Seven artists reckon with isolation and subsistence in Dragon’s Eye Recordings’ latest release, titled 'Touch'. Organized by Tomoko Hojo, the album collects six sound pieces by various artists who grapple with the restriction of physical contact through sound. Our ability to touch is a means of survival, an essential and intimate way of living and communing with others. So when it is taken away for the same reason we possess it—for the sake of staying safe—how can it be replaced? What can stand in?

The pandemic claimed so much; and for a time, touch fell victim. In the album 'Touch', Alexandra Spence, KMRU, Viv Corringham, Myriam Van Imschoot and Federico Protto, Tomoko Hojo, and Melissa Pons prod at means of non-tactile touching. They explore spaces where touch is only a memory, a recording, something missing to find replacements. In assembling this six-piece collection, artist Tomoko Hojo recalls Yoko Ono’s 1964 event which invited attendees to “watch the sky and touch”. Over the course of 'Touch,' the listener is an attendee, witnessing sonic reconstructions of haptic happenings. In each of the album’s pieces, sound grazes unseen surfaces and traces invisible shapes with an absent finger. 

In “Communion”, Alexandra Spence recalls a space where...  more

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released December 3, 2021

Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.
Cover photo by Emiko Miura.
This project was made possible through financial supports by Ogasawara Toshiaki Memorial Foundation and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

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