Tonight, live from Porto, Crónica will perform a special broadcast of Futurónica (its regular program in Rádio Zero) as its participation in the Future Places festival. Non-stop from 10PM to 2AM, with all the Crónica staff (the five of them), their music collections and open microphones. Live broadcast in Porto at 91.5FM, streaming through Rádio Zero and Rádio Futura, and in the flesh at the main room of Maus Hábitos, from where the broadcast will happen, it’ll be Futurónica #19!
“The Mediterranean Drift†reviewed by Le Son du Grisli
Et une excellente sortie chez Crónica, une – et que vivent les bonnes habitudes ! Issue des pensées – très – inspirées de l’Israélien Ran Slavin, The Mediterranian Drift évoque en deux fois trois mouvements les tourments du Moyen Orient, symbolisés dans le superbe tableau du peintre français Claude-Joseph Vernet Le Naufrage (visible sur la pochette et, pour la petite histoire, à la National Gallery of Art de Washington).
Au-delà de la vision quasiment métaphysique de l’¦uvre, qui trouve un aboutissement mémorable sur l’envoûtante pièce inaugurale Losing Coordinates In The Mediterranean Drift, le musicien de Tel Aviv intègre – faudrait-il écrire miraculeusement – divers éléments épars (une guitare, un brouillard électroniques, des clicks & cuts) en une symbiose à la fois grave et sensorielle. Tel un frère d’âme du Britannique de Berlin Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker – faut-il rappeler l’ultime importance de Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was – Slavin développe, outre le goût des titres à rallonge, une cosmogonie allusive où l’émotion et le recueillement repoussent au vestiaire toute velléité inutile de théorisation excessive. Alors que les trois premières compositions trempent leur plume dans une nostalgie jamais gratuite ou formolée, la seconde partie trouble les repères et combat les vindictes revendicatives, laissant tout l’espace à des lendemains incertains et ténébreux. Fabrice Vanoverberg
via Le Son du Grisli
Piotr Kurek live in Budapest
Next Saturday, October 9th at the UH Fest in Budapest.
Futurónica #18
Episode 18 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, October 8th at 21h (GMT).
The playlist for Futurónica #18 is:
- David Lynch and John Neff, Eraserhead Dance Mix (2003, from Eraserhead Soundtrack, Absurda)
- Coil, I Am the Green Child (2000, from Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil, Eskaton)
- This Immortal Coil, Red Queen (2009, from The Dark Age of Love, Ici D’Ailleurs)
- Asmus Tietchens, Teilmenge 21 (2002, from Ï’-Menge, Ritornell)
- Freiband, Superpoem (2003, from O Superman, Staalplaat)
- @c, 38 (2006, from Study, Grain of Sound)
You can hear Rádio Zero’s broadcasts at radiozero.pt/ouvir.
Ran Slavin’s video installations in Tel Aviv
Tomorrow night, and for one night only, Ran Slavin will present three video installations at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art sculpture garden.
“Crónica L†reviewed by Vital Weekly
Labels sometimes release label samplers, which is of course if you need to reach a new audience. Sometimes they come with a magazine. And sometimes they are send to magazines for review. I never like to review compilations, but least of all those label samplers. It’s usually stuff I already reviewed or sneak preview, but I don’t mind waiting for the real thing. Cronica understands that, so for their label compilation which is part of the Italian Neural magazine, they asked 18 of their artists to work together on a new piece. So we are introduced to the artists from their catalogue, but through exclusive nine, new tracks. All of these artists work with the possibilities of laptop and electronics, while many of them also incorporate field recordings to the scene. In these nine tracks we hear what these people do best: glitchy electronics (Ran Slavin & Vitor Joaquim, @C & Gintas K), musique concrete like compositions (Marc Behrens & Cem Guney), ambient drones (Pure & Duran Vazquez, Stephan Mathieu & Piotr Kurek, The Beautiful Schizophonic & TU M’), field recordings (Gilles Aubry & Paulo Raposo) and of course edges blurr in these genres (Enrico Coniglio & Janek Schaefer). A compilation that holds little surprises, but its an absolute nice one, nine strong pieces. (FdW)
“Crónica L†was distributed with issue #36 of Neural and is not on sale. While our stock lasts, all direct orders of other Crónica releases will receive a free copy of “Crónica Lâ€.
Symbiosis podcast #60, @c
The new Symbiosis podcast features the @c project, by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, a stereo mix of their performance at the Vigo Transforma festival on July 2nd 2010 in Vigo, Spain. Free to download from Symbiosis.
“Shattering Silence†reviewed by De:Bug
Der Portugiese Jan Ferreira beschränkt sich bei diesen Aufnahmen ganz bewusst auf wenige Werkzeuge zur Erzeugung und Bearbeitung von Klängen. Sein gutes Dutzend Tracks arbeitet mit Feedback, Verzerrung und analoger Klangsynthese, ist klanglich meist äußerst minimal und oft bewusst “billig” gehalten und wirkt wie live mit wenig Equipment improvisiert. Völlig abstrakte Tracks wechseln sich dabei mit pulsierenden und teilweise sogar minimal- und dubtechno-artigen Arrangements ab, weshalb das Album vielleicht nicht stringent aber ziemlich abwechslungsreich geraten ist.
New CD release: “strings.lines†by Nicolas Bernier
“strings.lines†came to life from an obsession for old and forgotten object-matter and the desire to produce music that exists in between the new and the old. The starting point to the composition of this work were acoustic tuning forks. In 2007 Nicolas Bernier became fascinated with this object/instrument of particularly beautiful design, and started a collection of all the different kinds of tuning forks he could find. Some of these reached 21Hz, near the lower-limit of human hearing, some others produced extremely high frequencies, all of them became tools and instruments for improvisation through electroacoustic transformation, in a process of discovery. These improvisations were at the heart of a composition stage that was developed for almost two years. At the heart of the project was a state of mind leaning towards the restraints imposed by the tuning forks.
The “lines†in the title originates from here: from the constant pitches imposed by the tuning forks. They produce sounds that are perceptively close to sine waves, graphically represented by lines or sinusoids, the elementary sounds of electronic music and obviously the perfect musical object to draw a music around the boundary of electronic and instrumental music. The tuning fork is also a symbol of centuries of occidental music making that culminate with western tonal music, and the preservation of that symbolism was an important part of the second stage of the composition process, involving two string players, Pierre-Yves Martel on viola da gamba and Chris Bartos on violin. During the recording sessions, the instrumentalists were requested to play close to a single pitch, exploring the wood, the attacks and the resonant qualities of their instruments, while following some of the motives that had already been composed with the forks. The pieces presented in this edition are studio compositions of layers from the two stages of the work, blending both worlds while trying to keep a sense of the original materiality and timbres, but not refraining from using other sounds and sources whenever necessary.
“strings.lines†is now available directly from Crónica and from selected retailers and online distributors.
“Shattering Silence†reviewed by Rockerilla
L’artista portoghese residente a Berlino Jan Ferreira, in arte Mosaique, ha pubblicato fino ad oggi solo dischi in formato digitale, disponibile gratuitamente sul sito della Cronica (cronicaelectronica. org). Shattering Silence è l’ultimo della serie è anche il migliore: una raccolta di quattordici tracce , per più di cento minutio di durata, che mette bene in evidenza la capcaità strabiliante di Ferreira nel trattare silenzio e rumore come elementi basilari delle proprie manipolazioni. L’attenzione dell’ascolto va ai timbri degli strumenti utilizzati, capaci di creare vere sinfonie di rumori nel giro di pochi minuti. Roberto Mandolini