New release: Emidio Buchinho & Ricardo Guerreiro’s “W​.​o​.​W. – Wand of Watt”

W.o.W. – Wand of Watt is a collaborative work for electric guitar and computer live-sampling and generative sound synthesis. Each resulting piece explores the conception, installation and live articulation of context-specific situations in which sound is an emerging phenomenon. The generation, capture, amplification, processing and diffusion of sound are entirely taking place on stage, in …

New release: Mikel R. Nieto’s “The Sound of Underwater Friction Produced by Movement”

Mikel R. Nieto’s new release, “The Sound of Underwater Friction Produced by Movement”, is now available in Crónica! This recording was made in the Mediterranean Sea with a special hydrophone designed to listen to echolocations made by dolphins. Obviously these animal communications are masked by the sound of friction, and personally I found this sound …

New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Transmissions”

Crónica is very proud to present a new album by Mathias Delplanque, “Transmissions”, a series of compositions based on recordings of sounds produced by various industrial machines. Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque Parts 1 and 2 are based on loom sounds recorded by Mathias Delplanque in 2008 at the Musée du Textile of Cholet (France). Part …

New release: “(ANT(i)SOM)” by Luís Antero

Crónica is very proud to present the new release by Luís Antero, “(ANT(i)SOM)”, now available as a free download. (ANT(i)SOM) by Luís Antero The basis of (ANT(i)SOM) is formed by field recordings with ants at the villages of Piódão (Arganil) and Alvoco das Várzeas (Oliveira do Hospital), at the heart of Beira Serra in Portugal. …