Category Archives: Reviews

Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by African Paper

Crónica bringen eine neue CD des britischen “Environmental Sound Artist” Simon Whetham heraus. “Successive Actions” ist eine Wiederholung einer größeren kinetischen Soundperformance-Projektreihe, in der laut Label “verschiedene aus veralteter und weggeworfener Verbrauchertechnologie geborgene Motorgeräte durch das Abspielen von Tonaufnahmen aktiviert werden. Dadurch entstehen wiederum neue Klänge aus den Geräten, die mit verschiedenen Mikrofonen und Techniken …

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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Aural Aggravation

Simon Whetham’s latest work is a fascinating hybrid which incorporates found sounds and elements of layering in order to create a whole other world, a different dimension. The album itself is part of a larger project, which is more readily explained through quotation than a stumbling stab at paraphrase: Successive Actions is an iteration of …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Chain DLK

In “Loop. And Again.”, Matilde Meireles invites listeners on a journey through Belfast’s hidden electromagnetic undercurrents, each track a sonic impression of the city’s humming, droning core. The album emerges from her research project “X Marks the Spot”, where Meireles mapped telecommunications boxes whose ambient emissions formed unexpected symphonies across Belfast. Through three immersive tracks …

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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Anxious

Successive Actions to iteracja szerszej serii kinetycznych performansów dźwiękowych, w których różne urządzenia silnikowe, odzyskane z przestarzałych i wyrzuconych technologii konsumenckich, są aktywowane za pomocą odtwarzanych przez nie nagrań dźwiękowych. To z kolei generuje nowe dźwięki z urządzeń, które są wzmacniane za pomocą różnych mikrofonów i technik. Tytuł pochodzi z książki Dirka Raaijmakersa The Art of Reading …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” featured on Bandcamp Daily

Residents of Belfast may have noticed strange signs pasted onto telecommunication boxes around their neighborhoods in the past decade. One such sign, on Balfour Avenue, read: “Producing a continuous sound composed of: 92Hz, 120Hz, 178Hz, 235Hz, 408Hz, 580Hz, 1184Hz, 1327Hz, 3282Hz.” These were the work of Matilde Meireles, a sound artist and researcher whose X Marks the Spot project …

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“Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds” reviewed by Neural

Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context, supporting ecological sensitivity, giving life to significant sound experiences, and in iconic spaces, designing routes that guide visitors through them, while at the same time encouraging reflection …

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Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les Fantômes” reviewed by Chain DLK

Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les fantômes” is an immersive journey that sits at the intersection of sound art, memory, and the imagination. A prolific composer from Northern France, Duplant draws inspiration from literary figures such as Gaston Bachelard and Stéphane Mallarmé, blending their philosophical musings with musical influences from the likes of John Cage and Eliane …

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Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Anxious Musick Magazine

Loop. And Again. zagłębia się w dynamikę pól magnetycznych, skomplikowane układy okablowania i ich wzajemne powiązania ze zmianami w otaczającym krajobrazie. Album jest częścią X Marks the Spot, większego projektu, który wykorzystywał dźwięk do mapowania określonych skrzynek telekomunikacyjnych – tylko tych emitujących słyszalny dron – w mieście Belfast w latach 2013-2019. W projekcie dźwięk sugeruje różne …

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Marla Hlady & Christof Migone’s “Swan Song” reviewed by The Sound Projector

Spirits Drifting Here’s two discs of very enjoyable drone music produced by various processes…Swan Song (CRÓNICA196-2023) was realised by Marla Hlady and Christof Migone, and they did it during a three-month residency in Glenfiddich. From what I can make out, it’s a clever bit of “repurposing” of old equipment from the Glenfidich still, specifically the copper “swan necks” which …

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