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.
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.
A truly classic set of “semi-automatic” artworks by Lia is now available once again! A selection of 21 pieces from Turux, currently unavailable to recent web browsers, was now ported by Lia to iOS and is available at the App Store.
It’s that time of the year once again! For a very limited period, you can order any release from Crónica and get a second one for free. When ordering from our website, just send us a note indicating which other release or releases (of the same price or lower) you want and we will be happy to gift them to you.
Happy holidays from Crónica!
After Coimbra and Lisboa, Crónica celebrates its tenth anniversary in Porto with this year’s Natal dos Experimentais. Tomorrow evening Passos Manuel will host a series of performances and Crónica’s DJs. The program includes live sets from LuÃs Antero, @c + João Filipe (drums), Vitor Joaquim + João Ricardo and Pal. Kickstarting the evening we will present the latest publication of i2ADS, developed in collaboration with Crónica: Mono #2: Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts.
Entrance is free. Hope to see you there!
Episode 103 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 13th.
The playlist of Futurónica 103 is:
You can follow Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir and Rádio Manobras at radiomanobras.pt.
Je préfère l’approche électroacoustique de Lemures (Giovanni Lami et Enrico Coniglio) à celle de Rafael Anton Irisarri: événements sonores disjoints qui se rencontrent sur un fond de bruitisme sinusoïdal. Moins cinématographique et plus confondant, chose que j’aime. Objets sonores, enregistrements de terrain, dispositifs électroacoustiques qui donnent aux quatre pièces un air hybride entre la musique concrète de studio et l’improvisation électroacoustique. François Couture
via Monsieur Délire
L’incessante ricerca di Enrico Coniglio di una rappresentazione auditiva di luoghi abbandonati ha condotto l’artista veneziano nel ravennate, dove insieme a Giovanni Lami ha gettato le basi del suo nuovo esperimento di paesanismo sonoro. Nelle quattro tracce di Lemuria i due hanno cristallizzato un universo di echi e frequenze più o meno disturbate, catturate secondo una logica accidentale e in seguito giustapposte alla stregua dei vari elementi do un paesaggio. La risultante topofonia costituita da saturazioni, frammenti liquidi ed evanescenze statiche non si limita a fotografare l’abbiente di “coltura sonoraâ€, rielaborandone invece i frammenti in un esemplare unico di soundscaping. Raffaello Russo
After Coimbra and Lisboa, Crónica celebrates its tenth anniversary in Porto with this year’s Natal dos Experimentais. Next Friday, December 13th, Passos Manuel will host a series of performances and Crónica’s DJs. This year’s program includes live sets from LuÃs Antero, @c + João Filipe (drums), Vitor Joaquim + João Ricardo and Pal. Kickstarting the evening we will present the latest publication of i2ADS, developed in collaboration with Crónica: Mono #2: Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts.
