Brighton musician Dan Powell may be known to you as an improviser who performs as one half of The Static Memories and also occasionally with Paul Khimasia Morgan, but he’s here today with a slightly unusual field recording / musique concrète assemblage called Four Walks At Old Chapel (CRONICA 170-2021). He gathered field recordings at this Welsh location, as well …
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Matilde Meireles celebrates the surprisingly long journey of one of the world’s most beloved vegetables with “Life of a Potato”. For a field recording it is a rather stellar mixture of low-end and high-end sounds. Rather tactile every single element of the journey is magnified. No melody, no rhythm, this is a narrative that comes …
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Il Novecento musicale è stato il secolo che ha dato dignità ai rumori, integrandoli a fianco dei suoni. Più ci si è avvicinati al ventunesimo secolo, più il rumore ha rivelato le sue potenzialità, affrancate dall’artificio dell’intonazione, e concentrando i compositori sulla gestione di ritmi e poliritmie, nonché sull’elaborazione timbrica, i colori dei rumori. Oggi …
Die portugiesische Soundkünstlerin und Field Recording-Spezialistin Matilde Meireles bringt Ende des Monats ein Tape heraus, das ganz dem Lebenszyklus der Kartoffel gewidmet ist. Einige der verwendeten Sounds dokumentieren das Heranwachsen der Knollen im Boden eines englischen Gartens, präsentieren die Vibration des Bodens, den Klang der Pflanzen bei Berührung, zahlreiche Umgebungsgeräusche bei Tag und Nacht und …
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Crónica’s first release for 2022 continues @c’s Installations series. “LMY-7-10” was created after the installation of the same title commissioned by the Serralves Foundation for the festival Serralves em Festa and curated by Pedro Rocha. In two spaces contiguous to the Chapel in Serralves — the stairs of its tower and the room adjacent to …
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Lo statunitense David Lee Myers, da metà anni ottanta armeggia con le sue feedback machines.Prima come Arcane Device e negli ultimi anni, sempre più spesso con il suo nome.Si è accompagnato in produzioni con artisti storici come Tod Dockstader o prossimi alla storicizzazione come Asmus Tietchens.Suono e immagini in montaggio nei live, per un’espressione di intransigente bellezza (quando + e quando …
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David Lee Myers, that recently released the wonderful “Reduced to a Geometrical Point” in Crónica was interviewed by Guillermo Escudero for the Chilean web zine Loop: http://www.loop.cl/content/view/1941/26/
The field recordings used here by Matilde Meireles are literally homegrown. It deals with the life of a potato, growing near Pewsey, in the Southwest of England. I had not heard of Matilde Meireles before. In her garden, she grows her vegetables, plants, and potatoes. She made her field recordings in her garden, in the …
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