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Continuing Ash International's occasional series of cassette releases, two new tapes from BJ Nilsen and Joachim Nordwall are now on sale.
BJ Nilsen's "Draught #1" features two live recordings from 2008, housed in a splendid Savage Pencil cover.
Joachim Nordwall's "Ignition" - his debut solo album, to be released later in 2010 on CD - features five tracks, received and recorded in Brooklyn, Chicago, Gothenberg and Stockholm between 2006 and 2010. Equipment used: analogue synthesizers, effects and computer. This cassette was mastered by BJNilsen. Joachim Nordwall runs iDEAL Recordings and is a member of Skull Defekts.
We are proud to announce the release by Thomas Ankersmit of his concert performed in Utrecht late in 2007. Here is some info about Thomas, who has no other solo CDs available at this time… in fact, Live in Utrecht is his first official CD album release.
Thomas Ankersmit is a 30 year old saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist born and raised in the Netherlands and now primarily based in Berlin who combines abstract, intensely focused saxophone playing with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listener's perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock and Sicilian electroacoustic improviser Valerio Tricoli, and other collaborators, mostly for live performances, have included Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus.
Buy Thomas Ankersmit "Live in Utrecht" in the TouchShop
www.thomasankersmit.net
Jana Winderen's "The Noisiest Guys on the Planet" has been re-editioned, with reworked cover art. It is on sale now in the TouchShop.
Cassette only, in an edition of 500 copies.
Second edition, with alternate inlay.
“The Noisiest Guys on the Planet” were recorded by Jana Winderen, who also provided the illustration. Thanks to: Institute of Marine Research and the crew on Johan Hjort.
The decapods or Decapoda (literally means “ten footed”) are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers.
As their name implies, all decapods have ten legs; these are the last five of the eight pairs of thoracic appendages characteristic of crustaceans. The front three pairs function as mouthparts and are generally referred to as maxillipeds, the remainder being pereiopods. In many decapods, however, one pair of legs has enlarged pincers; the claws are called chelae, so those legs may be called chelipeds.
Learn more about "The Noisiest Guys on the Planet".
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Ash International would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by international ash. These events are somewhat beyond our control…
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
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play - The Ditch on Monday 1st Feb
"A sound recordist is enticed by the disturbing aural landscape of Slaughton Ditch, with terrifying and fatal consequences. Written and narrated by Paul Evans." (The Radio Times)
This play uses recordings taken from the CD "The Ghost Orchid: An Introduction to EVP" which is available from the TouchShop here. You can read more about EVP at parc.web.fm.
Video footage of a reading/performance in Brixton library, dated 04/05/06, by The Skull Defekts with Mike Harding, presented as part of the 2006 Lyrics in Libraries season. Curated by J.G. Thirlwell.
Lyrics in Libraries is an annual arts & literature festival which has been running since 2003. It is a partnership initiative between OpenHaus Arts and London Borough of Merton Library & Heritage Service.
BJNilsen discovered this great site - Ashe International.
“We are happy when we see our worker's devotion and our esteemed customer's attraction and faiths with our products. It forces us to say that the day is not at distance when we will be everywhere.”
On Sunday 18th October 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts Runaway Train: “March 9th 1987 began as a normal day for railwayman Wesley MacDonald as he made up a train of 50 cars of ore at a mine in northern Canada. But that all changed when the brakes failed to hold the load and Wesley suddenly found himself aboard a runaway train. This programme tells the story of what happened next, featuring actual audio footage of the radio communication between him and the rail traffic controller as he wrestles with the decision on whether to jump or take his chances onboard.”
Ash International released the full recording of the conversations that took place between Wesley, the driver of the runaway train, and Alfie, his controller, in 1994 as Ash 1.9. This vinyl edition is deleted, but the audio may be downloaded as a MP3 by clicking here.
Three-track 7" of The National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland #6.
This 7” is the fourth in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. See also the Mariachi version [Ash 7.2], the Klezmer and Afrobeat versions [Ash 7.4], and the Norwegian School Marching Band and Underwater versions [Ash 7.6], issued between 2007 – 2008 by Ash International. All four are available as a 4x7" Bundle in TouchShop…
These recordings were regally made during the unofficial inauguration of the KREV Ministry of Bankrupt Shopping Malls in Porto, Portugal, on October 10, 2008, in the presence of the KREV Ambassadors Mike Harding and Heitor Alvelos. Mixed by: Anselmo Canha, Heitor Alvelos, Mike Harding and Philip Marshall. Cut by Jason at Transition. Sleeve photography: Heitor Alvelos and Anselmo Canha.
Genuflections to the Future Places digital media festival, University of Porto Masters in Image Design and the University of Texas in Austin, and Transmedia Brussels.
Buy The National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland #6 in the TouchShop
Buy The 4x7" National Anthems Bundle in TouchShop
www.elgaland-vargaland.org
PARC was established in Autumn 1998. As a cooperative effort, PARC consists of many members who willingly contribute to the project or concept under development. The results of this are then archived, documented, and then finally published. PARC is constantly looking for new and interesting forms of acoustic indifference, whether it be paranormal, or just abnormal.
In 1999 they published, in association with Ash International, their first CD which investigated research into the paranormal phenomena known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Developed out of a healthy interest in all matters paranormal, The Ghost Orchid was the first project that allowed PARC to make contact with some of the most renowned researchers involved in the recording of EVP.
PARC has a new website, parc.web.fm
Tracks 1–14 duration: 53:40.327
Recorded 28 November 2007 in Fire Station 6, Hammond, Indiana, USA.
EVPs from Phantom Airwaves case file PAW067.
