New podcast: Eosin
Eosin (Diana Combo) composes and performs with vinyl records. Starting from a process close to plunderphonics, she gradually grew to include her own field recordings or other sounds collected from online archives. Her new composition, or re-compositions, do not necessarily start from very well defined conceptual or methodological strategies but are rather the result of an intuitive exploration, informed by certain thematics for theoretical research and by the act of listening. Her relation with records and vinyl players has found yet another expression in contexts of collective performance, where they’re used as instruments for improvisation. In this context, Diana shared stages with Andrea Neumann, Ana Veloso, João Martins and Filipe Silva; Antoine Chessex, Werner Dafeldecker, Burkhard Beins, Nate Wooley, amongst others. She has performed solo at Transmediale, Tiny Noise and Festival ERTZ, and in venues as Casa da Música, Passos Manuel, Maus Hábitos, ZDB, Galeria Zaratan, Bar Irreal, Salon des Amateurs and General Public.
This is a recording of Eosin performing at ZDB, Lisbon, on November 13, 2015, sharing the bill with Bitchin’ Bajas. Recorded by Cristiano Nunes.
Porcje RosoÅ‚owe’s “Insects 4-7†at Acts of Silence’s best of 2015
Porcje RosoÅ‚owe are included in Acts of Silence’s list of the best releases of 2015.
Three Crónica releases at De Subjectivisten Sietse’s top 30
Alexander Rishaug’s “Ma.Org Pa.Git”, Martijn Tellinga’s “Positions”, and Jos Smolders’s “Modular Works 2015Q1”. Really happy to see these three releases listed here after a great year at Crónica. There are wonderful things lined up for 2016, stay tuned! :)
Futurónica 156
Episode 156 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 25th.
The playlist of Futurónica 156 is:
- Wondering Ascetic (Manip) Chanting a Milarepa Poem and a Mantra (1972, Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Buthan, Sub Rosa)
- Eliane Radigue, Mila’s Journey Inspired by a Dream (1998, Songs of Milarepa, Lovely Music)
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Soon in Crónica: The Venus of Pistoletto
“Positions†reviewed by Freistil
positions (Cróncia) beinhaltet eine Auswahl an Konzeptstücken des Holländers Martijn Tellinga. Als Komponist und Performer kreiert er akustische Situationen (Alvin Lucier & Co lassen grüßen), die Ideen von Raum und Prozessen in den Mittelpunkt stellen im steten Spannungsfeld zwischen Intention und Zufall. Die nun auf dem portugiesischen Label Cróncia erschienene CD beinhaltet vier seiner Arbeiten, darunter Three Modulators, Truth, Branching into others und Positions, aufgenommen zwischen 2011 und 2013 in Sydney, Buenos Aires und Amsterdam. Leider lässt die Aufnahmequalität oft zu wünschen übrig (es sind Livemitschnitte), wodurch Positions eher als Dokumentationsquelle funktioniert. Konzeptstücke, die derart „religiös“ akustische Eigenschaften von Räumen und Klängen an sich, seien es Klänge von Instrumenten oder Geräuschen, in den Mittelpunkt stellen, brauchen optimale Aufnahmebedingungen, um als adäquate Ereignisse auf Tonträger gehört werden zu können. Deswegen empfiehlt es sich, wenn schon, denn schon, Tellingas Stücke live zu erleben. Katrin Hauk
Futurónica 155
Episode 155 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 11th.
The playlist of Futurónica 155 is:
- Gintas K, Grinny Memories (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Titled#9dub (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Reloaded Beauty (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Nota Demo (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, 5m (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Track#72 (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, pOpXEnA 3 (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, pOpXEnA 9 (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Blind Man Tale 2 (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Message in a Bottle (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Love is Love (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
- Gintas K, Lovely Banalities (2015, Message in a Bottle, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre)
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Tomorrow: Natal dos Experimentais 2015
Crónica’s Natal dos Experimentais 2015 is already tomorrow, at Passos Manuel in Porto.
This year’s program features five performances: in the main stage there will be Pal, Hugo Paquete, and Christian Faubel; in the Club room Diana Combo’s Eosin, and In C++, a trio performance by Vitor Joaquim, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. Gala Drop’s Black will DJ.
It’s tomorrow Friday, December 11, and as usual everyone’s welcome, and the entrance is free!
More information at the FB event.
“Modular Works 2015Q1†reviewed by Chain DLK
The name of Jos Smolders should say something to many followers of the most hidden recesses of electronic and experimental music, as you could have met it as the signature of some articles on well-known Vital magazine or less recently on EARLabs.org, a label he made that turned into a proper webzine and one of the most updated source of information for electronic community by focusing on many aspects of the expanding netaudio scene (online services, net labels online magazine, social media functionalities and so on), but besides the editorial activity, Jos is primarily a sound artist, who knows modular synths like the back of his hand and this release is the most convicing proof of his knowledge. This digital release came as the attempt of combining together isolated sonic objects that he made while mastering and restoring 10 albums by Pierre Henry into a proper composition as Jos himself said: “I composed these works during the first months of 2015. They are clearly defined constructions, built in a modernistic fashion. The sounds have a character of their own but I force my will onto them and thus create a composition. [..] The theatrical approach of henry is clearly audible in these works. I started with a certain mood in my head and worked from there. First collecting the initial sounds (objets sonores), reworking and editing them and in the mean time placing them in a timeline”. Three of the four works got dedicated to Robert Hampson (“an inspiring conversationalist on the subject of Musique Concrete”, in Smolders’ own words) and features really amazing sonic entities: I particularly enjoyed “light” and “debris”, the second and the third composition, as they sound like sonic translations of mental states that someone could experience during prolonged working in isolation, where ordinary noises like the crackling of a wooden floor or a chair (“light”) or a clock(“debris”) got somehow defomed by senses, as well as the 12-minutes lasting “TomTomTomTom”, where a breathe and a ticking into a set of impressive modular sounds gradually render a really oblique listening experience. Vito Camarretta
via Chain DLK