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You may want to re\/sample some of this music. Please feel free. The music here is all for you to play with. I have no idea how I made it either, that doesn’t really matter does it? But I try to be simple and strong. - Simon Fisher Turner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soleilmoon","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50391043572043,"sku":"2184725","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/simon_fisher_turner_new_modern_music_SOL202CD_ff4c8c4d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726396750"},{"product_id":"symphony-of-a-great-city-backing-track","title":"Symphony of a Great City: Backing Track","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis score was commissioned for the film “Symphony of a Great City” by Walther Ruttmann. The musicians I choose to perform it with were Klara Lewis and Rainier Lericolais. I made the backing track using tones and pitches from MARX on Abletone Live. I then sent Klara and Rainier all my home recordings through the years I made when visiting Berlin, from the mid-eighties to the present day. The idea was that they could process anything from my source tapes, and not use anything else. This to me seemed an interesting idea, as then all the sounds would come from various times from the city and surrounding countryside itself. All of the sounds were recorded while I made music for two films. “Cycling the Frame” (1988) and “The Invisible Frame” (2009) by Cynthia Beatt. One was shot before the Soviet-era wall dividing the city came down, and the other afterwards. My original sounds for “Cycling the Frame” were recorded on cassette and I used a Casio SK1 sampler and a Revox to track and mix on. Sounds on “The Invisible Frame” were all recorded digitally on a Roland Edirol recorder. Time passes and technology moves forwards. I had a dozen or so dub plates made from these recordings, and Rainier was in control of the wind-up gramophone player we used to start the concerts with. I also had a piano. We have never been able to record this music properly in the studio, so I thought let’s just release “Backing Track” so everyone can have a go and make their own version. — Simon Fisher Turner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soleilmoon","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50391045439819,"sku":"2184726","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/simon_fisher_turner_symphony_of_a_great_city_SOL201CD_5d1233ff_thumbnail_409.jpg?v=1726396770"},{"product_id":"instability-of-the-signal","title":"Instability of the Signal","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned composer Simon Fisher Turner presents his brand new album \u003ci\u003eInstability of the Signal\u003c\/i\u003e, released via Mute. Recorded by Simon Fisher Turner and Music Producers Guild Awards winner Francine Perry, this 13-track album is an intricate exploration of sound, inspired by the creative minds of Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatic, and poet Harold Pinter, whose verses, 'Democracy' and 'The Special Relationship’, feature on the record. It pulls together four strands of Fisher Turner's sonic experimentation, which he identifies as Slivers, Sounds, Strings, and Singing. The 'slivers' are tiny snippets of audio he used as source material for the tracks, all originally created by Salford Electronics (aka David Padbury), and reworked by Fisher Turner into foundations for entire tracks. The record also includes beautiful string arrangements by the Elysian Collective, who have toured with Pulp and feature on the latest releases from The Last Dinner Party and Pet Shop Boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Fisher Turner's long and varied career, \u003ci\u003eInstability of The Signal\u003c\/i\u003e is an accumulation of experience, effervescent memories, sounds and textures. It contains hidden learnings. It is about how restorative singing of ourselves and to ourselves can be but is also a document of times and places delivered in beautifully impressionistic palettes of sounds and voices. It is also another document of Fisher Turner's remarkable life and unshakeable curiosity about sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mute","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50417313153355,"sku":"2196740","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Simon_Fisher_Turner_Instability_of_the_Signal_Artwork_996ba448_thumbnail_409.jpg?v=1726725777"},{"product_id":"under-the-arches-2","title":"Under The Arches","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere to begin with a figure like Simon Fisher Turner? From teenage stage and screen star to illustrious recording artist for Creation and Mute and score composer of Caravaggio, Blue and The Epic of Everest - via a stint with The The and collaborations with Derek Jarman, David Lynch and Tilda Swinton - Turner embodies a distinctly British sensibility and boundless curiosity for sound. For A Colourful Storm, discovering Deux Filles, his mysterious project with Colin Lloyd-Tucker that has since been reissued by Dark Entries, was a significant moment in shaping their identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 2023, A Colourful Storm presented Simon Fisher Turner and Time is Away at Spanners, London. Performed at the tail end of Blue Now, a series of events celebrating Derek Jarman’s last feature film, Blue, the recording reveals a lifetime of significant events and influences. Terre Thaemlitz’s remix of Turner’s Shishapangma (Comatonse Recordings, 2015) is reworked and appears on vinyl only, Jarman is privately recorded reading White Lies, Bertrand Russell is sampled, and Turner records his brother practising the Great Rissington organ for their father’s funeral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My wife and I lived in Brixton, near the venue, on Coldharbour Lane, 20 years ago. We were above a takeaway shop. 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