“Everything emanating from the Sun which is Divine Love is called spiritual; everything emanating from the sun which is fire is natural.”. Greek electronic music composer Yiorgis Sakellariou took the first sentence of these lines by which Swedish scientist, mystic, theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg tried to explain the link between spiritual world and natural …
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Austriacki eksperymentator wÅ‚aÅ›nie wydaÅ‚ swój pierwszy solowy album. Andreasa Trobollowitscha należy kojarzyć z projektami Nörz i Acker Velvet. PÅ‚ytÄ™ tego drugiego przedsiÄ™wziÄ™cia opublikowaÅ‚a warszawska wytwórnia Monotype Records. Artysta korzysta z różnego instrumentarium (m.in. kontrabas, gitara elektryczna), ale na tym nie poprzestaje i czÄ™sto projektuje wÅ‚asne instrumenty, których brzmienia przepuszcza przez elektronikÄ™. Ważnym skÅ‚adnikiem kompozycji Trobollowitscha …
It’s not a criticism to state that oftentimes, the material on Roha feels more like a collection of sounds than a succession of actual compositions. There’s a certain randomness about the sounds, which range from clanking, arrhythmic percussive sounds, squeaks, tweets and flutters, groans and drones and distant, barely audible and completely indecipherable speech. There …
De verwachtingen zijn hoog gespannen. De Litouwse componist Arturas Bumsteinas heeft een behoorlijke reputatie opgebouwd met elektronische muziek en crossmediale projecten. Als hij een cd uitbrengt met de titel ‘Gamelan Descending a Staircase’ roept dat uiteenlopende associaties op. Met dat schilderij van Marcel Duchamp, dat de bewegingen van een omlaag lopend naakt probeert te vangen. …
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Crónica presents Everything Emanating from the Sun, a single track CD by Yiorgis Sakellariou. Sakellariou is a long-running experimental composer and musician based out of Athens, Greece. On this outing, he receives some additional sounds courtesy of Simon Whetham and John Grzinich. This release marks the first in a series called Corollaries, compiling works produced …
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“…the real-world sounds are transformed into elements that make up some part of a musical experience, and this is a kind of appropriation of their identities… Even in a piece in which the source sounds are so heavily processed as to be unrecognizable… the fact remains that specific sounds are being used, and by extension, …
Det absolut første, man undrer sig over, nÃ¥r man sætter den seneste plade fra den engelske lydkunstner Simon Whetham pÃ¥, er titlen. Han har ad flere omgange ydet bidrag til det fremragende radioprogram Framework, som i mange Ã¥r har arbejdet for at udbrede kendskab og kærlighed til lydkunst, field recordings og naturlyde. Fra en kunstner, …
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Simon Whetham has a considerable history of taking sound recordings – often environmental sounds – and working them into something unrecognisable, by means of various sonic and software mutations. Against Nature emerged from an exploration of what Whetham describes as ‘errors and failures’, using ‘badly built microphones, over-burdened amplifiers, motors driven by sound impulses, misbehaving …
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Mit Roha (Crónica) entzieht sich Andreas Trobollowitsch jener formalen Vorgaben, die seine bisherigen Veröffentlichungen, darunter auch die mit Nörz und Acker Velvet, aus einer dezidiert elektroakustisch generierten Perspektive argumentieren ließen. Seine Manipulationen von primär improvisierten Ausgangsmaterial bringt den Klangforscher hier nun in die Nähe dessen, was gemeinhin als „Musik“ verstanden und rezipiert wird. Ein Zug, …
If field recordings are often the attempt to freeze-frame nature in all its everlasting purity, then Simon Whetham’s latest album of manipulated ambient is decidedly Against Nature. Conceived as part of his ongoing project to record certain environmental sounds and then allow incidental disturbances to creep into their engineering/mixing/production, the Londoner’s new collection of five …
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