When Keiko Uenishi came to visit us here in Australia as part of the What Is Music? festival in 2002, she delivered some amazingly intricate sets of processed electronics. Her sensibilities, facilitated through the use of the LLOOPP MAX/MSP software generated a gentle but directed sound excursion that engages with its listener in a strange …
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É agachado e de braços estendidos que procedo a esta resenha. O corpo aponta para o Porto, pois é lá que está sediada a Crónica – exemplar impulsionadora de electrónica de vanguarda que, a cada lançamento, nunca garante menos que um experiência única armazenada em invólucro de refinado requinte gráfico. Geralmente, grande parte do que …
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Björgúlfsson / Pimmon / Thorsson sounds like a bit of a mouthful, and so does the title of their album Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen (Always Not Unfinished). Heimir Björgúlfsson and Helgi Thorsson, formerly of the group Stilluppsteypa (whatever happened to Stilluppsteypa?) teamed up with Australia’s Paul Gough, aka Pimmon (whatever happened to Pimmon?) …
C’est dans un emballage bizarre que le label Cronica nous fait découvrir un document sonore auditif de trois auteur s/ dj. Tout est passé en revue dans ce live monstrueux, pour faire danser le public avec des fréquences digitales, du sample ou des rythmes minimalistes. On reste médusé par la cohérence qu’ont Heimir Björgúlfsson, Helgi …
This is a live collaboration that sees Iceland’s Bjorgulfsson and Thorsson (ex- Stilluppsteypa) glitching out with Pimmon; then letting Robert Hampson edit the subtle mayhem into nine tracks of divisive ambience. Processed sounds of the laptop generation collide with delicate beats and discordant noise to present a journey that is fun to travel on but …
O. BLAAT a su déployer une stratégie de la disparition, une conduite de la dissimulation et ce, en laissant un monde microscopique de sons, d’échos, de formes sonores proliférer sur la maille translucide de ses compositions. Des soundscapes indicibles, des clichés sonores, des concentrés de vie et d’environnement, qui s’appuient sur l’utilisation du laptop, méta-instrument …
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L’excellent label portugais Crònica nous donne encore de ses (bonnes) nouvelles avec ce disque au titre et à la pochette fleuris. Mais attention : de derrière les fleurs peut surgir un monstre ambigu et cauchemardesque, voire une cravate et une sucette…Alors méfiance. Alerte aux sens. Le trio est une formule qui renvoie peut-être inconsciemment au …
Recensendo il precedente CD della Crónica mi rammaricavo per l’occasione sprecata, ma con la certezza che presto si sarebbe presentata una nuova opportunità e l’etichetta non avrebbe sicuramente fallito il colpo. Ecco che la previsione, puntualmente, si avvera, ma con questo non mi sento affatto un mago poiché, visto il crescendo qualitativo proposto in pochi …
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Microtonal composers Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Helgi Thorsson (both of Stilluppsteypa) and Pimmon performed at the Melkfabriek in Den Bosch and recorded this CD, which is their live set. The sound got edited by Robert Hampson (Main). The CD contains a mix between microtonal noise, clicks and drones, and sporadic electronic beats. This combination works really well …
(…) Kaffe Matthews, DJ Olive e Ikue Mori, entre outros, colaboram em faixas de Gaze. Estão lá, mas invisÃveis. Contudo, são presenças essenciais, porque é essencial este processo de falsa neutralização. Note-se que os nomes se mantêm, assim como o da própria o.blaat, porque à invisibilidade está inerente a presença. Gaze é, portanto, um conjunto …
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