Smolders sieht sich durch jahrelange Zenübung vom niederländischen Planer zu Klangkalligraphen befreit. Ein Klangfluss kann sich nun in einem Zug entfalten, statt erst in akribischer Feilerei und Korrigiererei Gestalt anzunehmen. “Nowhere” spielt dabei schon auch irgendwo, ‘Incident at Ras Oumlil’ führt nach Marokko, irgendwo zwischen Guelmim und Tan-Tan. Aber es gibt Orte, an denen man …
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Sven Schlijper on Jos Smolders’s “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recordingâ€
Nowhere marries brutalism to beautalism. Smolders knows the tools of his trade, inside and out. Movements are trained, skilled and well honed. The performance and the product it delivers open up to the moments of making and of reproduction. The controls handed over to aesthetics, again: moving swiftly. Gently also, like an inked brush gliding across …
Massimo Ricci on Jos Smolders’s “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recordingâ€
Those who have seriously attempted to operate a synthesizer know from experience how easy getting lost in the meanders of programming is. In a plurality of parameters and wave shapes, finding a way to produce a decent result – let alone a beautiful one – is not exactly a walk in the park when the necessary practicality …
Chris Dooks on Jos Smolders’s “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recordingâ€
The first track from Jos Smolders’s Nowhere is a good example of music generating images of somewhere, even if it is an unstable, ungraspable locale. Smolders’s modular synthesis works are surprisingly cinematic for music of a kind that is often labeled clinical, academic or heavy. The work has a ‘materiality’ that is nimble and strong, like a kind …
New release: Jos Smolders’s “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recordingâ€
Crónica is elated to present Jos Smolders’s new CD, “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recordingâ€! During his preparation, setting up the paper, wetting the brush and grinding the ink stone, the calligrapher is in deep concentration. Then, when he is ready, he performs the drawing in a few swift strokes. My works have …
Soon in Crónica: Emmanuel Mieville’s “Juryo: Durée de la vie de l’ainsi-venuâ€
Tonight: “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†will be playing at Gregory Taylor’s RTQE
A track from “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†by Jos Smolders, will be playing tonight at Gregory Taylor’s RTQE at WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin. “Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†will be released next Tuesday. Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording by Jos Smolders
Soon in Crónica: Gintas K’s “Under My Skinâ€
Under My Skin by Gintas K “Under My Skin†will be available as a limited-edition tape or as a digital download.
Futurónica 183
Episode 183 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, January 6th. The playlist of Futurónica 183 is: Coil, Queens of the Circulating Library (2000, Queens of the Circulating Library, Eskaton) Coil, Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) (1999, Musick to …
“Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†reviewed by Vital
A few years ago, Jos Smolders sold all his records, switched off his laptop and invested in the purchase of modular synthesizer parts; a whole lot of them. Simply because it was time to do something new. Before that he worked extensively with tape-machines, found sound and later on with laptop technology to create his …