“A quartet of artists converge on the Lisboa Soa festival to delve deeper into aspects of sound. Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds ranges from field recording to drone to improvisation, often within a single track (Cronica, September 26).” via A Closer Listen
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
New release: Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie”
In the stillness we touch the eternal? With this new edition, Miguel A. García definitively abandons the low fidelity of his early work to give detritus, error and acoustic waste a luxury treatment that is recommended to be heard in good equipment. Just as before we heard their disturbing worlds from afar, we intuited them, …
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Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie” mentioned by A Closer Listen
Miguel A. García launches Eraginie with the sounds of “a hypothetical space junk video game,” and then proceeds to find awe in detritus and debris (Crónica, September 5). via A Closer Listen’s Fall Music Preview.
Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Music Map
Roel Meekop, come ogni artista sensibile, si fa molte domande sull’utilità della propria attività, sulla sua capacità di incidere nella realtà. Il suo restare inerme, di fronte alla guerra, è lo stesso del pittore minimalista Ad Reinhardt, che negli anni ’60 cercò un astrattismo geometrico, del tutto separato dai sentimenti personali. Puro colore, forma e …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by Music Map
Alcuni concetti sono ricorrenti perché affascinano numerosi artisti. David Lee Myers ne riapre uno spesso frequentato di recente, grazie alle continue conferme dalla fisica quantistica: il tempo non esiste. Noi siamo organismi che crescono e cambiano, in un prima e in un dopo. Ma quello che misuriamo è un continuum. Giorno e notte li consideriamo …
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New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Vanishing Points”
Sound is everywhere. It exists on so many scales at times it is difficult to grasp. Its energies intertwine with the wider systems of a city, bleeding beyond borders and passing through our perceived boundaries. Many of these intersecting energies are imperceptible to humans. Even spaces we consider quiet are, in fact, extremely busy, full …
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Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie” reviewed by Vital Weekly
Miguel A. García is an artist living in Bilbao who works in experimental music and sound art. He is active in various groups or collectives and is also known under his other project name, Xedh. In another life, for another magazine (back in 2010), I got to review his release “Vinduskarm” on the Athens-based Triple …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by Electronic Sound
New release: Philippe Petit’s “Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source”
We are thrilled to present the first release by Philippe Petit in Crónica his brilliant “Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source”, now available as a download or stream. This is a prequel to A Divine Comedy… Philippe Petit has completed his most ambitious work to appear on Cronica early in 2024, A Divine Comedy, taking Dante …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by African Paper
Gerade ist ein neues Album des New Yorker (Klang-)Künstlers David Lee Myers erschienen, der auch unter seinem Projekt Arcane Device bekannt ist, es enthält vier auslandende Tracks von meist kreisender Dröhnung, die sich in Fülle und Intensität stetig steigert. Ein wesentlicher Fokus des u.a. auf Feedback, gesampleten Geräuschen und digitalen Zeiteffekten (Delay, Reverse etc.) basierenden …
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