Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Two pieces by Cem Güney at First Spark

Factitous Phobia & Hysteresis 1 + 2 by Cem Güney will be broadcasted by www.soundartradio.org.uk for First Spark. Friday February 6 from 12 to 14h, and Saturday February 7 from 14 to 16h. “Factitious Phobia”, from the album Praxis: the structure of the composition is built on a recorded, and then edited shortwave radio broadcast …

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“Praxis” reviewed by Neural (english edition)

With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of synthetic sounds and field recordings for the Portuguese experimental label Crónica. Compositions orbiting around an authorial attention focused on the perception of fragments, in forms …

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“Digital Sound Drawings” reviewed by 5 against 4

Many moons ago, i wrote a lengthy retrospective of the work of Ryoji Ikeda, creator of some the finest raw digital music yet created • It’s an unfortunate corollary that Ikeda, like all great innovators, has a sizeable cluster of imitators (‘flattery’ be damned), many of whom form part of the now woefully tautological output …

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“Berlin Backyards” and “Ification” reviewed by Vital Weekly

One of the things I like Berlin (and some other German cities), is the backyards which houses. A small entrance and then you are surrounded by four sides of houses and apartments, and which are excellent for parties, concerts and such like. A form of social control also, that might be the downside, but I …

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“Filare” reviewed by 5 against 4

This is another free download album from Crónica (available here), intended to “produce sustained music which at the same time would contain movement and harmonic richness”. Filare is, indeed, rich, & its ambient textures are ever in flux, ever at the boundary between commanding interest & being (to use Eno’s term) “ignorable”. It is highly …

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New series of releases available from Zero Inch

The Beautiful Schizophonic’s “Musicamorosa”, Davor Mikan’s “Täuschung”, Cem Güney’s “Praxis”, Gilles Aubry’s “Berlin Backyards” and the forthcoming Gintas K’s “Lovely Banalities” are now available through Zero Inch. More to come soon.

“Berlin Backyards” reviewed by Rockerilla

Quando si tratta di complicare l’ascolto la portoghese Crónica non è seconda a nessuno. Gilles Aubry è un ingegnere del suono svizzero con il pallino per i field recordings. Nel 2006 he ha registrati un bel po’ in giro per Berlino. Dopo averli rimaneggiati con i suoi calcolatori elettronici li ha assemblati in un blob …

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