Category Archives: Reviews
Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les Fantômes” reviewed by Music Map
Credete ai fantasmi? Se sì, questo disco può spaventarvi. Altrimenti, può affascinarvi. L’artista francese Bruno Duplant è un compositore e polistrumentista che si è fatto conoscere nel campo della musique concrète. Tradotto: la musica concreta non utilizza né note né ritmi. Elabora suoni e rumori per restituire una parvenza di realtà oggettiva, per l’appunto concreta. Fin …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Loop
Researcher and sound artist Matilde Meireles focuses on using field recordings to compose about various ecosystems such as complex aquatic ecologies, the resonances of everyday objects, local neighbourhoods and the architecture of radio signals. Her work is presented in concerts, installations, record releases, community projects and academic publications. She holds a PhD in Sonic Arts …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by African Paper
Crónica bringen eine neue CD des britischen “Environmental Sound Artist” Simon Whetham heraus. “Successive Actions” ist eine Wiederholung einer größeren kinetischen Soundperformance-Projektreihe, in der laut Label “verschiedene aus veralteter und weggeworfener Verbrauchertechnologie geborgene Motorgeräte durch das Abspielen von Tonaufnahmen aktiviert werden. Dadurch entstehen wiederum neue Klänge aus den Geräten, die mit verschiedenen Mikrofonen und Techniken …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Aural Aggravation
Simon Whetham’s latest work is a fascinating hybrid which incorporates found sounds and elements of layering in order to create a whole other world, a different dimension. The album itself is part of a larger project, which is more readily explained through quotation than a stumbling stab at paraphrase: Successive Actions is an iteration of …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Chain DLK
In “Loop. And Again.”, Matilde Meireles invites listeners on a journey through Belfast’s hidden electromagnetic undercurrents, each track a sonic impression of the city’s humming, droning core. The album emerges from her research project “X Marks the Spot”, where Meireles mapped telecommunications boxes whose ambient emissions formed unexpected symphonies across Belfast. Through three immersive tracks …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Anxious
Successive Actions to iteracja szerszej serii kinetycznych performansów dźwiękowych, w których różne urządzenia silnikowe, odzyskane z przestarzałych i wyrzuconych technologii konsumenckich, są aktywowane za pomocą odtwarzanych przez nie nagrań dźwiękowych. To z kolei generuje nowe dźwięki z urządzeń, które są wzmacniane za pomocą różnych mikrofonów i technik. Tytuł pochodzi z książki Dirka Raaijmakersa The Art of Reading …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by The Wire
Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” featured on Bandcamp Daily
Residents of Belfast may have noticed strange signs pasted onto telecommunication boxes around their neighborhoods in the past decade. One such sign, on Balfour Avenue, read: “Producing a continuous sound composed of: 92Hz, 120Hz, 178Hz, 235Hz, 408Hz, 580Hz, 1184Hz, 1327Hz, 3282Hz.” These were the work of Matilde Meireles, a sound artist and researcher whose X Marks the Spot project …
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“Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds” reviewed by Neural
Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context, supporting ecological sensitivity, giving life to significant sound experiences, and in iconic spaces, designing routes that guide visitors through them, while at the same time encouraging reflection …
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