paL’s best of 2008

baby Petra can read and write!… and she draws nicelly! twitterrific: the best and fastest way of web feeding… yet! concert: a vietnam story: carl minnemann (bass), pedro almeida (piano) and kitato (slideshow) performance/concert: “music for 6 guitars”, by Ben Frost… i had a great experience playing so intensely! ce started the Unlimited Releases with …

Gintas K’s best of 2008

Wrapping up 2008 and opening 2009, we compiled the year’s highlights from Crónica’s artists and friends. First of the lot, Gintas Kraptavičius! Releases: @c & Vitor Joaquim “De-tour” (Feld); @c “Study” (Grain of Sound); Ben Frost “Theory of Machines” (Bedroom Community); Anthony Pateras “Chasms” (Sirr); Snd “4_5_6” (Snd); Haswell & Hecker “Blackest ever black” [electroacoustic …

RadiaLX has started broadcasting

The RadiaLX festival of Radio Art has started the 9-day non-stop broadcast of some of the world’s best radio art. The program includes Gilles Aubry, @c, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Negativland, Paulo Raposo, Gintas K, Carlos Santos, André Gonçalves, Toy Bizarre, Felix Kubin, Christof Migone, Brandon Labelle, among many others. Two special Crónica programs will also …

“Construction 76” by Lia + @c

The latest audiovisual piece by Lia and @c was posted today on Vimeo. “Construction 76” was created by Lia from an excerpt of “76”, a work in progress composition by @c. Lia’s first HD video brings for the first time to video the richness, detail and sheer complexity of her live visual work.

Cem Güney interviewed by tokafi.com

Cem Güney is the first to admit that Turkey still has a long way to go in terms of radically progressive music and Sound Art. Admittedly, there are hotspots, clearly confined oases of demanding sonic experimentation. But overall, the main focus still seems to be firmly placed on maximising profits and importing ideas instead of …