Best Elggren Podcasts (2024)

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TouchRadio 150 13:06

3+ y ago13:06

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Buildings, and the spaces and atmospheres that they enclose, are primarily experienced through seeing them and hearing them. Visions of them are the trajectories and alterations of light that travel within them to the observer. Audition of them is via the patterns of reflected and diffracted sound that repeatedly pass the observer as their energy d…

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TouchRadio 149 18:36

4+ y ago18:36

18:36

This is a composition of field recordings taken at various wind turbine farms over the last year. They are recordings taken as part of a sound project I’m working on which looks at infrastructure; a sonic exploration into the unseen mechanics which underpin our daily lives: Power, transport, sewer systems, communications and supply logistics.The re…

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TouchRadio 148 24:21

4+ y ago24:21

24:21

If the mainstream media (MSM) won't broadcast this, then we will.By Simon Fisher Turner

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TouchRadio 147 22:34

5y ago22:34

22:34

Sifting through his archive of live recordings, Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) chose this performance from 2015 (in a very cold church in Bochum, Germany) as a favourite. As with most of his gigs, the concert was improvised, using an analogue tone generator as the main sound source, a radio, a contact mic, and a selection of pedals. Always a hi…

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TouchRadio 146 1:00:00

5y ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Whilst on holiday in Sicily Stuart wanted to capture the sound of the local church bells. Choosing to record at 12 noon every day seemed a reasonable way to record more elaborate bell combinations whilst also fitting in other holiday plans with his travelling companion.An edit of ten minutes from each location is included here, with 12 o’clock bein…

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TouchRadio 145 12:31

5y ago12:31

12:31

"Between the City and the Forest" collects field recordings made between 2015-2018 in areas around Los Angeles, Mojave, and the Sierra Nevada. The piece features a millipede walking on a tent, many species of birds, treefrogs, electromagnetic and other urban city textures, as well as some websdr recordings. Special thanks to Bill, Laurel, Greg, Rus…

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TouchRadio 144 1:13:32

5+ y ago1:13:32

1:13:32

Estonia has a rich and powerful nature orchestra, and this might be because two thirds of the country is covered with forests and bogs which are often almost untouched. Estonian nature sound is sometimes discrete and quiet, sometimes powerful, but it is always magical.This sound piece features the magnificent performance of the orchestra over a per…

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TouchRadio 143 12:54

5+ y ago12:54

12:54

This recording was made at the Block Gallery in New Cross on May 27th 2018 to mark the closing of the ‘Maquettes’ exhibition. The full text of the reading is available in issue 3 of Satori magazine. Richard Bevan supplied the recording. The photograph is by Rachel Hollings.By Ken Hollings

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TouchRadio 142 43:10

5+ y ago43:10

43:10

Through the Night was recorded on June 10th 2018 at Glenshee, Scotland during ‘Murmurations’.Mixed with Rob Aitken, with thanks to Chris Watson + Jez Riley French.By Stephanie John

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TouchRadio 141 37:28

5+ y ago37:28

37:28

An extract from Zachary Paul's live scoring to the 2013 movie "Under the Skin" (dir. Jonathan Glazer, original score by Mica Levi). Recorded live at PLUM, Stories Books and Café, Los Angeles, on Monday 16th July 2018.With thanks to Lena Pozdnyakova and Eldar Tagi at The 2vvo.By Zachary Paul

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TouchRadio 140 18:18

6y ago18:18

18:18

This recording is made off the back balcony of the Cube Gallery in the village of Moira at around 8:15pm on March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day), 2018.The balcony looked out onto an area of open land, with a Hindu temple on one side and an old Portuguese-style cathedral on the other. I am struck by the merging of layers of sound in this scene — birds and i…

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TouchRadio 139 14:58

6y ago14:58

14:58

"You really should hear the frogs," suggested our hosts. They had taken us to their country house on a warm evening in May 2017, situated beside Little River, Beaverdam, Virginia.Late that evening, we were led down the lawn, through the darkness towards the river nearby, a few hundred yards from the house. As we neared the water, we began to hear c…

