Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

“Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venu” reviewed by Amusio

Nicht zuletzt als Partizipant eines französischen Gamelan-Orchesters unterstrich der aus Paris stammende Emmanuel Mieville seine breit gefächerte Kenntnis fernöstlicher Musiktraditionen. Nun verweist schon der Titel seiner Veröffentlichung – Juryo: Durée De La Vie L’Ainsi-Venu (Crónica) – auf die mannigfaltigen Verquickungen, die sein akademisch der musique concrète zuzuschlagende Forschergeist angeht. Handelt es sich bei „Juryo“ doch …

Continue reading ““Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venu” reviewed by Amusio”

“The Waste Land” reviewed by Vital

And finally Luca Forcucci, of which no information was yet available. His cassette was composed and mixed in places INA-GRM, Electronic Music Studio TU (Berlin) and Atomic Lady (Earth). Maybe his composition ‘The Waste Land’ is inspired by T.S. Eliott’s poem of the same name, about the decay of life, and listening to the title …

Continue reading ““The Waste Land” reviewed by Vital”

“Under my Skin” reviewed by Vital

Gintas K, from Lithuania, who has been around for many years, has used no field recordings on his new release. Instead he uses ‘digital synthesis’. I am not sure if an input of any kind is needed here, but maybe it is all in some sort of feedback process, where sounds bounce back and forth …

Continue reading ““Under my Skin” reviewed by Vital”

“Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venu” reviewed by Vital

Music releases by Paris born and based composer Emmanuel Mieville are quite apart (Vital Weekly 803 and 1000 for instance) and has a strong emphasis on field recordings and this one is no different. Mieville had training in sound engineering in a film school and later on at INA-GRM, but also played in Javanese gamelan …

Continue reading ““Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venu” reviewed by Vital”

“Geography” reviewed by Indie Rock Mag

L’album devait sortir courant 2012 chez Kvitnu, il aura finalement fallu quatre ans de plus au Portugais et un retour dans le giron du label Crónica qui publiait 10 ans auparavant son merveilleux Flow pour accoucher de cette ode au déterminisme géographique de nos sociétés et de notre espèce, inspirée par le livre “De l’inégalité …

Continue reading ““Geography” reviewed by Indie Rock Mag”

Futurónica 186

Episode 186 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, February 17th. The playlist of Futurónica 186 is: Akio Suzuki, De Koolmees: Suzuki Type – Glass Harmonica (1990, Soundsphere, Het Apollohuis) Kate Carr, Holding My Breath in Imaginary Ponds …

Continue reading “Futurónica 186”

New release: µo’s “.appnd”

.appnd is an EP with six tracks of abstract electronic music composed by Danish composers Jonas Olesen and Morten Riis. The music is edited versions of excerpts from live performances from 2005 to 2010. Jonas Olesen and Morten Riis played a series of improvisational concerts during this period, primarily with analogue instruments, such as modular …

Continue reading “New release: µo’s “.appnd””

Gintas K’s “Under My Skin” reviewed by The Wire

Gintas Kraptavičius is a prolific Lithuanian sound artist whose work exists somewhere on the left side of the glitch continuum. His music is composed of many short-term electronic events, most of which are somewhat melodic in-and-of-themselves. Much of the work here occurs inside a fairly tight sonic field, so it can feel a bit repetitious, …

Continue reading “Gintas K’s “Under My Skin” reviewed by The Wire”