Author Archives: Miguel Carvalhais
New release: Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds
Defining itself as a festival of sound art, ecology and auditory culture, Lisboa Soa seeks to value contemporary artistic creation, but assigning it a social and ecological context, of direct intervention in space, encouraging the participation of different audiences through installations and sound performances, auditory education workshops, debates, lectures and tours focused on the sense of hearing. …
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“Lisboa Soa: Sounds within Sounds” reviewed by African Paper
Crónica bringen Ende des Monats eine CD mit vier Tracks heraus, die das portugiesische Festival Lisboa Soa in den Jahren von 2016 – 2020 dokumentieren. Vertreten sind Ana Guedes, João Castro Pinto, Mestre André und Sara Pinheiro – vier Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der einheimischen Experimentalszene, die als Komponisten, Soundesigner- und Performer in verschiedenen Kontexten aktiv sind und …
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“Lisboa Soa: Sounds within Sounds” reviewed by Vital Weekly
A festival of sound art, ecology and auditory culture. That’s how Lisboa Soa is described, and they have been going since 2016. To commemorate the first lustrum, they opened their archives to four Portuguese musicians and had them create new works from works collected. The festival is about “acoustic ecology, the discipline that inspired the …
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Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie” reviewed by African Paper
Crónica veröffentlichen dieser Tage einnen neuen Longplayer des baskischen Komponisten und Soundartist Miguel A. García mit vier ausladenden Tracks, basierend auf Field Recordings und anderem klanglichen Rohmaterial, bei denen eine Reihe weiterer Personen – Pedro A. Mirones, Maite Mugerza (von der auch die im Artwork verwendeten Zeichnungen stammen), Garazi Navas, Schahram Poursoudmand, Alex Reviriego, Jeff …
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“Lisboa Soa: Sounds within Sounds” in A Closer Listen’s Fall Music Preview
“A quartet of artists converge on the Lisboa Soa festival to delve deeper into aspects of sound. Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds ranges from field recording to drone to improvisation, often within a single track (Cronica, September 26).” via A Closer Listen
New release: Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie”
In the stillness we touch the eternal? With this new edition, Miguel A. García definitively abandons the low fidelity of his early work to give detritus, error and acoustic waste a luxury treatment that is recommended to be heard in good equipment. Just as before we heard their disturbing worlds from afar, we intuited them, …
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Miguel A. García’s “Eraginie” mentioned by A Closer Listen
Miguel A. García launches Eraginie with the sounds of “a hypothetical space junk video game,” and then proceeds to find awe in detritus and debris (Crónica, September 5). via A Closer Listen’s Fall Music Preview.
Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Music Map
Roel Meekop, come ogni artista sensibile, si fa molte domande sull’utilità della propria attività, sulla sua capacità di incidere nella realtà. Il suo restare inerme, di fronte alla guerra, è lo stesso del pittore minimalista Ad Reinhardt, che negli anni ’60 cercò un astrattismo geometrico, del tutto separato dai sentimenti personali. Puro colore, forma e …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by Music Map
Alcuni concetti sono ricorrenti perché affascinano numerosi artisti. David Lee Myers ne riapre uno spesso frequentato di recente, grazie alle continue conferme dalla fisica quantistica: il tempo non esiste. Noi siamo organismi che crescono e cambiano, in un prima e in un dopo. Ma quello che misuriamo è un continuum. Giorno e notte li consideriamo …
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