Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Soon in Crónica: Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 12 February 2018

間 (ma) by Simon Cummings

Posted in Releases | Tagged | Comments closed

Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Chain DLK

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 7 February 2018

“Témoins” comprises three pieces of sound art composed and compiled between 2011 and 2014- or just the first two pieces if you opt for the cassette rather than the download. Conceptually they are post-production-light layerings of organic recordings from three different locations that were given to Delplanque as though they were instructions, on top of […]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , | Comments closed

New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 6 February 2018

Témoins is Mathias Delplanque’s third release in Crónica, after the acclaimed Passeports (Crónica 048~2010) and Transmissions (Crónica 088~2014). A series of commissioned works, each connected to a location given to me. The sites were used as recording studios for creating multilayered compositions with minimal to none post-production. All instruments were played on site. Roz was […]

Posted in Releases | Tagged | Comments closed

15 years

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 1 February 2018

15 years ago today! February 1, 2003. The launch of the first two Crónica releases — Hard Disk and Là Où Je Dors — at the unforgettable Aniki Bóbó in Porto.

Posted in Archives | Comments closed

Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Rockerilla

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 31 January 2018

Quale autentico scultore della materia sonora, Mathias Delplanque è stato più volte incaricato di veri e propri lavori “su commissione”, da parte di istituzioni artistico-culturali. Témoins raccoglie due di questi lavori realizzati tra il 2011 e il 2014, ciascuno intorno ai venti minuti di durata, nei quali l’artista francese lascia letteralmente parlare gli ambienti di […]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , | Comments closed

Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Aural Aggravation

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 26 January 2018

Mark E Smith has died. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. In fact, the surprise should be that he didn’t die sooner. But I can’t help but be shaken by the news. It doesn’t feel appropriate to post any music reviews: my social media streams are aclog with tributes to Smith, and it feels wrong […]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , | Comments closed

Soon in Crónica: Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 23 January 2018

Témoins by Mathias Delplanque

Posted in Releases | Tagged | Comments closed

New Release: Ifs’s “Manifold Basketball”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 23 January 2018

Manifold Basketball includes four tracks that focus on the connection between sound and different types of space, between the close and distant locations, using for this purpose a spectrum of reverbs and – often strongly modified – field recordings. These reverberations were modulated and treated in such a way as to give the impression of […]

Posted in Releases | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Soon in Crónica: Ifs’s “Manifold Basketball”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 18 January 2018
Posted in Releases | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Tarab + Artificial Memory Trace’s “Obex” reviewed by Chain DLK

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 15 January 2018

Sonic experimenters Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trance) and Tarab have engaged in a kind of cultural exchange whereby they provided objects and activity sounds to one another, irregularly transforming them into amended sonic products that would then be recycled into other noises. The result is a hard-edged, heavily-processed hour long collection of processed noises, often […]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged , , | Comments closed

  • Tags

    024 027 028 029 038 @c Alexander Rishaug Arturas Bumšteinas Autodigest Cem Güney Cruz Davor Mikan Durán Vázquez Emmanuel Mieville Enrico Coniglio Ephraim Wegner Francisco López Freiband Gilles Aubry Gintas K Heimir Björgulfsson Janek Schaefer Jos Smolders Julia Weinmann Lawrence English Lia Marc Behrens Martijn Tellinga Mathias Delplanque Miguel Carvalhais Monty Adkins Mosaique Nicolas Bernier o.blaat Paulo Raposo Pedro Tudela Piotr Kurek Pure Ran Slavin Simon Whetham Stephan Mathieu Stephen Vitiello The Beautiful Schizophonic Vitor Joaquim Yiorgis Sakellariou

  • Categories

  • Archives