Hugo Paquete releases “Phonon”

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Hugo Paquete has just released “Phonon”, an album experiment that started as a call to explore the potentiality of the computer as an automatic machine to generate compositional material and aesthetic contents based on stochastic probabilities. The sonic material, supplied by Anton Mobin, Chris Black, Dezroy Adam, Evan x Merz, Hugo Paquete, Irad Lee, Jaime Casal, Miguel Carvalhais, Nathalie Fougeras and Rmedl, passed for a series of transformations based in algorithmics and traditional methods of composition develop by Hugo Paquete.

“Phonon” is now available as a free download from Modisti.

Mono #2 is now available

Mono #2
Mono #2: Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts is a publication of the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS) of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

This issue of Mono is dedicated to music, sound arts and sound in the arts and media. Guest-edited by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela and developed in collaboration with Crónica, it features texts by by Alessandro Ludovico, Enrico Coniglio, Ephraim Wegner, Francisco López, Frank Ekeberg, Heitor Alvelos, Julio d’Escriván, Leandro Pisano, Luísa Ribas, Maile Colbert, Marc Behrens, María Andueza, Miguel Cardoso, Miguel Carvalhais, Monty Adkins, Pedro Tudela, Samon Takahashi, and Thor Magnusson.

It collects reflections on theory and practice, on composition, performance, technique, virtuosity and aesthetics, as well as on publishing strategies and other issues brought about by computational technologies. It tries to traverse a convoluted map of artistic and design practices that are developed through sound, or that intersect with sonic arts in increasingly complex ways.

The contributors to this publication include composers, musicians, artists, designers, educators, publishers and curators. Their texts chart creative opportunities and help to discover new music and new ways to create music, to grasp new art forms and to better understand those that already populate an ever-shifting landscape of media technologies for the production and consumption of music and sound media. They are threaded by a graphic essay that draws on its themes and textual contents to develop an issue-wide composition that engages with them in a constructive dialogue.

Spread from Mono #2

Mono #2 is now available from Inc., Matéria Prima or directly from the publisher at <office@i2ads.org> or www.facebook.com/I2ADS.

More information at mono.i2ads.org

Spread from Mono #2

Futurónica 104

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Episode 104 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, December 27th.

The playlist of Futurónica 104 is:

  1. Mikel R. Nieto, Untitled #18 (2012)
  2. Marc Behrens, A/B Rain/Compressor (2011, Apparatus, Agxivatein)
  3. Lionel Marchetti, Dans la montagne (Ki Ken Taï) (2011, Une Saison, Monotype)
  4. Mikel R. Nieto, Poseidon (2011)
  5. KTL, Phill 1 (2012, V, eMego)

You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.

“Queendom Maybe Rise” and “Never so Alone” reviewed by Skug

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(…) all das schlägt der Hörerin in diesem elektroakustischen Soundteppich mit luftigem Fieldrecording-Support entgegen. Dasselbe gilt übrigens auch für die CDs »QueendomMaybeRise« von Marc Behrens und »Never So Alone« von Simon Whetham (beide auf Cronica erschienen). Düster sphärisches Flirren, schön gediegen, schön ereignislos, bei Whetham eine Spur ziselierter noch, darum auch ansprechender.

via Skug

Pedra Contida live in Aveiro and Porto

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Pedra Contida, the quintet of Marcelo dos Reis (guitar), João Pais Filipe (drums and percussion), Miguel Carvalhais (computer), Angélica V Salvi (harp) and Nuno Torres (alto sax), will perform in Aveiro and Porto this next weekend.

Aveiro’s Associação Cultural Mercado Negro will host the Friday evening (22h) performance and Porto’s Maus Hábitos the Saturday afternoon (18h) set, as part of the third Feira do Jeco.

More information.

“Ab OVO” reviewed by Vital Weekly

Ab OVO
Its been quite a while, I believe, that we last heard something from Portuguese laptop improvisers @C, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. Maybe they too are less interested in releasing CDs and otherwise engaged in the production of music? This new release hints at such, as this is the soundtrack of “Ovo, a play by the the puppet theater of Porto […] created cooperatively during a series of rehearsals that involved all the participants”. In total nineteen pieces were recorded, but @C reworked them for a single CD release,in which we no longer see the actors, the stage etc, and hence the title ‘Ab Ovo’. I am not sure how they reworked the original music, but my best guess would everything is thrown into the blender called laptop and reconfigured, new contextualitions and such like and then presented in the form of six pieces, on this quite long release – sixty-six minutes. (…) The music from @C works best, for me, when it’s a bit jumpy, a bit all over the place, collage like and improv based, such as in ‘103’. (…) (FdW)

@c’s “Ab OVO” will be released in early January 2014.

Winter Promotion

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It’s that time of the year once again! For a very limited period, you can order any release from Crónica and get a second one for free. When ordering from our website, just send us a note indicating which other release or releases (of the same price or lower) you want and we will be happy to gift them to you.

Happy holidays from Crónica!