Layout: Ash International Recovery Services [Ash 7.3]
Among the participants of Utopics, the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, the Kings Carl Michael von Hausswolff of Vargaland and Leif Elggren of Elgaland annexed the language boundary in Biel/Bienne. Biel/Bienne is bilingual, a French and German speaking city, called Biel in German and Bienne in French. To announce the assimilation of the language boundary, the Jugenorchester (youth orchestra) Biel/Bienne performed the National Anthem of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.
Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding and visit www.vernissage.tv to hear the Anthem.
Ash International has the Royal Seal of approval for issuing the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. Please visit the TouchShop to peruse the Vinyl and CD Anthems already available. A new Vinyl version of the Anthem, Ash 7.8, will be unleashed soon…
The second “In Dreams” T-shirt [Ash International # Ash 8.3] has been received and documented by its dreamer, Gavin Bryars, on 17th June 2009. Continue reading for photographic evidence.
The first “In Dreams” T-shirt [Ash International # Ash 8.3] has been presented to the dreamer Rebekah Staton at Savoir Faire, New Oxford St., London on 5th May 2009. Continue reading for photographic evidence.
freq_out - "Dreamlands"
[Touch # freq_out 1]
A3 print + digital download – a TouchShop exclusive, unavailable elsewhere!
A3 print
Features an image by Finnbogi Pétursson, output onto high quality heavyweight matte paper. Free P&P - dispatched in robust poster tube.
Digital download
320 kpbs MP3, available only when purchasing the freq_out print...
freq_out - "Dreamlands" 31:01
Recorded by Jana Winderen at Mucsarnok, Budapest, 23rd February 2007. With thanks to Livia Paldi.
Featured artists: Tommi Grönlund/Petteri Nisunen (FI) Finnbogi Pétursson (IS) Franz Pomassl (AT) BJNilsen (SE) Jacob Kirkegaard (DK) Mike Harding (UK) Kent Tankred (SE) JG Thirlwell (US) PerMagnus Lindborg (SE) Jana Winderen (NO) Maia Urstad (NO) Brandon LaBelle (US), all curated and organised by CM von Hausswolff (SE)
Buy the A3 print and digital download in the TouchShop
www.freq-out.org
Presenting an essay written by Jana Winderen, in support of her Ash International cassette, The Noisiest Guys on the Planet, “an ongoing investigation into the use and production of sound by decapods”.
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…
02.01.09 - Ost – 14:21 - 192 kpbs
An edited version of the track "Ghost", commissioned as part of "The Space Between Seeing and Knowing is Haunted," an exhibition curated by D–L Alvarez at Exile and Arratia, Beer, Berlin [07.02.2009 – 04.04.2009]. Arranged and produced by Philip Marshall. Voices sourced from "The Ghost Orchid – an Introduction to EVP" [PARC, 1999]. Rain recordings courtesy of Dale Cornish.
The unedited version of "Ghost", can be found on the cassette-only release, Three Questions and an Answer [Ash International # Ash 7.5]
First reports of this momentous event can be found here, posted by (((rebell.tv))), footage and interviews by art-tv and a review in local newspapers here and here.
Official Opening of cabaret voltaire as Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland for Zurich and Designation of Adrian Notz as Ambassador of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargland for Zurich on Monday, May 26th 2008 8:00 pm at cabaret voltaire, Zurich, (formerly a part of Switzerland). Annexation of the Bodensee by the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland on Wednesday, May, 28th 2008 7:00 pm at the Harbour of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland (Departure).
11pm UK time, 6pm NY time. Afterwards it can be accessed here
Sunday 27 May
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland will celebrate their 15th anniversary at Gasworks on the closing day of the show. The National Anthem will be broadcast on ResonanceFM from 11am-12pm. Carl Michael von Hausswolff and his UK Ambassador will give an audience to subjects and tourists at 3pm at Gasworks.
A new version of the National Anthem will be released on 7" vinyl at this event... watch this space for further news
Wednesday 4 April, 6.30pm
During the preview, the annexing of Gasworks by The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland will be officially declared, with a ceremonial address by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, King of Vargaland.
The approaching journey, with six climbers and one sherpa, was made from Katmandu into Tibet, taking one week to reach Basecamp. This period also included acclimatisation, which involves stopping at regular intervals for training for height climbing: "climb high, sleep low", they say. Once at Basecamp, climbing commences at once involving the same process. Equipment would be left at Camp 1, then the climbers would return to Basecamp to sleep. This reduces the likelihood of altitude sickness, which is caused by too speedy an ascent.
The Ash International label was founded in 1993 as an audio-visual organization by Mike Harding and Robin Rimbaud – a kind of sub-label to Touch. For 13 years, Ash International has been putting the limits of audio art to the test. Electronic communications, radio emissions and other natural frequencies are an endless source of material.
TouchRadio 16 is now posted.
This piece is solely based on Hydrophone recordings, made by Jana Winderen in Berlin, Mjøsa, Halifax (Canada) and Oslo. With thanks to Doug Quin, samples of whose work also were used in this piece.
[Recorded in Stockholm by BJNilsen on the 13th anniversary of the founding of Ash International. Also performing that night were Alvars Orkester, Elgaland-Vargaland, BJNilsen and OCSID.]
Jana Winderen is an artist, curator and producer who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is a member of freq_out
Ash International relaunches in its 13th year with a new release by Alvars Orkester. A celebration of the 13th anniversary will be held at Fylkingen, Stockholm, on 26th February 2006. You can hear a track here.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - As Quiet As A Campfire or Analogue Motoric And Electro-Magnetic Silence Disturbed By Intuitive Slumber / Mingling or Dodekaphonic Drones Interfered By Known And Unknown Digital Phenomena
Track 1 - Dedicated to John Cage
AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER
Track 2 - Dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg
MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN
AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA
Originally released on limited edition vinyl February 1997 on Ash International # Ash 3.7