Touch Radio Archive
2008
32. Tom Lawrence
31. Simon Fisher Turner
30. Enrico Coniglio
29. Novi_sad
28. Jana Winderen
2007
27. Guðni Franzson
26. Lasse Marhaug
25. Chris Watson
24. Steve Roden
23. Leif Elggren
22. Scott Taylor
Follow the link below for the remainder of the archive
2008
31. Simon Fisher Turner
30. Enrico Coniglio
29. Novi_sad
28. Jana Winderen
2007
27. Guðni Franzson
26. Lasse Marhaug
25. Chris Watson
24. Steve Roden
23. Leif Elggren
22. Scott Taylor
All earlier TouchRadio shows listed below can be heard here
2006
21 29.12.06
The Skull Defekts - Live at Fylkingen - 36:02
Recorded at iDEAL Noise Fest, Stockholm. On this occasion, The Skull Defekts were Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Henrik Rylander, Joachim Nordwall and Jean-Louis Huhta.
20. 29.11.06
Daniel Menche - Apostate - 36:50
These 'fragments' were constructed for TouchRadio throughout 2006... Daniel Menche says: "Sound of Vehemence!" Music is like one's own blood, so amplify it! As loud as possible - make the speakers bleed!"
19. 26.09.06
Fennesz/Rehberg/Toral & Feliciano - Live at Vila Nova de Foz Coa, May 29th 1999 - 1:01:53
Performed in a garden at the top of a hill in Foz Côa, at the remote northeast of Portugal. Overlooking the valley and the far slope of the opposite hill, at dusk, Peter Rehberg, Christian Fennesz (computers) and Rafael Toral (modular synth) played as João Paulo Feliciano mixed live into a sound-modulated light generating cube. The scale of the cube, the throbbing, rich colors emanating from it and the electronics setting gave the event an otherwordly feel, pretty much as if an alien spaceship had landed there.
18. 1.07.06
Chris Watson - Alcedo Volcano - 15:00 | A 192 kbps version may be found here
Chris writes: "The Alcedo Volcano sits, astride the equator 1000m above the Pacific ocean on the central ridge of Isla Isabella the largest of the Galapagos Islands. For tens of thousands of years within the micro climate of the Caldero a strange and beautiful habitat has been created - an isolated and lost world which I was privileged to live within for several days during May 2006."
[Photos by Chris Watson]
17. 1.06.06
Brandon LaBelle - CD=text (psycho-acoustical speech) - 36:57
'CD=text (psycho-acoustical speech)' was recorded in different cities with different friends, inspired by other notions of sampling technology and the remix-format, and the dynamics of mishearing.
Special thanks to Lupe Nuñez-Fernandez, Ken Ehrlich, Giles Lane, and Lun*na Menoh for their participation.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound, location, and performance. His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, "Phantom Radio", will be presented this autumn as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He lives in Berlin and is a member of freq_out.
16. 6.05.06
Jana Winderen - Live at Ash 13, Fylkingen 26.02.06 - 15:04
This piece is solely based on Hydrophone recordings, made by Jana Winderen in Berlin, Mjøsa, Halifax (Canada) and Oslo. With thanks to Doug Quin, samples of whose work also were used in this piece.
[Recorded in Stockholm by BJNilsen on the 13th anniversary of the founding of Ash International. Also performing that night were Alvars Orkester, Elgaland-Vargaland, BJNilsen and OCSID.]
Jana Winderen is an artist, curator and producer who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is a member of freq_out.
15. 1.04.06
Stephan Mathieu - Radio One - 28:35
"'Radio One' is a live recording from the premiere performance of 'Radioland', played on September 24th 2005 during the EMF Festival at Igreja de Santiago, a 15th Century chapel in Palmela, Portugal. 'Radioland' is based on live radio input re-arranged by my computer. The original 6-channel diffusion is presented here as a stereo mixdown. The piece is dedicated to Vitor Joaquim."
14. 9.03.06
Press conference/panel at Roskilde Festival 010705 - 31:55
Panelists consisted of Ivar & Grutle (of the Norwegian group ENSLAVED), Stephen O'Malley, Oren Ambarchi & Attila Csihar (all of whom had performed with SUNN O))) that day), and Aaron Turner of ISIS.
