Compositeur ayant beaucoup oeuvré dans le cadre d’événements culturels à Lisbonne, mais aussi de ballets, le Portugais Vitor Joaquim est aussi depuis quelques années, actif dans le champ de la musique électronique, qu’il ne cesse finalement de remettre en question, comme si son passé imposait une présence humaine à confronter aux machines. Pour Flow, c’est …
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“Flow†reviewed by Loop
This is a well-known Portuguese electronic musician who started as a music improviser in 1982. He works in many art forms such as video, musical compositions for cinema, dance, theatre, installalations and multimedia. His works has been released in several labels such as Crónica Electrónica, dOc, Ananana and he has composed the piece ‘Sensations Maker’ …
“Flow†reviewed by chaindlk.com
Portuguese multimedia artist Vitor Joaquim has traced a singular path over the last 25 years starting with improvised music in 1982 and then composing for dance, theater, cinema, video, installations and multimedia. “Flow” is his latest work on the Crónica label. The main concept here is the confrontation between voice and computer and in almost …
“Flow†reviewed by Phosphor
Each song title of Vitor Joaquim’s latest album contains the word “momentsâ€. The concept of Flow is the possibilities and impossibilities of relationships. A concept that is difficult to translate or incorporate by means of electronics. But the spoken texts by Filipa Hora make up for this. Vitor Joaquim’s music is built upon abstract, relatively …
“Flow†reviewed by Big Load
Eine akademisch leicht angetrocknete Beschreibung des “Flow” geht von einer optimalen Herausforderung an das Wissen und Können eines Menschen und seiner damit einhergehenden Absorption in der Tätigkeit, oft mit erhöhtem Lebensgefühl verbunden, aus. Umgelegt auf die Rezeption (oder auch Erzeugung) von Musik, würde ich meinen, dass es sich um einen Idealzustand zwischen Kontemplation und Herausforderung, …
“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by De:Bug
In der Welt des digital-arabischen Stakkatodrones ist Slavin nach wie vor ungeschlagen. Das demonstriert diese CD in höchst komplex variabler Form erneut mehr als deutlich. Musik die sich gelegentlich anhört wie Oval aus Jericho, oder Glitch für Marrakesch. Ich bin jedenfalls vom ersten Track an völlig eingenommen. Perfekt um sich einen völlig eigenen Horizont der …
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“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Vital Weekly
The first time we got introduced to the music of Ran Slavin was on his ‘Product 02’ CD release for the very same label that now releases ‘The Wayward Regional Transmissions’. Slavin hails from Israel, where he produces digital music, experimental cinema and video art. On his latest CD he approaches ‘Oriental Middle Eastern Music …
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“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Basebog
Fin dai suoi primi lavori Ran Slavin era intensamente legato alla sua terra. Memorabile il suo contributo nel corale ‘Walking In Jerusalem’ di Random Inc/Sebastian Meissner insieme ad Electric Birds e Tim Hecker per Mille Plateux. E ancor più nell’edizione sperimentale sempre di Mille Plateux delle raccolte di ‘Intifada Offspring’ insieme ad altri artisti israeliani. …
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“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Comunicazione Interna
Ran Slavin è un artista multimediale israeliano con già alle spalle un’esperienza ventennale nei campi della musica digitale, delle installazioni sonore, della video art e del cinema sperimentale. Realizza adesso per la portoghese Crónica uno splendido disco nel quale tessiture elettroniche minimali assorbono note di strumenti acustici ed aromi etnici lungo percorsi geografici/immaginifici che dall’India …
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“Flow†reviewed by The Sound Projector
Another strong project by this Portuguese electro-acoustic composer, whom we first noted with his 2004 CD A Rose is a Rose on the Austrian D0c label. The Rose CD made sparing use of TV and radio samples alongside churning, trundling loops of electronic noise; Joaquim does much the same here, allowing disembodied and treated voice …
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