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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Ran Slavin’s latest release is another free download, from the excellent Crónica netlabel. It’s a disc that demonstrates real skill at shaping sound, as well as formidable restraint, the tracks given space to develop at their own pace, never seeming forced along. Its use of bass frequencies to punctuate the material is very striking; “Pure …
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Netlabels – a curious phenomenon, n’est pas? • On the one hand, they’re rather like havens for creatives to inhabit, artistic agglomerations producing wildly (un)predictable output; on the other, their surprising dedication to giving music away free of charge seems to have abandoned any hope of remuneration for creative endeavour • It’s hard to see …
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Crónica is delighted to present the fifth release in the Unlimited Series, “Digital Sound Drawings” by danish composer Morten Riis. “Digital Sound Drawings†is a collection of 6 pieces composed through the drawing of images and their direct conversion into sound. By literally drawing sounds, Morten Riis presents us carefully hand-crafted pieces that are in …
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We’re very proud to announce the fourth release in the Limited Release series of Crónica, Marius Watz’s “Conicalâ€. Conical is an investigation of a 3D form composed of lines that trace out segments of multiple cones. Seen at a distance, the form becomes a spatial volume. Zooming in, the sense of volume disappears and the …
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Join us at this year’s Creative Independents Network Market of Club Transmediale and grab an autograph from Pure in his latest Crónica release, “Ificationâ€.
This Friday, January 30, Pure will be performing Ification live in Berlin @ CHB, Karl Liebknecht Str. 9. ARTKILLART03
Two installations — “Tender Prey” and “Disco Tuner” — will be presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, at Shaul Hamelech St., on February 2 from 8PM onwards.
Next January 30th, at CCB in Lisboa, the Orchestrutópica performs pieces by Nicolas Bernier, Cornelius Cardew, Gilles Gobeil, René Lussier and others that will be processed by Vitor Joaquim, Miguel Cardoso, José LuÃs Ferreira and several other musicians.
In foggia di repentini assemblamenti auditivi, elettroacustica ed influenze microsound, il multi-strumentista turco Cem Güney (che vanta anche esperienze in qualità di dj e trombettista) dà vita per la label sperimentale portoghese Cronica ad un’affascinante sequenza di suoni sintetici e field recording . Composizioni che gravitano su un attenzione autorale tutta focalizzata alla percezione di …
