KUNRAD arbeitet als Klangkünstler in Den Haag mit Metall, Papier und Lehm und bei seinen Installationen etwa mit 1.000 kleinen Messingröhrchen, ins Wasser geworfenen Steinen oder Gummihämmern mit einer Brücke als Klangskulptur. Das hört man als ‘Brass & Sand’, ‘Stones & Water’ und ‘Bridge & Hammer’ auf Kleine Geluiden (C 230), neben der 3-teiligen ‘Water & Paper …
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For Percussion is a collection of six electronic tracks with various acoustic elements incorporated into the recordings. Some of these tracks were recorded live during performances from 2002 to 2008, while others have been recently revisited in 2022. The electronic components and core compositions were created by @c a duo composed of Miguel Carvalhais and …
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Some years ago Miguel A. García informed me he was starting to work with string ensembles and classical players, directing musicians who can sight-read music to play his scores or execute directions in music devised by him. This represented quite a departure from his usual solo work with laptops, mixing desk, and processed recordings. I keep hoping …
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“Kleine Geluiden”, das neue Album des niederländischen Künstlers Kunrad alias Koenraad L. de Groot, erscheint am 18. Februar bei Crónica als limitierte CD und digitaler Download. Die Veröffentlichung kompiliert Aufnahmen aus seinen Klanginstallationen und Performances der letzten sechs Jahre, in denen er, wie er es beschreibt, “die kleinen, oft überhörten Klänge unseres Alltags feiert und …
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Four contemporary field-recording types from Portugal on Lisboa Soa: Sounds within Sounds (CRÓNICA207-2023). Lisboa Soa calls itself a Festival, but it seems to be a lot more than that – growing some sort of locus for like-minded fellows to gather and thrive, and propounding the notion of “acoustic ecology”, grounded in ethical ideas about our shared environment. They believe …
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A new album by Philippe Petit, and they come by quite often these days. “Closing Our Eyes” is a 45-minute exploration of the boundaries between acoustic and electronic music, one of Philippe’s recurrent exercises. The promo sheet we always get with Crónica releases gives a little overview. He started with recontextualising Mahler’s first symphony, ‘Cordophony’, …
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‘Kleine Geluiden’ is Dutch and means ‘small sounds, ‘ which leads me to think Kunrad might also be Dutch. Of course, it might not be accurate, but he is. He has a Bachelor of Music in Composition for Electronic Music at the University of the Arts Utrecht and a Master of Music at the Interfaculty …
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Miguel Carvalhais en Pedro Tudela, de mannen achter het Portugese Crónica, vormen sinds 2000 samen ook een duo: @c. De twee zijn vooral bekend door hun installaties, waarvan een paar jaar geleden ook een fraai boek, met de doeltreffende titel ‘Installations’ uitkwam. Uit mijn recensie citeer ik hier nogmaals hun opmerking over dit genre: “an installation a holistic work …
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Terug naar de elektronica, met een bijzonder project van Jos Smolders: ‘Textuur’. Het eerste album ‘Textuur 1 [numbers 1-9]’ verscheen bij Moving Furniture Records, het tweede, ‘Textuur 2 [ |||| – – – – ]’ en derde, ‘Textuur 3 [Register]’ kwamen uit bij Crónica, waarbij de laatste louter als download. Een bijzonder project waarin Smolders “Investigate(s) processes with which to strip sounds …
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“Has it ever happened to you while passing by a familiar place that you noticed or heard something for the first time? Something that was always there but because you were not attentive enough it passed unnoticed?”That’s the kind of introduction that triggers anyone devoted to ‘ambient’ (music and) sound. It is also the introduction to X …
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