@c (try Googling that one and you won’t get very far.. go to at-c.org instead) is the duo Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, and v3 is, as you might guess, their third album. Or perhaps the “3” refers to the fact that these nine tracks were sourced from three different performances in Palmela, London and Huddersfield, in which the duo was joined by Manuel Mota, João Hora, Vitor Joaquim, Andy Gangadeen and video artist Lia – for details of who played what where go to cronicaelectronica.org. It’s an odd mixture of laptop electronica (think early Pan Sonic, when they used to have that “a” in the middle of their name) and lowercase improv. Not unsuccessful but rather subject to the kind of concept-heavy information overload that’s dogged previous Crónica releases. The Quicktime movie (Lia’s v3/G.S.I.L.XXIX) is fun though.
DW