Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

“For Pauline” reviewed by Fluid Radio

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 10 December 2018

Valencia’s accordionist and composer Isabel Latorre and sound artist Edu Comelles met in 2016. A couple of months down the line, and Comelles had commissioned a concert for Latorre: an interpretation on the Deep Listening philosophies and principles of Pauline Oliveros. The commission was scheduled to be premiered at the Ensems Festival in 2017, of […]

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Natal dos Experimentais 2018

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 7 December 2018
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Síria’s “Cuspo” reviewed by The Wire

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 4 December 2018

Vinyl records, recordings and vocals combine in Portuguese artist Diana Combo’s latest work. I know this, because when you visit Síria’s Bandcamp page, the process of recording is explained. Artists, especially those coming from a visual world before they get engaged in music, love explaining what they do, how they do it, why they do […]

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“Täuschung” reviewed by Fluid Sonic Fluctuations

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 2 December 2018

Hello once again, I’m back with this month’s part of my Crónica review series. This time I got for you this album by Davor Mikan titled Täuschung, released in 2007. The 31 track album has a running time of only 38 minutes but is definitely packed with fun minimalist electronic experiments and glitchy goodness. This […]

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ocupa #3

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 30 November 2018

Ocupa #3 is an event focused on electronic music and the digital arts. On December 15th, a program of talks and performances will take place at gnration, in Braga. Miguel Carvalhais, Rui Penha, and Alberto Simões will discuss Artificial Intelligence and Art, while Pedro Tudela, Roly Porter, and Filipe Lopes will focus on Performance in […]

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Clube de Inverno

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 28 November 2018

For three days, Crónica be heading gnration’s Clube de Inverno, an informal meeting place to explore and improvise with music, sound, image and video.

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15 years of Crónica at ZDB, Lisbon

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 25 November 2018

Next Friday, November 30, Crónica will take over the stage at ZDB, in Lisbon, to present the last of the anniversary performances for 2018. Síria, Vítor Joaquim, and @c (Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais) start at 22h at Rua da Barroca 59.

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New release: Isabel Latorre & Edu Comelles’s “For Pauline”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 20 November 2018

Valencian accordionist and composer Isabel Latorre and sound artist Edu Comelles met in 2016 working on a third-party project. During that process Comelles recorded some samples of Isabel’s instrument. A few months later, before Pauline Oliveros passed away, Comelles commissioned Latorre a concert meant to be a free musical interpretation of Oliveros’s Deep Listening theories […]

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“Praxis” reviewed by Fluid Sonic Fluctuations

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 18 November 2018

Hello everyone, it’s time for another review in my by now monthly Crónica review series. This time we got this excellent album called Praxis by Cem Güney. This is a release on CD packaged in a three panel cardboard gatefold sleeve in which the CD is beautifully housed between two holes and which features sweet […]

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Tamtam’s “Rheingold” reviewed by Toneshift

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 1 November 2018

Such is the stature of ‘Des Ring Der Nibelungen’ that even the mildest utterance of Rheingold feels somewhat brazen, a laden-thrust to the overbearing musical resonance that word conjures: yet Tamtam’s work is entirely antithetical to the Wagner opera with which it shares a moniker. Based upon hydrophone recordings of the Rhine River, the listener […]

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