Next Friday, the series of concerts curated by Filho Único in Culturgest in Porto will present a performance by Rashad Becker. Rashad has built a worldwide reputation as the mastering and cutting engineer on a host of electronic dance and experimental music albums. He began making music in the 1980s, experimenting with mixing audio tapes, …
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Transmissionsâ€
Crónica is very proud to present a new album by Mathias Delplanque, “Transmissionsâ€, a series of compositions based on recordings of sounds produced by various industrial machines. Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque Parts 1 and 2 are based on loom sounds recorded by Mathias Delplanque in 2008 at the Musée du Textile of Cholet (France). Part …
Continue reading “New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Transmissions—
Soon in Crónica
Soon in Crónica: Mathias Delplanque’s “Transmissionsâ€
Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque
Futurónica 122
Episode 122 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 5th. The playlist of Futurónica 122 is: Machinefabriek, Doepfer (2013, Doepfer Worm, Entr’acte) Jorge Peizinho, Elegia a AmÃlcar Cabral, 2ª versão (1978, Elegia a AmÃlcar Cabral, Strauss) Miguel …
LIA presents “The Unfolded Collection†at Sedition
The Unfolded Collection features three computer-generated artworks: The Lonely One in the Autumn (with a soundtrack composed by @c), Inside the Diamond and Not Even Love Will Tear Us Apart, which were performed by LIA in real-time and recorded exclusively for Sedition as high-definition videos. This series explores the possibilities of communicating concepts like love, …
Continue reading “LIA presents “The Unfolded Collection†at Sedition”
New podcast: Ephraim Wegner
One piece of music was transferred to the pin roller of a music box and used as a starting point for the composition of 3024000. An audio recording of the box is divided in three parts of equal duration (A, B, C) correlated by simple overlapping. The position of the playback moves through 4 seconds …
Arma & Refusenik live in Vilnius and Copenhagen
Arma & Refunenik is a collaboration between composer and sound artist Arturas BumÅ¡teinas and performance artist and musician Arma. In this duo they employ analogue and digital synthesizers in order to create an improvised flow of synthetic subconsciousness. Arma & Refunenik will perform at the Vilnius CAC on September 9 and at Copenhagen Sonic on …
Continue reading “Arma & Refusenik live in Vilnius and Copenhagen”
“Meubles†reviewed by The Sound Projector
Another fine item from Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, already noted earlier this year with his concept album themed on “Sleepâ€. For Meubles (CRÓNICA 081-2013), he’s enlisted a small ensemble of players from Poland and elsewhere, called them the Works and Days Ensemble, and commissioned them to perform the three suites of music. Meubles is a concept album …
Continue reading ““Meubles†reviewed by The Sound Projector”