The landscape drawn by 39 sound artists working around the radio theme – not necessarily with radio sounds, even if most tracks use them – is one of nebulous and functional extravagance; shortwaves and speech snippets but also electronic currents, concise statements and luminescent memories find their place in compositions of (maximum) 2 minutes length …
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Electroakustischer Travelogue eines in Brisbane beheimateten Musikers und Medienkünstlers mit Stationen in Brisbane, Auckland, Adelaide, Bangalore, Budi Koti und Singapore. Was für Cook und Tasman einst Fahrten ins Ungewisse und in den Tod waren, ist für Leute von Heute nichts als touristisches Streunen, das an Städten und Landschaften schnuppert wie an den Blumentöpfen im Hinterhof. …
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Já houve um tempo em que a rádio era levada para o palco: John Cage fê-lo há umas boas décadas. Hoje, poucos mais a usam em concerto para além de Keith Rowe, que tem por hábito encostar um transÃstor à s cordas da guitarra. Do mesmo modo, o termo alemão “horspiel†para designar uma obra sonora/musical …
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Prêt à réévaluer l’espace qui le sépare de l’enregistrement à ravir afin de définitivement se mettre en marche, Lawrence English a récemment rempli quelques cassettes d’atmosphères glanées dans des coins de son Australie, mais aussi en Nouvelle-Zélande, en Inde et à Singapour. Restait ensuite, pour en faire Happiness Will Befall, de traiter le tout au …
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L’islandese Heimir Björgúlfsson e lo svedese Jonas Ohlsson sono due simpatici individui, da tempo radicati nella creazione di sfondi sonori elettronici; Björgúlfsson è impegnato tra l’altro nell’intricato campo delle installazioni audio-visive. Entrambi con fissa dimora nella stravagante Amsterdam fanno confluire in “King Glitch†una serie di registrazioni, precedentemente licenziate per una raccolta della Staalplaat, con …
Agitatore culturale tra i più attivi del nuovissimo continente (sua la cura dei festival What Is Music? e Liquid Architecture, nonché la gestione dell’etichetta Room40), l’australiano Lawrence English è anche compositore di talento. Il suo nuovo album per la portoghese Crónica lo vede trafficare con chitarra e computer, più vari aggeggi di contorno, nell’allestimento di …
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Room 40 is het geesteskind van Lawrence English. Het Australische avant-garde label bracht plaatwerk uit van DJ Olive, Zane Throw en recent nog van het Japanese elfje Tujiko Noriko. Voorlopig hoogtepunt van hel label is de verzamelaar “Melatonin”. Een metalen box, installatie en een tentoonstelling die inzoomde op splaappatronen en bijdrages bevatte van onder andere …
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Lawrence English’s “Ghost Towns” [Room 40] was a personal revelation to me. This Australian sound artist basically visited a number of ghost towns in the back lands of his native land to uncover sounds that are barely audible to the human ear. This time around, his newest release “Happiness Will Befall” is more concerned with …
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I regret I don’t know English’s back catalogue, which ranges from concrete music to electronica to guitar-based compositions, as this album on Crónica is a real treat. Recorded in his native Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South India, and lavishly accompanied by Aki Onda’s photographs, “Happiness Will Befall” is a collection of intimistic minimal music …
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Sarà la primavera.. anzi sarà che è già estate.. fatto sta che anche la portoghese Crónica avverte quest’aria solare, calda e gioiosa e anche i suoi artisti rispondi agli umori estivi con prodotti altrettanto estivi.. e per un attimo ci si stacca dalla sperimentazione grigia e surreale per gettarsi tra le onde più fresche e …
