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Simon Fisher Turner guerrilla audio project

Simon Fisher Turner has started a guerrilla audio project

Simon Fisher Turner has started a guerrilla audio project. Transmitting his work through the Touch website, Fisher Turner will be uploading field recordings and other interesting audio every two weeks. To make way for the latest recording, the post will be archived without the audio every 14 days. Currently on its fourth entry, the project so far includes recordings of a beach in Teignmouth, Devon, a Chinese teacup circling a plate, and a collage of electrical sounds from various films. Previous instalments include Klara Lewis playing three iron poles, a laundrette in France, recordings made in Israel in 1995, and a song Fisher Turner recorded with Judge Dread and Ken Elliot when he left UK Records in 1973.

You can find the website here.

Unsound Surprise!

Unsound festival announces special projects

Surprise! is the theme of this year’s Unsound festival in Krakow, kicking off in early October. True to its theme, festival goers will be kept in the dark about many of the acts scheduled to appear right up until they begin playing.

Part of the programme has been made public, however. The line-up so far announced includes Jlin, RP Boo, Optimo, Rob Mazurek, Nidia Minaj, Visionist, Andy Stott, Helena Hauff, Liturgy, Nozinja, Avril Unger, Rabit & Kuedo, Holly Herndon, Laraaji and Matana Roberts, alongside a hefty selection of talks and screenings. In addition Unsound 2015 is currently releasing information about other special projects scheduled throughout the week. These include the multi-sensory sound and scent project Ephemera. In development since 2014, it was presented at Unsound Toronto earlier this year by Tim Hecker, MFO and Geza Schoen. Unsound has also announced that Max Loderbauer will collaborate with Poland’s Jacek Sienkiewicz at a pre-opening event at a 19th century water supply building next to the Wisla River on 10 October; plus Tim Hecker and Rob Mazurek will participate in a special project based on the Hejnał Mariacki trumpet playing tradition in Krakow's main square. They’ll possibly be joined by an as yet unnamed third player – another festival surprise.

In Unsound’s panel discussions and talks programme, The Wire's Chris Bohn will be laughing with Laraaji and discussing his new yoga workshops; plus other talks tbc.

Unsound Krakow officially runs between 11–18 October. More information can be found on the Unsound website.

Oneohtrix Point Never offers up midi files for interpretation

Oneohtrix Point Never has asked his fans to send him music made out of his midi files

Oneohtrix Point Never aka Daniel Lopatin has buried a series of midi sound files in the mysterious Kaoss Edge Official website for his fans to find and use in their own music. Now Lopatin is asking them to send their tracks back to him so they can be eventually shared in an archive. These files were originally hidden in the depths of his official website to preview his new album Garden Of Delete, which will be released on 13 November by Warp. People can download all the files here and email music made with them to ezralien666@gmail.com

Lopatin has also announced a Oneohtrix Point Never tour of North America, Europe and Japan by a line-up featuring Nate Boyce on guitars and Lopatin on vocals. More information can be found here.

Hieroglyphic Being reissues The Acid Documents

Hieroglyphic Being’s The Acid Documents on Soul Jazz’s Sounds Of The Universe imprint

Soul Jazz Records launches its electronic music subsidiary label with two new releases from The Wire 380 cover star Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss. The first album, The Acid Documents, is a reissue of the homemade CD-R Moss released in an edition of 100 copies exclusively available via the Sounds Of The Universe shop. This new version is a one-off edition of 1000 copies spread across coloured double vinyl, CD and digital formats. It’ll be followed in January 2016 by set from Moss working under his Africans With Mainframes pseudonym.

The Acid Documents will be released in digital and vinyl formats on 30 October and as a CD on 13 November by Soul Jazz Records’ Sounds Of The Universe.

After The Fall: Berlin exhibition in London

An exhibition tracking the rise of techno after the fall of the Berlin Wall at London’s Red Gallery

A new exhibition ostensibly about Berlin techno is set to open at Red Gallery in London. Called After The Fall: Berlin 1990–2000, it documents political and cultural changes through the rise of the music in formerly communist East Berlin during the decade after the Wall came down. The now united city’s story is told through the photographs of German artists Ben de Biel and Tilman Brembs, plus films, documentaries and a joint reading by Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen, authors of Der Klang Der Familie: Berlin, Techno And The Fall Of The Wall, an oral history condensed from more than 150 interviews about techno taking hold in the city.

The exhibition launches on 1 October with a screening of Rolf Lambert’s The Sound Of Change, followed by a Q&A with a panel consisting of Dimitri Hegemann, who curated West Berlin’s Atonal festivals in the early 1980s before he went on to found the legendary techno club Tresor, Keith Reilley (founder of Fabric), Danielle De Picciotto, Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen. The night will finish with a DJ set by Monika Dietl.

After The Fall will run from 1–18 October. More information can be found here.

