“Transmissions” reviewed by Blow Up

Transmissions
Con una discografia a proprio nome di elevato pregio, preziosi “La Plinthe”, “Parcelles 1-10” e “Passports”, Mathias Delplanque in “Transmissions”, alla maniera che fu di Jean-Marc Vivenza, registra il canto di macchine in azione. Pur lungi dal suggerire visione postmoderna invariabilmente catastrofista, Mathias coglie l’armonia meccanica non come esplicitazione di una inesorabile e infallibile potenza di stampo futurista, quanto come frastagliato animarsi che modella stoffa concreta in narrazione emotiva generosa di cromatismi nella eccellente Part 1, che come la breve Part 2, trae la materia prima da tracce carpite al Musée du Textile di Chalet. Più riconducibili a capitoli passati di Delplanque i due successivi episodi, elaborati su suoni catturati durante un workshop da lui diretto in un istituto tecnico di Nantes, con le movenze di Part 3 che trovano fondale in un turbinoso quanto incessante drone, e Part 4 che si estende al limite dei quaranta minuti, con una prima tranche di inquietante scabrosità, un arresto quasi in panne, a preludio di un frangente che, assumendo dimensioni di sostanza post-industrial, abbina ad anodini battiti cascate noise, con indugi a lambire il silenzio che si svelano preparatori allo sconfinare in atmosfere da dark ambient, per un lungo finale, oltre il quarto d’ora, cui forse uns sforbiciata si poteva concede. Paolo Bertoni

New podcast: Savvas Metaxas

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Composed by Savvas Metaxas. Mastering by Dimitris Damaskos. Photo by Nikos Koustoz.

Senza is based on a collection of sounds recorded in various places and in different periods of time. It is a form of sound-documentation of events. The track is divided into five parts, a train journey, a game with sound-marbles in a place near the sea, a ride with a bicycle, a homemade drum kit made of casseroles, and moving furniture in various tones.

Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Metaxas is a self-taught musician who started playing the electric guitar in various groups before forming Good Luck Mr. Gorsky. Better acknowledged for his work as inverz, he gradually shifted to the use of modular synthesizers, tapes, and field-recordings as sound tools, rather than instruments. He is also active with the Granny Records label, publishing works of contemporary Greek musicians.

Download here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Futurónica 132

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Episode 132 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, January 23rd.

The playlist of Futurónica 132 is:

  1. Drøp, Tensegrity (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  2. Franz Rosati, Symmetry Breaking (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  3. Mark Cetilia, FTFM (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  4. Ken Ikeda, Uruoi-Moisture (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  5. Gianluca Favaron, Three Elements (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  6. Precocious Mouse, Cconfin6 (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  7. Y:E:T, Mind Crack Between L and R (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  8. Giuseppe Pradella, Le Ombre (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)
  9. Inner8, Quantum Interference (2014, Quark: How Does the Invisible Sound?, Farmacia 901)

You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.

New podcast: Now Cut + Emmanuel Mieville

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Now Cut is the french duo of Stéphanie Briand and Phiippe Desclais, focusing on self made instruments, of metal and prepared guitar, filers, oscillators, contact microphones.

Paris-born composer Emmanuel Mieville studied sound engineering in a film school and musique concrète at the famous GRM. He has previously released “Concret-Sens“ in Crónica.

Download here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Futurónica 131

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Episode 131 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, January 9th.

The playlist of Futurónica 131 is:

  1. Stephan Mathieu, Second Dream (2014, Nachtstücke, Schwebung)
  2. Stephan Mathieu + Federico Durand, Third Dream (2014, Nachtstücke, Schwebung)

You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.

“Residual Forms” — one of the 10 best EPs from 2014 by 5:4

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Monty Adkins’ work continues to plough increasingly deep furrows into material at the meeting point of ambient and experimental electronics. The results are uniformly beautiful, and this short piece is no exception, slow shifting chords and clouds matched by episodes of more blistered music, positioned with Adkins’ typically unerring skill so as to draw out a potent sense of inner drama.

via 5:4

Autodigest presents “Boot Surgery”

A weekly radio show by autodigest, a 30-minute show dedicated to reshaping a vast repertoire of unauthorised live recordings of popular music spanning over 4 decades.

Boot Surgery is meant to be both a dream sequence and the nec plus ultra of unauthorised recordings, a chaotic yet rigorous pool where vaguely familiar moods and shards boil out of the melting pot and into the ether. An ongoing requiem to popular music’s gradual drift into oblivion, replaced with something that is promptly readable yet devoid of depth, metaphor or mystery: digital compression, forceful presets and hallucinatory autotune to the fore.

Coming next year at radiomanobras.pt

Futurónica 130

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Episode 130 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, December 26th.

The playlist of Futurónica 130 is:

  1. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Metal (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  2. Freiband, Re-Via Version 1 (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  3. Le Syndicat MMX, De Chains (Sess XXVI – 20120326) (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  4. @c, сто шестой (для Дмитрия) (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  5. Jason Kahn & Richard Francis, Dunedin 2 (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  6. Simon Whetham, A State of Imbalance (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  7. Batchas, Schmerz (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  8. Falx Cerebri, Abtastung Part 3 (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  9. Francisco López, Untitled #315 (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  10. Bernard Donzel-Gargand, Hier, Aujourd’hui et Demain Peut-ètre (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)
  11. Pacific 231, Déplacement à Quatre Oscillateurs (2014, MV X Monochrome Visions 2004-2014, Monochrome Vision)

You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.