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Sun Dog’s “Col des Tempètes” reviewed by The Sound Projector

Nice piece of voice-with-electronics improvisation by Sun Dog, the team of ErikM and Isabelle Duthoit. Col Des Tempètes (CRONICA ELECTRONICA 192-2022) comes to us from January 2022 and ErikM points out that it’s one in an informal series of such voice-collaborations he’s worked on, including ones with Phil Minton and Catherine Jauniaux. Duthoit comes to us from a classical music background and …

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Philippe Petit’s “A Divine Comedy” reviewed by Vital Weekly

I didn’t realise: Philippe Petit started DJing on the radio and editing fanzines in 1983, and now, forty years later, he is still active. In between, he ran a record label, Bip Hop, but in recent years, he has only been active as a composer. For his new release, he takes his inspiration from Dante …

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Luca Forcucci’s “Terra” reviewed by The New Noise

Abbiamo incrociato la traiettoria artistica di Luca Forcucci con il precedente e riuscito esperimento di field recording totale De Rerum Natura, esperienza sonora di immersione tridimensionale nella foresta pluviale brasiliana. Nonostante il contenuto acustico in quell’occasione fosse perfettamente intellegibile, già si intuiva una sensibilità “manipolatoria”, desiderio di aumentare le possibilità sonore della realtà attraverso lo zampino …

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Marla Hlady & Christof Migone’s “Swan Song” reviewed by Neural

There is a whole line of field recordings that are not “found” at all; that is, they are not the result of psychogeographic wanderings, but, on the contrary, are carefully prepared and have well-defined places and situations as their object. During a three-month artistic residency in the summer of 2019 in Glenfiddich (Dufftown, Scotland), Marla …

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“Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds” reviewed by Music Map

Lisboa Soa è un festival di sound art, cultura dell’ascolto ed ecologia. L’obiettivo dichiarato di questa rassegna è la valorizzazione della musica contemporanea che abbia anche un significato sociale ed ecologico, in modo da produrre una maggiore coscienza ambientale e dell’impatto determinato dalla nostra presenza. Nel 2021, dopo cinque edizioni, Lisboa Soa ha deciso di …

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Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie” reviewed by Music Map

Chi ha giocato al primo ”Silent Hill”? Un videogioco del 1999 che si incentra sull’orrore psicologico, in cui un uomo si ritrova in una città fantasma, dove accadono cose inquietanti nella nebbia. “Silent Hill” è stato apprezzato anche da David Lynch, tanto per dire che di che atmosfere parliamo. Miguel A. García, che si fa …

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Bruno Duplant’s “Sombres Miroirs” reviewed by The Sound Projector

Another splendid work by Bruno Duplant, one of my current personal favourites of enigmatic and sometimes minimal composition. His Sombres Miroirs (CRONICA 188-2022) is, by his standards, positively teeming with activity and events, and in this floating richness we can hear everything from backwards orchestras to uncertain cosmic gyrations – planets spinning or nebulae drifting into the distance. Profound, …

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Morten Riis’s “Lad enhver lyd minde os om” reviewed by The Sound Projector

Quite nice short tape experiments from Morten Riis on his cassette Lad Enhver Lyd Minde Os Om(CRÓNICA 186-2022). He did it using modified four-track cassette recorders and his own home-made synths, although the press notes are a little short on specifics, and refer us to mysterious processes such as “media and the human-object participatory democracy”. I suppose this may …

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