Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

to91

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2013-10-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Kudos

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5027803149120

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Phill Niblock

Genre GB

Label GB

Touch

Phill Niblock, born on October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana, is an artist known for his work in photography and film. After obtaining a degree in Economics, he turned his focus to capturing portraits of influential figures within New York's jazz and avant-garde art circles during the early 1960s. His subjects ranged from Duke Ellington and Sun Ra to John Cage and Yoko Ono.
Inspired by Morton Feldman's compositions featuring prolonged notes and other music forms, Niblock began creating his own music. He became an integral part of the Sonic Arts Union scene alongside Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and others. Since the early 1970s, he has been running Experimental Intermedia - a non-commercial organization that continues to organize concerts at his Centre Street loft in New York City.
With a discography spanning several decades, Phill Niblock has established himself as a prominent figure in experimental music. His unique style resonates with fans of artists such as Éliane Radigue, David Toop, Akira Rabelais, Kevin Drumm, Rafael Toral and many more.

Touch is a UK label that was founded in 1982. They have a diverse range of sub labels such as Touch Tone, T33, and Spire, which are reflected in the catalogue numbers of their releases. It's important to note that Ash International, OR, The Tapeworm, and others are not sub labels of Touch but rather administered by the organization with their own stand-alone identity. Additionally, TouchRadio is not a label but a streaming platform.

In October 2013 Phill Niblock will be 80 - the grand old man of minimalism. These CDs include pieces made in two different ways. Traditionally (since 1968), I recorded tones played by an instrument (by an instrumentalist), arranging these single tones into mutli-layered settings, making thick textured drones, with many microtones. In the early days, I prescribed the microtones, tuning the instrumentalist, when I was using audio tape. 

Later, I used the software ProTools, and made the microtones as I made the pieces.


FeedCorn Ear and A Cage of Stars were made this way.


In 1998, Petr Kotik asked me to make a piece for orchestra, so, I began to make scores for the musicians to play from. The form of that piece, and the subsequent six scored works, were patterned after a piece in 1992-94, where the musicians were tuned by hearing tones played from a tape through headphones.


These are the instructions for the scored piece on the second CD, Two Lips. The score was prepared by Bob Gilmore, from specific directions by me.


TWO LIPS, aka Nameless, is conceived as two scores, A and B, to be played simultaneously, lasting 23 minutes. Each score consists of ten instrumental parts. The twenty separate parts should be distributed randomly amongst the musicians of the ensemble; the 'A group' and the 'B group' are not separated spatially.

Touch Five

Music GB