The brand-new Ran Slavin’s album, which was just released on the label Crónica, sounded incredibly awesome in my media player. I’ve always been interested in his music, but I was surprised to discover that Digital Junkies in Strange Times was even more intriguing than his previous work. Not long ago, Data.Wave hosted an interview with …
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De Franse componist Emmanuel Mieville studeerde geluidstechniek bij een filmopleiding en musique concrète bij de beroemde Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). Verder verdiepte hij zich in noet-Westerse instrumenten en speelde hij in een (Frans) gamelan-orkest. Die verschillende leerscholen klonken door in zijn uitgaven die in de afgelopen ruime tien jaar her en der verschenen. Bijvoorbeeld …
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Do katalogu portugalského labelu Crónica pÅ™ibylo po deseti letech nové dÃlo Vitora Joaquima, laptopisty, výtvarnÃka a online aktivisty, od osmdesátých let jednoho z nejvýraznÄ›jÅ¡Ãch pÅ™edstavitelů portugalské elektronické scény. Nové CD nese název Geography a je inspirováno myÅ¡lenkami amerického vÄ›dce, fyziologa a geografa Jareda Diamonda, zejména jeho dÃlem Osudy lidských spoleÄnostà (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The …
Crónica is delighted to present a new release from Ran Slavin, “Digital Junkies in Strange Timesâ€. As early as the second decade of the 17th century, the laptop was well on its way to being a favourable solo instrument, and it very soon evolved a special virtuoso literature that included every trick usually thought of …
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Para estudar. O tÃtulo pode, à partida, parecer enganador. Só quando chegamos aos minutos finais de “Under My Skin”, tema homónimo que é um de dois pontos finais do disco, e ao sample rouco da canção de Frank Sinatra com o mesmo nome, é que percebemos que existe, aqui, algo de humano ou de carnal; …
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The Waste Land by Luca Forcucci
Episode 188 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, March 17th. The playlist of Futurónica 188 is: Curtis Roads, Now (2005, Point Line Cloud, Asphodel) Curtis Roads, Half-life, pt. 1: Sonal Atoms (2005, Point Line Cloud, Asphodel) Curtis …
This time the spotlights are on the release called The Mediterranean Drift, another record made by a musician living by the Mediterranean Sea. The album begins with the track Losing coordinates inthe Mediterranean Drift that lasts more than 15 minutes. The first thing you hear are floating slow and viscous guitars with simultaneous rustles and …
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Vitor Joaquim, Porto’s celebrated laptop geomancer, tries to nail it all down with Geography, which sounds like a statement of intent. The opening title track confirms his intentions, as it arrives with sampled speech from some sort of space mission documentary. It’s as if Joaquim is pulling back to show us the planet in its …
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