Durán Vázquez live in Portugal and Spain

Durán Vázquez
July 1st: Goethe-Institut: Lisbon: As part of the RadiaLx radio-art festival, Durán Váquez will perform with the Sometimes Orchestra improvising a live soundtrack for the film Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), by German film maker Lotte Reiniger.

July 3rd: Jardim da Estrela: Lisbon: Closing day of the RadiaLx festival, Durán Vázquez will take part in a improvisation with the Radio Zero Orchestra, first appearance of this combo by the staff of the Radio Zero from Lisbon.

July 7th: Puerta del Sol: Vigo: In the context of the Vigo Transforma festival, Durán Vázquez will perform an audio set just under the emblematic sculpture called “El Sireno”, as part of the alg-a netlabel showcase.

August 7th: Casa das Atochas: A Coruña: Live performance by Durán Vázquez in Casa das Atochas, the unofficial temple of the newcomer noise/experimental scene from Galicia.

Neural 36 is out and includes the “Crónica L” compilation for subscribers


The new issue of Neural is out: Neural #36, summer 2010, “Time Deceptions”. This issue includes interviews with Gustavo Romano, Aaron Koblin, Marnix De Nijs, Telcosystems, Konrad Becker and Johannes Kreidler; articles on Perverting Perversions on Chatroulette and Flash Forward; reports on As Soon As Possible, acceleration in contemporary society and Transmediale, Futurity Now; and includes the new compilation “Crónica L” as a free offer to all its subscribers.

Information on ordering and subscribing can be found at Neural’s website.

Reminder: get a free CD of “Crónica L”

Crónica L
The “Crónica L” is freely distributed to all the subscribers of Neural magazine (issue #36, May 2010) and is not sold through any of the usual distribution channels. We do however have copies to offer with all the orders of other Crónica releases. Please check how to get one here.

Futurónica #10


Episode 10 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, June 18 at 21h (GMT).

The playlist for Futurónica #10 is:

You can hear Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir.

New Crónicaster: Loïs Laplace

Chords, by Loïs Laplace
“This is a seven part piano recording made in 2005, a short time after I saw a free jazz concert during which Tony Oxley was playing drums. I was intrigued by Tony Oxley’s relaxed attitude, the fluid and easy way of movements of his hands and arms in the mean time of a high energy music creation — at these moments notes were accelerated and the time seemed suspended.”

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Arturas Bumšteinas releases “Heap of Language”


Arturas Bumšteinas has just released a new CD, “Heap of Language”, in Polish label Bôłt records.

Creating music out of nothing is simply impossible. It’s better, then, to consciously “re-write history” rather than pretend to be some kind of demiurge […] An interesting example is the cycle “Five Songs” which includes “Nasdaq” and “Malcowa”. Each singer sent me his favorite song which ranged from pop to real folk-music. The recordings of these pieces have been then re-composed and transformed in many different ways. I used spectral analysis to come up with harmony material for the instrumental ensemble. I re-organized the original vocal parts using graphic and number notation; I also made use of the so called “audio scores”, which are model recordings, imitated later by the performing musicians […] Open forms are introduced in order to make more space for the creativity of performers. This increases the possibility that the music will become some kind of communication, that the meeting with the musician becomes a meeting with another man, and not only a performer. And pretty much everyone can understand the language of numbers I used for the notation to approximate the pitch and rhythm intervals in my “Antiradical Opera”. Anyone can interpret my “sound scores” by simply imitating the prototype recording. This entails the concept of shared responsibility for the overall effect.

More info on boltrecords.pl