Futurónica #12


Episode 12 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, July 16th at 21h (GMT).

The playlist for Futurónica #12 is:

  • Eleh, Pulsing Study Of 7 Sine Waves Part One (from Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis II, Important Records)
  • Pure, End (from Ification)
  • La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela / The Theatre Of Eternal Music, Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC From Map Of 49’s Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (from Dream House 78’17”, Shandar)
  • Durán Vázquez, Segunda Natureza (Noite) (from Mus*****c)
  • Eliane Radigue, Symbol of Yogic Experience (from Songs of Milarepa, Lovely Music)
  • Gilles Aubry, s6t8r (from Mus*****c)
  • Eleh, Pulsing Study Of 7 Sine Waves Part Two (from Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis II, Important Records)

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

New unlimited release: Ephraim Wegner’s “Audible Landscapes”

Audible Landscapes
Crónica is very proud to present a new release by Ephraim Wegner in the Unlimited Release series, “Audible Landscapes”. This release, comprising 6 pieces by Ephraim Wegner, and three remixes: “Sechsundachtzig (für Ephraim)” by @c and “Storm Synthesizer Remix” and “Earthquake Synthesizer Remix” by Durán Vázquez is available as a free download in either 320kbps MP3 or Apple Lossless formats.

Noises dispose of an aesthetic quality being taken up and evaluated far stronger than pictures by the unconscious. In a world where the immense flood of images has made individuals nearly deaf against acoustic stimuli, field recordings offer an unbelievable source of inspiration and imagination. The sound recordings sharpen and sensitise the hearing, reveal apparently well-known, pique curiosity on the unknown and the interest in quite concrete sceneries, in our environment with its tonal variety. As never congruent copies of an independently existing reality they play with the individual adaptation and cognition ability.

The field recordings taped between 2008 and 2009 at places like the Pyrenees, the Atlantic Sea or the Black Forest serve to Ephraim Wegner as basis for compositions of sound sceneries.

Typical tones of certain regions, but also omnipresent everyday noises are processed and edited, put on top of each other, distorted up to unrecognisability and assembled again. Thus musical sound fields / collages and new acoustic rooms are generated which invite to reflexion and abstracting or just listening: The apparently weird, but strangely melodic bell ringing of the flock of sheep in the Pyrenees reveals its musical structure which testifies to astonishing harmony. Heavy rains, thunder storm rumbling, wild buzzing of insects and shrill chirping of crickets mutate to tonal arrangements which remind of minimal music or classical noise every now and then. Everyday occurrences become unusual hearing experiences, the pasture land idyll rumbling wild noise.

You can download “Audible Landscapes” as high-quality MP3 or Apple Lossless files directly from Crónica and free of charge. Donations are welcome! :)

The Beautiful Schizophonic in the new Ondarock compilation


The new Ondarock compilation, “OndaDrops Vol.2: Take the sounds, turn them into words” is now available as a free download from their website. Among several tracks it includes “Dreaming in the proximity of Mars” a new piece by The Beautiful Schizophonic.

Piotr Kurek releases “Inne Pieśni”


Piotr Kurek used fragments of music recorded at the Studio of Radio Lublin of the concert “Songs of The Balkans” which took place on the 26th of November 2008. The music is based on fragments of Walachian, Serbian and Albanian songs performed by Slobodan Markovic from Slatina, the ensemble “Srbska Arhaika” from Belgrad and “Argjiro” The Ensemble of Polyphonic Singing from Gjirokastra.

The premiere of the material took place at The Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music “Codes” in Lublin on the 23rd of May 2009.

The CD is only available only in Poland but can be ordered internationaly from Serpent shop.

New Crónicaster: Audio_z

Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond
“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” in a contradictory way is said to be one of those unspoken stories at their purest. Could, let’s say — a lost photographic sentiment for a memory of the space; fading tones of a chime and human voices; alienated intersections of whistle, transparent high-frequency sprays and streams of white noises; almost cubist envolvent of domestic affair with an acoustic guitar; a chant concealed in dissemination and revealed as a concealment; sketch of a childish organ turning into a seed for a swarm of metallic crows, which disappears indulging it’s own disillusionment – could it be actually considered as a story? If yes, it’s more about fragments. Have you ever relinquished your desire for a book itself just because you’d been haunted by its table of content?

“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” was created by Audio_z, or Tautvydas Bajarkevičius, a sound artist, writer and curator based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Vigo Transforma kicks off with @c live


The Vigo Transforma festival presents a live performance of @c at the “Vasos Comunicantes” program, curated by Isaac Cordal. Tomorrow, July 2nd, 20:30h at Vigo’s Porta do Sol (Sireno), Calle Policarpo Sanz, Vigo. During the week long festival there are several other performances, installations, workshops and street art events.