Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” featured on Bandcamp Daily
Residents of Belfast may have noticed strange signs pasted onto telecommunication boxes around their neighborhoods in the past decade. One such sign, on Balfour Avenue, read: “Producing a continuous sound composed of: 92Hz, 120Hz, 178Hz, 235Hz, 408Hz, 580Hz, 1184Hz, 1327Hz, 3282Hz.” These were the work of Matilde Meireles, a sound artist and researcher whose X Marks the Spot project …
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New release: Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions”
Successive Actions is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series Channelling in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers’s The …
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“Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds” reviewed by Neural
Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context, supporting ecological sensitivity, giving life to significant sound experiences, and in iconic spaces, designing routes that guide visitors through them, while at the same time encouraging reflection …
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New release: Hannes Strobl’s “Weben Song”
“The things around us speak like housings that make something sound, like musical instruments…” wrote Jacob Böhme in 1622 in his work De signatura rerum. While working on a performance-installation (doublelucky productions) at the former Leipzig Cotton Mill (founded in 1884 and at the time the largest cotton mill in continental Europe), I began experimenting …
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Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les Fantômes” reviewed by Chain DLK
Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les fantômes” is an immersive journey that sits at the intersection of sound art, memory, and the imagination. A prolific composer from Northern France, Duplant draws inspiration from literary figures such as Gaston Bachelard and Stéphane Mallarmé, blending their philosophical musings with musical influences from the likes of John Cage and Eliane …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Anxious Musick Magazine
Loop. And Again. zagłębia się w dynamikę pól magnetycznych, skomplikowane układy okablowania i ich wzajemne powiązania ze zmianami w otaczającym krajobrazie. Album jest częścią X Marks the Spot, większego projektu, który wykorzystywał dźwięk do mapowania określonych skrzynek telekomunikacyjnych – tylko tych emitujących słyszalny dron – w mieście Belfast w latach 2013-2019. W projekcie dźwięk sugeruje różne …
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New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.”
Loop. And Again. delves into the dynamics of magnetic fields, intricate wiring arrangements, and their interconnectedness with the shifts in the surrounding landscape. The album is part of X Marks the Spot, a larger project which used sound to map specific telecommunication boxes—only those emitting an audible drone—in the city of Belfast between 2013-2019. In the project, …
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Marla Hlady & Christof Migone’s “Swan Song” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Spirits Drifting Here’s two discs of very enjoyable drone music produced by various processes…Swan Song (CRÓNICA196-2023) was realised by Marla Hlady and Christof Migone, and they did it during a three-month residency in Glenfiddich. From what I can make out, it’s a clever bit of “repurposing” of old equipment from the Glenfidich still, specifically the copper “swan necks” which …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Vital Weekly
Music by Simon Whetham we reviewed quite a bit. ‘Successive Actions’ is already his fifth release for Cronica and another apparition of his “kinetic sound performance project series ‘Channelling’ in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. This produces new sounds from the …
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