In Four Tales, sound and architecture unite in a conversation that expands senses and entangles our rhythms with all other pulses that surround us. A city aware of itself. In the album, floating between documentation and imagined drifts, urban infrastructures and bodies of water are explored as entangled entities to be carefully tended to. Rooted in …
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We’re happy to announce @c + Visiophone’s 30×N — LRJ2, now available from Crónica. 30×N — LRJ2 is the third release in a series originating from 30×N, an audiovisual performance by @c + Visiophone. Each release in this series includes fixed-media audio and audiovisual compositions created from the materials of one of the performance’s sections, both exploring …
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In advance of Matilde Meireles’s Four Tales, this single contains an alternative edit of tale Two. Two (Another Way) is an improvisation based on a series of loops of made from movements of water; raw electromagnetic pulses recorded with an electromagnetic sensor and a VLF antenna; electromagnetic pulses transformed into drones, rhythmic pulses and imagined animal calls. While Two created a …
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We’re super proud to announce the first release of 2026, Machinefabriek’s new album, “Spelonk”. This album presents three tracks build with “hardware jams” recorded with his live setup. It’s all quite hands-on, with effects pedals, an oscillator, and electronic gadgets. The magic happens when combining different recordings, layering them, and hearing what happens. Listening is …
This is the fourth release in Hannes Strobl’s ongoing series of compositions. Cais do Sodré is based on a field recording of the ferry terminal of the same name in Lisbon, which connects the city across the Tejo river with locations on the opposite bank. Central to the recording are sharp metallic sounds that resonate in the …
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Durán Vázquez and Kloob have known each other for over 25 years, sharing a strong interest in electronic music. In early 2023 they started collaborating towards developing a long-form work, for which the short story Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen became a strong inspiration. Machen’s story is a precursor of what we now know …
We’re happy to announce @c + Visiophone’s 30×N — LRJ1, now available from Crónica. 30×N — LRJ1 is the second release in a series originating from 30×N, an audiovisual performance by @c + Visiophone. Each release in this series includes fixed-media audio and audiovisual compositions created from the materials of one of the performance’s sections, both exploring …
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We’re happy to announce the release of the new album by [MONRHEA] + AGF, “INvolution”, now available to download or stream from Crónica’s Bandcamp. Monrhea and agf met online, as admirers of each other’s productions on Soundcloud. They later collaborated in the Darmstadt summer course program “Sonic Writing & Soundings”, curated by agf and Cedrik …
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Gerade erscheint bei Crónica das neue Album “Terrenus” von David Lee Myers. Das Werk versteht sich laut Label als Erkundung rein elektronischer Klänge, die jedoch nicht ins All gerichtet sind, sondern auf die Erde: “Terrenus” wird ausdrücklich als „earth music“ verstanden, nicht als „space music“. In seiner Ausrichtung knüpft es an “Frontier” (2022) an, ebenfalls …
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We’re extremely proud to welcome David Lee Myers to Crónica for the fourth time and to present his new album, Terrenus. Terrenus is an exploration in purely electronic sound, and although much electronic music is characterised as “space music”, Terrenus is much more accurately portrayed as “earth music.” This album follows along similar lines to David Lee Myers’s Frontier (2022) …
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