Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Musique Machine

Hailing from the Netherlands, Roel Meelkop is a prolific sound artist, whose musical venture began in the 80s with THU20, a project in the realms of electronic/experimental music. Moreover, he has worked with artists like Kapotte Muziek, Frans de Waard, Howard Stelzer, Detlev Hjuler & Andrea Göthling (Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau), Wieman and Pierdrie among …

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Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Touching Extremes

Regarding the role that art could have in preventing wars, Roel Meelkop openly admits his inner doubts, leaning more toward the pessimistic end of things. Without getting into overly skeptical specifics, let me just say that I agree, especially in light of the manufactured and staged conflicts that are so characteristic of today, invariably waged at the …

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Luca Forcucci’s “Terra” reviewed by Music Map

Terra, uscito per la label portoghese Crónica, è un’opera multiforme e ambiziosa per violoncello, percussioni e componenti elettroniche che partendo da frammenti sonici di territori registrati in loco e riorganizzati all’interno dei cinque atti presenti nel disco rappresenta una finestra paradigmatica sull’idea di musica che ha Luca Forcucci. Con Terra Luca Forcucci, da sempre interessato a esplorare …

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New release: Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace”

In 1967 American abstract painter Ad Rheinhardt wrote a standard-issue postcard to the “War Chief” of the United States. On the postcard he had written a list of negations, such as “no napalm”, “no bombing”, “no injustice” and “no art in war”, “no art as war”, “no art about war”. In retrospect, this has become …

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Morten Riis’s “Lad enhver lyd minde os om” reviewed by Neural

This is the first solo release from sound artist Morten Riis, since 2009’s Digital Sound Drawings, a project that focused on the visual waveforms of songs, featuring six songs that were composed by converting a series of images into audio. Riis continues this conceptual engagement that questions how, in an era of ready-to-use software, a …

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@c + Drumming GP‘s “For Percussion” reviewed by Westzeit

Mit DRUMMING GP haben wir noch ein Ensemble aus Musikern, die sich für Neue Klänge und Improvisatorische Elemente interessieren, hier allerdings auf perkussiver Grundlage. “For Percussion” (Crónica) heißt denn auch die CD mit Stücken der Crónica-Gründer Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais. Die beiden konstruieren schon seit vielen Jahren avancierte Musik unter dem kryptischen ProjektKürzel @C, …

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New release: @c + Drumming GP’s “For Percussion”

Many years in the making, this album collects works created for or with Drumming GP, a percussion ensemble founded by Miquel Bernat, a world-class performer and teacher. “For Percussion” gathers pieces that intersect @c’s experimental and computational approaches to music with Drumming GP’s mastery of performance and percussion. Tracklist: Credits: “For Percussion” is now available as …

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