Pareil pour les oeuvres de Martijn Tellinga, clairement un compositeur “contemporainâ€, qui écrit pour trombones, pour contrebasses, pour le public uniquement (bien un concept de musique contemporaine, ça). Mais puisqu’il écrit également pour le lieu où ces actions (et non pas interprétations) prennent place, puisque dans son écriture il privilégie d’abord le lieu, et que …
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De l’enregistrement comme matériau. Pour cet artiste sonore britannique, l’utilisation de l’enregistrement dans tous ses états, même les plus extrêmes, est un credo. Allant jusqu’à leurs défauts, et l’échec de leur reproduction. en plus de leur utilisation dans un cadre artistique, il lie son travail à la pédagogie et réalise de nombreux ateliers d’écoute et …
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Episode 177 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, October 14th. The playlist of Futurónica 177 is: Raffaele Mariconte, Alcoholic Fermentation (2016, So(E)nology, Galaverna) Gary Burton, Solo Guitar Improvisation (2006, SuperTexture, Sijis) Raffaele Mariconte, Wires and Winds (2016, …
Amusio has just published a lengthy interview with Vitor Joaquim on his work, particularly the latest “Geographyâ€, recently released by Crónica. Read it (in German) at amusio.com
I have to state that I am a little bit in love with this album. Fusing Found Sound and composed media, Tamtam’s work “Urban Dialog†is a series of compositions that have a common thread of being based on field recordings from different urban situations. For each piece a set of sounds is chosen and …
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Crónica is elated to present the new release from Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl’s project, TAMTAM, “Urban Dialogâ€, now available as a free download. Sam Auinger (sonic thinker, composer, and sound artist) and Hannes Strobl (bass player, composer, and sound artist) refer to their work as a practice where the sound environment becomes the instrument, …
Background noises get typically considered a disturbing element of live recordings, but I won’t say the same for this output, capturing a solo improvisational session by German (even if he resides in Lisbon since a long time) cellist and composer Ulrich Mitzlaff in a spacey hall nearby the motorway close to Humberto Delgado Airport in …
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Continua la sequenza di interessanti pubblicazioni della lusitana Cronica che per l’occasione propone il nuovo lavoro di Vitor Joaquim, ispiratissimo artista portoghese che compone anche per documentari, video installazioni e altro ancora. Quando poi dal vivo non è supportato da immagini, Joaquim ama esibirsi completamente al buio proprio perché vuole stimolare la fantasia e i …