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TouchRadio 138 23:19

6y ago23:19

23:19

Recorded live as part of “Touch presents…” with Philip Jeck and Yann Novak in Amsterdam on 15th March 2018. Play loud!By Orphax

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TouchRadio 137 25:32

6y ago25:32

25:32

A free in-store performance at Noize after the 1st Mutek Festival. Heavy on sounds from his ‘pop’ album “PostFabricated”, it was accidentally recorded in mono at the event.By Richard Chartier

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TouchRadio 136 6:29

6y ago6:29

6:29

It was 1995; a cold fall day with heavy fog just north of the San Francisco Bay between the Bay Bridge and Jenner in Northern California. I had a spaced pair of B&K 4003 omni-directional microphones with me to capture bay backgrounds. Due to the fog I was able to capture a variety of horns throughout the day.The piece is a collage of these horn bac…

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TouchRadio 135 10:09

6+ y ago10:09

10:09

Edited 31st December 6-8AM GMT.By Heitor Alvelos

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TouchRadio 134 30:00

6+ y ago30:00

30:00

Performance recorded from the desk, live at Iklectik Art Lab, London, on 21st May 2016.With thanks to Eduard Solaz, who took the photo.By Pascal Savy

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TouchRadio 133 9:26

6+ y ago9:26

9:26

"tic-tac-toe" was written for Gilbert Ratcliffe, who in 2017 was a final-year dance student at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire. For this performance, called "You Watching Me?", choreographed for a small group of dancers, Gil wrote:"My research was centred on the physical and mental manifestation of my journey with Tourettes Syndrome. I explored it …

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TouchRadio 132 5:25

6+ y ago5:25

5:25

Recorded from 10:00 to 10:25 on the day of the partial eclipse (approx 65%) at UCLA Court of Sciences, California.By The Man with the Glasses

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TouchRadio 131 31:37

7y ago31:37

31:37

This is a two channel recording of a live solo performance using the Moog guitar plus stuff. The set was improvised and only the second time Id performed solo with the Moog (the first being the night before in Swansea). The gig was at the Brunswick Club in Bristol which houses several arts groups including BEEF (Bristol Experimental Expanded Film) …

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TouchRadio 130 45:01

7y ago45:01

45:01

On the edge of the jungle, where the Amazon Rainforest begins in southern Venezuela, where the Gran Sabana ends, humans are still trying to enter a world dominated by nature. Trees, rivers, animals and insects extend to the horizon, and the sounds reach our ears to remind us of their empire.By Flix Blume

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TouchRadio 129 38:03

7y ago38:03

38:03

This crepuscular recording was made from 4:45am on the 14th December 2016 in the south Indian city of Kochi. I was there to play Drifting, a performance at Vasco da Gama Square, for Convening #2 hosted by the TBA21 Academy on the following day.By Jana Winderen

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TouchRadio 128 37:03

7y ago37:03

37:03

Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles, February 18, 20171. Geneva Skeen - Pop Song 16:482. Sarah Rara - Separating the Air 20:12.For the closing of Yann Novaks exhibition Repose,Novak invited Geneva Skeen and Sarah Rara to perform inside/alongside his installation. Each artist's performance was accompanied by the sound of Novaks installation demonst…

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TouchRadio 127 1:00:00

7+ y ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the 1990s. This computer set mode to c'mon in dictation on the B minor Asian. All ReachOut has paragraph and has a hot rod UART 13 of the real problems with seen a shift away levels here promotion and unsuccessful menu change and use the case yet this …

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TouchRadio 126 21:20

7+ y ago21:20

21:20

Victorian acoustician Herman Helmholtz studied sound and sensation in the 1800s; through his research he developed the Helmholtz Resonator, this object, usually made from glass or brass, is tuned to a specific resonant frequency and used to demonstrate the principle of acoustic resonance. Helmholtz writes about using these tuned devices to listen t…

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TouchRadio 123 24:00

8y ago24:00

24:00

As part of the Touch Conference series of events which took place on the west coast of USA April-May 2016Recorded by Jake Muir. With thanks to Steve Peters and Vance Galloway.By Daniel Menche