This piece contains explicit language
13. 13.02.06
Leif Inge - Nææ... - 64:10
Leif Inge is an ideas-based artist who works with time-stretching sound to create beautiful but thrilling and powerful soundscapes. As with his epic '9 Beet Stretch' - a 24 hour long concert with the time-stretched 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven - the work featured here is a granulated piece of sound sculpture made on the superb CLM software by Bill Schottsteadt. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
12. 8.01.06
Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall Live at Observatori Festival, Valencia, 6th November 2005 - 33:00
"The sounds I here perform with were recorded in two ways: with an acoustic microphone and with an accelerometer. For the acoustic recordings I used a Sanken CSS-5 which I held very closely to the tiny bubbling surface. The accelerometer was inserted approximately 4 cm into the earth and picked up a denser timbre than the acoustic microphone. As opposed to the Eldfjall CD release (where I chose to let the sounds stand by themselves), I here mixed the different sounds with each other to create a more organic sound and a narrative. I began the concert with creaking ice from different lakes in Iceland. These were also recorded with accelerometers. None of the sounds have been processed. For more info please go here."
2005
11. 21.12.05
Devolution/Evolution: Stephen O'Malley interviews Dylan Carlson - 30:58
"Last August I was invited by the american metal magazine, Decibel, to interview Dylan Carlson for a regular feature they run called "Under The Influence". The idea of the feature is basically musicians interviewing their main inspirators from the prior time, or something. Although this could be a bit silly and demeaning, Dylan and I have become friendly over the past few years and we both thought it would be a fun opportunity to talk shop and have this published! I can't count the number of times we have been nerding out over tube talk, guitars etc... which is almost the result of this piece. The editor of said mag agreed to handle the transcription, so I added some initially Ambarchi-inspired bass waves to the recording in order to increase the pressure and atmosphere for the sorry intern who inherited the work. The feature ran with a ridiculous editorial introduction recently, but I think the recording itself turned into a gem of interest. The most memorable part of the conversation included catagorization of guitar models by religious persuasion, and speed metal as an athletic event. This marked the second time I interviewed Dylan formally, the first being in 1993 for a fanzine I had at the time (which remains unpublished, I have the tape somewhere)."
10. 11.11.05
People Like Us - The Bits In Between - Mic Break Outtakes on WFMU - 34:26
From the digital gutter, here lie all the soundbytes edited out of mic breaks for People Like Us's radio show DO or DIY on WFMU from June to September 2005. The show is all about cutting together avant with pop, and the only aspect of this one hour a week that has ever felt slightly out of place has been the necessary mic breaks. So now we do them justice by taking the entire unedited 3 hours, and in Language Removal Service style we take out all the meaning and are left with 34 minutes of delicious background noise, voice glitches and hesitations.
9. 10.10.05
KK.Null - [Radio-Animus/Anima] for TouchRadio - 32:11
Track 1 - Radio-Animus (composition/improvisation with electronics + voice) 23:32
Track 2 - Radio-Anima 1 (improvisation with a piece of metal) 04:49
Track 3 - Radio-Anima 2 (improvisation with a piece of metal + voice) 04:10
All tracks were recorded live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, June 15, 2005. Final production at prima natura studio, August 30, 2005.
Performed + produced by Kazuyuki Kishino (KK.NULL).
8. 17.09.05
Peter Rehberg - Paris Qui Dort - 34:32 Recorded live at Centre Pompidou, Paris 11.09.2004 - 34:32
"In June 2004 I was asked by Cinemix to perform a live score to the silent movie 'Paris Qui Dort' (directed by René Clair in 1923) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on September 11th of that year. 'Paris Qui Dort' ('Paris Asleep', or as the English version of the film is known: 'The Invisible Ray') was not only René Clair's first film but the first film to investigate the theme of the 'deserted city'. The night watchman on the Eiffel Tower comes off his shift to find people all over Paris frozen in motion. Eventually he meets a group of unfrozen people who arrived that morning on a plane. The group enjoys the luxury of the city, dining in restaurants and taking jewelry as they want, however boredom soon sets in and the men fight over the woman. Eventually they receive a radio message directing them to come to a particular address. There a scientist tells them how he invented a ray that has frozen the whole city. They were unaffected because the Eiffel Tower and plane were out of the ray’s range.
And so on.....
This is the recording of that live score.
(ErikM also scored a soundtrack to the same film on the same day.)"
7. 21.08.05
Toshiya Tsunoda - Appearance of physical vibration - 19:37
These recordings are studies of the sonic effects of physical vibration
Track 1 - high frequency on a plate glass - 05:46
"Seven piezo ceramic discs are connected with an sine wave generator - and the discs are on a plate glass. Same frequency is output to the piezo discs The frequency shifts slowly and continuously from 9000hz to 20000hz. Due to this, you can listen various sounds made by high-speed cyclic contact between piezo disc and a plate glass, like a ball dribbles. This recording is a private live performance at my room."
