Ah, “A Divine Comedy”! A title as grandiose as the task at hand, and yet Philippe Petit, the ever-ambitious sonic alchemist, dives headlong into the inferno with a flair for the dramatic that would make even Dante blush. This double album is not merely a nod to Alighieri’s epic poem; it’s a full-on, spiraling descent …
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Multiple feedback, layers of noise and found sounds undergo several treatments being modified by a series of stereo digital delay units whose parameters (delay time, reverse, freeze, etc.) are manipulated in real time through a low-frequency oscillator or from other analog sampling devices. Many regulations are manual and are made live, with the purpose of …
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To travel by air is to enter a world of worry and waiting; basically, we’ve taken the miracle of flight and made it a hassle. Marc Behrens attempts to regain some of the wonder and awe of taking to the skies with Clould, whose title—a combination of “cloud” and “could”—refers to the possibilities inherent in flying. Over the …
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Somewhere in between Heaven and the heavens, between ‘could’ and ‘clouds’ is Marc Behrens Clould. Composed of sounds recorded inside aeroplanes, airports, and other flight-related locations, this work brings together the reality and myth of the skies. An area once dominated by deities has now become a travel lane for millions, and while the mystery seems …
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Originali e stravaganti dissonanze popolano i tessuti sonori di Textuur 2, il nuovo lavoro di Jos Smolders (uscito per Crónica Label), un progetto tanto ostico quanto affascinante che sa incuriosire, spaventare e ipnotizzare, secondo capitolo di una serie nella quale l’autore investiga la decostruzione e la frammentazione di suoni strappati dal loro contesto e ricollocati in …
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Tauchen MIGUEL A. GARCÍA& ÀLEX REVIRIEGO bei ihrem mit Electronics bzw. No Input Mixer, Feedback & Synth kreierten Heralds de l’hivern (219) wirklich ein in Tarkowskis „Solaris“ und Kubricks „2001: A Space Odyssey“? ‘Vorboten des Winters’ – die Zugvögel auf dem Cover? – , ‘Votivgaben’, ‘Lákhesis’, die Moira, die den Lebensfaden bemisst, und das ganz opake ‘Fubel …
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MARC BEHRENS führt bei seinem aus Air und Ear gezwitterten Aiear (218, digital) mit düsentriebigen Dopplereffekten und mit „Clould“ (220) in den konjunktiven (could) und assoziativen Raum in und über den Wolken. Mit dem Frankfurter Airport vor Ort, dessen Flugschneisen und den eigenen 36 Flügen als Klangquelle für eine Meditation über die Transformation des Fliegens …
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Diana Combo aka SÍRIA war bereits mit den Kassetten „Cuspo“ und „Boa-Língua“ auf Crónica. Mahe Man / Mau Jeito (217, digital) ist einerseits eine zu Bassdrone, Knisterloops und Stringsound von Jeremy Young (von Sontag Shogun, Cloud Circuit) angestimmte Version von ‘Bote Chin’, einem persischen Liebeslied von Ali-Akbar Sheyda (1880 – 1945), das die ferne Geliebte …
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