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. …
Expansão stems from a performance in July 2022 in Porto. This performance was commissioned by Sonoscopia that hosted a residency leading to it. During that period the three musicians explored synergies in their approaches to music-making with electronics, computers, and concrete sound, preparing structures and strategies that would shape the performance. Similarities, intersections, tensions, contrasts, …
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Coming close to the end of 2024 but not winding down in any way, we’re thrilled to present a new release by Miguel A. García and Coeval, their second collaboration in Crónica after last year’s Huncill. Laliguras is a wonder of “nuances, progressions, regressions and contradictions” in the words of Ulzion in his text about …
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We’re proud to present Emiter’s first release in Crónica, his EP “Repetition and Memory”. Recording, listening, movement, rhythm. There are many traces that create infinite possibilities to combine into new qualities. Traces, recording, time, frequency. Repetition and memory. Alan Burdick writes that “The golden age of the ear never ended (…) It continues, veiled by …
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Successive Actions is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series Channelling in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers’s The …
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