Four contemporary field-recording types from Portugal on Lisboa Soa: Sounds within Sounds (CRÓNICA207-2023). Lisboa Soa calls itself a Festival, but it seems to be a lot more than that – growing some sort of locus for like-minded fellows to gather and thrive, and propounding the notion of “acoustic ecology”, grounded in ethical ideas about our shared environment. They believe …
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A new album by Philippe Petit, and they come by quite often these days. “Closing Our Eyes” is a 45-minute exploration of the boundaries between acoustic and electronic music, one of Philippe’s recurrent exercises. The promo sheet we always get with Crónica releases gives a little overview. He started with recontextualising Mahler’s first symphony, ‘Cordophony’, …
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‘Kleine Geluiden’ is Dutch and means ‘small sounds, ‘ which leads me to think Kunrad might also be Dutch. Of course, it might not be accurate, but he is. He has a Bachelor of Music in Composition for Electronic Music at the University of the Arts Utrecht and a Master of Music at the Interfaculty …
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Expansão stems from a performance in July 2022 in Porto. This performance was commissioned by Sonoscopia that hosted a residency leading to it. During that period the three musicians explored synergies in their approaches to music-making with electronics, computers, and concrete sound, preparing structures and strategies that would shape the performance. Similarities, intersections, tensions, contrasts, …
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Miguel Carvalhais en Pedro Tudela, de mannen achter het Portugese Crónica, vormen sinds 2000 samen ook een duo: @c. De twee zijn vooral bekend door hun installaties, waarvan een paar jaar geleden ook een fraai boek, met de doeltreffende titel ‘Installations’ uitkwam. Uit mijn recensie citeer ik hier nogmaals hun opmerking over dit genre: “an installation a holistic work …
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Terug naar de elektronica, met een bijzonder project van Jos Smolders: ‘Textuur’. Het eerste album ‘Textuur 1 [numbers 1-9]’ verscheen bij Moving Furniture Records, het tweede, ‘Textuur 2 [ |||| – – – – ]’ en derde, ‘Textuur 3 [Register]’ kwamen uit bij Crónica, waarbij de laatste louter als download. Een bijzonder project waarin Smolders “Investigate(s) processes with which to strip sounds …
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“Has it ever happened to you while passing by a familiar place that you noticed or heard something for the first time? Something that was always there but because you were not attentive enough it passed unnoticed?”That’s the kind of introduction that triggers anyone devoted to ‘ambient’ (music and) sound. It is also the introduction to X …
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De elektronische muziek van Marc Behrens kwam hier niet eerder voorbij, dat terwijl deze uit Darmstadt afkomstige componist / musicus toch al bijna een halve eeuw actief is in het veld van de elektronische muziek, met onder andere meer dan veertig albums op zijn naam. Tevens is hij actief met performances, fotografie en video. Onlangs verscheen bij …
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