New release: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s “Withering Field Live“

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s Withering Field is an essay on manmade violence over earth’s ecologies and natural environments, on the threatening of the Global South created by Western modernism, and the impending catastrophes looming. Withering Field is a sonic narrative developed around these events of displacement and dispossession, developed through fieldwork and field recordings made in what are currently denominated of …

Luca Forcucci’s “Terra” reviewed by Field Notes

For »Terra,« Luca Forcucci collected field recordings in Los Angeles, the Brazilian city of Recife and Beirut. The Berlin-based composer and sound artist presented them, together with a graphic score, to the cellist Noémy Braun and the percussionist Lucas Gonseth, who, together with Forcucci on live electronics, fleshed out the music over three days for …

Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by Vital Weekly

Roel Meelkop I know very well, and I am not surprised that his new release deals with war and peace. In 2022 he contributed to a compilation, ‘Stop All Wars’. He was thinking of Ad Reinhardt, the American painter, and his postcard to the “war Chief”, with negations “such as “no napalm”, “no bombing”, “no …

New release: Luca Forcucci’s “Terra”

Crónica is proud to present its fourth release in 2023, Luca Forcucci’s “Terra”, a composition for cello, percussions, live electronics, fragments, drifts, and territories. Music composition, live electronics, field recordings, drifts, and production by Luca Forcucci. Cello by Noémy Braun. Percussions by Lucas Gonseth. Recorded at Théâtre ABC, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Luca Forcucci and …

Luca Forcucci’s “Terra” reviewed by Loop

Swiss/Italian artist Luca Forcucci is a composer and musician who on this record is in charge of live electronics, field recordings, drifts, and production.Forcucci works in the fields of installations, performances, electroacoustic music, video, photography, and text. His compositions include solo works and collaborations with contemporary musicians, indigenous musicians, record players, electronic music pioneers, dancers, …