As its 35th installment, Crónica is pleased to add to its well curated catalogue TU M’s “Is That You?” “Is That You?” invites you to become a solo protagonist in an imaginary soundtrack. While embracing you in an ocean of orchestral delight, the delicate arrangements and the overall amplitude of the piece’s resonance carry you …
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
“Täuschung†reviewed by Gaz-Eta
Austrian sound artist Davor Mikan is not someone I’m all too familiar with. His main purpose in the musical realm is to develop music through a series of algorithmic variables. He admits he uses generative graphic-tools along with granular synthesis in order to transform sound. The pieces on “Täuschung” were developed over the span of …
“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Blow Up
É uno dei più facili della copia portoghese: percussioni elettroniche sparse, flussi e tessitura che scivolano, voci che sgusciano e si ritraggono, rumori concreti (acqua che scorre da uno sciacquone, fulmini e saette, canti etno), qualche passaggio parasinfonico e qualche inserto acustico sotto forma di capionamento (sax, violoncello, altre corde non identificate). Poi finisce anche …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Terz
Dieses beeindruckende Audio des offenen Klangkunst-Improv-Kollektivs wurde von Miguel Carvalhais und Pedro Tudela in Porto zu vier langen Stücken komponiert und gemastert. Die Studiobearbeitung des Materials aus dem Zeitraum von 2002 bis 2007 vergleichen die beiden bisweilen mit der Arbeit eines Mechanikers oder Uhrmachers, wo individuelle Teile in einem viel größeren und komplexeren System zusammengefügt …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Octopus
Pour ce septième album – le troisième sur le label Crónica -, les plasticiens sonores Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tudela continuent leur interrogation de la musique en tant que forme d’art, en tant que message médiumnique davantage que médiatique susceptible d’établir un lien entre la nature extérieure et la forme intériorisée contenue dans ce cd. …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Musique Machine
This bizarrely entitled album is another fevered and improvised trip into musical and sound from the minds of the @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela)- it’s a dense mix of rhythmic elements, field recording, modern classical and avant jazz textures, electronic elements, noise and of course improv- having been quite taken by their De-Tour collaboration …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Neural
This atypical album is divided into four tracks of unusual and disparate lengths – the first lasts more than twenty minutes, the second and third are less than two minutes long, and the last stretches out to more than forty minutes. ‘Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom’ by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela, aka @C, …
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“Täuschung†reviewed by Neural
Graphic tools and granular synthesis: this is Davor Mikan’s compositional horizon, with twisted, surly and abstract radical sonorities, but once more modulated to construct a narrative with strong emotional characteristics. This seems to be the result of the arrangements and their complicated structures, playing with contrasts, and finely researching juxtapositions of different elements. Drones and …
“Täuschung†reviewed by Touching Extremes
Based in Vienna, Davor Mikan “creates music about failure, beauty, lust and delusion in the context of psychoacoustic effects and in a personal sense (self-delusion).†Translation: this is a 37-minute CD with 31 very short tracks, which the author developed in the last four years. His procedures include algorithms, handmade music (meaning what?), generative graphic …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by De:Bug
Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela haben sich durch Fieldrecordings, Liveaufnahmen und Studiosessions allein oder mit Gastmusikern in den letzten fünf Jahren eine Menge Basismaterial fuer ihr neues Album erarbeitet. Aus diesem Fundus konstruierten die beiden vier spannende Musique Concrète-Studiokompositionen, die die unterschiedlichsten Klang- und Geräuschquellen kombinieren und nie langweilig werden.