Episode 194 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, June 9th. The playlist of Futurónica 194 is: Yiorgis Sakellariou, Stikhiya, part 1 (2017, Stikhiya, Crónica) Mecha / Orga, 30:13 (2014, 30:13, Impulsive Habitat) Yiorgis Sakellariou, Stikhiya, part 2 …
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New release: Mise_en_scene’s “Constellation / Deformationâ€
Crónica is proud to present a new release from Shay Nassi’s project Mise_en_scene, after the previous 443, Leftovers (Reworked), and 2016’s Primary Fields. Constellation / Deformation is a direct continuation of Primary Fields, putting a stronger emphasis on digital processing. As in Primary Fields, these works are based on a single field recording, in different …
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Soon in Crónica: Mise_en_Scene’s “Constellation / Deformationâ€
Soon in Crónica: Mise_en_Scene’s “Constellation / Deformationâ€
“Urban Dialog†reviewed by Musique Machine
Crónica Recordings presents Urban Dialog by Tamtam. Tamtam is the Berlin based duo of Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl who, in their own words, refer to their music as a “practice where the environment becomes the instrument and instrument becomes the sound environment.†While artist blurbs can often mislead, in the case of Tamtam, it’s …
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“Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venu†reviewed by Musique Machine
Here’s a sombrely presented CD (pro-pressed and printed) on Crónica. The imagery, and explanatory notes on the back cover, suggested to me that Juryo: Durée de la Vie de L’ainsi​-​venu koxx might be an album dominated by field recording, and whilst it very much is, in one sense, sonically it’s really quite different. The album …
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Futurónica 193
Episode 193 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, May 26th. The playlist of Futurónica 193 is: Pan Sonic, Säteily / Radiation (2004, Kesto (234.48:4), Blast First) You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras …
“Stikhiya†reviewed by Touching Extremes
Because of their often undefinable nature, most field recording-based albums cannot be committed to memory. Still, the few artists who can really operate a studio to produce materials worthy of being positively absorbed act as invisible aids for the listener to retrieve – you guessed it – memories. At this exact point stands the work …
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“Stikhiya†reviewed by Chain DLK
“Stikhiya†is a pair of soundscape compositions comprising layered environmental found sound with additional electronic elements that sound sometimes like arcing electricity, sometimes like industrial gas processing, sometimes like the interference caused by mobile phones on unshielded audio cables. Repetitive mechanical processes occasionally form firm rhythms, ignored by their sonic neighbours. It’s an uncomfortable inserted …
New release: Yiorgis Sakellariou’s “Stikhiyaâ€
“Having realised the errors in rational knowledge I found it easier to free myself from the temptation of futile theorizing†Leo Tolstoy (1880) I understand this phrase as an expression of Stikhiya, the word used by Russian poet Aleksandr Blok in early 20th century to describe the fundamental value of primitive immediacy. Contradictory to intellectualism …
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