Electric Spring 2012 in Huddersfield

This year’s edition of the Electric Spring festival in Huddersfield will include performances by Derek Holzer, Annette Vande Gorne, Evan Parker / Adam Linson, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s @c project, Nicolas Bernier, Peter Hölscher / Michael Rüsenberg, in what promise to be five days packed with excellent and demanding events curated by Monty Adkins …

“Mic.Madeira” reviewed by Neural

Firld recording exploded as a practice in experimental music during the 2000s. It has been used in the most varied ways, transcending its basic nature of “sampling” the environment, and in some inspired cases evolving a more conscious sense of recording something specific, then trying to preserve the sense of that place in subsequent uses. …

“Strings” reviewed by The Liminal

On 17 July 2011, the minimalist musicians Stephan Mathieu and David Maranha performed an acoustic concert in the tennis court at the Fundação Serralves park in Porto. Stephan Mathieu played his virginals harpsichord with electromagnets, while David Maranha used violin and shruti box. The performance lasted 29 minutes and 20 seconds. The performance centred around …

New LP release: “Strings”

We are thrilled to present, in a coproduction with Fundação de Serralves, the new release by Stephan Mathieu and David Maranha, “Strings”. “Strings” documents the long awaited first encounter of David Maranha and Stephan Mathieu, taking place in the Tennis Court of the Parque de Serralves, in Porto, on a sun-drenched yet gusty late-afternoon in …

Futurónica 55

Episode 55 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, February 10th. The playlist for Futurónica 55 is: Stephan Mathieu & David Maranha, Strings (2012, Strings, Crónica) David Maranha, Redemption Torture (2007, Marches of the New World, Grain of …

“FAKEless”, an installation by Abraham Hurtado

“FAKEless”, an installation by Abraham Hurtado with sound by Jan Ferreira (Mosaique) and Jochen Arbeit, is npw on display at La Conservera in Murcia. “FAKEless” centres on the conception of a space in which we can watch emotion being constructed, the possible ways of perceiving a face and the transformation of that face through an …