Track 2 - top of amplitude - 08:25
"I detected the top and bottom of the amplitude from a certain audio signal by a precious gate device. L channel is top (plus level), R channel is bottom (minus level)."
Track 3 - on electromagnetic siren - 05:26
"Output an audio signal to the coil of an 100hz electromagnetic siren. The electromagnetic siren vibrates, so you can listen to the amplitude changes according to an audio signal on R channel. L channel, connected by an electrical wire to small metal reeds on the siren which acts like a switch to transmit any vibration from the coil. You can listen intermittently to any change in the vibration. In this work, there are two ways of description; the R channel is continual or linear, the L channel is intermit or dotted."
["The audio signals of tracks 2 and 3 are field recordings source material - environmental sounds from the suburbs. Track 2 was recorded by me, in Fukada-dai, Yokosuka City, Japan, c. 1997. Track 3 was recorded by Steve Roden somewhere in California. Track 3 was made for Steve Roden's installation project several years before which was held in a certain museum of California.
This material has not been released on any recording media."]
6. 11.06.05
Philip Jeck - from the archives - 35:42
Track 1 - Wholesome Sunday
(A live mix from the 2004 Mor festival, Ireland 22.08.04) 9:20
Track 2 - In Loving Memory: Walter Gibbons and Arthur Russell
(Originally recorded for the TRACE CD, Audio Research Editions, ARECD102, Liverpool, 1999) 2:04
Track 3 - Nelson Surfs [from Touch Sampler 2, 1997] 6:33
Track 4 - 16/17 Rehearsal [from Touch Sampler 3, 1999] 8:18
Track 5 - As My Shadow Passes... [from Touch Sampler 00, 2000] 9:37
and a special bonus - 12:00
Extracts from the live soundtrack "Instructions for Survival", a dance production choreographed and danced by Charlie Morrisey & Scott Smith on 3rd Fenbruary 2005 at the Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome. Recent performances were held at the Linbury Theatre, Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 22nd and 23rd July 2005.
Track 1 - Instructions for Survival 1 5:59
Track 2 - Instructions for Survival 2 6:33
5. 8.05.05
Chris Watson - The Galapagos Islands - an audio diary - 37:05
Recorded in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the west coast of Ecuador... During March this year Chris Watson was out in the Galapagos Islands recording for a forthcoming tv film series. In particular Chris made a series of recordings throughout the unique and highly specialised Galapagos habitats; from the mist shrouded Miconia zone at the higher altitudes of Santa Cruz down to the dense cactus and thorn scrub bordering the coast on smaller uninhabited islands. This trip was also the first opportunity for Chris to try out location surround sound recording both on land and then underwater, exploring the sonic potential below the surface of the Pacific Ocean with a four channel hydrophone array.
4. 1.04.05
z'ev - untitled - 50:03
50 minutes and 3 seconds of binary-acoustics produced 12-14 February 2005, studio dop in Peckham, London
"Note: if you listen with headphones you will as close as possible hear what I heard composing it as I always and only work wearing headphones for just this reason
PS: contrary to some supposition I do not use audiophile headphones - just some old Sony mdr-cd580's"
3. 11.03.05
Fennesz/Nagl - Live at Amann Studios - 38:33
Christian Fennesz & Max Nagl - live at Amann Studios, Vienna on 22nd December 2004 at 2200 hrs
Christian Fennesz and the renowned Viennese composer and saxophone player Max Nagl met at the studio during one of the studio's recent live recording sessions and spontaneously decided to do a show together. Originally intended as a secret gig, the details were leaked to a newspaper and a rammed studio witnessed a memorable live event...
With thanks to Christoph Amann for making this possible, and for mastering the recording
2. 14.02.05
Track 1 - AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER:
[Dedicated to John Cage] 20:42
Track 2 - MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA:
[Dedicated to Arnold Schönberg] 20:06
Originally released on limited edition vinyl February 1997 [Ash International # Ash 3.7]
1. 17.01.05
BJNilsen - Land of Lions [touchradio edit] - 37:46
January 17th 2005 - to coincide with the UK release date of his new album, Fade to white [Touch # TO:65]. Live at Experimental Intermedia, New York City, on 15th December 2004 at 2145
"I was invited by Phill Niblock to do a performance at his loft in Chinatown, New York. A suggestion was made that the night would be shared with my friend Lary 7 who also performed that evening. The playback system was configured as a quadraphonic speaker set-up. This is an A/B microphone recording
With thanks to: Phill, Lary 7, Dion, Tonic and all the good spirits of NYC, and the recording engineer, Byron Westbrook"
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