Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

Arturas Bumšteinas’s “Gamelan Descending a Staircase” reviewed by Oro Molido

El gamelán es un término genérico que se aplica a un conjunto instrumental. Sus instrumentos más peculiares son los metalófonos de bronce. Este trabajo que ahora nos presenta el artista sonoro de origen lituano Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, fue grabado en el Museo Etnológico de Dahlem (Berlín) en el transcurso de los meses de verano del año …

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New release: Monty Adkins’s “Moeror”

Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time … it feels like a different way of inhabiting a passage — a different kind of orientation. Elizabeth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind During significant events in our lives, time seems to stand …

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Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)” reviewed by Blow Up

Il titolo viene da una parola giapponese (ma) che ha a che fare con parti e intervalli. Cummings in un periodo nero della sua vita ne approfitta per lasciar andare l’immaginazione tra forma e non-forma a partire da alcune registrazioni durante il culto in una chiesa anglicana. Il primo pezzo (i titolo sono lunghi e/ …

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New release: Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)”

Crónica is delighted to present Simon Cummings’s first release in the label, “間 (ma)”, available as a limited release tape or stream and download. The Japanese word é–“ (ma) is one that is difficult to translate easily into other languages. The concept it embodies is a spatial one, specifically the gap between two discrete structural …

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Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)” reviewed by Rockerilla

La riduzione del suono a un grado zero prossimo al silenzio rappresenta il fulcro della ricerca applicata nel suo ultimo lavoro su cassetta da parte di Simon Cummings. Improntata fin dal titolo al concetto di vuoto, designato dal concetto estetico-filosofico giapponese “ma”, l’opera consta appunto di una sequenza ininterrotta di intervalli, pause e interstizi, espansi …

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Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins” reviewed by Loop

Sound artist, music critic, teacher, composer for theater and dance and founding member of several ensembles releases his third album on Portuguese Crónica Electrónica label based in Porto wich is run by sound artists Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela. ‘Témoins’ contains three pieces that were commissioned works in which Deplanque made recordings in different sites. …

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Monty Adkins’s “Shadows and Reflections” reviewed by The Wire

Two pieces by the British composer, which grew out of a collaboration with the painter Andy Fullalove. They worked together on an installation at Bradford Cathedral, and Adkins created these pieces to expand on the meditative and light-filled quality of that show. The music is based on extended organ tones, and like classic recordings by …

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“The Waste Land” reviewed by Neural

The Waste Land has been issued in digital recording and audio cassette and has its origins in a 20 minute soundtrack for a documentary movie. The Italian-Swiss composer and sound artist doesn’t give any other details about it. However, it works as an exceptional amplifier of auditory perceptions and stimulates a kind of precise narration …

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