Latitude: 61 2 Min. 12 Sec. Longitude: 4 36 Min. 36 Sec. Name: Utvr Light Nearest Town or City: Hardbakke, Norway Location: About 4 miles west of Ytre Sula. Managing Organization: Coast Directorate Tower Height: 101 Height of Focal Plane: 148 Characteristic and Range: White flash every 30 seconds; range 19 nautical miles. Description of Tower: Red round cast-iron tower. This light is operational Date Established: 1900 Date Present Tower Built: 1900 Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To ...
Jan 20, 2008•12 min
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 r...
Dec 02, 2007•55 min
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.
Aug 20, 2007•31 min
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.
Jun 06, 2007•24 min
"'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 r...
May 14, 2007•27 min
Leif Elggren - Live in London
Mar 21, 2007•20 min
'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...
Feb 13, 2007•25 min
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.
Dec 29, 2006•36 min
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!"
Nov 26, 2006•37 min
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.
Sep 26, 2006•1 hr 2 min
"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
Jun 17, 2006•15 min
'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 pa...
May 22, 2006•37 min
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.
Mar 31, 2006•15 min
'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.
Mar 23, 2006•29 min
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.
Mar 05, 2006•32 min
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
Jan 24, 2006•1 hr 4 min
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 themsel...
Jan 09, 2006•33 min
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 sh...
Dec 21, 2005•31 min
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...
Nov 11, 2005•34 min
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).
Oct 09, 2005•33 min
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 watc...
Sep 16, 2005•35 min
Toshiya Tsunoda - Appearance of physical vibration: 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 plat...
Aug 09, 2005•20 min
Philip Jeck - from the archives: 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 Extrac...
Jun 10, 2005•48 min
Chris Watson - The Galapagos Islands - An Audio Diary: Recorded in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the west coast of Ecuador... 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 uninhab...
May 07, 2005•38 min
z'ev - untitled: 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"
Mar 31, 2005•50 min
Christian Fennesz & Max Nagl - Live at Amann Studios, Vienna: Recorded by Christoph Amann 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 f...
Mar 11, 2005•39 min
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER c/w MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA: 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 Schnberg] 20:06 Origi...
Feb 01, 2005•41 min
BJNilsen - Land of Lions: "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"
Jan 12, 2005•38 min
