Category Archives: Releases

New release: “Gamelan Descending a Staircase”

Crónica is very proud to announce it’s 100th release, Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’s “Gamelan Descending a Staircase”! Arturas BumÅ¡teinas (aka Refusenik) is a composer of acoustic and electronic music (graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), performer, sound artist, and a founding-member of Quartet Twentytwentyone, the Works & Days, Wolumen and Zarasai ensembles. His various …

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New release: “Loud Listening Murano”

Loud Listening is a format created by Alessio Ballerini, Enrico Coniglio and Attilio Novellino, members of the Archivio Italiano Paesaggi Sonori, an association founded to promote the culture of soundscapes. Loud Listening is a sonic exploration experiment that intends to investigate the soundscapes of Italian industrial areas. This starts from a reflection on the current …

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New release: Jos Smolders’s “Modular Works 2015Q1”

Crónica is very proud to present the new release by Jos Smolders “Modular Works 2015Q1”, available today as a free download from Crónica or Crónica’s Bandcamp. I composed these works during the first months of 2015. They are clearly defined constructions, built in a modernistic fashion. The sounds have a character of their own (objets …

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New release: Martijn Tellinga’s “Positions”

You could light a space with fire. It would burn for as long as there was flammable material and oxygen. It would leave ash for you to clean up (sweeping the floor with a large broom). It would provide heat. It would smell bad – and perhaps set off fire alarms. But for a while …

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