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TouchRadio 124 19:58

8y ago19:58

19:58

As part of the Touch Conference series of events which took place on the west coast of USA April-May 2016. With thanks to Andrew Freid.By Mark Van Hoen

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TouchRadio 125 17:26

8y ago17:26

17:26

As part of the Touch Conference series of events which took place on the west coast of USA April-May 2016. With thanks to Brooke Wentz.By Philip Jeck

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TouchRadio :333 10:54

8y ago10:54

10:54

If ever there was a reason for 333 to break its own rules, this is it: the 33rd anniversary of the very first Touch release.So we skip our proverbial anonymous random modus operandi just this once. We even managed to produce proper liner notes to a 3-track extravaganza. And just this once, we -are- naming our sources.This special edition of Touch R…

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TouchRadio 122 26:16

8y ago26:16

26:16

Ever the archivist at heart, my father, Francisco Alvelos, had the foresight of recording the national radio and television broadcasts of the Portuguese "Carnation" Revolution as it unfolded on the 25th of April, 1974. Just audio, that is: home video was still years away, as was colour TV I was then seven years old, and remember an afternoon withou…

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TouchRadio 121 25:19

8+ y ago25:19

25:19

Over 18 people have died as over 40 inches of snow fell on the eastern seaboard of the United States. It was the second largest in New York City, where over 29 inches fell, since 1869... This recording was made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn using a Zoom iQ6 microphone and iPad Air 2.Photo: Dave KnapikBy Dave Knapik

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TouchRadio 118 29:26

8+ y ago29:26

29:26

"In Spring 2013 I was part of an ornithological survey (bird migration census) in a desert area in the Nile Valley, Egypt. Our team lived, considering local conditions, in a rather modern building in a town called Sandafa Al Far.Apart from the actual work, our standardised observations, I most of the time made sound recordings of birds, amphibians,…

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TouchRadio 117 24:00

8+ y ago24:00

24:00

Performed live at Resonant Forms on 11th September 2015 in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Also live that night were Simon Scott & Jen Boyd. With thanks to Volume, Rafa Esparza and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.By Bethan Kellough

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TouchRadio 116 14:49

8+ y ago14:49

14:49

"After a heat wave of almost one month in the south of France this is the sound of that first rainy morning at the swimming pool. I recorded the rain and thunder in the countryside near Quissac (between Nmes and Montpellier) with 2 Line Audio CM3 microphones in a spaced pair configuration into a Mixpre-D into a Sony PCM-M10."…

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TouchRadio 115 25:43

9y ago25:43

25:43

"Mark (Van Hoen) and I visited the tunnels underneath downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Many miles of these tunnels are closed to the public, but a section underneath the city archive collection is open. We recorded using an iPhone 6 and a Zoom H6. One of the signs had been adapted to read SOUNDs HORNy.…

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TouchRadio 114 9:34

9y ago9:34

9:34

To call this field recording would be crediting the situation with more adventure than it deserves. At five in the morning, with a hangover starting to percolate, the ideal conditions are surely to just roll over, hit record and go back to sleep and that is pretty much what happened here. End of disclaimer.Boats, whether out at sea or in harbour, h…

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TouchRadio 113 31:36

9y ago31:36

31:36

The word gibbet is used both to refer to an executional structure and to a hanging iron cage that used to display the remains of executed prisoners; when someone is thusly displayed, it is known as gibbeting. Recording the wooden gibbet in 2012, believed to be haunted burial site and located at Caxton in Cambridgeshire, to capture the sound of the …

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TouchRadio 112 27:28

9y ago27:28

27:28

This composition features unprocessed recordings from Krafla Geothermal Power Station and the nearby mudpools and steam vents of Hverir in Northern Iceland. The recordings were made in June 2014, on the Wildeye sound recording course led by Chris Watson and Jez Riley French, using a SoundField SPS200 and JrF contact microphones. The composition dra…

