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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Stephan Mathieu, Z’EV and KK Null live in Nijmegen
Tonight at Extrapool.
The Beautiful Schizophonic, Osso Exótico and more live at Sonic Scope 2009
Next Sunday, October 25, this year’s edition of the Sonic Scope festival in Lisbon will present The Beautiful Schizophonic, Osso Exótico and a several others live at Teatro Maria Matos. More info.
New Crónicaster: “Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard†by Cruz
“Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard†is the first in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009. This program was compiled and mixed by Cruz in one set, one take. Artists and tracks are not in order of appearance: Aleksey Petin; …
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“Lectures†reviewed by The Wire
After an opening passage of music, the unmistakable voice of Cornelius Cardew is heard, refined and almost prissy in lecture mode: “I don’t know how many of you are musically educated…” before going on to explain how indeterminacy might be applied in a performance situation, material specified or elided, rules to be followed, broken or …
Pedro Almeida live at Balleteatro
In the cycle dedicated to music and performance, Pedro Almeida, João Hora and LuÃs Varatojo will perform a guitar trio tonight at 22h in Balleteatro in Porto.
“Lectures†reviewed by Vital Weekly
The other new CD is an odd-ball, certainly for a label like Cronica Electronica, who deal with laptop music and electronics. I have no clue as to what Piotr Kurek does to generate his music. Sometimes it seems like improvisations on acoustic percussion (such as in ‘Part 1’) but then something like ‘Tripartite’ could very …
Futurónica #4
The fourth and last Crónica broadcast at Rádio Futura, “Futurónica 04 — Xenochrony†by Miguel Carvalhais, will air from 10.30AM (GMT) today at 91.5FM in Porto or via stream.
“Erotikon†reviewed by Vital Weekly
Jorge Mantas, the man behind The Beautiful Schizophonic, is a romantic man – at least that’s what I think, as I never met him. For the press release he wrote a long text, dealing with erotics – and thus he creates a dreamworld of his own. His music, through the years he’s been active, is …
“Lovely Banalities†reviewed by Kwadratuur
‘Lovely Banalities’ is de tweede cd-release van Litouwer Gintas KraptaviÄius (kortweg Gintas K) op het Portugese Crónica-label. In 2006 bracht hij het dubbelalbum ‘Lengvai / 60 x One Minute Audio Colours of 2kHz Sound’ uit, waarbij hij onder het goedkeurende oog van de verzamelde gespecialiseerde pers een cd met experimentele, minimale microtechno koppelde aan een …
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