Barsento Mediascape

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From June 17th to the 22nd, the Barsento Mediscape artistic residency will gather the @c project of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, Antye Greie (aka AGF), Taylor Deupree and Enrico Ascoli in the area bordered by Alberobello, Noci, Putignano, Castellana Grotte, Sammichele, Gioia del Colle and Turi in Italy, under the auspices of the Interferenze New Art Festival.

The residency will sum up in a final live event that will take place at the Theatre Rossini in Gioia del Colle on Saturday June 22nd.

More information at barsentomediascape.com

Futurónica 90

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Episode 90 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 14th.

The playlist of Futurónica 90 is:

  1. Stephan Mathieu, A Static Place I (2010, A Static Place, 12K)
  2. Arturas Bumšteinas, Refusenik (2011, Eterniday News (Vol. 1), Audiotalaia)
  3. Maile Colbert, Light Brutal (2011, Meditations On Light, Monochrome Vision)
  4. Stephan Mathieu, Dawn (2010, A Static Place, 12K)
  5. Mika Vainio, Magnetia (2012, FE3O4 – Magnetite, Touch)
  6. Audio_z, bits pieces and so far beyond (excerpt) (2012, Lithuanian Sound Art)

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

Futurónica 89

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Episode 89 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 31st.

The playlist of Futurónica 89 is:

  1. Joe Stevens, A Very Fine Needle (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  2. Enrico Coniglio, L’impossibilité de la voile (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  3. Nigel Simpson, Creak (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  4. Gerald Fiebig, Horta Harbour (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  5. Luís Antero, Eternally (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  6. Ben Owen, Night Drift 09-28 (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  7. lupov cokoliv*, fressspinne (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)
  8. Jay-Dea Lopez, From the Edge of Saturn (2012, Somewhere on the edge, Gruenrekorder)

“Queendom Maybe Rise” reviewed by Musik an Sich

Queendom Maybe Rise
Der 1970 in Darmstadt geborene Marc Behrens erarbeitet seine Klangkunst in erster Linie für Veranstaltungen, Livedarbietungen, Ausstellungen oder Installationen.

Das auf Queendome Maybe Rise erscheinende Material ist auf ähnliche Weise entstanden, gereift und schlussendlich auf dieses Album gepackt worden. Im langem ersten Track “Maybe Riise” verarbeitete er Naturklänge / Fieldrecordings wie Geräusche des Australischen Outbacks, dem Regenwald oder anderen exotisch anmutenden Lokations. Um diese zu präsentieren erarbeitete Marc Behrens einen eingangs sehr dichten und düsteren elektronischen Sound, der mich an Projekte wie Mimir oder JimO´Rourke erinnern. Im Verlauf zerfällt diese dichte Atmosphäre in vereinzelt zirrpende Klänge, wenn auch ganz weit hinten die Atmosphäre weiter düster aufrecht gehalten wird.

Maybe Rise” ist eine der interessanteren Arbeiten an der Schwelle elektronischer Avantgarde zu unhörbarer Soundkunst. Behrens gelingt es, den Hörer über die ganze Distanz aufmerksam zu halten um bei jedem neuen Hördurchgang Neues zu entdecken. Und auch als Soundtrack zum Entspannen bietet das Stück viel Sound und Atmosphäre.

Das 2. Stück “Queendome” baut auf die Vocalakrobatik von Yoko Higashi auf. Zunächst glaubt man in eine Atmosphäre ähnlich einem Pink Floyd stück wie Sysiphus zu landen (dunkle, elektronische Soundschleifen). Die Vocals geben dem Stück auch keine Helligkeit, so entsteht ein düsteres Werk aus Elektronik und Stimmsound.

Insgesamt eine sehr interessante Veröffentlichung die es schafft, den Hörer zu fesseln und nicht in akustischer Umweltverschmutzung zu zerfallen. Wolfgang Kabsch

via Musik an Sich

New release: “The End of Vinyl” by Pure

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Crónica’s 78th edition presents Pure’s classic the.end.of.vinyl, originally released by Mego in 1999. Long out of stock, this was Pure’s first output after the switch from analogue hardware to software and also his first work focusing on the pure listening experience instead of dance music.

the.end.of.vinyl is not a manifesto against vinyl records, rather a mention to the sources used in the composition, taken from various run out grooves. Fourteen years past, these two pieces are now redistributed in digital format and are the starting point for the ten compositions in the upcoming release No End of Vinyl.

You can download “The End of Vinyl” as AIFF or MP3 files directly from Crónica and free of charge, or from Crónica’s bandcamp page in a variety of formats. Donations are very welcome! :)

Crónica is in bandcamp

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It’s been ten years since we started Crónica in 2003. In that time we published several releases in various formats, a few of which sold out long ago, some of which are still available as CD or vinyl, some as downloads. It’s not often that we have the opportunity to look back at the entire catalogue but this is what we have been doing over the last few weeks, while working on uploading all of Crónica’s releases to our new Bandcamp page. From Crónica 001~2003 to the upcoming 078~2013 and the releases following it will now be available for streaming and download through cronica.bandcamp.com. Most of the physical releases can now be purchased in a variety of formats for 5€, while the unlimited releases are available for 1€ (or more, if you choose to) in an almost complete overview of 10 years of Crónica (and more to come)!