David Lee Myers, the composer of Reduced To A Geometrical Point, is quick to point out that he is not really a fan of “music for meditation”, although he has noticed that some audio constructions seem to encourage a position of staying in the moment. It is the simple truth of being “reduced to a …
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Øyvind Brandtsegg søler på kjøkkenet. Han tar mjøl, krydder og en del andre kjøkkenprodukter, drysser dem utover en glassplate og setter på strøm. Slikt blir det bråk av. Brandtsegg er professor i musikkteknologi ved NTNU og en nestor i den punkete DIY-glade musikk-avantgarden i Trondheim. Han spiller på «instrumentet» sitt med å bikke fatet i ulike …
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«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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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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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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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 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 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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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 …
