Há discos que podem até valer por si só, ou seja, apenas como matéria audÃvel com os consequentes remates opinativos; mas há muitos outros que tomam dimensões diferentes se houver uma pré-contextualização. O que seria dos “4.33” aparentemente silenciosos de Cage se não soubéssemos antecipadamente que o silêncio não existe no sentido de total ausência …
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Le label de musique électronique expérimentale Cronica semble avoir eu une petite faiblesse pour le format du split album. Ce n’est donc pas une collaboration entre deux artistes que nous avons ici mais bel et bien deux Å“uvres bien distinctes réunies sur le même disque. S.Sivanesan a composé et interprété les neuf premiers morceaux et …
There can be only two possible outcomes of releasing an album with such a title and accompanying it with a press release referencing Jean Baudrillard’s Theory of Hyperconformism and David Harvey’s concepts of time-space compression: either you get yourself signed up on the spot with Asphodel and end up winning the Prix Arse Electronica or …
On Paper is perhaps the most strange, uncommercial, unfathomable and difficult releases around. Yet I say that with a strange sense of awe. The concept of mixing and remixing the sounds of paper being ripped, those great big thick, almost cardboard gig posters you see around town, or you would if you lived in Berlin, …
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Cronica continue son lent et passionnant travail d’archivage, compilant / redéployant / réorientant sans relâche ses multiples projets sonores, s’attachant autant que faire ce peu, à parcourir, à détailler la multiplicité des approches émergeantes dans les sphères oubliées des musiques non-conventionnelles, qu’elles soient d’ordre expérimentales, électroacoustiques, ou non directives. 2 nouvelles productions, respectivement étiquetées Cronica …
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What a title, eh? What kind of recorded music could possibly live up to it? The ambitions of this recording are not only hinted at in that grandiose title, but are further elaborated in a deeply pretentious sleeve note. “Aspires to a viral, everpresent omnipresence”, the writer solemnly informs us. “Autodigest arrived in the form …
A priori de qualquer ensaio que seja útil elaborar em redor de A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol.1, é importante dar conta do carácter muito pouco personalizado que um objecto como este álbum encerra. “Written and composed by everyoneâ€, lê-se a dada altura no package do disco. O que é, então, Autodigest? Mais …
Referencing postmodern theorist David Harvey’s concept of “time-space compression” as well as a soupçon of Jean Baudrillard, Autodigest can be interpreted either as a sonic illustration of culture consuming itself or a kind of archive of byte sized flickers from the dying embers of cultural diversity, depending on each syllable you choose to stress in …
Plus qu’un project, Autodigest est un concept porté à son point le plus extrême. Pas d’auteur, pas de dates et pas de lieu de naissance. Juste une ambition démesurée, celle de compiler tout ce qui a jamais été enregistré par l’être humain. On se doute, musicalement, le résultat n’a que peu de chances d’être reconnaisable, …
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Hier ist auch Geduld erforderlich, aber da sich 13 Artists auf 2 Discs abwechseln, geht das sehr gut. Akustisch exploriert wird nur mehr ein Material: Papier. das medienmusikalische Experiment birgt aufgrund seiner spannenden Vielfalt überraschend viele packende Momente, vor allem auf der zeiten CD.
