New Crónicaster: “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez

A piece by Durán Vázquez for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008. With this piece, conceived for radio, I wanted to work on three of my main influences: cinema, electroacoustic music and politics. Playing with the several meanings of terror I set up a sound travel that imitates the movie pictures montage with one aim …

“Berlin Backyards” reviewed by Etherreal

Gilles Aubry est originaire de Suisse et vit à Berlin depuis 2002, où il produit sa musique aussi bien en solo qu’au sein de groupes dans des styles variés, allant du doom metal en tant que Monno (chez Conspiracy Records) aux musiques improvisées avec Swift Machine. En solo il travaille plutôt dans le domaine du …

“Lectures” reviewed by Cookshop

Would you believe it? A young Polish artist, previously signed to labels like kool.POP and Cock Rock Disco, utilizes some of Cornelius Cardew’s most private recordings for his solo debut, and seemingly gets away with it too. One wouldn’t have been too surprised if the disc was pushed by Cock Rock’s ‘diva’ herself, Jason Forrest, …

“Berlin Backyards” reviewed by Musique Machine

Berlin Backyards finds Swiss sound artists Gilles Aubry building pressing/swirling drones and sound texture sheens from subtle manipulated field recordings sourced from various Berlin backyards over the winter of 2006. He utilises the sound of rubbish truck machinery, road sounds, distant city sound echoes, bird song and chatter, dripping and crunching on concrete, vehicle sound …

“Praxis” reviewed by Comunicazione Interna

Per il turco Cem Güney un passato come dj e trombettista e un presente come sound-artist dedito a collages elettro-acustici. I due padiglioni auricolari sulla copertina di “Praxis”, trafitti da rametti appuntiti e foglie di un verde cupo, illustrano gli stimoli uditivi indotti da queste nove composizioni, persino scontrose ad un primo approccio, ma in …