Mikan lebt und arbeitet in Wien, kommt aber wie aus dem Nichts. Sein Debut (?) komprimiert 31 Miniaturen auf 37 Minuten, noisiges, teils schroffes, manchmal aber nicht unwitziges Gekritzel, meist offenbar algorithmisch, teilweise auch von Hand generiert mit “generative graphic-tools togehter with granular synthesisâ€, was auch immer das heißen mag. Es hört sich stellenweise wie …
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
“Täuschung†reviewed by Loop
This is the obtuse and abstract music of Viennese artist Davor Mikan who makes his debut on Portuguese’s Crónica Electronica label always pushing the boundaries of experimental electronic music. ‘Täuschung’ comprised 31 short tracks that collect sketched ideas of microscopic and sharp digital sounds. The music forms the most unpredictable shapes and mathematics angles. This …
“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by The Sound Projector
Candidate for ‘puzzler of the week’ is a curious recording by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela, here trading under the name of @c. Their Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom (CRÓNICA 031) takes the practice of sampling into a strange and hermetic dimension. About 11 musicians were recorded over a five year period, only to …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by France Musique, Tapage Nocturne
C’est sous le pseudonyme d’@c que les portugais Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tudela viennent d’éditer leur 7ème album et leur troisième collaboration au catalogue du label Crónica basé à Porto. Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tudela sont des compositeurs chevronnés de musique concrète, ils utilisent des prises de sons réalisées en studio, sur scène ou en extérieur …
“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Loop
This is the seventh instalment – and the third for Crónica – of Porto based duo Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. This CD took to Miguel and Pedro two years of production and comprised five years of live, studio and field recordings, work inspired from several artists that in this album found their contributions by …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Le Son Du Grisli
Les Portugais Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tudela, ou @c, travaillent à une musique électroacoustique en passe de perdre son acoustique mais convaincante quand même. Sur Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom, trouver quelques combinaisons malignes : de field recordings européens et de reverses velléitaires, de souffles effacés par le mouvement soudain d’un archet sur violoncelle, …
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“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Textura
Can one possibly distill the poetic depths and labyrinthine sentences of Marcel Proust’s à la recherche du temps perdu (published in English as Remembrance of Things Past and, in recent translations, In Search of Lost Time) into musical form, and capture the bittersweet ennui that suffuses the epic’s three thousand pages? Should one incorporate actual …
“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Touching Extremes
Influenced by a lot of names “to be found outside the music fieldâ€, which include Proust, Poe, Alighieri, Friedrich, Waterhouse and so on, up to director Sofia Coppola and erotic photographers Guido Argentini and Roy Stuart, Portuguese Jorge Mantas wants us to call him a “sound designerâ€, not a “composerâ€. He also hates those who …
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“Filare†reviewed by EarLabs
In talking about Filare, Jan Ferreira (Mosaique) wrote: “I attempted to produce sustained music which at the same time would contain movement and harmonic richness.†As I listen, it’s clear that he reached his goal. He goes on to say: “It was intended to create a sound that would have depth on several layers, emotionally …
“Täuschung†reviewed by Skug
Mit seinem Debüt “Täuschung” (Crónica) entführt uns der Wiener Elektroakustiker DAVOR MIKAN in ein kaum weniger lärmendes Labyrinth. Der ohrenschreddernde entstellte Sound würde gut in die Mego-Riege passen. Stotternde, fahrige Skizzen charakterisieren Mikans Klangkunstwerke, 31 Fragmente auf 37 Minuten. Hut ab.