Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais

“Everything Emanating from the Sun” reviewed by againstthesilence.com

Ύπουλο χτύπημα χαμηλού βαρομετρικού με μια σύνθεση που ισορροπεί μεταξύ μυστηρίου και διάλεξης περί πειραματισμού στη μουσική. Κάπως έτσι θα μπορούσε να περιγράφεται το άλμπουμ του Γιώργη Σακελλαρίου. Συνήθως σε ανάλογες περιπτώσεις όπου έχουμε μια μοναδική σύνθεση-γίγας που καταλαμβάνει τη διάρκεια ενός άλμπουμ, στη περίπτωση μας μετράμε τριανταένα λεπτά, δεν μένουν και πολλά να ειπωθούν. …

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“Roha” reviewed by nitestylez.de

Another one that’s soon to come on Portugal’s Cronica Electronica-imprint is the labels cat.no. 105, Andreas Trobollowitsch’ eight track album piece “Roha”. On this album we see the 1980-born artist combine elements of droning, (neo)classical compository techniques with an electro-acoustic approach, close contact pick-up microphones and prepared instruments, preferrably but not exclusively taken from the …

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Futurónica 160

Episode 160 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, February 19th. The playlist of Futurónica 160 is: Simon Whetham, Against Nature [1] (2016, Against Nature, Crónica) Simon Whetham, Against Nature [2] (2016, Against Nature, Crónica) Simon Whetham, Against …

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“Against Nature” reviewed by nitestylez.de

Soon to come as cat.no. 103 of the Portoguese Cronica Electronica-imprint is Simon Whetham’s most recent album entitled “Against Nature” which consists of five takes of the same name, all recorded and generated throughout his residency at the Agder Kunstsenter in Kristiansand / Norway in late 2013. “Against Nature [1]” is a quiet, partly repetetive …

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New release: Simon Whetham’s “Against Nature”

It’s always a good strategy to open with a salvo of tension, dynamics and volatility. The threat of another will continue to loom throughout the following, lending a disquiet to even the most minimal of passages. Such is the unveiling of these five chapters in a highly refined practice of telescoping sound from the British …

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“Against Nature” reviewed by Le Son du Grisli

Une façon peut-être de s’éloigner du field recording pur… Simon Whetham joue ici contre nature : cinq fois, à partir de sons attrapés en compagnie d’Agder Kunstsenter en Norvège entre octobre et novembre 2013. La branche sur laquelle il se pose n’est donc plus réaliste : pas concrète non plus, puisque l’électronique la travaille. Souffles …

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“Gamelan Descending a Staircase” reviewed by Neural

Gamelan Descending a Staircase is a composition of over fifty minutes whose instrumental sound materials were recorded at the Museum Dahlem Ethnologisches in the summer of 2013, during a research visit. A wide variety of Indonesian gamelan orchestra instruments were recorded specially for the occasion and later assembled into one surround sound composition that was …

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“Gamelan Descending a Staircase” reviewed by Bad Alchemy

Der 33-jährige litauische Klanginstallateur und Composer-Performer nimmt hier Marcel Duchamps ‘Nu descendant un escalier’ von 1912 als Inspiration für eine klangliche Analogie. Zerlegt in Myriaden tröpfelnder Partikel lässt er eine Klanggestalt endlos eine Treppe herunter kommen. Als eine Kaskade von perkussiven Schritten, die das nackte Steigen, die Bewegung als zimmerwährenden Zustand suggeriert. Als Spielfeld nutzte …

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