Ash 7.5D | Three Questions and an Answer digital download
Posted: 10.02.10. Permalink: » Ash 7.5D | Three Questions and an Answer digital download
Now available for download in the TouchShop: Philip Marshall's “Three Questions and an Answer”. Originally released in 2009 as a limited cassette, in an edition of 104 copies only.
Download Three Questions and an Answer in the TouchShop
www.ashinternational.com
Radio, live transmission...
Posted: 06.01.10. Permalink: » Radio, live transmission...
”Cassettes are back!”, say the BBC… Yesterday, Radio 4's PM show talked with The Tapeworm and friends.
Hear here. Further reading: news.bbc.co.uk
Ash 8.5 | Paul Williams "Pillars of Wisdom"
Posted: 01.01.10. Permalink: » Ash 8.5 | Paul Williams "Pillars of Wisdom"
Ash International # Ash 8.5
1 track .m4v video, digital download for iPod/iPhone
1: Pillars of Wisdom - 5m27s
Filmed and edited by Paul Williams on location in Abu Dhabi.
Soundtrack: Gel by Philip Marshall, published by Touch Music [MCPS].
Paul Williams writes: "Arriving in Abu Dhabi my initial reaction, standing on the balcony of my hotel room on the 20th floor, was disorientation and near-vertigo. Laid out before me was a building site on a scale I had never seen before; a small island was under construction.
This was “a room with a view” of a very different kind. Not some picturesque vista illustrating historical achievement but a vast, stark scene of becoming; a display of the knowledge, effort and will required to alter the landscape and create a new world. The skyscrapers I was watching turn from plans into reality suggested the phrase “Pillars of Wisdom”, adapted from the title of T.E. Lawrence’s account of his life in Arabia.
As the days went by the view became a site of contemplation. There was always something going on, some detail that warranted attention: the endless comings and goings of the work-crews, the slow gestures of the cranes, the shifting patterns of aircraft warning lights.
I wanted to capture something of what I was witnessing so, as you survey these monuments rising from the white sand, look closely and you will see tiny events occurring: the slow trajectory of a car's headlights, the flare of a welder's torch at night, even a bird flying across the face of the sun…
As I have come to know this landscape I am continually reminded that even though we live beneath the gaze of giants, made with our own minds and hands, it is our simple joys that continue to define us as human."
Buy Pillars of Wisdom in the TouchShop
www.ashinternational.com
Process, part 175
Posted: 01.12.09. Permalink: » Process, part 175
I was asked, courtesy of Finn, to create a mix for Rayna's ever-fascinating Modyfier mix-blog.
So here it is. (Not a DJ, see…)
Simon Fisher Turner - "De Dentro Hacia Afura"
Posted: 25.09.09. Permalink: » Simon Fisher Turner - "De Dentro Hacia Afura"
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies
Track listing:
A: Carboneras Saints Day, 16 July 2002
B: Solo Piano Improvisation #54
Outside: Carboneras Saints Day, 16 July 2002 – procession of the Virgen del Carmen, recorded at Carboneras in the provence of Almería.
Inside: Solo Piano Improvisation #54 – one of two improvisations recorded at Eastcote Studios, London, 2003, for the film "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", directed by Mike Hodges.
Both tracks edited by Philip Marshall.
Buy in the TouchShop
www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.myspace.com/simonfisherturner
Introducing: The Tapeworm
Posted: 30.07.09. Permalink: » Introducing: The Tapeworm
The Tapeworm – a new cassette-only label based in the UK – releases its first two editions, by Philip Jeck and Jean Baudrillard, in August 2009. Both are limited editions of 250. (No barcodes…). There is an ever-growing underground culture, releasing audio works in this cult format.
The Tapeworm is pleased to announce that its tapes are available through all good distributors. Its buddies at Touch have kindly offered to stock their releases online in the TouchShop. Full release information can be found on the brand new website www.tapeworm.org.uk.
The cassette will never die!
Long live the cassette!
www.tapeworm.org.uk
The Suffolk Symphony, Saturday 22 August 2009
Posted: 24.06.09. Permalink: » The Suffolk Symphony, Saturday 22 August 2009
Faster Than Sound presents The Suffolk Symphony by Touch, featuring Philip Jeck, BJNilsen, Jon Wozencroft, Mike Harding and Philip Marshall.
