Jos Smolders’s “Submerge-Emerge” reviewed by Nieuwe Noten

Voor het bijna twee uur durende ‘Submerge-Emerge’ liet Smolders zich eveneens inspireren door een kunstwerk, nu het gedicht ‘Un Coup De Des Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard’ van Stéphane Mallarmé. Al veertig jaar is Smolders gefascineerd door dit gedicht, maar pas na meer onderzoek naar de achtergronden, was hij in staat om er ook muzikaal iets …

Dan Powell’s “Four Walks at Old Chapel” reviewed by RNE 3 Atmosfera

Dan Powell es un artista sonoro que utiliza grabaciones de campo, electrónica hecha a mano y percusión afinada. El foco principal de su trabajo es explorar lugares que tienen una resonancia personal particular. Ha participado activamente en la improvisación electroacústica en Londres y Brighton, especialmente con Gus Garside en The Static Memories y Chris Parfitt …

New Release: Mad Disc

Material Composition 1 and 2, start from the mysterious timbre of a beautiful Rin Bell, played solemnly, in a ritualistic fashion. Over the development of the pieces, delayed electronic sequences, rhythmic patterns of metallic percussions, synthesized sounds with industrial overtones and a wide range of other sounds are modulated, revealing several new patterns in a stratified acoustic …

Máquina Magnética reviewed by Silence and Sound

Collectif formé par Pedro Tudela (électronique), Miguel Carvalhais (électronique), Gustavo Costa (percussions) et Rodrigo Carvalho (vidéo), Máquina Magnética est un projet qui fait se rencontrer les approches musicales de chaque artiste, appuyé par des projections aux allures cinétiques.  Sur Máquina Magnética, organique et électronique repoussent les frontières, créant des espaces futuristes flirtant avec un futurisme sombre, où pulsations tournoyantes et expérimentations parasites se cèdent la place et …

Máquina Magnética reviewed by Bad Alchemy

Gustavo Costa, einer der Köpfe des Sonoscopia-Kollektivs in Porto, der als Drummer mit acoustic & electro-mechanic percussion schlagwerkt, hat sich seit den frühen 90ern vom schlimmen Finger mit Genocide und Malevolence zum engagierten Free Jazzer und Improvcrack gemausert, mit Red Albinos, Radial Chao Opera oder Lost Gorbachevs („From Neoliberalism to Totalitarian Capitalism“), als Most People Have …

Máquina Magnética reviewed by Vital Weekly

Here we have two labels from Portugal, from the same city even (Porto), and both labels deliver musicians to the project Maquia Magnetica. Sonoscopia’s boss Gustavo Costa on drums, Cronica boss Miguel Carvalhais, teaming with his @C mate Pedro Tudela. They are both on computers. Rodrigo Carvalho is the fourth player, “on generative visuals and …

New Release: Máquina Magnética

Máquina Magnética was born from the meeting of four experimental artists with consolidated practices across both solo and collective work: Gustavo Costa, drummer, percussionist, and one of the heads of the Sonoscopia collective, on acoustic and electro-mechanic percussion; Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, of the @c project and the Crónica label, on computers; and Rodrigo Carvalho, of the Openfield and Boris Chimp 504 …