‘Positions’ finds Tellinga exploring space. Not outer space, but physical space, and the relationships between sounds when created within certain spaces. Yes, it’s all relative, and ‘Positions’ is concerned with the interactions of sound and performers, performers, sounds and audience or listener within the dimensional space of rooms. The way sounds resonate, reverberate or otherwise …
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I know I get into deep trouble doing what I am about to do now: review a download only release. It will spawn mails that scream ‘me mine me mine too’, or ‘what has Jos Smolders that I don’t?’ (let’s see how many got this last sentence, and immediately mailed me when they read the …
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Recorded April 25, 2015. Live in New Orleans. Download here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
The metaphrasis of musique concrete presented by Jos Smolders in this short cycle of rather recent compositions has the merit of expressing carefully selected concepts with logical precision. Repeated plunges into the realm of impenetrability also reveal many of its attractive features. The three movements of “For RH†(about time that someone dedicated a work …
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The trombones at the top of Positions droop like aged oak trees, hunched under the insistent weight of centuries alive. The drones curve solemnly; sepia memories of passing spitfires, fanfares pointed downward to rattle through the ground and the buried dead, swarming into a microtonal smog of weariness and withering vibrancy. Their tones are noble …
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Released earlier this month via the Porto, Portugal-based imprint Cronica is Martijn Tellinga’s debut album “Position” in which the artist, who’s also been a part of the great experimental project Zona Fumatori which has released one CDr named “Enteng” via the Staalplaat-related label Stichting Mixer in the early 2000s, explores experimental territories as well albeit …
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Episode 149 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, September 18th. The playlist of Futurónica 149 is: Jos Smolders, TomTomTomTom (2015, Modular Works 2015Q1, Crónica) Jos Smolders, Through the Looking Glass (1997, Tulpas, Selektion) Jos Smolders, For RH …
Crónica is very proud to present the new release by Jos Smolders “Modular Works 2015Q1â€, available today as a free download from Crónica or Crónica’s Bandcamp. I composed these works during the first months of 2015. They are clearly defined constructions, built in a modernistic fashion. The sounds have a character of their own (objets …
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Marc Behrens remastered the entire catalogue of musical works by his friend Hans Ludwig Jacoby, aka “Bocheâ€. He recorded music from the mid 1980s until 1991. Boche’s “Beats†CD, featuring 27 tracks, was just released on Entr’acte and is now available. You can listen to three tracks here and order the CD in Entr’acte.
In the recent surge of modular synth use, the hardware and the process occasionally overtake the music. Lost is the power of modular systems as tools for composition. In this latest installment of his continuing Modular Works series, Dutch underground maven, Vital Weekly contributor and longtime mastering engineer Jos Smolders corrects this imbalance. Smolders made …
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