Vitor Joaquim, Porto’s celebrated laptop geomancer, tries to nail it all down with Geography, which sounds like a statement of intent. The opening title track confirms his intentions, as it arrives with sampled speech from some sort of space mission documentary. It’s as if Joaquim is pulling back to show us the planet in its …
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Dopo trent’anni di pratica compositiva — a partire da THU20 sino alla pura ricerca sulle componenti struturalli del suono — passando attraverso varie esperienze a margine da co-editore di Vital Magazine e da fondatore della piattaforma web EARlabs.org, Jos Smolders negli ultimi anni ha applicato alla propria produzione artistica le pratiche Zen a cui si è …
GRM Absolvent Emmanuel Mieville betätigt sich auf “Juryo†als Veranstalter und Leiter einer akustischen Rundreise durch Asien — und liefert als Bonus eine Verbeugung vor Antonin Artauds Buch “Héliogabale, Ou, L’Anarchiste Couronné†ab. Diese eröffnet “Juryo†mit zittrigen Klängen aus dem Ringmodulator. Die Harmonien stehen kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch und man muss nicht allzu genau …
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The modular synthesizer has always been a remarkable instrument: a huge panel of boxes with knobs and sliders, with components that can be replaced, converted and connected at will. I would imagine that playing such a machine is quite similar to steering a space ship, and that compulsive players of flight simulation games must have …
A modern city is an ocean of sounds, techno universe, with its unique atmosphere, sound landscapes and environment. The album starts with the track Nocturnal Rainbow Rising, which approaches and grows on you, slowly, like the first shadows of a summer evening, and then it gets dark. Very near you can hear a sea, feel …
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Nicht zuletzt als Partizipant eines französischen Gamelan-Orchesters unterstrich der aus Paris stammende Emmanuel Mieville seine breit gefächerte Kenntnis fernöstlicher Musiktraditionen. Nun verweist schon der Titel seiner Veröffentlichung – Juryo: Durée De La Vie L’Ainsi-Venu (Crónica) – auf die mannigfaltigen Verquickungen, die sein akademisch der musique concrète zuzuschlagende Forschergeist angeht. Handelt es sich bei „Juryo“ doch …
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And finally Luca Forcucci, of which no information was yet available. His cassette was composed and mixed in places INA-GRM, Electronic Music Studio TU (Berlin) and Atomic Lady (Earth). Maybe his composition ‘The Waste Land’ is inspired by T.S. Eliott’s poem of the same name, about the decay of life, and listening to the title …
Gintas K, from Lithuania, who has been around for many years, has used no field recordings on his new release. Instead he uses ‘digital synthesis’. I am not sure if an input of any kind is needed here, but maybe it is all in some sort of feedback process, where sounds bounce back and forth …
Music releases by Paris born and based composer Emmanuel Mieville are quite apart (Vital Weekly 803 and 1000 for instance) and has a strong emphasis on field recordings and this one is no different. Mieville had training in sound engineering in a film school and later on at INA-GRM, but also played in Javanese gamelan …
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L’album devait sortir courant 2012 chez Kvitnu, il aura finalement fallu quatre ans de plus au Portugais et un retour dans le giron du label Crónica qui publiait 10 ans auparavant son merveilleux Flow pour accoucher de cette ode au déterminisme géographique de nos sociétés et de notre espèce, inspirée par le livre “De l’inégalité …
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