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previous record label: touch sevens		there are 6 titles on touch tone in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: tour de garde

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february 24th, 2009

threads:
digital-musics
black-metal
electro-acoustic-composition

touch (usa) #tone 37 cd
touch tone (usa) #tone 37 cd

nana april jun “the ontology of noise” compact disc

the one substance
process philosophy
space-time continuum
semantic shift
sun wind darkness eye

touch press release...

nana april jun - the ontology of noise

touch # tone 37 [cd]
5 tracks - cd - 36:40
photography & design by jon wozencroft
mastered by denis blackham with thanks to annika von hausswolff

the ontology of noise

the ontology of noise researches the dark associations of post-black metal. no traditional instruments are used on the album and all techniques are digital in their application. there are almost no arrangements or layers, but the pieces consist of single streams which change intuitively. this makes the ontology of noise a concrete journey through an abstract language evolving around light and darkness, nature and artificiality, and sometimes even takes the form of a sound very similar to an electric guitar...

the ontology of noise explores the filmic qualities of noise - the image-creating mechanisms that arise almost hallucinogenically from subtle variations of frequences. by using a special set of digital mastering and filtering techniques, the recordings often sound very much like the sounds of nature; wind in trees and water. the ontology of noise opens up an audial perception for these sounds of nature and ask questions about their ontology...ref: burzum's filosofem

nana april jun is one of the personas of christofer lämgren (b 1974), a visual artist, composer and art magazine ykky editor/curator based in gothenburg, sweden.

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field-recordings
concert-recordings

touch (usa) #tone 36 cd
touch tone (usa) #tone 36 cd

jana winderen “heated: live in japan” compact disc

tetsuro yasunaga (1:24)
jana winderen (26:21)

february 2009 release ; first full-length release from this norwegian field-recordist, after an appetite-whetting single for the autofact label last year ...

a single piece, recorded live, presented after an introduction by her japanese host ; impeccably detailed sound-environments seamlessly bound together into a coherent whole ...

touch press release...

jana winderen - heated: live in japan

touch # tone 36 [cd]
limited edition cd - 2 tracks - 27:54
cd in full colour wallet
artwork & photography by jon wozencroft

live performance at super deluxe, tokyo, 24th october 2008. source material recorded with 2 x 8011 dpa hydrophones, 2 x dolphinear/pro hydrophones and 2 x 4060 dpa microphones on a sound devices 744t recorder in greenland, iceland and norway.

following tetsuro yasunaga's spoken word introduction, here unfolds jana winderen's blistering live set from her recent trip to japan as part of 'norwegian music today'. her first cd, 'heated' follows her only other release to date, a 7" vinyl limited edition, "surface runoff", on autofact [usa, 2008]. improvising from recordings taken on field research trips, she forces the power of the hidden to the surface, making the unheard audible. its a strange world down there; a world of which we know little, replete with its own instrumentation and orchestras. tapping into these, jana's vision encourages us to explore the fertility of the oceans...

jana winderen researches the hidden depths of the sea with the latest technology; her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. the audio topography of the oceans and the depth of glacier crevasses are brought to the surface. she is occupied with finding sound from its hidden source, like blind field recording. her most recent sound works include "submerge" (2008), for färgfabriken norr in sweden, based on hydrophone recordings in the local lake, "freq_out 7" curated by cm von hausswollf at the happy new ears festival in belgium (2008), "rainbow audio transformation" (2008) at extra city in antwerp, belgium and the 6 channel sound installation "+4°c - from folgefonna to the north sea" (2007) at "sleppet" during the centenary of edvard greig, "greig07" in norway. future projects includes a studio album, released through touch in 2009, based on hydrophone recordings from the icefjord kangia and disco bay by ilulissat in greenland, and an installation work "voices from the deep" in collaboration with chris watson. recently bbc radio 4 followed jana on her recording trip to the barents sea for the radio series "world on the move" [bbc, prod. sarah blunt, 2008]. she is a member of spire, freq_out and field.

