Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Music Map

Roel Meekop, come ogni artista sensibile, si fa molte domande sull’utilità della propria attività, sulla sua capacità di incidere nella realtà. Il suo restare inerme, di fronte alla guerra, è lo stesso del pittore minimalista Ad Reinhardt, che negli anni ’60 cercò un astrattismo geometrico, del tutto separato dai sentimenti personali. Puro colore, forma e …

New release: Matilde Meireles’s “Vanishing Points”

Sound is everywhere. It exists on so many scales at times it is difficult to grasp. Its energies intertwine with the wider systems of a city, bleeding beyond borders and passing through our perceived boundaries. Many of these intersecting energies are imperceptible to humans. Even spaces we consider quiet are, in fact, extremely busy, full …

New release: Philippe Petit’s “Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source”

We are thrilled to present the first release by Philippe Petit in Crónica his brilliant “Drinking the Acheron River at Its Source”, now available as a download or stream. This is a prequel to A Divine Comedy… Philippe Petit has completed his most ambitious work to appear on Cronica early in 2024, A Divine Comedy, taking Dante …

New release: David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors”

Crónica is very proud to present a new release by David Lee Myers, Strange Attractors! Strange Attractors is an example of what may be called Time Displacement Music. A varying mix of feedback, other noise sources, and found sounds are fed to a series of stereo digital delay units whose parameters (delay time, reverse, freeze, etc.) are …

New release: Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace”

In 1967 American abstract painter Ad Rheinhardt wrote a standard-issue postcard to the “War Chief” of the United States. On the postcard he had written a list of negations, such as “no napalm”, “no bombing”, “no injustice” and “no art in war”, “no art as war”, “no art about war”. In retrospect, this has become …

New release: @c + Drumming GP’s “For Percussion”

Many years in the making, this album collects works created for or with Drumming GP, a percussion ensemble founded by Miquel Bernat, a world-class performer and teacher. “For Percussion” gathers pieces that intersect @c’s experimental and computational approaches to music with Drumming GP’s mastery of performance and percussion. Tracklist: Credits: “For Percussion” is now available as …

New release: Luca Forcucci’s “Terra”

Crónica is proud to present its fourth release in 2023, Luca Forcucci’s “Terra”, a composition for cello, percussions, live electronics, fragments, drifts, and territories. Music composition, live electronics, field recordings, drifts, and production by Luca Forcucci. Cello by Noémy Braun. Percussions by Lucas Gonseth. Recorded at Théâtre ABC, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Luca Forcucci and …

New release: Marla Hlady & Christof Migone’s “Swan Song”

Continuing the celebration of Crónica’s twentieth year during 2023, we are proud to present the second release of the year, Marla Hlady & Christof Migone’s monumental “Swan Song”. Two stills from a whisky distillery were retired on June 28, 2019 after serving for 12 years. They were removed through the roof by a crane and …

New release: Ilia Belorukov’s “Scattered Underfoot”

Crónica starts the year in the best possible way, presenting the first release by Ilia Belorukov in the label. Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music, collaborating with local and foreign musicians and performers. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction …