Lemuria è il nuovo progetto di Enrico Coniglio, uno dei più impegnati esponenti del non certo vasto bacino dell’elettronica sperimentale italiana. Ad accompagnarlo in questa nuova avventura è il più giovane Giovanni Lami, che aveva già avuto modo non troppo tempo fa di donare le sue field recordings a gente come Ryan Connor (Sublamp) e Shaun McAlpine. In Lemures, i due si limitano in realtà ad intersecare i rispettivi mondi all’insegna della perfezione tecnico-acustica: minimalismo ed ecoacustica dal piglio concreto che danno vita ad interessanti deflagrazioni (la fluida II, il drone di IV) tanto quanto a dilatazioni senz’anima (i rumorismi assortiti di I, le nubi stagnanti di III).
Futurónica 105
Episode 105 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 10th.
The playlist of Futurónica 105 is:
- No Way Out & Sonologyst, Mémoire du Passé (2013, The Double Side of Nature, Sillage Intemporel)
- Jazznoize, Vinyland o las exploraciones en los surcos (2013, Plunderphonica, Republica Iberica Ruidista)
- Maile Colbert, Act Three: Day From Arrival (2013, Come Kingdom Come, Two Acorns)
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
New release: “Ab OVO†by @c
There’s no better way to start the new year than with a new CD release, @c’s sixth album in Crónica, “Ab OVOâ€.
Composed by Carvalhais & Tudela, May 2012 to July 2013 from the original soundtrack to OVO, a play by the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto (composed by Tudela & Carvalhais from November 2011 to January 2012). “100†features Tam (guitar), Shirley Resende (accordion) & Sara Henriques (voice).
The man has fallen. The skull opens. Time expands.
What is left of the the memory fades away on the floor. He has just lost the notion of future, only the past and his automatisms remain.
He was an actor, without the basis of theatre – a puppeteer?His life is nothing more than the ruins of memory, and it is fragmented, divided in 4 characters. In the moments when everything is constructed and reconstructed as easily, the borders between worlds become even more permeable. The space of the stage is the inner space inhabited by the 4 characters coming from the unconscious, but captured in the world of stage acting.
(from the notes to OVO)
@c’s “Ab OVO†stems from their work for the soundtrack of OVO, a play by the puppet theater of Porto, developed in late 2011 and early 2012. Starting from an original idea by Eric de Sarria, OVO was created cooperatively during a series of rehearsals that involved all the participants in the play — actors, puppeteers, musicians and other creators — and premiered on February 10, 2012 at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery. The musical outcome of this process were 19 recorded compositions that constituted a majority of the play’s sound.
“Ab OVO†results from the realization that a music so tailored to a particular context could not be easily detached from it. When considering how to publish this work and what it would become without the stage, actors, puppets and dramaturgy, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais felt the need to rework all the pieces, opting for revisiting parts of the original soundtrack and for composing a series of six new pieces that are now presented in this CD.
The end result, although remaining close to the play’s soundtrack, is an album that chiefly preserves traces of memories from the play and expands its creation process, thus rereading, reinterpreting and rediscovering OVO.
OVO was created by Edgard Fernandes, Eric de Sarria, Isabel Barros, Rui Queiroz de Matos, Sara Henriques and Shirley Resende, with puppets and scenic objects by Rui Pedro Rodrigues and Filipe Garcia, video by Albert Coma and costumes by Eugenia Piemontese. Photos by João Tuna © Tuna TNSJ.
“Ab OVO†is now available directly from Crónica, from Crónica’s bandcamp page, Boomkat and several other retailers.
The CD edition of “Ab OVO†was possible due to the support of Teatro Nacional de São João and the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto.
Hugo Paquete releases “Phononâ€
Hugo Paquete has just released “Phononâ€, an album experiment that started as a call to explore the potentiality of the computer as an automatic machine to generate compositional material and aesthetic contents based on stochastic probabilities. The sonic material, supplied by Anton Mobin, Chris Black, Dezroy Adam, Evan x Merz, Hugo Paquete, Irad Lee, Jaime Casal, Miguel Carvalhais, Nathalie Fougeras and Rmedl, passed for a series of transformations based in algorithmics and traditional methods of composition develop by Hugo Paquete.
