Touchradio

It was last July, summer 2007, we went to a party at Laugarvatn, one of the few places where there grow natural trees in Iceland, approximately one hours drive east of Reykjavik. The party was good and went far into the bright night but we had put up a tent to lie down in the morning. I wasn't at all tired in the morning but started listening to the incredible birds in the woods and down in the mob until day broke. I was sorry not to have the recording machine with me that night but decided to return the night after with my gear, hoping the birds would still be there. They were and this time I was alone in the place, did but up a small mic and pressed the rec. button, the result is on the Touch Radio.

A commissioned sound installation for the Hole In The Sky festival in Bergen, Norway August 21-25th 2007. The installation was made using six channels. This is an edit/simplified stereo mix made for Touch Radio. " Into The Pandemonium" is a de-composition/ celebration of 25 years of extreme metal music. Fragments of classic moments in death/thrash/black metal music have been mangled, disfigured and reworked into a festering pulp of distortion, doom and noise.

Saligo Bay sits in the nw corner of the Island of Islay in the Scottish Hebrides. Atlantic waves break on the shore and westerly winds drive straight up the beach and create mosaic patterns of sound in the low-lying vegetation. 'The Sound of Islay' then waits for the winds to die and the sun to dip into the ocean before investigating the nocturnal sounds on the wetlands of Loch Gruinart.

"'9-sided room' was created in May 2007 by layering 9 sides from some of the vinyl I've released over the years. it is basically what would happen if I had 9 turntables in my studio and was able to play these records all at the same time. There's a bit of mixing things in and out but no processing or manipulation. Along with some recent things, I've included the very first record I ever made - a 6" cardboard recording from a phono booth machine at a Los Angeles amusement park c. 1969. '9-sided room' is intended to be heard at a relatively low volume."

Leif Elggren - Live in London

'Silver' was conceived for TouchRadio as part of their 25th anniversary. As a starting point, electronic sounds were created using a malfunctioning Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synth, recorded in 5 improvised passes of 25 minutes each - 5x5=25. The title also reflects this, silver being the material that denotes a 25th anniversary. Field recordings were made in Thailand and New Zealand over December 2006 and incorporated into the sonic jamboree - the piercing, feedback like tone at the start is the actual sound of cicadas in the Thai sub-tropical rainforest, untreated, the sound they produce as individuals synchronizing every 60/90 seconds to produce almost a pure sine wave. Further on is the dawn chorus in Wellington, New Zealand with the distinctive, clacking call of a bird called a Tui sounding out. Close to the end of the piece is the singing of a young Thai lad, sat around the neck of an elephant as we both rode into the rainforest, 'home' never too far away for me as he was wearing a t-shirt on the ba

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.

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!"

Performed in a garden at the top of a hill in Foz Coa, at the remote northeast of Portugal. Overlooking the valley and the far slope of the opposite hill, at dusk, Pita, Fennesz (computers) and Rafael Toral (modular synth) played as Joo 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.

"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." Chris Watson, June 2006

'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 Nuez-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 Copenhagen and is a member of freq_out.

This piece is solely based on Hydrophone recordings, made by Jana Winderen in Berlin, Mjsa, 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.

'Radio One' is a live recording from the premiere performance of 'Radioland', played on September 24, 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 Stephan's computer. The original 6-channel diffusion is presented here as a stereo mixdown. The piece is dedicated to Vitor Joaquim.

Press conference/panel at Roskilde Festival 010705 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.

Leif Inge - Naeae... Leif Inge is an Oslo-based idea-based artist, working with time-stretching sound to create beautiful, but thrilling and powerful, soundscapes. As in his epic 9 Beet Stretch, 24 hour long concerts with time-stretched 9th symphony by Beethoven, the work featured here is a granulated piece of sound sculpture made on the superb CLM software by Bill Schottsteadt

Jacob Kirkegaard - Eldfjall Live at Observatori Festival, Valencia: "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."

Devolution/Evolution: Stephen O'Malley interviews Dylan Carlson: "Last August I was invited by the american metal magazine, Decibel, to interview Dylan Carlson for a regular feature they call "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 this 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

People Like Us - The Bits In Between: 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.

KK.NULL - [Radio-Animus/Anima] for TouchRadio: 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).

Peter Rehberg - Paris Qui Dort - Recorded live at Centre Pompidou, Paris 11.09.2004: "In June 2004 I was asked by Cinemix to perform a live score to the silent movie 'Paris Qui Dort' (directed by Ren 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 Ren 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 unaffe