New unlimited release: Mosaique’s “Shattering Silence”

Shattering Silence
Following his 2008 release in Crónica, “Filare”, Jan Ferreira presents his new work “Shattering Silence”, 14 tracks totalling over one hundred minutes of music. Once again, Mosaique releases in the Unlimited Series and is available as a free download in either 320kbps MP3 or Apple Lossless formats.

Jan Ferreira is one of the most promising Portuguese new composers of hands-on electronic music, creating his pieces from a limited palette of tools and resources, including the manipulation of feedback, analog synthesis and distortion. His pieces have deep roots in live performance, and that imbues them with a characteristic immediacy and freshness, as traces of his creative touch and direct manipulation are felt throughout the pieces.

“In this release I worked for the first time with analogue synthesis. It was new territory so I spent long time exploring timbres and textures and what especially drew my attention was the “sharpness” of sound as if one could sense its outlines like with forms and shapes. Also how sounds emerged and ‘cut’ through the air was of special interest to me. After recording the material it was put into composition with emphasis on the effect of layering certain sounds (and hence what depth or sense of contrast they create) and the feeling of change that occurs when the “sound scenery” shifts. The composition then was more a frame in which these things were allowed to occur (especially in the more abstract pieces) than a linear narrative. All this is also based on a general visual quality that sound conveys to me.”

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

Futurónica #08

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Episode 8 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, May 21 at 21h (GMT).

The playlist for Futurónica #08 is:

  • Pedro Tudela, Op1s2s2m (from mus*****c)
  • Young Gods, December (from Heaven Deconstruction, Play it Again Sam)
  • Deadly Weapons, King Cobra (from Deadly Weapons, Nato)
  • The Beautiful Schizophonic, Aliénor d’Aquitaine (from Erotikon)
  • Gilles Aubry, excerpt from 4 (from Berlin Backyards)
  • Cem Güney, Undulations (dedicated to Janek Schaefer) (from Praxis)
  • CoH + Cosey Fanni Tutti, Lying (from COH Plays Cosey, Raster-Noton)

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

Piotr Kurek live in Porto


Included in the cycle “Cornelius Cardew e a liberdade da escuta” (Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening), Porto’s Culturgest presents an exhibition and a series of performances.

Lectures
Next Saturday, May 22nd, there will be three outstanding performances:

  • 17h00: 1001 Scratch Activities, performance by Loreto Troncoso and António Júlio
  • 22h00: Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (1963-1967), concert by Michel Guillet, Jean-Jacques Palix, Markus Schmickler and Samon Takahashi
  • 22h45: Piotr Kurek, Lectures, concert

In the coming weeks the program will also include performances by Christian Wolff, Lore Gablier, Annie Vigier, Franck Apertet, the Walter Cardew Group (Horace Cardew, Walter Cardew, Androniki Liokoura), Rhys Chatham, Nina Canal, Nadia Lichtig, David Watson, John Tilbury and Terre Thaemlitz.

More information and full program at Culturgest’s website.

Cornelius Cardew e a liberdade da escuta


Under the title “Cornelius Cardew e a liberdade da escuta” (Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening), Porto’s Culturgest presents an exhibition and an ambitious series of performances until late June. The forthcoming program includes performances by Keith Rowe, Heitor Alves, Sei Miguel, Vítor Rua, Jean-Jacques Palix, Carole Finer, Stefan Szczelkun, Christian Wolff, Lore Gablier, Annie Vigier, Franck Apertet, Piotr Kurek, the Walter Cardew Group (Horace Cardew, Walter Cardew, Androniki Liokoura), Rhys Chatham, Nina Canal, Nadia Lichtig, David Watson, John Tilbury and Terre Thaemlitz.

Not to miss at Culturgest Porto.