Category Archives: Reviews

Øyvind Brandtsegg’s “Persistent Disequilibrium” reviewed by Salt Peanuts

«Persistent Disequilibrium» is a new sound art project of Norwegian experimental composer-scholar-educator Øyvind Brandtsegg. Brandtsegg devised a set of new musical instruments where finger-mounted piezo contact pickups are used with transducers on vibrating plate-like objects (metals, plastics, wood, ceramics, concrete, glass, bioplastics and even human bones in a living body) to explore intimate resonances by …

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Gintas K’s “Lėti” reviewed by Aural Aggravation

Having seen various videos of Gintas K’s improvisations, involving a keyboard and a dusty old Lenovo ThinkPad running some custom software, it’s apparent that his approach to composition is nothing if not unusual, and it’s matched by the results.  His Crónica debut, Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound was sixteen years ago, …

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Gintas K’s “Lėti” reviewed by African Paper

Der litauische Klang-, Performance- und Konzeptkünstler Gintas Kraptavičius alias Gintas K bringt dieser Tage ein neues Tape heraus. “Lėti”, das im Litauischen “langsam” bedeutet, enthält elf Miniaturen, gebaut aus filigranen Sounddetails unterschiedlichster Herkunft, die einer ebensolchen Vielfalt an Bearbeitungsstufen unterzogen wurden und in ihrer finalen Gestalt einer großen Wunderkammer gleichen, in der man bei jedem …

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Gintas K’s “Lėti” reviewed by Classical Music Daily

This is my second review of the works of Gintas K, a fascinating and innovative sound artist, born in Lithuania in 1969 and a person who has generated considerable interest. As with the previous album I reviewed, this electronic music work needs a good sound system or headphones and a nice quiet environment to truly …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Life of a Potato” reviewed by Felthat

Matilde Meireles is a recordist, sound artist, and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her projects often have a multi-sensorial approach to ‘site’ which draws from her studies and experience in areas such as field-recording, site-specific visual arts and design. Her latest album is an in-depth study of potato in …

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Mad Disc’s “Material Compositions” reviewed by Inactuelles

Mad Disc est le projet solo du musicien japonais Takamichi Murata, batteur et percussionniste. Impliqué dans plusieurs groupes, dont le sien, il a collaboré avec de nombreux improvisateurs et compositeurs. Dans Material Compositions, il joue non seulement de la batterie et des percussions diverses, mais fait intervenir l’électronique et les synthétiseurs pour retravailler le son. Material Composition 1 commence …

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Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s “Installations / Instalações” book reviewed by Field Notes

The sound artists Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais have been working together for more than two decades and have released an almost incalculable number of releases under the name @c to document their musical work. High time then for their label Crónica to also dedicate the book »Installations / Instalações« to them in order to document and comment on …

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Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s “Installations / Instalações” book reviewed by Bad Alchemy

Installations: LMY-7-10 (Crónica 179~2022, digital) von @c ist Musik, um dazu „Installations / Instalações“ (Crónica 181~2022 / i2ADS, 210 p Book) von MIGUEL CARVALHAIS & PEDRO TUDELA zu lesen, den beiden Crónica-Machern, deren klanginstallatives Werk da von 2005 an essayistisch und illustrativ aufgefächert wird. Die Musik entspricht der beim Fes- tival Serralves em Festa in …

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