Opisanie muzyki zawartej na najnowszej pÅ‚ycie litewskiego kompozytora nie jest Å‚atwe. Przy obcowaniu z wiÄ™kszÄ… częściÄ… jego dorobku bardzo ważna okazuje siÄ™ być znajomość kontekstu w jakich dany utwór powstaÅ‚. Bez tego dość ciężko nakreÅ›lić charakter samej muzyki. Z jednej strony powinna ona bronić siÄ™ samodzielnie, bez wzglÄ™du na okolicznoÅ›ci. Jednak kiedy dla samego artysty …
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‘Against Nature’, comprises of five tracks with the same title (that of the album). Coupled with a press release that provides more in a literary context than its audio companion could ever, can make your mind boggle as to just what medication people are on (or should be). Regardless of the reference to the decadent …
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Ύπουλο χτÏπημα Ï‡Î±Î¼Î·Î»Î¿Ï Î²Î±ÏομετÏÎ¹ÎºÎ¿Ï Î¼Îµ μια σÏνθεση που ισοÏÏοπεί Î¼ÎµÏ„Î±Î¾Ï Î¼Ï…ÏƒÏ„Î·Ïίου και διάλεξης πεÏί πειÏÎ±Î¼Î±Ï„Î¹ÏƒÎ¼Î¿Ï ÏƒÏ„Î· μουσική. Κάπως Îτσι θα μποÏοÏσε να πεÏιγÏάφεται το άλμπουμ του ΓιώÏγη ΣακελλαÏίου. Συνήθως σε ανάλογες πεÏιπτώσεις όπου Îχουμε μια μοναδική σÏνθεση-γίγας που καταλαμβάνει τη διάÏκεια ενός άλμπουμ, στη πεÏίπτωση μας μετÏάμε Ï„ÏιανταÎνα λεπτά, δεν μÎνουν και πολλά να ειπωθοÏν. …
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Another one that’s soon to come on Portugal’s Cronica Electronica-imprint is the labels cat.no. 105, Andreas Trobollowitsch’ eight track album piece “Roha”. On this album we see the 1980-born artist combine elements of droning, (neo)classical compository techniques with an electro-acoustic approach, close contact pick-up microphones and prepared instruments, preferrably but not exclusively taken from the …
Soon to come as cat.no. 103 of the Portoguese Cronica Electronica-imprint is Simon Whetham’s most recent album entitled “Against Nature” which consists of five takes of the same name, all recorded and generated throughout his residency at the Agder Kunstsenter in Kristiansand / Norway in late 2013. “Against Nature [1]” is a quiet, partly repetetive …
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Une façon peut-être de s’éloigner du field recording pur… Simon Whetham joue ici contre nature : cinq fois, à partir de sons attrapés en compagnie d’Agder Kunstsenter en Norvège entre octobre et novembre 2013. La branche sur laquelle il se pose n’est donc plus réaliste : pas concrète non plus, puisque l’électronique la travaille. Souffles …
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Gamelan Descending a Staircase is a composition of over fifty minutes whose instrumental sound materials were recorded at the Museum Dahlem Ethnologisches in the summer of 2013, during a research visit. A wide variety of Indonesian gamelan orchestra instruments were recorded specially for the occasion and later assembled into one surround sound composition that was …
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Der 33-jährige litauische Klanginstallateur und Composer-Performer nimmt hier Marcel Duchamps ‘Nu descendant un escalier’ von 1912 als Inspiration für eine klangliche Analogie. Zerlegt in Myriaden tröpfelnder Partikel lässt er eine Klanggestalt endlos eine Treppe herunter kommen. Als eine Kaskade von perkussiven Schritten, die das nackte Steigen, die Bewegung als zimmerwährenden Zustand suggeriert. Als Spielfeld nutzte …
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This is the first release of a forthcoming Crónica series called Corollaries: works that were produced as part of the Active Crossover residency curated by Simon Whetham: ‘a platform to investigate further ways of capturing, creating, composing and performing in sound’. “Igor Stravinsky talked about the pleasure of listening to the sounds of nature, however …
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Nonostante una discografia vasta quanto variegata, mai su queste pagine si è scritto di Arturas Bumsteinas, compositore lituano in grado di muoversi col medesimo talento e disinvoltura tra sperimentazione elettronica e neoclassica. Viene a proposito “Gamelas Desdending a Staircaseâ€, che tra l’altro sancisce il centesimo titolo della portoghese Crónica, a sottolineare nuovamente la poliedrici di …
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