Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K returns to Cronica with a selection of self-confessed Lovely Banalities – a set of beautiful auditory trifles, often rather short and lacking in any defined sense of structure. These are more like objects, loitering around in the ether and establishing loop-based sequences like ‘Q’ or the strange and …
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“Lovely Banalities†is the second release in Crónica from Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K, after the much acclaimed double CD from 2006 “Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz soundâ€. “Lovely Banalities†presents fourteen short pieces — a collection of miniatures, impressions, sketches, innuendos and errors — inspired on the exceptionality and suprisingness …
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The Beautiful Schizophonic will perform live on Valentine’s Day, saturday 14th February, at Sport União Colarense, Colares. On the bill there’s also a romantic dinner, F. W. Murnau’s masterpiece Aurora screened with live soundtrack by Hugo Claro and dj set by City Forest. Ticket includes tea and home cookies, starts at 6:30 pm.
Pure & Hati, recorded live in Muenster, 29 November 2008. Download here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
André Gonçalves will perform tonight at Lab Synthèse in Montreal. Also playing will be Peter Kutin, Blake Hargreaves and The Human Athlete.
Factitous Phobia & Hysteresis 1 + 2 by Cem Güney will be broadcasted by www.soundartradio.org.uk for First Spark. Friday February 6 from 12 to 14h, and Saturday February 7 from 14 to 16h. “Factitious Phobiaâ€, from the album Praxis: the structure of the composition is built on a recorded, and then edited shortwave radio broadcast …
With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of synthetic sounds and field recordings for the Portuguese experimental label Crónica. Compositions orbiting around an authorial attention focused on the perception of fragments, in forms …
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Many moons ago, i wrote a lengthy retrospective of the work of Ryoji Ikeda, creator of some the finest raw digital music yet created • It’s an unfortunate corollary that Ikeda, like all great innovators, has a sizeable cluster of imitators (‘flattery’ be damned), many of whom form part of the now woefully tautological output …
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One of the things I like Berlin (and some other German cities), is the backyards which houses. A small entrance and then you are surrounded by four sides of houses and apartments, and which are excellent for parties, concerts and such like. A form of social control also, that might be the downside, but I …
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