Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation” reviewed by DeBug

Erinnert sich noch jemand an die Reinterpretationsgeschichte “*o-o.ooo-Inflation”? Künstler wie Merzbow, Roden, Mathieu, Behrens, Deupree, Chartier, Cascone und einige mehr interpretierten auf 2 CDs Soundmaterial des Japaners *o, welches ausserhalb des menschlichen Hörvermögens lag. Marc Behrens und Paulo Rapposo verarbeiteten vorangegangene Interpretationen wiederum einige Male, und heraus kam diese CD, aufgenommen bei einer Live-Performance der …

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“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation” reviewed by Revue et Corrigee

Marc Behrens s’était alors soumis à l’époque au jeu de l’instrospection musicale à l’ocassion d’un remix donnant son point de vue sur ce travail éminemment minimaliste. Portée par une réflexion sur les marges extrême de l’áudible, à savoir les infra-sons, aussi précieux à Ryoji Ikeda qu’ils sont abhorrés par les orthophonistes, Marc Behrens a souhaité …

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“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation” reviewed by Fluxeuropa

This whistling, whirring exploration of silence is at times very noisy indeed. Mostly, however, it exists in some hinterland space designed to make us feel uneasy, tapping and tugging at the senses like an icy liquid dropping slowly on to an exposed nerve. The reinterpretation made here is of Nosei Sakata’s “0.000”, a CD containing …

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“Further Consequences of Reinterpretation” reviewed by Cultura / La Vanguardia.es

Pese a su cercanía, la escena experimental portuguesa goza de escasa difusión en España. Una auténtica lástima, pues se trata de una de las más activas y atractivas del sur de Europa. Queda esto claro en las últimas referencias del sello luso Crónica: tanto el colectivo audiovisual @c como Durán Vázquez – junto al australiano …

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“Product 03” reviewed by Blitz

(…) A metade que lhe cabe do disco chama-se 04; um registo em que se encontra potencial na mesma cadência dos maneirismos. As melhores faixas acabam mesmo por ser aquelas em que se descortinam influências, evidentes mas não comprometedoras. (…) (Em Incoherence Textures, de Cáncer) Sublimam-se desenvoltura e estruturas, a começar numa quase-mística sinfonia digital, …

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“Product 03” reviewed by Bodyspace

Um cyber-vulcão expele uma lava composta por números binários numa média-metragem a preto e branco. Os compositores da banda-sonora dão pelo nome de Ok.Suitcase e Cáncer, e o estúdio responsável pelo lançamento é a Crónica – cada vez mais empenhada em promover electronica de qualidade, e merecedora da recente exposição de que tem vindo a …

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“Product 03” reviewed by Loop

This it is the third CD of the “Product” series of this label from Porto, Portugal. This time Portuguese André Goncalves, aka Ok. Suitcase, and the Chilean Jorge Cortés with his project Cáncer are the new artists incorporated to Crónica’s roster. In 1999 Goncalves started manipulating sounds and improvising and two years later he starts …

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“Product 03” reviewed by Vital

Ok.Suitcase is André Goncalves, connected to Grain Of Sound label, has an EP on Stasisfield and also a very quiet track on one of the .microsound mailing list’s mp3-projects (signed as Specimen there). I know I liked Ok.Suitcase’s music I’ve heard before quite alright, and compared to the new pieces here I can say before …

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“Product 03” reviewed by ei magazine

Crónica’s Product series splits an album between the artists Ok.Suitcase and Cáncer (Chile). Ok.Suitcase explores its technical composition skills with the immanently recognizable palette of granular synthesis. Here, looped, wavering harmonics languidly float through textural density. Whether conducted with vocal samples or electronic gestures, the repetitions are short and intensive, yielding a mounting atmosphere of …

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“Product 01” reviewed by Ikon

Spannend: zwei Künstler mit höchst unterschiedlicher regionaler und musikalischer Herkunft, mit heterogenen Ästhetiken und Produktionsstrategien auf einer Split-CD. Der in Australien arbeitende Sumugan Sinavesan präsentiert in insgesamt 8 Tracks eine Auswahl experimentel-ler, oft sehr improvisiert klingender Soundcollagen, deren mal fragilere (“Sinus3), mal grob-körnigere (“One Note Solo3) Struktur vorschnelle Kategorisierungen immer wieder gekonnt unterläuft. Sinavesan, dessen …

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