For our third OPTICAL showcase, we proudly celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary British audiovisual organization and publishing company Touch - the longest surviving independent contemporary music publisher in the UK.
Seattle's TOUCH.30 edition will feature the North America debut screening of Fennesz+Wozencroft: Liquid Music - a live audiovisual collaboration between Austria's guitar-extraordinaire Christian Fennesz and Touch label founder & curator Jon Wozencroft (UK).
"Liquid Music was made in 2001, in conjunction with the music Christian Fennesz was developing during that fertile period when the future was still a good idea. The first version – this is it – was premiered during the Touch tour of 2001, the time of Fennesz’s Endless Summer and the steady movement towards Venice. The footage for Liquid Music originates from Prague, Paxos, Crete, Cephalonia, Messinia, London and one short clip from Monterey Bay. It was filmed on Hi–8 and mini–DV between 1995 and 2001. The main idea was to film everything through the lens, with no post production other than the compilation of many years work into a coherent whole. Fennesz’s music, and its ascendent quality, made that a pleasure. The optical quality is on the cusp between analogue and digital resolution. In many respects it’s an exchange of values as much as working methods.” - Jon Wozencroft (London, 2012).
Over the past 15 years no other experimental musician has received as many accolades as Christian Fennesz. A prolific studio engineer and producer, Fennesz has produced and recorded on dozens of albums for some of the most prestigious experimental labels in the world and collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sparklehorse, Keith Rowe, Jim O’Rourke, and countless others. In all, his lush and luminescent compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. They resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen, a Norwegian producer who has released a considerable catalogue of ambient electronic music, mostly notably 1997's Substrata, an album considered by many as one of ambient music's key recordings. Jenssen has also scored a number of films, including Eternal Stars (1993) and Insomnia (1997). The iconic ambient-techno maestro will present at Decibel Festival selections from his critically-acclaimed album “N-Plants” - a work that explores the beauty and vulnerability of Japanese nuclear power facilities.
Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist, curator and composer Rafael Anton Irisarri will open the showcase under his The Sight Below guise, presenting a special live A/V performance & installation commissioned by Touch. Irisarri’s recorded output - described by Pitchfork as “existing in an undifferentiated welter of pop, techno, and classical” - captures an essential vision of floating tones, deep pulsing bass and textured Gaussian curves. His work is widely published in over a dozen labels around the globe, including respected labels like Touch, Morr Music, Ghostly International, Room40 and Miasmah.
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