Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Point” reviewed by Bad Alchemy
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Máquina Magnética reviewed by Radiohörer
Das aus Portugal stammende Label Crónica ist mein Geheimtipp, wenn es um experimentelle elektronische Musik geht. Das Projekt @c hatte es sogar mal unter meine Top Ten eines Jahres geschafft. Das Projekt „Máquina Magnética“ ist ein guter Einstieg ist die Klangwelt von Crónica. Máquina Magnética entstand aus dem Zusammentreffen von vier experimentellen Künstlern, die sowohl …
Yiorgis Sakellariou’s “Degti†reviewed by Against the Silence
Ένα έργο αποτελείται από μια ιδέα η οποία ξετυλίγεται στο χρόνο για να μας τυλίξει σε ένα δικό της χώρο εντός της. Στην πειραματική μουσική, όπως και στα εικαστικά, πολλές φορές οι νέες ιδέες που παρουσιάζονται μόνο νέες δεν είναι. Λογικό, θα έλεγε μια κυνική φωνή εφόσον έχουν παιχτεί όλα. Ο κυνισμός είναι, όμως, η …
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New release: Monty Adkins’s “With Love. From an Invader.â€
On the 17th March 2020, one week before the UK national lockdown, Yan Wang Preston decided to photograph a single rhododendron tree every other day at half an hour before sunset, for a year, with sounds from the site recorded by Monty Adkins and Yan Wang Preston each month. The rhododendron was introduced to the …
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David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Point†reviewed by Blow Up
New release: @c’s “Installations: Seis Elementosâ€
During the twenty-plus years of their collaboration as @c, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s work has spanned composition and performance but also, and prominently, several installations, often site-specific and ephemeral works that have at most been documented with short videos. Crónica’s latest series of releases is dedicated to systematic documentation and revisitation of these installation works. …
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