Category Archives: Releases

New release: Francisco López’s “DSB”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 16 February 2021

This is not music? Says who? Try to imagine an astonishing reversal of the traditional widespread subservience of sound to storytelling: instead of sound effects providing realism to a narrative, the open shell of an apparent narrative becoming sound work… or perhaps even a new form of weird experimental music that only requires a willingness […]

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New release: @c’s “GML Vars. Live”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 26 January 2021

As a preamble to @c’s upcoming album, GML Vars. Live documents Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais performing its source materials and compositions. GML Variations will be available next March as a limited-release CD and is now available for preorder. GML Vars. Live is now available for stream or download! GML Vars. Live by @c

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New release: Øyvind Brandtsegg’s “Nancarrow Biotope”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 8 December 2020

“My essential concern, whether you can analyze it or not, is emotional; there’s an impact that I try to achieve by these means.” — Conlon Nancarrow Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano were orchestrated for Pipe Organ, Disklavier and electronics by Øyvind Brandtsegg. The work with these compositions instigated further exploration of improvisation with these mechanic instruments in […]

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New release: Nicola Di Croce’s “Deus Sive Natura”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 24 November 2020

“Deus sive Natura” is a latin expression later used by philosopher Baruch Spinoza to reflect upon the identity of God and Nature: “Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner” (Spinoza, Ethics, pt. 1, proposition 25, […]

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New release: Roel Meelkop’s “Crossmodulated”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 3 November 2020

Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy, he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early eighties when he started THU20, together with Jac van Bussel, Peter […]

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New release: “Deriva” compilation

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 13 October 2020

Deriva (Drift) [from French dérive] is the perpetuating movement that strides from the known to the unknown, to the absurd and the unplanned. This is a condition that is generated by the observers themselves and implies a distancing from historical events. The cultural Drift, in ethnology, is a transformation induced by internal factors within the group […]

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New release: Pedro Rebelo’s “Listen to me”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 15 September 2020

A residency in 2017 at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, in Braga, Portugal, was an opportunity for Pedro Rebelo to discover the world of nanotechnology research, in particular through following researchers working on a project in the area of food safety. Rebelo’s primary interest in sound led him to explore the sonorities of the research processes, the […]

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New release: Pedro Tudela’s “Auditório”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 1 September 2020

From May 2019 to January 2020, Pedro Tudela presented the large-scale installation “awdiˈtɔrju” at MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, in Lisbon. “awdiˈtɔrju”, the phonetic transcription of the word “auditório” (Portuguese for auditorium), was curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez, and presented at the Boiler Hall of MAAT, as an immersive experience that combined a […]

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Pedro Rebelo’s “Listen to me” now available to preorder

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 11 July 2020

Out in September, the new tape by Pedro Rebelo, can now be preordered from Crónica.

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New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Sunnyside”

By Miguel Carvalhais | Published: 30 June 2020

In a time where human contact is restricted for safety reasons, contact in this work takes place by — literally — listening closely to the sounds of objects which are very much part of my domestic daily life. During April 2020, I collected a series of sounds around my house on Sunnyside Street (Belfast, NI) […]

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