“eins bis sechzehn” reviewed by Revue & Corrigée

eins bis sechzehn
Une exploration acoustique et visuelle d’anciens hòtels en ruine, à différentes périodes. La photographe Julia Wienmann (don’t les clichés ne sont pas sans rappeler ceux d’Yves Marchand et de Romain Meffre dans The Ruins Of Detroit) et l’artiste sonore Ephraim Wegner poursuivaient manifestement un même objectif: celui de capter non seulement l’état actuel de ces lieux mais aussi ce qui subsiste de leur passé ainsi que leur devenir potentiel. Il y a tout un imaginaire rattaché à ces bâtiments. Les individus qui y ont logé n’ont laissé aucune trace de leur passage, et pourtant… les halls, les couloirs, les ancienns chambers semblent toujours peuplés de petites histoires individuelles, comme autant de tranches de vies que l’on oeut invoquer à volonté. Par ailleurs ces lieux ne sont pas uniquement désafectés car, comme le font remarquer Julia Wienmann ey Ephraim Wegner, la végétation s’y installe oeu à peu, des animaux y trouvent refuge, des riverais viennent y chercher des matériaux, des gens de passage s’y abritent, on vient y faire des graffitis… tout un univers que les artistes parviennent à suggérer en combinant leurs approches.

Ephraim Wegner a affectué un travail sonore d’une grande qualité, en s’interessant tout autant à l’environement qu’aux vibrations et fréquences émanant des bâtiments eux-mêmes, de sorte que l’on ressent à la fois la pesanteur de ces structures architecturales dépouillées et la respiration du dehors, où le quotidien suit son cours. La pièce et les photos on un ordre précis et font l’effet d’un travelling qui finit par nous conduire vers l’extérieur. La dernière photo est comme un clin d’oeil poétique avec tout en bas une personne seule face à l’étendue de la mer, tout en haut un avion envolé vers d’autres horizons.

Ce que l’on pourrait reprocher à cette belle réalisation c’est la durée, peut-être trop brève, du disque: à peine plus de 20 minutes, tandis que les séries de potographies suggèrent une temporalité relativement longue.

Yann Leblanc

New podcast: Refusenik

Live at Balka Nakts

REFUSENIK is alias of Lithuanian composer/sound artist Arturas Bumšteinas, dedicated to his solo synthesizer music, recorded in studio and performed live.

“Balta Nakts” was a live set performed at Space Textures event in the Balta Nakts festival in Riga, September 2012. The concert took place in the unusual venue under the roof of central city market in Riga — to be more precise, in its vegetable pavilion. The concert happened in the middle of the night with the market being in business, with the vegetable stalls selling their goods for the audience of wandering midnight market shoppers (and some experimental music aficionados too).

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It’s tonight: Natal dos Experimentais 2012!

Natalex-2012
It’s tonight: from 22h30 onwards at Passos Manuel in Porto. Natal dos Experimentais, Crónica’s holiday season event, this year with SSS-Q (with visuals from Maria Mónica), Golden Cup and the trio of Carlos Zíngaro with @c. All of this with free entrance, Crónica gifts to distribute and Crónica DJs after the performances!

More information at the FB event, we hope to see you there!

Tomorrow: Natal dos Experimentais 2012!


It’s already tomorrow, December 14th in Passos Manuel, Porto. It’s 2012′s Natal dos Experimentais, Crónica’s hioliday season event, this year with a host of guests: SSS-Q with visuals from Maria Mónica, Luca Massolin’s project Golden Cup and the trio of Carlos Zíngaro with @c. All of this with free entrance!

More information at the FB event.

Futurónica 77


Episode 77 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 14th.

The playlist of Futurónica 77 is:

  1. Edward Ka-Spel, Spectrescapes 4 (2012, Ghost Logik, Rustblade)
  2. (ad)VANCE(d), 0618 (2011, 24, Drone Records)
  3. Eliane Radigue, Biogenesis (1996, Biogenesis, Metamkine)
  4. Edward Ka-Spel, Spectrescapes 3 (2012, Ghost Logik, Rustblade)

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

Next Friday: Natal dos Experimentais 2012!


