–8
43 Carl Michael von Hausswolff (ap. 7500 Hz)
44 New Order Video 5—8—6
45 VENOZ TKS “Carry On Sergeant. Right Oh, Sir!”
46 Homage to Rhythm & Sound
47 Serrata Horn ‡
48 Simon Fisher Turner Be Calm
49 Radio Bulgaria [continued]
50 Agniesz-+++ ++++-+ka Lewalski Sniff
51 alku 2000 el ringtones es el challenge
52 Andreas Karperyd Accelerate
53 Hazard Magnet
54 FEAR jimi burns the phone down
55 AER.7 Conduct endangering the safety of information
56 farmersannual jar: fnn/snull 2000: snull_cell
57 Disinformation Live
58 Carsten Nicolai sound mobile
59 DJ Guacamole A Concise History of Californian Rock Music in under 5 seconds
60 Bruce Gilbert Robbery/Air Raid
61 KREVmorse
62 D stereocellular
63 Edvard G Lewis FIAT/KANUANSER/KER–RING! [For use with the Nokia vibrating phone only]/DOOB
64 Edwin van der Heide touch.3
65 fennesz blau 1.7
66 Homage to Pan Sonic
67 Joel Stern it’s for me
68 The World of Gilbert & George 3
69 ikue mori trickling ô
70 Hecker HekRiTo
71 On the Beach
72 i.d :cdÅmltpl.dvsn
73 Heitor Alvelos Red Lights 74 kaffe matthews still striped
75 Main Where the Fuck Are You?/I’m a Few Minutes Late/I’m On the Train/Hold On, I’m Losing You!/The Battery’s Going!/I’m in the Pub/Ciao!
76 Rosy Parlane touchtone
77 Gilbert & George Twisted and Aggressive
78 Scala Naked
79 A Ringtone from Under the Floorboards
80 Mika Vainio Polar
Tele/Whale/Sounder
81 Mark Van Hoen Note/Oatmeal/Pencil/Stalker Bell/Bees
82 Monika Nyström Nos 1–4
83 S.E.T.I. Crab Nebula 3
84 Gilbert & George Twisted and Aggressive 2
85 AER Organ Loft
86 Phill Niblock & Guy de Bièvre tones for guy
87 Thomas Lehn Cellphone Sonata
88 Ryoji Ikeda ringtone_1/ringtone_2
89 The Portuguese Cleaner
90 Preacher talking backwards/Embassy voice
91 PITA ichiban
92 snd ..-.-..
93 ¡IT! ¡IT!
94 Zbigniew Karkowski úK·
95 MSCHarding The Becquerel
96 Francisco López untitled # 124
97 Joel Stern & Anthony Guerra Engaged Tone
98 Ryoji Ikeda Unobtainable
99 11.09 — 09.11

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CD – 21 tracks

Track list:

1. Ryoji Ikeda Matrix (For An Anechoic Room) (6:02)
2. Daniel Menche Down (5:42)
3. Chris Watson Friday The 13th (2:25)
4. AER As You Wander Round (2:28)
5. Thomas Brinkmann Olga A1 (6:26)
6. Unknown Artist Relationship Volume (0:31)
7. Locust Wrong (4:42)
Vocals – Holli Ashton
8. Unknown Artist Naming A Flower (0:12)
9. Chris Watson A Celebration (2:17)
10. Scala Breaking Point (6:54)
11. Philip Jeck As My Shadow Passes … (9:37)
12. People Like Us / Jet Black Hair People, The / Wobbly KZSU 14 Sept 99 (3:35)
13. Unknown Artist In Brief (0:28)
14. Hazard Flood Gate (5:39)
15. Unknown Artist Mach .853 (Moscow Air Traffic Control Over Turukhansk, Siberia, October 1990) (1:04)
16. Richard H. Kirk Entering Valhalla Without A Laptop (But With An Umbrella, A Sewing Machine And An Operating Table – Dig It) (5:22)
17. Chris Watson A Blessing (1:00)
18. AER Bread Upon The Water (3:38)
19. Biosphere Sun-Baked (3:43)
20. Tobias Frere-Jones F-Hz (#190736, 1996) (1:15)
21. Mika Vainio Ilmaantuva (Airing/Appearancing) (6:38)

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CD – 27 tracks

Track list:

1. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:17)
2. Unknown Artist Hole In The Universe (1:36)
3. Panasonic Otaksuma (5:03)
4. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:08)
5. Chris Watson Out Of Our Sight (2:59)
6. AER Brightness Contrast Volume (5:22)
7. Unknown Artist A Television (0:23)
8. Biosphere Knives In Hens (6:35)
9. Unknown Artist Prediction (0:29)
10. Philip Jeck 16/17 Rehearsal (8:18)
11. Unknown Artist Temple Garden (2:52)
12. Unknown Artist North. Speed (0:35)
African Music Village, Holland Park, London: Instrument Demonstrations
13. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania I. Drums (1:04)
Featuring Basil Mbatta
14. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania II. 9-String Iseze (2:17)
Featuring Hukwe Zawose
15. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania III. 13-String Iseze (3:11)
Featuring M. Arnot
16. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania IV. Marimba 1 (1:24)
Featuring John Bohnar
17. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania V. Marimba 2 (2:16)
Featuring Hukwe Zawose
18. Bagamoyo Group Of Tanzania VI. Drum Chime (1:30)
Featuring Hamisi Waziri Digalu
19. Rehberg & Bauer Opla (1:31)
20. Disinformation Live At The MOI. Simulation (2:02)
21. Unknown Artist Kitchen Appliances (1:05)
22. Farmers Manual DspKILL (4:30)
23. Unknown Artist (Untitled) (0:13)
24. Bruce Gilbert Voice (1:38)
25. Chris Watson Demonic Laughter (4:05)
26. Unknown Artist Don’t Try This At Home (0:12)
27. Scala Fuser (4:53)
Cello – Mikhael Junod

