Dopo aver lavorato negli anni novanta nel campo dell’acusmatica e della sperimentazione multimediale, Monty Adkins nella scorsa decade si è avvicinato ad una formula espressiva più intimista, concentrandosi su un’idea di elettronica eterea e minimale. A questo stesso contesto appartiene la musica di “Unfurling Streamsâ€, basata su alcune registrazioni di percussioni rielaborate elettronicamente e trasformate …
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Verso la fine dello scorso anno, Attilio Novellino e Saverio Rosi (Sentimental Machines) hanno pubblicato il frutto di una serie di improvvisazioni condotte insieme a Rob Mazurek e Tim Barnes. Le due lunghe tracce delle quali si componeva quel lavoro, “Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appearâ€, avevano avuto come teatro un luogo di …
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Basate sulle registrazioni di strumenti a percussione realizzate dal britannico Monty Adkins (compositore, performer e professore di musica elettronica sperimentale, co-direttore artistico del Electric Spring Festival) in collaborazione con Jonny Axelsson, le composizioni contenute in questo “Unfurling Streams†si ispirano alle liriche di E. E. Cummings: “for whatever we lose (like a you or a …
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On peut toujours s’enorgueillir à dire que la musique acousmatique a surtout trouvé racine en France mais, c’est comme le rock aujourd’hui, elle s’est développée un peu partout et elle n’est plus l’apanage d’un seul pays. Et c’est heureux. C’est en tout cas le signe d’une musique qui continue à vivre mais aussi qu’elle est …
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Machines are fascinating musicians. Tirelessly they can produce the same rhythm for years on end. Sometimes I wonder about the first machines and the noises they made. Didn’t people recognize the repetitive cadance? Did they dance to it? Did industrial music originate from, well, the industry? Over the years field recording and experimental artists have …
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From one black box to another: large, black and—unless you tilt it to the light—anonymous, within which is contained Unfurling Streams, a new sound/image work created by Monty Adkins and Stephen Harvey. The two collaborated on last year’s Rift Patterns, and this new work displays the same close attention to the intricate, intimate marriage of …
The mechanical syntagms and the cycles where the transformation of potential energy into kinetic ones by old looms that Mathias Delplanque recorded at the museum of textile in Cholet, France, in 2008 for the first half of this release and by many different tools and machines that some students who took part to his workshop …
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Chyba nigdy dotÄ…d, żaden muzyczny eksperyment, bardziej adekwatnie nie oddawaÅ‚ terminu “owadzia elektronika”, jak elektroakustyczny koncept duetu Porcje RosoÅ‚owe. To twierdzenie mogÅ‚oby być zasadne, gdyby nie pewien szkopuÅ‚. Owadów tu nie ma. W marcowym wydaniu Kwartalnika Kulturalnego “Opcje”, ukazaÅ‚ siÄ™ intrygujÄ…cy tekst RadosÅ‚awa Sirko “DźwiÄ™k w kontekÅ›cie post- i transhumanizmu. Muzyka zwierzÄ…t, roÅ›lin, komputerów”, bÄ™dÄ…cy …
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If you check the back catalogue of Monty Adkins (which I definitely think you should), you’ll find that he often chooses a single instrument to work with and then starts exploring its possibilities and manipulating its sounds. And while the starting point and sounds are very different to begin with, he manages to create a …
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El Segundo trabajo que escuchamos esta noche es uno de esos contenidos impactantes y densos del que os hemos preparado un montaje para que podáis apreciar en unos pocos minutos todo el desarrollo y la envergadura del proyecto de Alexander Rishaug. El músico experimental y artista sonoro noruego Alexander Rishaug acaba de entregar su quinto …
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