Der litauische Klang-, Performance- und Konzeptkünstler Gintas Kraptavičius alias Gintas K bringt dieser Tage ein neues Tape heraus. “Lėti”, das im Litauischen “langsam” bedeutet, enthält elf Miniaturen, gebaut aus filigranen Sounddetails unterschiedlichster Herkunft, die einer ebensolchen Vielfalt an Bearbeitungsstufen unterzogen wurden und in ihrer finalen Gestalt einer großen Wunderkammer gleichen, in der man bei jedem …
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This is my second review of the works of Gintas K, a fascinating and innovative sound artist, born in Lithuania in 1969 and a person who has generated considerable interest. As with the previous album I reviewed, this electronic music work needs a good sound system or headphones and a nice quiet environment to truly …
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We’re proud to release Gintas K’s new album, Lėti, 16 years after Gintas’s first release in Crónica, the now classic Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound and after several other encounters in compilations, collaborations, and four albums. Lėti, Lithuanian for slow, is a set of 11 short pieces created from recording and improvising …
Matilde Meireles is a recordist, sound artist, and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her projects often have a multi-sensorial approach to ‘site’ which draws from her studies and experience in areas such as field-recording, site-specific visual arts and design. Her latest album is an in-depth study of potato in …
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Mad Disc est le projet solo du musicien japonais Takamichi Murata, batteur et percussionniste. Impliqué dans plusieurs groupes, dont le sien, il a collaboré avec de nombreux improvisateurs et compositeurs. Dans Material Compositions, il joue non seulement de la batterie et des percussions diverses, mais fait intervenir l’électronique et les synthétiseurs pour retravailler le son. Material Composition 1 commence …
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Persistent Disequilibrium is based on a set of new musical instruments where finger mounted piezo pickups are used with transducers on vibrating plate-like objects to explore resonances by touch. This creates a feedback loop where sonic vibrations pass through the material to be investigated and are not transmitted through the air. The direct contact let …
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This work was commissioned for Casa Sonora curated by David Velez for the Explora Museum, Colombia, in 2020, a project during the first Covid-19 lockdown that compiled works to stream or download and play or interact with in a mobile phone. As a child I loved singing in the bath. Singing may be a bit …
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The inspiration and the recordings for the piece Stromschauen (view/look current/power) were formed during walks in Berlin/Pankow in the last days of December 2020. In a situation of urban sound environment slowed down by the Covid rules and the holidays in general, various power boxes and their whirring and humming became more noticeable. The AC …
The sound artists Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais have been working together for more than two decades and have released an almost incalculable number of releases under the name @c to document their musical work. High time then for their label Crónica to also dedicate the book »Installations / Instalações« to them in order to document and comment on …
