Eine kleine EP mit drei Tracks elektronischer Computer-Musik (6, 17 und 18 Minuten). Wenn man nicht wüsste, dass diese Kompositionen erst kürzlich realisiert worden sind, dürfte man Schwierigkeiten haben, dies zu erraten. Natürlich ist da die Klarheit der modernen Aufnahmetechnik zu merken, die ganz wunderbar die Klangideen im akustischen Raum staffelt. Also da die Dauertöne, dort …
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The trickling, bubbling, and gurgling movements of water bodies have been a recurring motif for as long as ambient music and field recordings have existed. Yet, UK-based Portuguese artist Matilde Meireles has a gift for reshaping the known into the unexpected. Based on DRIFT, a site-specific floating pavilion created as part of the Belfast 2024 …
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Mysterious Heart is a dance piece by choreographer Tânia Carvalho, created for Tanzmainz at the Staatstheater Mainz in 2023–24. The music composed for this project was conceived from the outset with a certain autonomy from the choreography. The initial idea, taken from a practice already familiar in Tânia’s choreographic work, involved exploring and characterising different emotions …
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DRIFT was a research and arts project commissioned by the city of Belfast to encourage interaction and understanding of the River Lagan. A series of exhibitions and events took place in the summer of 2024 on a specially-designed pontoon on the river. As part of the project, field recordist Matilde Meireles explored the sound of the river, its …
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Matilde Meireles è una sound artist portoghese, da tempo attiva nel campo della composizione elettroacustica e autrice di alcuni lavori di installazioni e ricerche sul campo, specialmente in contesti urbani e naturali sull’asse Portogallo – Regno Unito, legandosi a Belfast, capitale dell’Irlanda del Nord. L’artista ha da poco pubblicato per Crónica Records “Four Tales”, un …
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There is a particular kind of honesty in artists who admit they occasionally need to escape their own commissions. Not dramatically, not with some tortured manifesto, just quietly stepping aside to make something that answers to no one. With “Spelonk”, Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, does exactly that. No brief, no external narrative, no …
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Ich hätte es fast wieder ausgemacht und dachte mir: Schon wieder Fieldrecordings! Dann trotzdem weiter zugehört und gemerkt, dass da noch viel mehr dahintersteckt und mir alle vier Teile angehört. Anhören! Das Album ist eine Erweiterung von Meireles’ Kooperationsprojekt DRIFT, dessen Mittelpunkt ein modularer, ortsspezifischer schwimmender Pavillon und öffentlicher Raum in Belfast bildet, der in …
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Cities are usually described through their skylines, traffic, or architectural bravado. Rarely through their rivers actually speaking. Which is unfortunate, because water has been patiently composing the soundtrack of urban life long before humans decided to build bridges over it. With “Four Tales”, Matilde Meireles approaches the city from precisely that overlooked perspective: listening downward, …
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