Mo. 23.04.2012,
Einlass: 18.30h, Beginn: 19.00h
Eintritt: AK 12 EUR

broken sound #12 : Touch30 presents…

A festival celebrating 30 years of TOUCH:
BJ NILSEN (live)
ACHIM MOHNÉ (live)
THE ASH INTERNATIONAL SOUND SYSTEM (DJ Set)
MIKE HARDING (lecture on TOUCH)

Studio 672/Stadtgarten
Venloer Str. 40, 50672 Köln

In einer Sonderausgabe der Konzertreihe „broken sound“ wird heute das Ausnahme-Label TOUCH aus London vorgestellt, welche 2012 sein 30-jähriges Bestehen feiert. TOUCH steht wohl wie kein anderes Label für Innovation, künstlerische Eigenständigkeit, eine extrem hohe Wiedererkennbarkeit in Design und Gestaltung (verantwortet von Jon Wozencroft) und einen atemberaubend spannenden Roster an Künstlern, die über viele Jahre dem Label treu geblieben sind. Mit den heute auftretenden Künstlern werden drei Generationen TOUCH präsentiert: CM von Hausswolff, der Multimedia-Künstler zählt zu den frühen TOUCH Artists und steht für konzeptuelle Arbeiten. BENNY Nilsen, der junge Schwede, ist seine Industrial-Wurzeln entwachsen und arbeitet nun im bereich manipulierter Feldgeräusche und Naturaufnahmen. Und Achim Mohne, eigentlich Konzept- und Medienkünstler aus Köln ist ganz frisch zu TOUCH gestoßen und arbeitet über die Medialität von Sound. Der Abend wird abgerundet mit einem Vortrag zur Geschichte des Labels von einem der TOUCH-Gründer, Mike Harding, und einem DJ Set des Ash International Sound Systems.
„broken sound“ wird kuratiert von Till Kniola/aufabwegen und gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Köln und das Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

TOUCH 30 presents….
Ein Festival zu Ehren des britischen Experimental-Labels Touch (London, UK)

Touch – www.touchmusic.org.uk

In 2012, Touch celebrates its 30th year… Since its first release in 1982, Touch has created sonic and visual productions that combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it the most enduring of any independent music company of its time.

THE ASH INTERNATIONAL SOUND SYSTEM – www.ashinternational.com

Ash International has been perceived as the R&D section of Touch, and this is indeed partly true… but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Ash International was unleashed onto an unsuspecting world in early 1993 – electronic communications, radio emissions and other natural frequencies are an endless source of material for their releases… No stone is left unturned, with studies of EVP, wax cylinder and CD, and other unknown sound source recordings all part of the „label“’s remit. Its an audio experiment which dovetails into the history of sound recording and beyond…

BENNY NILSEN

(b,1975 Sweden) is a sound and recording artist. Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. He has worked for documentary film, television and sound designer.
Collaborated with Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, Stilluppsteypa, Hildur Gudnadottir, Z’ev, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Semiconductor, Brandon La Belle, Philip Jeck

Selected Audio Releases:
2011 BJNilsen Untitled LP #TO:45
2010 The Invisible City CD #TO:77
2008 The Short Night CD #TO:75
2006 Storm CD # Tone 27 (With Chris Watson)
2005 Fade to White CD #TO:65
2003 BJNilsen/Hazard Live at Konzerthaus, Vienna CD 061203 #TO:CDR5
2001 Wind # Ash 6.5 CD (With Chris Watson)
2000 Wood CD c/w Bridge/Field LP # ASH 5.5
1999 North CD# Ash 4.5
1996 Lech CD (Malignant Records)
1991 This Crying Age CD (Cold Meat Industry)
Selected Collaborations:
2011 Big Shadow Montana LP with Stilluppsteypa / Helen Scarsdale
2010 Space Finale Cassette+2xLP with Stilluppsteypa, Artwork by Franz Graf/ Editions Mego
2009 Man From Deep River CD with Stilluppsteypa/ Editions Mego
2007 22.22 CD with z’ev /Ideal Recordings
2007 Second Childhood CD with Hildur Gudnadottir and Stilluppsteypa/ Quecksilber
2006 Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna CD with Stilluppsteypa / Helen Scarsdale
Grants, Awards:
2010 3 Months Art Residency from The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Vienna
2010 Travel Grant from Iceland/Swedish Co-operation fund.
2007 ‘Storm’ Nominated for best experimental audio research project by French Qwartz Festival
2007 Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention for the audio piece ‘Storm’
2007 Development/Working Grant from Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden
2006 Travel Grant from Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden

www.bjnilsen.net
ACHIM MOHNÉ

Achim Mohné studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and started working with record players and other „sound-media-apparatus“ in the mid ’90’s. He experiments with the space and time intervals of sound-media and is especially interested in the „music that lies hidden in the medium itself“. He subjects the support material to a forensic autopsy, for example, by analysing the dust particles inside an ending vinyl groove. Achim composes records (but one will not hear any reproduced music) to a music that comes out of the medium. Using a triple vinyl deck set-up, his analytic auditory observations of ending grooves – all grooves sound different, depending on how dust has effected and transformed the soft surface of the vinyl – convert tiny dust particles into a „sound sculpture“.

You can hear his TouchRadio episode, Aufzeichnungen im Kellerloch (Recordings in the Cellar)  here – http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_50_achim_mohne.html