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Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” reviewed by Music Map
Matilde Meireles è una sound artist portoghese, da tempo attiva nel campo della composizione elettroacustica e autrice di alcuni lavori di installazioni e ricerche sul campo, specialmente in contesti urbani e naturali sull’asse Portogallo – Regno Unito, legandosi a Belfast, capitale dell’Irlanda del Nord. L’artista ha da poco pubblicato per Crónica Records “Four Tales”, un …
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Machinefabriek’s “Spelonk” reviewed by Chain DLK
There is a particular kind of honesty in artists who admit they occasionally need to escape their own commissions. Not dramatically, not with some tortured manifesto, just quietly stepping aside to make something that answers to no one. With “Spelonk”, Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, does exactly that. No brief, no external narrative, no …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” reviewed by Radiohörer
Ich hätte es fast wieder ausgemacht und dachte mir: Schon wieder Fieldrecordings! Dann trotzdem weiter zugehört und gemerkt, dass da noch viel mehr dahintersteckt und mir alle vier Teile angehört. Anhören! Das Album ist eine Erweiterung von Meireles’ Kooperationsprojekt DRIFT, dessen Mittelpunkt ein modularer, ortsspezifischer schwimmender Pavillon und öffentlicher Raum in Belfast bildet, der in …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” reviewed by Chain DLK
Cities are usually described through their skylines, traffic, or architectural bravado. Rarely through their rivers actually speaking. Which is unfortunate, because water has been patiently composing the soundtrack of urban life long before humans decided to build bridges over it. With “Four Tales”, Matilde Meireles approaches the city from precisely that overlooked perspective: listening downward, …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” reviewed by African Paper
Matilde Meireles stellt dieser Tage ihr neues Album “Four Tales” vor, das als CD bei Crónica erscheint. Die Veröffentlichung ist Teil eines größeren künstlerischen Zusammenhangs, der Klang, Text und Architektur miteinander verschränkt und so unterschiedliche Formen der Wahrnehmung zusammenführt. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts sind vier klangliche Erzählungen, die sich mit Wasser, urbanen Räumen und deren Atmosphäre …
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Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” reviewed by Percorsi Musicali
Four Tales is rooted in Pauline Oliveros’ philosophy of deep listening as an act of care and employs sound and extended forms of listening to form a sensibility of community between people and their surrounding architecture and ecosystems. Sound and architecture unite in a conversation that expands our senses and entangles our rhythms with all other …
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Machinefabriek’s “Spelonk” reviewed by Etherreal
Suivi par intermittence sur ces pages, Machinefabriek fait partie de ces artistes trop prolifiques pour assurer des recensions exhaustives de ses publications. C’est donc à l’occasion d’un album sur Crónica (label lui aussi irrégulièrement suivi) qu’on retrouve le musicien néerlandais, près de vingt ans (!) après la dernière chronique d’un disque en solo. Spelonk, avec ses intitulés de …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Simon Whetham continues his plan to draw attention to minimal, imperceptible, and overlooked sounds. He’s in the middle of an ongoing kinetic sound performance thing called “Channelling”, of which the CD Successive Actions (CRÓNICA 225) is a part. On it, he repurposes the motors from discarded or broken household objects, and somehow re-activates them by playing sound recordings through …
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