Previously unknown to yours truly, Cem Güney tackles several aspects of computer music with the right amount of profundity, the fragmentary nature of Praxis revealing itself as a value rather than a defect. In the press release the Turkish composer tries to focus our attention on the meditative qualities of certain kinds of sound by …
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Alva Noto, Frank Bretschneider, Signal, Mika Vainio, Pomassl, Gintas K, Buben, Pavel Ambiont, I/DEX, Love-Fine, CM Von Hausswolff, Spit It Out, F.R.U.I.T.S., Zavoloka, Alois Huber and many others will be performing at the First Experimental Music and Media Art Festival in Minsk, Belarus. Crónica’s own Gintas K will perform on Saturday 28 February at the …
Franke, Neumann, Schmidt, Weinheimer: INNEN & AUREN The piece INNEN & AUREN is a mixed and edited version of the concert INNEN & AUßEN, that took place as AlulaTonSerien.Konzert #35 at the New Building of the Gallery for Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Dec. 15, 2007. Neumann, who edited it, translated the spatial experience of the …
Stunning net release by the Portuguese label Crónica is the result of musician/designer from Denmark Morten Riis’s creative work. His album Digital Sound Drawings is a real finding for people who are fond of phenomenon in electronic music which is accepted to be called ‘glitch’. As Riis himself admitted, he is not interested in creating …
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Pure is Austrian born and Berlin based Peter Votava, who stepped into the music business somewhere in the beginning of the nineties. Since then, he has released many CD’s and 12†vinyls – his roots actually lie in DJ culture and as such he has established himself already in the hardcore/techno scene. In the mid …
Alors que nous avions laissé Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tedula (aka @C) sur une belle collaboration en début d’année avec Vitor Joaquim sur le label Feld, les revoilà de retour au bercail pour un nouvel album qui s’annonce aussi sobre et mystérieux que sa pochette. En fait @C est assez fidèle à lui même. On …
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Veteran electronicist Pure is someone I associate with the Mego label, but his new release Ification is out on the Portuguese label Crónica. As far as I can make out, he hasn’t played a note of music himself but recruited various fine European avant musicians to contribute samples of their instruments, which he has proceeded …
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Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K returns to Cronica with a selection of self-confessed Lovely Banalities – a set of beautiful auditory trifles, often rather short and lacking in any defined sense of structure. These are more like objects, loitering around in the ether and establishing loop-based sequences like ‘Q’ or the strange and …
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“Lovely Banalities†is the second release in Crónica from Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K, after the much acclaimed double CD from 2006 “Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz soundâ€. “Lovely Banalities†presents fourteen short pieces — a collection of miniatures, impressions, sketches, innuendos and errors — inspired on the exceptionality and suprisingness …
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The Beautiful Schizophonic will perform live on Valentine’s Day, saturday 14th February, at Sport União Colarense, Colares. On the bill there’s also a romantic dinner, F. W. Murnau’s masterpiece Aurora screened with live soundtrack by Hugo Claro and dj set by City Forest. Ticket includes tea and home cookies, starts at 6:30 pm.
