New release: “443” by Mise_en_scene

The first part of the process was an improvisation recording with a grand piano and found objects made by mise_en_scene and Andrey at the Jerusalem National Theater in front of an empty hall during the Summer of 2008. The second part, later that year, was mise_en_scene’s feedback recordings with 4 PCC microphones in an empty …

New release: “Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz” by Miguel A. García / Durán Vázquez

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Luigi Russolo’s letter known as L’arte dei Rumori, a Futurist manifesto usually quoted as being the landmark that pointed out incorporation of the so-called noise in the western musical tradition. And ten decades may seem to be a lot of time but the truth is that Russolo’s legacy (not …

New release: “Never So Alone” by Simon Whetham

During an extended stay in Lisbon, courtesy of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupting and causing european airspace to be closed, Simon Whetham explored the sonorities of city, and the surrounding countryside, using the various microphones he employs in his work. In addition to a Sennheiser shotgun microphone and two Tram lavalier mics, which capture …

New release: “Jakov & Gwizdały” by Arturas Bumšteinas

We are very happy to announce the release of Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’s latest edition in Crónica, “Jakov & GwizdaÅ‚y”, now available in the Unlimited Release series. “Jakov”, premiered at the Jaunas Muzika festival in Vilnius, April of 2012, is composed from sounds sourced from an old soviet-Lithuanian era electric organ called “Venta”. The unplugged organ was …