Installations: LMY-7-10 (Crónica 179~2022, digital) von @c ist Musik, um dazu „Installations / Instalações“ (Crónica 181~2022 / i2ADS, 210 p Book) von MIGUEL CARVALHAIS & PEDRO TUDELA zu lesen, den beiden Crónica-Machern, deren klanginstallatives Werk da von 2005 an essayistisch und illustrativ aufgefächert wird. Die Musik entspricht der beim Fes- tival Serralves em Festa in …
Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
Mad Disc’s “Material Compositions” reviewed by Blow Up
Máquina Magnética reviewed by Blow Up
Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato” reviewed by Bad Alchemy
Mit Life of a Potato (Crónica 180~2022, gelbe C-30) macht Dr. MATILDE MEIRELES das Leben und Wesen einer ordinären Grumm’bere, wie wir in Unterfranken sagen, hörbar. Als Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow an der University of Oxford im Projekt ‘Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism’ (SONCITIES) sind Scholle und Knolle eigentlich nicht ihr Thema. Allerdings hat es sie gelegentlich schon …
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New release: Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s “Installations / Instalações” book
Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais collaborate as @c since 2000. They have released and performed extensively, often collaborating with other artists and collectives in a practice marked by radical experimentalism with computational sound. In 2003 they established Crónica, a label dedicated to experimental music and sound art, that they since run. Since 2005 Tudela and Carvalhais have also …
Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s “Installations / Instalações” book reviewed by Vital Weekly
The next one is also a book, also (a bit of) a problem. This time, the text is in Portuguese and English, so that’s not the issue here. I like to think our principal interest is sound; we can hear on whatever sound carrier (don’t send your VHS tapes, please, or 8-track cassettes). Reading about …
Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato” reviewed by Field Notes
From a Central European perspective, the potato is actually an exotic plant: originally it was only found in South America. In »Life of a Potato«, sound artist Matilde Meireles considers the migratory movements of food as well as its cultural coding. Field recordings from a garden in the south-west of England serve as the source …
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Monty Adkins’s “With Love. From an Invader.” reviewed by Ambient Blog
Shortly after his release as Skrika on Cryo Chamber, Monty Adkins treats us with a surprise release on Cronica that musically represents almost the opposite of Skrika’s ‘dark ambient’. 46 Minutes of field recordings, enhanced (I wanted to write ‘enlovelied’, but I guess that isn’t a word) by Adkins’s soundscapes that turn it into an otherworldly experience. The invader referred to here is the rhododendron tree which “was introduced …
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New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato”
We’re proud to present Matilde Meireles’s new release in Crónica, “Life of a Potato”, now available as a limited release tape, as a download, or stream. The potato has travelled a long way from its native lands in South America. The starchy tuber, brought to Europe by the Spanish in the late 1600s, slowly settled …
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