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TouchRadio 111 21:40

9y ago21:40

21:40

"Inspired by BJ Nilsen's performance at LACE in Los Angeles last month, I decided to attempt my own composition using field recordings. The source recordings are quite crude in comparison to those made by the great Mr Nilsen; I even used only an iPhone to collect the recordings; but after a little judicious use of processing back at the studio, I a…

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TouchRadio 110 35:40

9+ y ago35:40

35:40

Recorded by Myke Dodge Weiskopf at Touch presents... Live in Los Angeles, 21st January 2015. With thanks to LACE, VOLUME and especially Yann Novak.By Pinkcourtesyphone

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TouchRadio 109 16:19

9+ y ago16:19

16:19

Field recording of fireworks on Saint John's Night, June 23, 2014, the local pagan inheritor celebration of the Summer Solstice. Recording by Heitor Alvelos on Bruce Geduldig and Bernadette Martou's balcony, Porto, Portugal. The vantage point, overlooking the tail end of the Douro river from a considerable height, allows the acoustic experience to …

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TouchRadio 108 38:26

9+ y ago38:26

38:26

NYE Berlin-Schneberg 31.12.2014By BJNilsen

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TouchRadio 107 19:02

9+ y ago19:02

19:02

In May 2014, we were lucky enough to have direct access to the great machines of the industrial revolution on display in Londons Science Museum; the Mill Engine, by the Burnley Ironworks company, 1903, the Difference Engine No2, by Charles Babbage 1849.Sound has been integral in the relationship of the machines and their operators; used as a primar…

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TouchRadio 106 42:24

9+ y ago42:24

42:24

Repose was a site specific performance in Cocky Eeks inflatable performance space, Sphr, commissioned by the 2014 AxS Festival in Pasadena, California.The performance highlighted this unique space through a gesture-less performance of sound and light. The piece is comprised of a purely synthesized sound devoid of traditional compositional elements …

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TouchRadio 105 15:08

9+ y ago15:08

15:08

3 mixes, 3 directional speakers, sound installation 2014, Jiyeon Kim @ SeMa Biennale MediaCity Seoul'Grandmothers' Lounge - From the Other Side of Voices' is a joint work of radio producer Sang-il Choi (KR) and sound artist Jiyeon Kim (KR), commissioned by SeMa Biennale MediaCity Seoul 2014. Largely based on Sang-il Choi's anthropological audio rec…

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TouchRadio 104 28:03

9+ y ago28:03

28:03

In Spring 2009, I find myself by chance just a few hours by boat from Japans last frontier, the island of Iriomote, but I had no way to get there. Not enough time. Total frustration. The southern most island of Japan is 90% covered with rainforest and mangrove and home to many local species including not only insects, frogs and birds, but also Ryuk…

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TouchRadio 103 44:22

10y ago44:22

44:22

Since technical evolution tends to unfold rapidly, human beings have not been able to evolve a (forewarning) sense of new forms of technology (for instance to detect radioactivity). Electronic emissions are also not sensually detectable. No one knows exactly how the technology of wireless transmitting devices affects humans. Radio, television, radi…

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TouchRadio 102 17:47

10y ago17:47

17:47

Howlround are the duo of Robin The Fog and Chris Weaver who create recordings and performances entirely from manipulating natural acoustic sounds on a quartet of vintage reel-to-reel tape machines - with additional reverb or electronic effects strictly forbidden. This recording documents their first ever live performance at the Brighthelm Centre as…

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TouchRadio 101 1:57

10y ago1:57

1:57

Sunrise at Wandsworth Common railway station, LondonPhoto: Pepa IvanovaBy Daybreak

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TouchRadio 100 33:00

10+ y ago33:00

33:00

So we pause where we began, with BJNilsen (see TouchRadio 1)... Archival Recordings, Mixed in Berlin October 23, 2013, containing Bits and Pieces from:Beachy Head, Eastbourne, EnglandKarl Marx Tomb, Highgate Cemetery, London, EnglandWhitstable Bay, Kent, EnglandCleanCar Berlin, Mitte, GermanyTemple Gas Works, Glasgow, ScotlandFruitmarket City Hall,…

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