At the end of the 1990s, Hakim Bey wrote a book about the then-emerging possibility of the virtual. With the lucidity for which he is known, he recognized at the time that the virtual was nothing more than a new avenue for the expansion of capitalism. He introduced the concept of temporary autonomous zones as a kind …
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J.L. Maire and Alfredo Costa Monteiro’s ongoing collaboration travels through sonic territories where two different but complementary approaches to sound and music production converge: the extended pure intonation and the exploration of timbre without fixed tones. The recording in L’Écoute Tactile emerged from an improvisation session in September 2024 in Costa Monteiro’s studio. In this session, Maire …
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NRD DRM TWO 2022-2024 is a collection of pieces created in 2022-2024 on a Nord Drum 2, following an idea around a 1-step pattern with a changing tempo. During this period, Belorukov was amazed by how exciting various frequencies sounds at different tempo rates on this drum synthesiser. The Nord Drum 2 has six channels, …
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“Closing Our Eyes”, uscito per Crónica Records, è il nuovo album in studio di Philippe Petit, artista marsigliese attivo già dagli anni Ottanta e particolarmente prolifico anche a livello discografico negli ultimi anni. Con questo lavoro, Petit invita l’ascoltatore a trovare uno spazio di interiorità, in un viaggio immaginario e immaginifico che si compie nel …
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Proud to announce @c + Visiophone’s 30×N — VRD1, now available from Crónica. 30×N — VRD1 is the first in a series of releases originating from 30×N, an audiovisual performance by @c + Visiophone. The performance 30×N is based on a modular system with which the performers interact in an exercise of generative composition with sound, lights, and visuals. …
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Aida was created as a ten-channel soundtrack for the exhibition Beauties, Ghosts, and Samurai: The Japanese Pop Culture Tradition from Edo Ukiyo-e to Manga, Anime, and Sūpā Furatto in the 20th and 21st Centuries (curated by dr. Arūnas Gelūnas, architecture by Išora x Lozuraitytė Studio, lighting by Eugenijus Sabaliauskas, sound engineering by Vytautas Narbutas) which …
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Closing Our Eyes is a series of compositions that invite the listener-spectator to find a place of interiority, a sonic journey that conjures up images and imaginary signs in perpetual change to create the possibility of pushing the imagination further, to express a visual fantasy. This could have been the imaginary soundtrack of a film that …
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Qadira, she who is capable, is both the title of this album and an apt moniker for Argentinian cellist Cecilia Quinteros. Over the past decade and a half this Buenos Aires native has played with creative music luminaries in her native land as well as European artists. She has performed compositions commissioned for her, in …
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Diffraction explores the idea that emptiness and form are inextricably linked. Every sound emerges in interaction with the silence that precedes and follows it. Yet even in supposed silence, something remains audible—a faint murmur, a subtle vibration, an echo of the surroundings. Pauses here are not empty spaces but active forms that shape the context for …
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Over the past six years, Kunrad has created installations and performances that celebrate the small, often overlooked sounds embedded in our daily lives, placing them on a pedestal. From machines that transform rain and paper into the first Physical Audio Workstation, to contraptions that send 1,000 small brass tubes ringing and tumbling through the air. …
