Scheduled for release on January 10th, 2k17 via the Portuguese imprint Cronica is Jos Smolders newest album effort named “Nowhere: Exercises In Modular Synthesis And Field Recording” in which we see the artist stepping away from his usual approach of detailed, thought out composition and exploring a method of letting his electronic devices of mostly …
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Corollaries comes to a conclusion
2016 is coming to a close and with it also the Corollaries series, curated by Simon Whetham, and published monthly by Crónica. Corollaries compiled works from Active Crossover: Mooste, a cross-cultural collaborative residency curated by Whetham and hosted by MoKS, in April and May 2015. All works in this series were composed from material compiled …
“Against Nature†reviewed by Neural
Whether is an experimenter known for his releases on Entr’acte, Helen Scarsdale, Line and baskaru. The field recordist is accustomed to calibrating addictive acoustic explorations of space and resonant objects. The sounds in Against Nature were generated during a residency with Kunstsenter Agder, in Kristiansand, Norway. There are five tracks. The longer ones (the first, …
“Geography†reviewed by Nieuwe Noten
Het Portugese label Crónica is een ware goudmijn voor een ieder die houdt van experimentele elektronische muziek. Eerder kwamen hier reeds Arturas BumÅ¡teinas met ‘Gamelan Descending a Staircase’ en Martijn Tellinga met ‘Positions’ voorbij. Nu ligt er een nieuwe schijf van de eveneens uit Portugal afkomstige laptopkunstenaar Vitor Joaquim. Vitor Joaquim is een man van …
New in the Corollaries series: James Alexander Wyness’s “Igavene Olevikâ€
This is the twelfth release in the series Corollaries, that compiles works resulting from Active Crossover: Mooste, a cross-cultural collaborative residency curated by Simon Whetham and hosted by MoKS, in April and May 2015. Igavene Olevik (the eternal present) draws together a heterogeneous collection of sounds whose various morphogeneses and hastened evolutions, whose brief but …
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Futurónica 182
Episode 182 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, December 23rd. The playlist of Futurónica 182 is: Stephan Mathieu, The Sun is You (2016, Radiance VI: Kepler, Schwebung) Simon Cummings, Study Nº 8 (2016, Studies Vol. 2) Simon …
Soon in Crónica: James Alexander Wyness’s “Igavene Olevikâ€
Soon in Crónica: James Alexander Wyness’s “Igavene Olevikâ€
Futurónica 181
Episode 181 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, December 9th. The playlist of Futurónica 181 is: James Alexander Wyness, Stoch e/a 1 (2016) Troum, Signe du Mirroir (2015, Acouasme, Cold Spring) James Alexander Wyness, Stoch e/a 2 …
“Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†reviewed by Aural Aggravation
In the sphere of experimental and what one may reasonably term ‘fringe’ music, there is something of a propensity for descriptive titles. I’m quite a fan of these kinds of titles. Picking up Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording, I have a reasonable idea of what to expect. Granted, there’s no detail as to …