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Touch Conference

Recombinant Media Labs (RML), in conjunction with the Touch Label in the UK, is proud be bringing the Touch Conference to Gray Area: a series of sonically rarefied seminar settings featuring Touch artists on the west coast of America, presenting and demonstrating their work to a discerning audience.

Doors: 8:00pm
Show: 8:30pm
Presale Tickets: $12
Tickets at the Door: $15

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to attend one of the very special events of 2016… Touch, now in its 34th year, has tried to maintain standards of quality of care and attention which may be distinctive in this field. This will also be Philip Jeck’s first ever visit to the west coast in a long and illustrious career.

Philip Jeck uses turntables and sampler to create a unique sonic improvisation, both emotionally captivating and technically involving. Audio only.

Mark Van Hoen, with modular synth and software pushed the analogue/digital envelope to create damaged melodies, drones and dense claustrophobia. Audio-visual.

Simon Scott - His work explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition. Audio-visual.

Artists

Philip Jeck

Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as well as his solo concert work. His best known work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. In 2010 Philip won The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.

Mark Van Hoen

Mark Van Hoen is an electronic music composer since 1981, releasing records from 1992 on labels such as R&S/Apollo, Touch, CCO & eMego. Mark Van Hoen is from England and currently lives in Los Angeles USA where he hosts a regular show on Dublab.

Simon Scott

Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, UK. His albums 'Insomni' and 'Below Sea Level' are out now and are published by Touch. His work explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition. He plays the drums in Slowdive and has recently collaborated with artists James Blackshaw, Spire, Taylor Deupree (Between), Isan + many more.

Partners

Touch

Touch (est. 1982) is one of the last surviving labels from the turbulent new wave period in London, which uniquely fused art, design and music. Hear artists from the label roster present and demonstrate their work to a discerning audience. Audio-visual.

Recombinant Media Labs

The Recombinant Media Labs organization was founded to research the qualities and artistic potential of Spatial Cinema. It does so by means of Experiential Engineering; exploring processes that propagate the aesthetic and technological boundaries of panoramic AV exhibition. RML acts as producer and presenter of hybrid artworks and performance archiving based on spatial media synthesis; intermodal works using image, light, sound and other disseminated media in three-dimensional space. The CineChamber is RML's curated, nomadic platform under the artistic trajectory of founder & Director Naut Humon plus a superhuman crew.