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touch (uk) #tone 30 cd
touch tone (uk) #tone 30 cd

lasse marhaug / nils henrik asheim “grand mutation” compact disc

bordunal (15:53)
phoneuma (13:48)
magnaton (1:53)
philomela (11:29)
clavaeolina (13:29)

huge resonant throb of wind/air and electronics from lasss & composer/organist nils henrik asheim... completely non-hostile, just about as far away as you can get from lasse’s current/recent modus otherwise as you can get... surprisingly serene actually...

touch press release...

marhaug | asheim
grand mutation
touch tone 30

cd - design: jon wozencroft
barcode: 5027803903029
5 tracks - 56:30

lasse marhaug: electronics
nils henrik asheim: organ

lasse marhaug and nils henrik asheim started their collaboration in 2004 at the all ears festival in oslo, norway. this turned out as a fruitful meeting between two musicians of very different backgrounds. marhaug's feedback to asheim's organ sounds in the oslo concert started to reflect how the work was to develop. asheim is working with half-stops and subtle playing techniques that create multiple layers of sound with a vibrating or fluctuating character, as well as with the power of the full organ. marhaug's tools belong to the world of sine wave oscillators and noise generators. the aim was to set a sonic frame into which they could both gradually tune.

the two musicians met again in june 2006 just before oslo cathedral (which contains asheim's favourite instrument) closed down for a few years of renovation work. one day of soundcheck and musical work and one night of recording produced an improvised flow of one hour, afterwards structured into five tracks.

the recording was made in a live setup on the organ loft. nils henrik asheim was sitting at the organ console and lasse marhaug right behind, playing his electronics through a loudspeaker system in order to make the electronics and the acoustic organ sound blend as close to each other as possible. sound engineer thomas hukkelberg used two custom-built condenser mics for the organ, two shure ksm 44 for the electronics and two neumann u87 by the altar for the ambience. he used a millennia media hv-3 preamp and an apogee ad-16x converter. the recordings were made at night to avoid unwanted ambient city sounds. the final mix was made by marhaug in january 2007.

biographies of the artists:

lasse marhaug (b. 1974) has since the early 90s been one of the most active artists in the so-called norwegian noise scene. as a performer and composer he has contributed to well over 200 cd, vinyl and cassette releases over the years, as well as extensive touring and performing live in europe, asia and america. in addition to his solo work, marhaug plays regularly in projects jazkamer, nash kontroll, del and testicle hazard. past projects and bands include origami replika and lasse marhaug band. he has collaborated with several artists in the noise, improv, jazz, rock and extreme metal fields, as well as working with music for theatre, dance, installations and video.

composer nils henrik asheim (b.1960) combines his work with a career as a performer, as well as regularly collaborating with other artists on projects integrating spatial and theatrical elements. asheim started out as a pupil of olav anton thommessen and made his début as a composer at the early age of fifteen. in 1978 he was awarded the ebu rostrum prize for his work ensemblemusikk for 5. he subsequently went on to study organ and composing at the norwegian academy of music and the sweelinck conservatory in amsterdam.

from about the year 2000 onwards asheim’s music displays a stronger focus on texture and the physical and tactile qualities of sound. his music presents parallel temporal proportions; asheim works with layers of closeness and distance. recurring material undergoes variation, thereby creating a form that appears open and self-generating. in the course of this same period asheim makes his mark as a performer with his free-improvisation disc 16 pieces for organ and its sequel 19.03.04, oslo cathedral, and a collaboration with soprano anne-lise berntsen resulting in the recordings engleskyts and kom regn. asheim also appears as a pianist in various projects.

nils henrik asheim has written several chamber music pieces including vannspeil, navigo, chase, nicht and broken line; his output for orchestra includes the works speil, turba , wind songs and degrees of white. he has also written a number of large-scale sacred works. since 1991 asheim has lived in stavanger where he is active as a composer, performer and organizer, and not least as the principal initiator of the founding of tou scene, an alternative centre for contemporary arts.