Save the date! Coming up next Friday, December 14th in Passos Manuel, Porto — it’s 2012′s Natal dos Experimentais, Crónica’s hioliday season event, this year with a host of guests: SSS-Q with visuals from Maria Mónica, Luca Massolin’s Golden Cup project and the trio of Carlos Zíngaro with @c.

More information at the FB event.

Golden Cup at Natal dos Experimentais


Luca Massolin’s Golden Cup project will perform at this year’s Natal dos Experimentais, next Friday in Passos Manuel, Porto. Rui Costa was unfortunately forced to cancel his participation, but we expect to feature him in a future edition.

Golden Cup is the solo project of Luca Massolin, an active figure in the young generation of outsider musicians.

Born in Italy, he is now living in Portugal. His sound is focused on string instruments (guitar, bass, mandolin), voice and analog electronics. He is constantly encouraged by his fascination for the work of the early electronic music pioneers, early 70s guitar rock as well as cosmic improvisation, minimalism, and free jazz. In his solo
recordings and live performances, as well as his involvement in Golden Jooklo Age and Neokarma jooklo experience, he developed a personal sound focusing on the power of music to create images and visions.

His efforts as bandmember and solo artist have been documented by labels such as Blackest Rainbow, Ikuisuus, Qbico, Digitalis, Troglosound, Peasant Magik, Utmarken, Holidays, Full of Nothing and his own 8mm imprint.

An intense non-stop live activity, performing in 20 nations across Europe, Middle East Asia and the United States. Playing music on stage and in the studio with artists like Anla Courtis, Peaking Lights, Takeisha Kosugi, John Paul Jones, Sonic Youth, Sachiko, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Stefan Neville.

Since 2003, he runs his record label 8mm Records focused on limited editions of free improvised and obscure underground music from all over the world.

More information at the FB event.

Next Friday: Natal dos Experimentais 2012


Save the date! Coming up next Friday, December 14th in Passos Manuel, Porto — it’s 2012′s Natal dos Experimentais, Crónica’s hioliday season event, this year with a host of guests: SSS-Q with visuals from Maria Mónica, Rui Costa and the trio of Carlos Zíngaro with @c.

More information at the FB event.

New podcast: Hugo Paquete

Hugo Paquete
“Striping Strings and Broken Objects” was develop in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics, Germany. For be integrated in the Klangdoom exploring the Zirkonium software possibilities for sound spacialization.

This composition is configured as a dynamic study for prepared piano and other electronic sounds, generated and processed elements. To compose this work Hugo Paquete develop some patches where he explores additive and subtractive synthesized signal processing from the material source and stochastic composition methods to construct oscillation of frequencies and tones and granulation. Constructing and deconstruction, the referential origins of the sound with collage technique.

The tension of striping the time strings of physics to just stay with broken objects.

Hugo Paquete (1979) is an intermedia and sound artist which in his research uses concepts about space and microtonality as a visual and audible ecosystem according to spatial and psychological characteristics (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective, communicative, evocative and environmental). The result is an audible interaction, open and indeterminate to the present time scales nano and macro. Territory of hyper-sensation and experimentation, observation and enclose the body in the listening act, turning it active and explored referential and resonator propulsive in a psycho-acoustic level. In his works he uses technical elements and practices from field-recording to computer generated sound synthesis and audio spacialization, denoting an interest in stochastic probabilities between computer algorithmic and programming interaction.

He was a resident artist in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics. He received a ZKM grant for the development of different compositions, multimedia projects focused in sound spacialization and interaction between sound and psycho-acoustic in multichannel configuring systems and free software uses. He received a commissioned compositional work from Chris Ziegler to develop an interactive composition system for iPhones, integrated in a dance media piece premiered at the ZKM in 2011 with the name “Pygmalion”.

He has actively presented his research in solo and collaborative art activities, nationally and internationally. He is developing other project with the name SSTFM and Quadrivium project focus in electroacoustic and acousmatic music.

He collaborated with the Lithuanian Artist Julijonas Urbonas to the development of the sound composition to the Talking Doors project that earned the Prix Ars Electronica of 2010, and a recommendation from the jury of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010 and a honorary mention in the Media, Live 2011 Grand Prix in Turku, Finland.

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