A new CD by electroacoustician Mathias Delplanque, based this time on sounds from industrial machines – looms and machine-tools. Four pieces: three short ones and a final 40-minute track. The first three pieces are like hors-d’œuvres: sophisticated and elegant. “Part 4†is a monster. You step inside it unsuspecting, as it starts pretty much like …
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Ci sono voluti sei anni a Mathias Delplanque per ultimare il suo nuovo lavoro, Transmissions, da poco pubblicato dalla sempre attiva etichetta portoghese Cronica. Le prime due tracce in scaletta sono nate su Musée du Textile of Cholet nel 2008: suoni meccanici che diventano nei laboratori di Delplanque sinfonie sottomarine in grado di svelare i …
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Mathias Delplanque maakt industrial. Niet van die bonkmuziek in vierkwartsmaats, al dan niet opgesmukt met metalen gitaren en nihilistische eindtijdlyriek. Hij presenteert ware industriële composities: drie korte en een heel lang stuk opgebouwd uit veldopnamen van machinegeluid. Zo te horen is de machinerie in het Textielmuseum van Cholet in prima geoliede conditie. Het raderwerk knarst …
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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the techniques of musique concrète and electro-acoustic composition. A substantial reissue program from Editions Mego and subsequent attention from outside the fields of modern composition has brought particular attention to Groupes Researches de Musicales, Pierre Schaeffer’s influential research organization. Yet, rather than considering the …
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The Crónica imprint presents Never So Alone, a full-length CD by long-running sound artist Simon Whetham. Based out of Bristol, U.K., Whetham’s sonic vocation since 2005 has been laboring with field recordings. This passion has taken him all over the world in search of sounds, from the Amazon Rain Forest to (in the case of …
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Another fine item from Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, already noted earlier this year with his concept album themed on “Sleepâ€. For Meubles (CRÓNICA 081-2013), he’s enlisted a small ensemble of players from Poland and elsewhere, called them the Works and Days Ensemble, and commissioned them to perform the three suites of music. Meubles is a concept album …
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A curious work is Lemuria (CRÓNICA 083-2013), a collaboration between the sound artist Enrico Coniglio from Venice and the photographer and field recordist Giovanni Lami of Ravenna, here working as the duo Lemures. The record is a puzzling mix of field recordings and minimalist drones, and you know how commonplace such methods are these days. …
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C’est toujours avec une certaine délectation que l’on se penche sur un disque du duo portugais @C. Depuis le temps qu’on les suit (c’était à l’époque de V3 qui était déjà leur troisième album), on ne fait que prendre du plaisir à écouter leurs constructions électroniques protéiformes. On en a loupé quelques unes mais globalement, …
Quarz est un projet très particulier dirigé par Alexandr Vatagin que l’on connait pour son travail au sein de Tupolev et Port-Royal. Quarz n’est pas un groupe mais un projet à géométrie variable qui, au fil du temps, a vu passer Nicolas Bernier, Stefan Németh (Radian), Alexander Schubert (Sinebag) et Martin Siewert (Trapist). Du très …
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Ephraim Wegner sort ses productions chez Cronica depuis 2007, mais elles étaient jusque là toutes disponibles en version numérique, notamment sous forme de podcast, et nous en n’avons donc jamais parlé. Eins Bis Sechzehn est un objet un peu particulier, d’un format un peu plus grand qu’un CD mais ne contenant qu’une vingtaine de minutes …
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