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threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
free-improvisation

touch (uk) #tone 24 cd
touch tone (uk) #tone 24 cd

k.k. null / chris watson / z’ev “number one” compact disc

invocation - kami, (the celestial) jupiter sight wood east spring dawn (8:20)
introduction - man, (the warrior) mars speech fire south summer morning (9:44)
development - woman, (the balance) saturn taste earth center late summer noon (12:03)
climax - madness, (the trickster / fool) venus smell metal autumn dusk / sunset (9:40)
conclusion - demon, (the super-natural) mercury hearing water north winter twilight (8:28)

touch press release...

kk.null/chris watson/z'ev
number one
cd - 5 tracks - 48:15
touch # tone 24
artwork & photography: jon wozencroft

z'ev writes: "in march of 2003 seeing my friends stephen & josephine in los angeles they suggested that i get in touch with japanese composer/performer kk.null. there followed a string of weird email occurrences which delayed our communicating until, as it turned out, we eventually met in paris on 18 november.after his performance we were talking about a possible collaboration and during his set a possibility had occurred to me. i ran the idea by him and we agreed to proceed with it. the idea had 3 elements:

1 - to use the structure of the noh theatre cycle as the basis for the composition.
2 – to consider the initial sound development in terms of developing ‘characters’ which would then interact with one another through the specific “scene” [which is a fairly non-traditional way to work with sound elements] and
3 – to place the ‘character interactions’ as the 'figure' inside of particular sound-scapes as the ‘ground'.

so in january 2004 i returned to london and began to work on my initial character developments. coincidentally at this time i received a copy of a cd compilation i had a piece on which was released by touch, which also had a piece by chris watson. so i got on the phone to touch who put me in touch with chris who has joined in on the project.

sometime after i had completed mixing the 5 pieces, i sent a copy to my friend boyd rice. he emailed me back: "this is the first avant-garde piece i have heard in years that is truly avant-garde."

in the production process, z'ev framed his and kk.null's electro-acoustic musics inside chris watson's field recordings from east africa. a dynamic dialogue and inside-outside mirroring of natural and synthetic sound is the result: where the click and rhythm of an insect merges with kk.null's drumming; where the calls of the elephants combine with the electronic bass frequencies; where bird and frog song and z'ev's harmonic structures produces surprising counterpoints.

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modern-composition

touch (uk) #tone 21 cd
touch tone (uk) #tone 21 cd

“spire - live in geneva cathedral saint pierre” double compact disc set

marcus davidson - opposites attract (10:05)
marcus davidson - psalm for organ 3 (1:24)
andré jolivet - hymne à l'universe (11:58)
liana alexandra - consonances lll (6:52)
henryk gorécki* - kantata for organ op. 26 (15:42)
bjnilsen - la petite chapelle - rues basses (29:59)
philip jeck - the crypt (44:14)
fennesz - la petite chapelle - morning (24:49)

touch press release...

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.

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touch (uk) #tone 16 cd
touch tone (uk) #tone 16 cd

fennesz “field recordings 1995:2002” compact disc

good man (4:05)
instrument 1 (5:27)
instrument 2 (6:05)
instrument 3 (5:16)
instrument 4 (5:05)
betrieb (remix) (3:55)
menthol (3:51)
surf (5:36)
stairs (1:28)
ivend00 (1:30)
namewithnohorse (version) (2:02)
odessa (version) (1:28)
codeine (remix) (5:17)

collection of fennesz’ compilation, remix, and ep work, containing the entirety of the “instrument” 12” on mego, and remixes for ekkehard ehlers, hrvatski, and many others... a few brilliant new tracks thrown in for good measure. awesome...

touch press release...

touch # tone 16
cd
13 tracks - 51:08

“field recordings” brings together a range of material christian fennesz has contributed to compilations, special projects and film soundtracks between the years 1995 and 2002. also, for the first time on cd, it includes his debut 12" for mego, the awesome “instrument”, remastered, and a new track recorded specially for this release, “good man”. it is his first release since “endless summer” [mego, 2001] and a prelude to his next studio album, which will be released on touch in january 2003.

1 previously unreleased

2 3 4 5 originally released as " instrument " on 12 inch vinyl, mego 004
6 remix for "betrieb" by ekkehard ehlers, mille plateaux
7 "menthol", clicks&cuts vol.2, mille plateaux
8 "surf", decay, ash international 3.9
9 new version of "stairs" from the movie blue moon
10 "ivend00", reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge rkk 013 cd. contains elements from various pieces originally released on "attention:cats", reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge rkk 000 lp.
11 new version of "namewithnohorse", krev x, ash international 6.6
12 new version of "odessa" from blue moon
13 "codeine", remix for for stephan mathieu & ekkehard ehlers, heroin, orthlorng musork

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