Episode 144 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, July 10th.
The playlist of Futurónica 143 is:
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Forgotten Spaces, an interdisciplinary festival of microtonal music, visual and sound art F58, temporäre Räume der Kulturliste Freiburg Friedrichstraße 58, 79098 Freiburg. July 4.
Ephraim Wegner will be presenting 8a1b11c4d11e2f2g4i2l3m11n13o5r7s10t1u2z, a sound installation for 8 Speakers.
Glass production involves a range of raw materials combined in a very specific method at high temperatures. The melted material – it has to be worked on quickly – achieves its desired physical condition by being cooled abruptly. The original material attains perfection by being newly formed.
Furnaces, tools and machines generate a multiplicity of sounds, which are not perceived as separate sound sensations on site.
Sound recording as technical achievement makes it possible to detach sounds from their original surroundings, where they are no more than background noise, biographical nostalgia and sometimes even nuisance factors. Like the finished glassware they leave their place of origin and reformed in a new time and molecular structure they gain new quality and relevance. In everyday life we are not aware of the potential sounds and energy embedded in glass, but they are in the centre of this compositional work.
The installation uses several recordings of the artist. These soundscapes were made within the framework of the artistic residence project LOUD LISTENING Through The Sound of Murano Glass. They were recorded in various glass manufactories on the island of Murano located north east of old town Venice in 2014.
By using the collected sound material a sound map was created. Together with a twenty-minute-long video documentation it is available on in Vimeo.
In 2015 Crónica will publish a release where several musicians were invited to re-interpret the collected recordings.
Grand témoin des passerelles entre la création contemporaine, la musique et le multimédia nées de la révolution numérique, le label Crónica fait son état de l’art. Avec Hidden Name, l’étonnant label-media, comme il aime à se définir, nous livre une de ses cartes blanches proche de la perfection, tant la magie de Stephan Mathieu et Janek Schaefer est opérante.
Faire les choses simplement, livrer le réel en le dévoilant dans ses aspects les plus intimes : l’approche choisie par les deux musiciens que pourtant tout oppose dans la manipulation sonore, est une merveille de calme, de beauté et de volupté pastorale. L’épaisseur et la richesse de la matière sonore est composée de prises de son dans le manoir d’un petit village du sud de l’Angleterre, et de savantes incursions dans le catalogue sonore du York Music Research Center. S’ajoutent interférences radiophoniques, drones, field recordings, mélodies dissimulées, modulations sonores de fins de fréquences et autres bizarreries des ondes arrangées avec des plages d’instruments plus traditionnels (piano, clarinette, violoncelle, flûte, trompette, accordéon, sitar, cloches), qui contribuent à des effets d’orchestration d’une grande délicatesse. Quelques jeux d’enfants et bruissements de pas retentissent également au fur et à mesure que l’air s’engouffre par les fenêtres grandes ouvertes du manoir, la présence de la nature au cÅ“ur de l’intimité de la vie des Hommes est chaleureuse, bienveillante. On est bien. L’étendue de Hidden Name dépasse largement les limites de l’enregistrement qui finit perdu dans une discothèque de connaisseur. Il n’y a qu’à fermer les yeux et laisser lentement s’écouler le temps pour en prendre conscience.
Philippe Gimet
Episode 143 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, June 26th.
The playlist of Futurónica 143 is:
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Arciv ev Noise is Filip Appel, an artist living in Åódź.
Among other pieces, he recorded “maintenant” with the Enough Rec. label and he created original pieces for dance performances at the Lodz Theatre and the Poznan Theatre.
He has recorded with Baublis and Limmatau, working on both his own and on group projects. He also plays and performs with K. Novotny, under the sobriquet Mavky.
He uses only his own original samples and field recordings for all the tracks he makes. He doesn’t use instruments in a classic sense of the word, so sounds emerge as a result of the laborious, processing of samples.
Episode 142 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, June 12th.
The playlist of Futurónica 142 is:
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Next Friday and Saturday in ZDB, Lisbon, the 2015 edition of the Granular Fest will present a series of performances with some of the most challenging music being produced by Granular’s members. Among other acts, Saturday night’s program will include performances from the ZNGR Electro-Acoustic Ensemble (Carlos “ZÃngaroâ€, Emidio Buchinho, Carlos Santos, João Pedro Viegas) and a duo performance of Vitor Joaquim and Miguel Carvalhais.
This coming weekend at Serralves em Festa, Crónica will be presenting two sound installations: “The Religion of Toxins”, a double-mono installation by Marc Behrens at the first floor of the chapel’s tower, and “Divisor / 4” a multi-channel piece by @c (Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais) a the house’s chapel. The infrastructure of “Divisor /4” will be used by @c for three performances, on Saturday at 3PM and 10PM and Sunday at 3PM.
Episode 141 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, May 29th.
The playlist of Futurónica 141 is:
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
