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image   The first evening celebrates 30 years of Touch, the
famous British label. Jana Winderen is the first artist to
appear. A couple of days before, she did some field recording on
the green humid island and made a two-minute piece out of it.
Clear, precise and immersive as always, the result combines the
sound of several natural settings. It's the equivalent of
watching a 3D movie, only difference is you don't need glasses
to run your own film. The second work she played, 'Water Signal'
is based on material she collected around New York and has been
performed a couple of months ago at the Guggenheim Museum. It
deals with "the noise problems of New York from an underwater
perspective". She feeds ecological debates with aesthetic
elements but more important is that the 'music' is able to let
us forget about debates: because you're all ears, much more
perceptive, on the lookout like