(CD) Record(able) Store Day returns

Second edition of (CD) Record(able) Store Day to happen in November

By the time it happens in November, the second edition of (CD) Record(able) Store Day promises to be much bigger than last year’s inaugural event. The rapidly growing list of participating artists and labels includes the UK based Techno label Sector 12/12 and Helsinki's burn-on-demand CD-R label Erikoisdance (as featured in The Wire 376). Other participants include Helsinki’s Kumea Sound and O Samuli A's Pelle Sensibile labels; plus Scandinavian duo Mesak and their Harmönia label, Teemu Korpipää, Drvg Cvltvre, Pink Twins, Furniture Records, and Hacker Farm and Wire contributor Kek-W, from Somerset, UK.

Though it’s happening very soon, the exact purpose of the event is still sketchy. “The basic idea is to have just any kind of CD-R release on sale/given away/in circulation for one day only,” explains one of its organisers, Erikoisdance’s founder Tom Backström. “But this is just my/our approach. We haven’t really defined it or drawn any strict guidelines for what it should be. So if someone decides the event is better suited for flag-raising or walking around dressed up as a CD-R for a day, then that's just great too – for me at least!"

(CD) Record(able) Store Day will happen on 28 November, both online and at different locations all over Europe, including Finland, Germany, UK and the Netherlands.

More information coming soon at the Erikoisdance website and here.

Lydia Lunch residency at Salford’s Islington Mill

Lydia Lunch moves into Salford’s Islington Mill for two weeks

Lydia Lunch is set to move in to Salford’s Islington Mill art space next month as part of the Samarbeta artist-in-residence programme. She and her regular collaborator Weasel Walter of The Flying Luttenbachers will be working there between 24 October–5 November. During their residency Lunch will host two workshops called From The Page To The Stage, with Walter running a third workshop called The Art Of Improvisation. In addition, Lunch’s residency includes live performances on 27 and 31 October, and 3 November.

Previous residencies on the Samarbeta programme included Charles Hayward, Swaggerjack and Ex Easter Island Head. More information on Lunch's residency can be found here.

Kids’ Corner: Bill Wells’s nursery rhymes LP; One Love publish children’s sound system book

Yo La Tengo, Annette Peacock and Aby Vulliamy join Bill Wells on his nursery rhymes album; One Love Books publish children’s book about sound system culture

Bill Wells has written a new album based on children’s nursery rhymes. Called Bill Wells & Friends: Nursery Rhymes, it sees Wells collaborate with Annette Peacock, Aby Vulliamy, Yo La Tengo and Satomi Matsuzaki, among others, on traditional children’s tales such as “Three Blind Mice”, “Humpty Dumpty” and “Polly Put The Kettle On”.

In the last few years, he has also been arranging a collection of Christmas songs for the National Jazz Trio Of Scotland, as well as collaborating with Scottish vocalist Aidan Moffat. “Ultimately,” says Wells, “part of the remit of a nursery rhyme was to give your child some of the harsh realities of life, while sugar-coating them with a catchy little melody. But I’m losing that coating and going straight to the nub of the thing.” Nursery Rhymes will be released by Karaoke Kalk on 20 November.

More kids’ news: One Love Books have published a children’s book called Adventures Of The Sonar System. Written and illustrated by French reggae singer Ras Mykha, it introduces children to sound system culture and supports We Need Diverse Books, a campaign which sets out to support cultural and ethnic diversity in children’s literature. Set in a distant world called Tesfa, the book tells the story of a sonar system where, instead of the sun, the planet revolves around giant speakers, while people spend their time listening to music and building sound systems. The book is part of the Sound System Culture national tour. More information can be found here.

Mutant Sounds returns as a radio show

Mutant Sounds reborn as a radio show

The crate digging blog Mutant Sounds has been reborn – again – but this time as a monthly radio show. Founded in 2007 by Jim, the file sharing website made a name for itself sharing obscure, esoteric records. Under legal pressure it first closed down in 2013. A few days later it came back as a net label, releasing rare, unreleased or out-of-print music via a drop box account with help from the Free Music Archive.

In its new radio show format, Mutant Sounds is a two hour broadcast hosted by Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau on the online radio station Dublab. Called Mutant Sounds Radio with Vas Deferens Organization, the show is scheduled to run between 8–10pm on the second Friday of the month. The first broadcast happened on 11 September. Check it out here.

John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters set to mark 50th anniversary

The complete masters of A Love Supreme will be released in November by Verve Music

Impulse Records! will commemorate the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme with the release of a complete masters edition, including unreleased session reels and alternative versions from Coltrane’s personal collection.

The album was recorded over two days at the Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey, in December 1964. Musicians at the sessions included Coltrane’s quartet (with Elvin Jones on drums, Jimmy Garrison, bass, and McCoy Tyner, piano), plus Archie Shepp and Doctor Art Davis, who joined Coltrane on the second day to re-record the opening part of the suite. The various takes, alternative versions and overdubs from these sessions make up this release.

Called A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters, the set will include a 32 page book featuring an essay by Ashley Khan, photographs taken at the session, as well as detailed notes and musical sketches by Coltrane. It will be released in a 2xCD or a 3xCD super deluxe edition, the latter including an introduction from Carlos Santana and a live recording of A Love Supreme performed at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes in July 1965.

More information will be incoming at Verve Music.