Gintas K live in Minsk

Alva Noto, Frank Bretschneider, Signal, Mika Vainio, Pomassl, Gintas K, Buben, Pavel Ambiont, I/DEX, Love-Fine, CM Von Hausswolff, Spit It Out, F.R.U.I.T.S., Zavoloka, Alois Huber and many others will be performing at the First Experimental Music and Media Art Festival in Minsk, Belarus. Crónica’s own Gintas K will perform on Saturday 28 February at the …

“Lovely Banalities” reviewed by Boomkat

Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K returns to Cronica with a selection of self-confessed Lovely Banalities – a set of beautiful auditory trifles, often rather short and lacking in any defined sense of structure. These are more like objects, loitering around in the ether and establishing loop-based sequences like ‘Q’ or the strange and …

New CD release: Gintas K’s “Lovely Banalities”

“Lovely Banalities” is the second release in Crónica from Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K, after the much acclaimed double CD from 2006 “Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound”. “Lovely Banalities” presents fourteen short pieces — a collection of miniatures, impressions, sketches, innuendos and errors — inspired on the exceptionality and suprisingness …

New series of releases available from Zero Inch

The Beautiful Schizophonic’s “Musicamorosa”, Davor Mikan’s “Täuschung”, Cem Güney’s “Praxis”, Gilles Aubry’s “Berlin Backyards” and the forthcoming Gintas K’s “Lovely Banalities” are now available through Zero Inch. More to come soon.

Gintas K’s best of 2008

Wrapping up 2008 and opening 2009, we compiled the year’s highlights from Crónica’s artists and friends. First of the lot, Gintas Kraptavičius! Releases: @c & Vitor Joaquim “De-tour” (Feld); @c “Study” (Grain of Sound); Ben Frost “Theory of Machines” (Bedroom Community); Anthony Pateras “Chasms” (Sirr); Snd “4_5_6” (Snd); Haswell & Hecker “Blackest ever black” [electroacoustic …

RadiaLX has started broadcasting

The RadiaLX festival of Radio Art has started the 9-day non-stop broadcast of some of the world’s best radio art. The program includes Gilles Aubry, @c, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Negativland, Paulo Raposo, Gintas K, Carlos Santos, André Gonçalves, Toy Bizarre, Felix Kubin, Christof Migone, Brandon Labelle, among many others. Two special Crónica programs will also …

RadiaLX 2008 website is up

The RadiaLX 2008 radio art festival is happening between September 20 and 28 in Lisboa, gathering a set of artists, instigators and producers which will deliver public interventions, performances, workshops, radio broadcasts, discussions and conferences. Curated by Paulo Raposo and Ricardo Reis, RadiaLX will among others feature Gilles Aubry performing live and broadcasts by Crónica, …

“Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound” reviewed by Geiger

Mange kedelige ting er i tidens løb blevet lavet i avantgardens navn, men som Brian Eno har pointeret, sÃ¥ kan man sagtens glæde sig over, at der er nogle, der laver de helt ekstreme og abstrakte lydeksperiementer, ogsÃ¥ selvom man ikke nødvendigvis selv orker at høre dem. Der er stadig tale om en slags musikalsk …