Mysterious Heart is a dance piece by choreographer Tânia Carvalho, created for Tanzmainz at the Staatstheater Mainz in 2023–24. The music composed for this project was conceived from the outset with a certain autonomy from the choreography. The initial idea, taken from a practice already familiar in Tânia’s choreographic work, involved exploring and characterising different emotions …
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HANNES STROBL führt mit Cais do Sodré (C 244) nach Lissabon, zur Fähre über den Tejo. Mit O-Ton von dort, den er in Berlin elektroakustisch gemischt hat mit Basssound und Electronics. Metallisches Dongen und Gedröhn wird durchschossen wie von blitzenden Pulverblättchen. Metalloider Klingklang rauscht auf und glockenspielt, kleine Pfiffe repetieren, Saiten harfen und zirpen, das Dröhnen dopplert. …
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We’re very happy to present the new album by Emiter, Electromagnetism of the City. This album is composed from the broad range of noises that surround us in contemporary urban life, on the impulses, discharges, and harmonies of the city. Emiter explores feedbacks, noises, densities, and how streets are like a circuit board where houses are chips and …
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If the world were a little quieter, perhaps we’d hear it breathing. Kunrad, the Dutch artist who listens more intently than most, has spent years amplifying the hushed murmurs of everyday materials – water, paper, brass, and stone – transforming them into poetic gestures of sound. “Kleine Geluiden” (“Small Sounds”) is not just an album …
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It’s new release day, and our last in 2024, introducing Philippe Petit’s “Attractive Apesanteur“, a prelude for a forthcoming release in 2025! Season’s greetings, everyone; see you in January!
In their collaboration as @c, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais developed several installations, often site-specific and ephemeral works. This series of releases in Crónica is dedicated to revisiting these installation works, occasionally with situ recordings, but also further exploring the computational systems developed for the works, archival materials, and other assets, presenting new compositions that unfold …
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Subscribers to Neural magazine will find an exceptional object attached to its centrefold: a 7” flexi disc. This is the result of a joint effort from Crónica and Neural to celebrate thirty years of Neural and twenty of Crónica. Thirty artists contributed 9-second pieces to a one-of-a-kind compilation that will be available exclusively in this …
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“A quartet of artists converge on the Lisboa Soa festival to delve deeper into aspects of sound. Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds ranges from field recording to drone to improvisation, often within a single track (Cronica, September 26).” via A Closer Listen
Noise has a mutant nature and harbors poetic correspondences; it is polysemy that demands its translation from the listener. Concepts only make sense through their opposites; thus, noise means everything and means nothing. Miguel A. García (M.A.G., aka xedh), a practitioner of the alchemy of noise for twenty-five years, offers us on this occasion a …
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s Withering Field is an essay on manmade violence over earth’s ecologies and natural environments, on the threatening of the Global South created by Western modernism, and the impending catastrophes looming. Withering Field is a sonic narrative developed around these events of displacement and dispossession, developed through fieldwork and field recordings made in what are currently denominated of …
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