Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)” reviewed by Blow Up

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 11 April 2018

Il titolo viene da una parola giapponese (ma) che ha a che fare con parti e intervalli. Cummings in un periodo nero della sua vita ne approfitta per lasciar andare l’immaginazione tra forma e non-forma a partire da alcune registrazioni durante il culto in una chiesa anglicana. Il primo pezzo (i titolo sono lunghi e/ […]

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New release: Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 10 April 2018

Crónica is delighted to present Simon Cummings’s first release in the label, “間 (ma)”, available as a limited release tape or stream and download. The Japanese word 間 (ma) is one that is difficult to translate easily into other languages. The concept it embodies is a spatial one, specifically the gap between two discrete structural […]

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Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)” reviewed by Rockerilla

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 2 April 2018

La riduzione del suono a un grado zero prossimo al silenzio rappresenta il fulcro della ricerca applicata nel suo ultimo lavoro su cassetta da parte di Simon Cummings. Improntata fin dal titolo al concetto di vuoto, designato dal concetto estetico-filosofico giapponese “ma”, l’opera consta appunto di una sequenza ininterrotta di intervalli, pause e interstizi, espansi […]

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

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 27 March 2018

間 (ma) by Simon Cummings

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Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Loop

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 12 March 2018

Sound artist, music critic, teacher, composer for theater and dance and founding member of several ensembles releases his third album on Portuguese Crónica Electrónica label based in Porto wich is run by sound artists Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela. ‘Témoins’ contains three pieces that were commissioned works in which Deplanque made recordings in different sites. […]

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Monty Adkins’s “Shadows and Reflections” reviewed by The Wire

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 7 March 2018

Two pieces by the British composer, which grew out of a collaboration with the painter Andy Fullalove. They worked together on an installation at Bradford Cathedral, and Adkins created these pieces to expand on the meditative and light-filled quality of that show. The music is based on extended organ tones, and like classic recordings by […]

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“The Waste Land” reviewed by Neural

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 6 March 2018

The Waste Land has been issued in digital recording and audio cassette and has its origins in a 20 minute soundtrack for a documentary movie. The Italian-Swiss composer and sound artist doesn’t give any other details about it. However, it works as an exceptional amplifier of auditory perceptions and stimulates a kind of precise narration […]

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Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Silence and Sound

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 22 February 2018

Mathias Delplanque est un sculpteur de sons, agençant les field recordings et les notes sporadiques sur son nouvel album Témoins. Il est l’assembleur de vérités unies par le collage de contrastes mouvementés et de quiétude nocturne, desquels s’échappent les bruits de faunes enfouies derrière les grandes herbes de la poésie. Témoins possède une narration radiophonique […]

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Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)” reviewed by Vital Weekly

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 20 February 2018

The only time before the name Simon Cummings was mentioned in Vital Weekly was when a CD by Kenneth Kirschner was reviewed in these pages (Vital Weekly 989), for which Cummings wrote a text. He studied composition, conducting and organ and later on also at Sonology in The Hague and his focus is upon “gradual […]

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Ifs’s “Manifold Basketball” reviewed by Polifonia

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 13 February 2018

Z mniejszą pewnością podchodzę do duetowego materiału Fischerle z Krzysztofem Ostrowskim (występuje jako Freeze i reprezentuje bydgoską scenę elektroniczną – tu nie chodzi o CKOD) wydanego dosłownie kilka dni później w portugalskiej Crónice pod szyldem Ifs. To króciutki album z wypełniającymi przestrzeń, a może raczej kreślącymi i projektującymi własną przestrzeń kompozycjami. A właściwie najwyraźniej improwizacjami, […]

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