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 …
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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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David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Point†reviewed by Beach Sloth
David Lee Myers continues his legend with the meditative suites of “Reduced to a Geometrical Pointâ€. Noise music, at least for the aficionados, can be seen to be the other side of that ambience coin. At first grating, it eventually gives way to something far different, a trip of sorts. While David Lee Myers may …
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New release: David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Pointâ€
I am not an advocate of “music for meditation†and in fact believe that to be a completely misguided notion. However, I have observed that some audio constructions seem to encourage a posture of staying in the moment. This has proven to be a fascination over time. As I began the present sonic explorations, a …
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New release: Lucas Alvarado’s “La Ausencia Como Lenguajeâ€
Crónica is delighted to present Lucas Alvarado’s debut in the label with La Ausencia Como Lenguaje. La Ausencia Como Lenguaje is comprised of a series of sound reflections on the absence of people in sites built by and for humans, and about the absence of art in our reality. Abandonment and absence are sometimes thought …
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David Lee Myers’s “Reduced to a Geometrical Point†reviewed by Downtown Music Gallery
Myers’s Cronica CD debut is an entirely different kettle of fish compared to the kind of work he produced on his sister Arcane Device release, the yin to Nodes’ yang, psyche to drama. If anything, this lengthy, four-track recording of miasmic, buzzing drone and minimalist linear formatting resurrects the original AD motivators but recontextualizes them …