“Phonon†is now available as a free download from Modisti.
Mono #2 is now available
Mono #2: Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts is a publication of the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS) of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
This issue of Mono is dedicated to music, sound arts and sound in the arts and media. Guest-edited by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela and developed in collaboration with Crónica, it features texts by by Alessandro Ludovico, Enrico Coniglio, Ephraim Wegner, Francisco López, Frank Ekeberg, Heitor Alvelos, Julio d’Escriván, Leandro Pisano, LuÃsa Ribas, Maile Colbert, Marc Behrens, MarÃa Andueza, Miguel Cardoso, Miguel Carvalhais, Monty Adkins, Pedro Tudela, Samon Takahashi, and Thor Magnusson.
It collects reflections on theory and practice, on composition, performance, technique, virtuosity and aesthetics, as well as on publishing strategies and other issues brought about by computational technologies. It tries to traverse a convoluted map of artistic and design practices that are developed through sound, or that intersect with sonic arts in increasingly complex ways.
The contributors to this publication include composers, musicians, artists, designers, educators, publishers and curators. Their texts chart creative opportunities and help to discover new music and new ways to create music, to grasp new art forms and to better understand those that already populate an ever-shifting landscape of media technologies for the production and consumption of music and sound media. They are threaded by a graphic essay that draws on its themes and textual contents to develop an issue-wide composition that engages with them in a constructive dialogue.
Mono #2 is now available from Inc., Matéria Prima or directly from the publisher at <office@i2ads.org> or www.facebook.com/I2ADS.
More information at mono.i2ads.org
Soon in Crónica: @c’s “Ab OVOâ€
Futurónica 104
Episode 104 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 27th.
The playlist of Futurónica 104 is:
- Mikel R. Nieto, Untitled #18 (2012)
- Marc Behrens, A/B Rain/Compressor (2011, Apparatus, Agxivatein)
- Lionel Marchetti, Dans la montagne (Ki Ken Taï) (2011, Une Saison, Monotype)
- Mikel R. Nieto, Poseidon (2011)
- KTL, Phill 1 (2012, V, eMego)
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
“Queendom Maybe Rise†and “Never so Alone†reviewed by Skug
(…) all das schlägt der Hörerin in diesem elektroakustischen Soundteppich mit luftigem Fieldrecording-Support entgegen. Dasselbe gilt übrigens auch für die CDs »QueendomMaybeRise« von Marc Behrens und »Never So Alone« von Simon Whetham (beide auf Cronica erschienen). Düster sphärisches Flirren, schön gediegen, schön ereignislos, bei Whetham eine Spur ziselierter noch, darum auch ansprechender.
via Skug
Pedra Contida live in Aveiro and Porto
Pedra Contida, the quintet of Marcelo dos Reis (guitar), João Pais Filipe (drums and percussion), Miguel Carvalhais (computer), Angélica V Salvi (harp) and Nuno Torres (alto sax), will perform in Aveiro and Porto this next weekend.
Aveiro’s Associação Cultural Mercado Negro will host the Friday evening (22h) performance and Porto’s Maus Hábitos the Saturday afternoon (18h) set, as part of the third Feira do Jeco.
“Ab OVO†reviewed by Vital Weekly
Its been quite a while, I believe, that we last heard something from Portuguese laptop improvisers @C, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais. Maybe they too are less interested in releasing CDs and otherwise engaged in the production of music? This new release hints at such, as this is the soundtrack of “Ovo, a play by the the puppet theater of Porto […] created cooperatively during a series of rehearsals that involved all the participants”. In total nineteen pieces were recorded, but @C reworked them for a single CD release,in which we no longer see the actors, the stage etc, and hence the title ‘Ab Ovo’. I am not sure how they reworked the original music, but my best guess would everything is thrown into the blender called laptop and reconfigured, new contextualitions and such like and then presented in the form of six pieces, on this quite long release – sixty-six minutes. (…) The music from @C works best, for me, when it’s a bit jumpy, a bit all over the place, collage like and improv based, such as in ‘103’. (…) (FdW)
@c’s “Ab OVO†will be released in early January 2014.