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The British Library is home to the UK’s national collection of radio recordings in its Sound Archive. On 18th November 2010, the entire collection was handed over to The British Library, and is now a "named collection" within the Library's Archival Sound Recordings website. You can read more about this here.

6.01.12 - On Invisible Pause - 48:13 - 192 kbps

Photo: Mats Bäcker

On Invisible Pause, choreographed by Christopher Arouni, is part of Skånes Dansteater's performance HAZE, November 4th 2011 in Malmö's Skånesdansteater. Mixed by Christopher Arouni, Christian Fennesz & Anders Myhrman.

23.12.11 - Bells! – 25:39 - 192 kbps

Recorded in the belltower of St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow on 30th November 2011. With thanks to Denis Hewitt & Ewan Marshall.

29.11.11 - Cleveland & Lister present… – 21:45 - 192 kbps

David Cleveland & Nigel Lister present… 1. 1902 Gaumont Cinematograph | 2. 1912 Gaumont Chrono | 3. 1914 Pathé (Home) Projector | 4. 1914 Krups Ernemann No. 1

Continue reading: Touch Radio 71 | David Cleveland & Nigel Lister

06.11.11 - The Home Recordings – 50:25 - 192 kbps

Pic: Luc Vanhoucke

6AM - Moonsickness - Nobah Sahibs - Deadend - Nachtmeer - Is - 23.2

"The Home Recordings is the extension on the recordings that were made in 2008 in Norway. Being there with no instruments and no source but water to create sound, I was very limited. Returning home, the place you love and when you stay too long, you hate, became the source of these recordings. Everyday you hear something that changes your mood, but sometimes they can be very difficult to record. This can be the cause of different, unwelcome sounds, as you think they are. So I started to record the sounds outside my front door from 04hr. in the morning till 07hr.

Mixing everything at home in some kind of dark way, not opening the sound up... I used an Emulator Emax 1 because of its simple sampling sound. All other instruments are acoustically recorded.

There is no limit on sound, only we as source."

Click here for Peter Paelinck's website.

22.09.11 - Live at The Brucknerhaus – 32:58 - 192 kbps

Pic: "The Ghost of Philip Jeck" by Mike Harding

Philip Jeck in performance was recorded on 6th September 2011 at The Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria for Prix Ars Electronica, at which Philip Jeck was awarded a Distinction for his LP 'Suite: Live in Liverpool' [Touch # Tone 29, 2009]. The multi-channel recording (2 channels off the desk, two in the room) was mixed for TouchRadio by BJNilsen.

Continue reading: Touch Radio 69 | Philip Jeck

06.09.11 - Bee – 12:46 - 320 kbps

'Bee' is inspired by the microcosmos of insects, a world of intense energetic flying behaviour, and could be described as a 'journey on the back of a bee', since the piece metaphorically often places the listener in this imaginary position, as 'travelling' on the insect itself. The purpose of the piece is to evoke images or imaginary situations, and can be well described as a 'movie without the image', since the sound is strong enough to let us - the listeners- mould the visual aspect in our imagination...


This work uses the language of electro-acoustic music, and is derived from the digital processing of natural sounds (mostly sounds of insects) in combination with electronic and synthesised sound material.

Bee received the Award of Distinction at the ARS ELECTRONICA 2011 International Competition on new media in the category Digital Musics & Sound Art.

Apostolos Loufopoulos works with sound and digital media and is interested in the sound of the natural world and its potential for musical exploration.

29.08.11 - Wasp! – 21:13 - 320 kbps

Photo: Mike Harding
Location: Cavenham, Suffolk
Conditions: 29th August was overcast, cool and very windy
Recorded using 2 x dpa 4060s

With thanks to Sarah & Ralph Brownie, who at 20:07 put his foot over the entrances to the wasps' nest... (just for a short while).

08.08.11 - Load (Abandoned) – 16:41 - 320 kbps

Recordings from abandoned places:

- resonated wires, cans and other objects from an old run-of-the-river power plant
- a singing floating bridge at fishing village

Recordings from abandoned things:

- a violin amplified through a empty metal can
- recordings from inside plastic cans and bottles at the seaside
- from inside a pipe at a gasometer
- a motor which worked for the last time and is now abandoned

Photo:

- reflections of an abandoned run-of-the-river power plant

Continue reading: Touch Radio 66 | Signe Liden