8pm – 11pm, Saturday 22 August
Hoffmann Building: Britten Studio and Jerwood Kiln Studio, Snape
Tickets: £10.00
Box Office: +44 (0)1728 687110
Book tickets online
Faster Than Sound bring more imaginative experiments with sound and image to the Snape Proms with The Suffolk Symphony, a specially commissioned residency and new work by leading sonic and visual production company Touch. Inspired by the historic coastline of Aldeburgh and its surrounding area including Aldeburgh Music's Snape Proms and its history, Touch will create a new audio-visual symphony from scratch, using only locally sourced sounds and images. Beginning on 16 August, Philip Jeck, BJNilsen, Jon Wozencroft, Philip Marshall and Mike Harding will go on a week-long treasure hunt to unearth old records, field recordings, home-made sounds and images to create a new multimedia Suffolk Symphony, culminating in its first performance on the 22 August.
Following the offer of an Aldeburgh Residency by Faster Than Sound’s creative producer Joana Seguro, Mike Harding responded with the idea of creating a new multimedia work purely from locally sourced sound and image. Mike and BJNilsen went on an exploratory field trip in May to make initial field recordings which are being made into vinyl to be used in the performance, plus to kick start the project website www.thesuffolksymphony.net. The artists are already busy exchanging ideas in preparation for the residency in August, with Jeck drawing inspiration from the work of Benjamin Britten, especially his Simple Symphony, and Jon Wozencroft planning to describe the special place of Aldeburgh on film, shot in real time during the residency.
Directed by Mike Harding with sound by Philip Jeck and BJNilsen and images by Jon Wozencroft, the whole week will be documented for an interactive website by Philip Marshall. The residency will feature workshops and presentations by Philip Marshall and Mike Harding, including interviews with the other artists and a Touch showcase, culminating in the performance which will take place in the recently converted industrial space of the Hoffmann Building. The Suffolk Symphony will be subsequently released through Touch.
The interviews by Mike Harding during the residency will include a discussion with his partner Jon Wozencroft about his vision for Touch, now nearly 30 years old, and an assessment of the changes which have occurred in that period. Philip Jeck will discuss his work, particularly the method behind his live and recorded output, which eschews conventional instrumentation. BJNilsen assesses how field recordings have developed as source material for his work, and Philip Marshall describes the way artists communicate their ideas online and how this affects the relationship between them and their audience. Each interview lasts for one hour, including a 15 minute Q & A session, and dates and times will be shortly be announced via the website.
www.thesuffolksymphony.net
www.fasterthansound.com
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
Book tickets online
Three Questions and an Answer: review by Dark Entries
Posted: 31.03.09. Permalink: » Three Questions and an Answer: review by Dark Entries
Belgian publication Dark Entries has published a review of the Three Questions and an Answer cassette. Visit the Dark Entries website to read the original article. A translation follows:
“Special case this one here…
This music-cassette (you know: plastic cases with brown wire that turn) was produced in an edition of 104 copies for Ash International and is being courageously distrubuted by Touch. Whoever still owns a cassette player is lucky: this tape is a thing to have!
Originally the music on this tape was part of an installation, displayed during an exhibition in Berlin. It was the plan of Philip Marshall to highlight everyday and not everyday sounds that we hear during our hectic activities, but to which we don't pay any attention. In this scheme he was absolutely unsuccesful. He did however succeed in putting our fantasies in motion. Let me explain: this cassette contains a not uninteresting mix of cut ups, white noise and button-turning-resort. So far the intention of the artist. The fact that the cassette is divided into an “Angel” side and a “Ghost” side, makes our imagination rather run wild. According to a certain theory, angels and ghosts would be able to make themselves audible by making use of certain radio frequencies, as if they could virtually surf on the radio waves which circle the world. Every now and then someone realises that entities want to make contact. The “Angel” side rather feels like a “Ghost” side, but the resulting effect doesn't lie: one gets the feeling that during bad radio reception we're able to catch sounds from another dimension.
Creepy!? intriguing, rather…
Consider this little sketch candy for soundfuckers, which I gladly consider myself.”
Buy Three Questions and an Answer in the TouchShop
www.darkentries.be
"Hello Animal" party pictures
Posted: 29.03.09. Permalink: » "Hello Animal" party pictures
Click here to view photos from an evening of performance by They Destroyed His Image, Zerocrop and Philip Marshall, supporting Baraclough at The Fleapit, Columbia Road, in honour of their splendid “Hello Animal” debut.
Ash 8.2 | www.ashinternational.com
Posted: 06.03.09. Permalink: » Ash 8.2 | www.ashinternational.com
Ash International, the label which bankrolled Three Questions and an Answer has just launched the third revision of its website, catalogue number Ash 8.2. Ash International say they are “a haberdASHery audio project. R&D not A&R.” – so now you know…
www.ashinternational.com
