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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

"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

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 40:48

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"