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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Kort daarna heeft Smolders “Modular Works 2015Q1” uitgebracht, een muzikaal verslag van zijn bezigheden in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar. Zoals de titel al aangeeft, is de muziek gemaakt met een modulaire, analoge synthesizer. Drie titels verwijzen naar Robert Hampson (Loop, Main), maar het album is eerder geïnspireerd door Pierre Henry. Smolders masterde een …
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Alexander Rishaug has just announced three upcoming performances: 17 September: A.Rishaug presents Ma.org Pa.git feat. Sigbjørn Apeland/Ivar Bjørnson, Incubate Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands. 22 October: A.Rishaug, Gail Priest (AUS) Er’e eksperimentelt a, Kulturhuset, Oslo, Norway. 01 November: A.Rishaug presents Ma.org Pa.git feat. Sigbjørn Apeland/Ivar Bjørnson, Ekko Festival, Bergen.
Mixcloud Monday: Alexander Rishaug by Gonzocircus on Mixcloud via Gonzo Circus
Marc Behrens’s new mini-album “The Religion of Toxins†was released as a digital edition. The work was first presented as a sound installation at Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, May 30–31, 2015, during “Serralves em Festa 2015â€, inside the Serralves chapel. “The Religion of Toxins†is now available to stream and buy in Bandcamp.
Episode 148 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 4th. The playlist of Futurónica 148 is: Martijn Tellinga, Branching into Others, for a large instrumental field (2015, Positions, Crónica) Martijn Tellinga, Three Modulators, for trombones (2015, Positions, …
You could light a space with fire. It would burn for as long as there was flammable material and oxygen. It would leave ash for you to clean up (sweeping the floor with a large broom). It would provide heat. It would smell bad – and perhaps set off fire alarms. But for a while …
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Episode 147 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, August 21st. The playlist of Futurónica 147 is: Darius Čiuta, pau-KR (2012, pau-Kr, self-released) You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Martijn Tellinga’s new album, Positions is now available for preorder trough cronica.bandcamp.com!
