On Paper is perhaps the most strange, uncommercial, unfathomable and difficult releases around. Yet I say that with a strange sense of awe. The concept of mixing and remixing the sounds of paper being ripped, those great big thick, almost cardboard gig posters you see around town, or you would if you lived in Berlin, …
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Cronica continue son lent et passionnant travail d’archivage, compilant / redéployant / réorientant sans relâche ses multiples projets sonores, s’attachant autant que faire ce peu, à parcourir, à détailler la multiplicité des approches émergeantes dans les sphères oubliées des musiques non-conventionnelles, qu’elles soient d’ordre expérimentales, électroacoustiques, ou non directives. 2 nouvelles productions, respectivement étiquetées Cronica …
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What a title, eh? What kind of recorded music could possibly live up to it? The ambitions of this recording are not only hinted at in that grandiose title, but are further elaborated in a deeply pretentious sleeve note. “Aspires to a viral, everpresent omnipresence”, the writer solemnly informs us. “Autodigest arrived in the form …
A priori de qualquer ensaio que seja útil elaborar em redor de A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol.1, é importante dar conta do carácter muito pouco personalizado que um objecto como este álbum encerra. “Written and composed by everyoneâ€, lê-se a dada altura no package do disco. O que é, então, Autodigest? Mais …
Referencing postmodern theorist David Harvey’s concept of “time-space compression” as well as a soupçon of Jean Baudrillard, Autodigest can be interpreted either as a sonic illustration of culture consuming itself or a kind of archive of byte sized flickers from the dying embers of cultural diversity, depending on each syllable you choose to stress in …
Plus qu’un project, Autodigest est un concept porté à son point le plus extrême. Pas d’auteur, pas de dates et pas de lieu de naissance. Juste une ambition démesurée, celle de compiler tout ce qui a jamais été enregistré par l’être humain. On se doute, musicalement, le résultat n’a que peu de chances d’être reconnaisable, …
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Hier ist auch Geduld erforderlich, aber da sich 13 Artists auf 2 Discs abwechseln, geht das sehr gut. Akustisch exploriert wird nur mehr ein Material: Papier. das medienmusikalische Experiment birgt aufgrund seiner spannenden Vielfalt überraschend viele packende Momente, vor allem auf der zeiten CD.
L’idea è curiosa: comprimere all’inverosimile “tutto quanto sia stato mai registrato” in un’ora e un secondo, fino ad avere un risultato sonoro che si dichiara “una sorta di buco negro che ha assorbito ogni suono che sia stato fatto finora” e che nella realtà è un misto tra macelli di digital noise merzbowiano e rarefatta …
Parte-se então para novos processos de abstracção/concretização. É precisamente desta dicotomia entre a abstracção e a concretização que vive a compilação On Paper. É que, partindo de uma realidade concreta – o sample com papel a ser rasgado -, o seu processamento será sempre uma abstracção em relação a esta, bem como a construção de …
Pretentieuze titel natuurlijk, dat A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded. Kan uiteraard nooit kloppen, want niemand kan *alle* opnames die ooit gemaakt zijn bezitten. Misschien bedoelen ze (of hij of zij of wat dan ook, want Autodigest blijft hartstikke anoniem) alle opnames die zij gemaakt hebben. Wat dan weer een stuk plausibeler is, inderdaad. …
