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 …
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New release: @c + Visiophone’s “30×N — LRJ1”
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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New release: [MONRHEA] + AGF’s “INvolution”
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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David Lee Myers’s “Terrenus” reviewed by African Paper
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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New release: David Lee Myers’s “Terrenus”
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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New release: Haarvöl’s “Horizons of Suspended Zones”
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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New release: J.L. Maire & Alfredo Costa Monteiro’s “L’Écoute Tactile”
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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New release: Ilia Belorukov’s NRD DRM TWO 2022-2024
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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Philippe Petit’s “Closing Our Eyes” reviewed by Music Map
“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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New release: @c + Visiophone’s “30×N — VRD1”
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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