We’re very happy to announce the release of Jos Smolder’s Textuur 2 his second release in this series in Crónica. This album is part 3 in a series where Smolders investigates processes to strip sounds from their original context and slice them into tiny bits. Each Textuur project is built up in a similar fashion. …
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Hannes Strobl’s “Transformation Sonor“ reviewed by Ambient Blog
Without it being explicitly mentioned, one could say that Transformation Sonor by Hannes Strobl is also very much in line with the music and sound of Eliane Radigue: ‘Transformation Sonor explores the idea of process, of the slow transition from one musical situation to another, of transformation on the threshold of equivalence and differentiation. Expressive, outward gestures that allow the sound …
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Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 2” reviewed by African Paper
In den nächsten Tagen erscheint der zweite Teil von Jos Smolders’ “Textuur”-Projekt auf Crónica. Als Grundidee geht es um die permutative Überführung tanzbarer Musik in ein elektroakustisches Setting. Dazu heißt es in den Ausführungen des niederländischen Sounddesigners und Komponisten: “With this project, I wanted to investigate the immersion of dance music into an electroacoustic environment. …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Sometimes working under his own name and at other times working as Arcane Device, which he has done since the mid-1980s, New Yorker David Lee Myers creates music using feedback systems, most of which he makes and develops himself. On this recent album “Strange Attractors”, Myers feeds a mix of feedback, found sounds and other …
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New release: Hannes Strobl’s “Transformation Sonor”
We’re very proud to present a new release by Hannes Strobl, Transformation Sonor, a composition that explores the idea of process, of the slow transition from one musical situation to another, of transformation on the threshold of equivalence and differentiation. Expressive, outward gestures that allow the sound to fade into the background are avoided. Sound …
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Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Roel Meelkop’s career as a sound artist stretches back some 40 years since he started the post-industrial project THU20 with four other musicians in the early 1980s, and later decided to dedicate his career to investigating sound and music while studying visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Among …
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New release: 30 + 20, 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica
Subscribers to Neural magazine will find an exceptional object attached to its centrefold: a 7” flexi disc. This is the result of a joint effort from Crónica and Neural to celebrate thirty years of Neural and twenty of Crónica. Thirty artists contributed 9-second pieces to a one-of-a-kind compilation that will be available exclusively in this …
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Philippe Petit’s “A Divine Comedy” reviewed by MusicMap
Avevo da poco raccontato il secondo capitolo di “A reassuring elsewhere”, un rassicurante altrove di Philippe Petit (che rassicurante non è…), e già l’artista ha già fatto uscire un nuovo lavoro: “A divine comedy”, uscito per Crónica Records. Dante Alighieri non finisce mai di ispirare gli artisti di tutti i tempi. La sua musica concreta, …
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Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 2” reviewed by Vital Weekly
Somewhere in the past, I am trying to remember when or on which occasion I wrote in a review something about granular synthesis being sampling on a microcellular level. And I wondered where granular synthesis ends and sampling begins. The whole micro/macro approach of dimensions can be drawn into this discussion, and with a nice …
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New release: Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 3 [Register]”
We’re very happy to announce the first of two new releases by Jos Smolders in Crónica, part of a broader series, titled Textuur. Textuur 3 [Register] is now available for download or stream; Textuur 2 [ |||| – – – – ] will be released as a limited-edition CD in April. The Textuur project This album is part 3 in a …
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