Auf dem portugiesischen Crónica-Label erschien soeben mit Nowhere ein sowohl physische als wahrscheinliche auch physikalische Kapazitäten grenzwertig strapazierendes Konvolut aus mehrdeutigen Erfahrungswerten an synaptischer Konnektivität. Was der Klangkünstler Jos Smolders von Tilburg aus verantwortet, rührt in seiner assoziativen Anmutung an den Versuch einer Vergewisserung unbefleckter Integrität. Sicherlich ist der Titel dieser Zusammenstellung insgesamt nachvollziehbar und …
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“Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†reviewed by Silence and Sound
S’il aime comparer son travail à celui du calligraphe, Jos Smolders sculpte les sons plus qu’il ne les peint, composant des structures au fluxes mouvants, où glitches scintillants et bruitages familiers forment un tout à la précision abstraite. Car l’abstraction est ici partout et ailleurs, comme poussée par ces sons qui changent de consistance, à …
“Geography†reviewed by RNE 3 Atmosfera
Vitor Joaquim es un gran amigo de Atmósfera. Le conocimos en el festival Semibreve y desde entonces hemos seguido su carrera con gran interés. Vitor Joaquim es un experimentador del laptop y artista visual y sonoro que comenzó improvisando música en directo y trabajando en danza contemporánea a finales de los 80. Desde entonces, Vitor …
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“Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording†reviewed by Bad Alchemy
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 …
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