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Track list:

1. Chris Watson A Cheetah, Waiting (1:53)
2. Scala Honeylike (4:54)
3. Philip Jeck Box Of Lamb (6:28)
4. Sandoz King Dread (6:14)
5. Ryoji Ikeda Zero Degrees [1] (3:34)
6. AER Evering (1:50)
7. Chris Watson Elephants, Sleeping (4:41)

CD – 22 tracks

Track list:

1. Unknown Artist Please Leave A Message (0:13)
2. Polyphony Group Of Lapharda Legenda E Tanës (3:53)
3. Unknown Artist Air Traffic Control (0:37)
4. Cold Warrior Yellow Square (7:02)
5. The Hafler Trio Replacement (1:27)
6. Philip Jeck Nelson Surfs (6:28)
7. Unknown Artist Runaway Train (3:39)
8. Unknown Artist The Education System (0:06)
9. New Order Video 586 (6:57)
10. Igusti Ngurah Togog & His Son Genggong Frog Sound (1:35)
11. Mark Van Hoen Channel Of Light (5:30)
12. Ryoji Ikeda Headphonics 0/0 (3:11)
13. Mother Tongue The Voice And The Ear (2:08)
14. Scala Hold Me Down (3:51)
15. John Duncan Priority (2:52)
16. Disinformation Loran-C VLF (4:17)
17. Unknown Artist Couldn’t This Lengthy Therapy… ? (0:05)
18. Anthony Phillips Danza Cuccaracha (5:44)
19. Chris Watson Guanacaste (2:13)
20. Chris Watson The Musiara Gate (1:55)
21. Folk Orchestra Of Albania Dite E Zeze Ish Kone E Honja (2:54)
22. Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen Omnipotent (6:45)

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CD – 16 tracks

Track list:

1. H3ÖH Mind Loss (9:03)
2. Philip Jeck PS One (7:23)
3. Soliman Gamil Valley Of Kings And Queens (2:27)
4. Sandoz Orgasmatron (6:51)
5. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Sudurgata (3:26)
6. The Hafler Trio I Remain….. (5:32)
7. Chris Watson Mara River At Night (4:51)
8. Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen Supermind’s Light Becomes Part Of The Earth (2:35)
9. Eli Fara & Luiza Míça Mule Driver Of Grebene (3:44)
10. Sweet Exorcist Ghettoes Of The Mind (3:43)
11. Drome Mesmerized (6:40)
12. Rax Werx In The Compound (1:38)
13. Z’EV Radio KPFK (2:30)
14. S.E.T.I. Knowledge (8:24)
15. Soliman Gamil Supplication (1:23)
16. Koji Marutani Calcutta (5:06)

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About:

Front Cover
Inside Cover
CONTENTS
4. The Uncertainty Principle
5. SIMON FRITH Why Did the Weasel Go Pop?
6. cont.
7. JON SAVAGE Personal Freedom, Unlawful Wounding
8. cont.
9. cont.
10. Infomania
11. Mother Tongue
12. JON SAVAGE cont.
13. cont.
14. MICHAEL HARDING The Expansile
15. cont.
16. ROBERT DOISNEAU
17 TV SMITH Gather Your Things and Go
18. Family Portrait 1
19. Family Portrait 2
20 Pressures to Join
21. CLARE WILKINSON & JON WOZENCROFT Global Remix
22. cont.
23. cont.
24. cont.
25. PANNI CHARRINGTON The Exit
26. cont.
27. Marker
28. Playing Mickey Mouse
29. JON SAVAGE Overload and Heaven Sent
30. cont.
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36 MARC ISSUE & CLIVE MEACHEN White Knuckle Pass
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38 Feminine is Beautiful
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40 Annie Spinkle’s Sex Guidelines for the 1990’s
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43 The Land of Technology
44 Copying Guidelines
45
46 Finger
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51 The Noise of the Birds
52 The Turing Machine
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54 ADAIR BROUWER Plaster White Boys…
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58 CAROLINE COON Now What?
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60 English Dancer
61 HEINRICH VON KLEIST The Theatre of Marionettes
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64 CATHERINE GAITTE Smooth and Moderate
65 Socrates
66 CORNEL WINDLIN Green Card
67
68 The Falling Leaf
69 JON WOZENCROFT Partialforce
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74 JAMIE REID The Rise of the Phoenix
75 MARK SINKER Trafalgar
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78 MATTHEW POND Squatting
79 Xerox to Infinity
80 Vagabond

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First published in 1992
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Vagabond is published by Incunabula Ltd., London
All rights reserved.
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