Paulo Raposo’s best of 2008

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Éliane Radigue, L’île re-sonante (CD released by Shiin); Alfredo Costa Monteiro, live performance; Radialx 2008, Lisbon: radia wild bunch fun and exchange, amazing radio shows and workshops; Architecture and acoustic space of the national pantheon in lisbon in the project “book of hours” conceived with João Silva and using glass sounds moving and diffused through the space of the 80m dome; Wind sounds at Serra do Caldeirão in Portugal and forest sounds at Kursiu Nerija National Park on the coast of Lithuania while starting to develop the ambar project with Maksim Shenteliev and John Grzinich; Mascavado 2008, produced by Grain of Sound and Sirr featuring delicate performances by Axel Dorner, Ko Ishikawa, Taku Unami, Masahiko Okura, Klaus Filip and Nuno Moita.

Reading Robert Walser.

Revisiting Jean-Marie Straub & Daniélle Huillet film “Chronic of Anna Magadalena Bach” as several movies by João César Monteiro (to my knowledge, only “God’s Comedy” has been released with English subtitles, but most have been released in France).

Pedro Tudela’s best of 2008

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Kangding Ray: “Automne Fold“, Ø: “Oleva“, Machinefabriek + Stephen Vitiello: “Box Music“, Terry Riley: “The Last Camel in Paris, Théâtre Edouard VII, Paris, 10 November 1978“, Thomas Brinkmann: “When Horses Die“, Ryoji Ikeda: “See You At Regis Debray“, COH Plays Cosey.

“Gruppen” by Karlheinz Stockhausen, performed by the Orquesta Nacional de Espana, directed by Arturo Tamayo, Jose Raman Encinar, Nacho de Paz, Auditorio Nacional, Madrid.

Performance/Rádio “It’s All In Your Head FM” Negativland, Auditório Serralves, Porto.

Cem Güney’s best of 2008

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Mus*****c, Cronica 032, Unlimited Release; @c, Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom; The Beautiful Schizophonic, Musicamorosa; Ran Slavin, The Wayward Regional Transmissions; Janek Schaefer, Alone at Last; Annette Krebs & Toshimaru Nakamura, Siyu; Cronicaster 025, Aki Onda, Gert-Jan Prins, @c; @c, 48 EDE; Battiti Radio Show, Rai-Radio3; The Works of Kanta Horio.

Miguel Carvalhais’ best of 2008

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Ø’s Oleva; Crónica’s Unlimited releases; Pure’s Ification; Terry Riley’s The Last Camel in Paris; Ryoji Ikeda’s See You At Regis Debray; Florian Hecker’s Hecker, Höller, Tracks; Le Weekend with Raymond MacDonald; Gilles Aubry’s Berlin Backyards; CoH + Cosey Fanni Tutti’s CoH Plays Cosey; Bill Wells’ The Loathsome Reel book and concert; Peter Rehberg’s Work For GV 2004-2008; Maryanne Amarcher’s Sound Characters 2; Carlos Santos live at FBAUL; Coil’s The New Backwards; Organum’s Omega; Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I and Gruppen live in Madrid; Cem Güney, Michel Chion, Philippe Mion, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, Pandit Kumar Bose & Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan.

The Beautiful Schizophonic’s best of 2008

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albums: Górecki, symphony no. 3 (cd elektra nonesuch); Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau, roman anglais (cd o rosa records); Jacaszek, treny (cd miasmah); Jasper TX, black sleep (cd miasmah); Celer discourses of the withered (cd infraction records); Khale, sleepworks (cd own records); The Abbasi Brothers, something like nostalgia (cd dynamophone); Jordi Savall, invocation à la nuit: musica notturna (2cd alia vox); Grandelavoix / Bjorn Schmelzer, poissance d’amours: mystiques, moines et ménestrels en Brabant au XIIIe siècle; Jozef van Wissem, a rose by any other name: anonymous lute solos of the golden age (cd bvhaast).

concert: Charlemagne Palestine + Colleen @ Sé Catedral, Lisboa

moments: playing @ EME festival; publishing my third fiction book, “Beltenebros“; posing nude for a painter on a Summer afternoon; hosting Cécile (Colleen) during a weekend; burlesque striptease show @ Cabaret Maxime.

books: The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis; Le Bain de Diane, Pierre Klossowski; Summer Cross, Truman Capote.

films: Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon, Eric Rohmer; Les Anges Exterminateurs, Jean-Claude Brisseau; Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir; All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Johnatan Levine; La Tourneuse de Pages, Denis Dercourt.

tv: Californication, The Hills, Girls Next Door.

dreamtrip: So Cal, US

tag: music for lonely people

paL’s best of 2008

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  1. baby Petra can read and write!… and she draws nicelly!
  2. twitterrific: the best and fastest way of web feeding… yet!
  3. concert: a vietnam story: carl minnemann (bass), pedro almeida (piano) and kitato (slideshow)
  4. performance/concert: “music for 6 guitars”, by Ben Frost… i had a great experience playing so intensely!
  5. ce started the Unlimited Releases with VVAA: Mus*****c ce032
  6. Handy Japan: creating in Porto (Portugal) inspired by the japannese culture. Lara and i organized the event!
  7. crónica concert: natal dos experimentais, 9 musicians breathing properly (Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal)
  8. i got my first ipod touch… Lara is motherchristmas!
  9. we have a piece of land: Sangemondes (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
  10. Mr. Obama, black, president of the USA!… change… true!

Gintas K’s best of 2008

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Wrapping up 2008 and opening 2009, we compiled the year’s highlights from Crónica’s artists and friends. First of the lot, Gintas Kraptavičius!

Releases: @c & Vitor Joaquim “De-tour” (Feld); @c “Study” (Grain of Sound); Ben Frost “Theory of Machines” (Bedroom Community); Anthony Pateras “Chasms” (Sirr); Snd “4_5_6” (Snd); Haswell & Hecker “Blackest ever black” [electroacoustic UPIC recordings]; Robbie Avenaim “Rhythmic Movement Disorder” (ROOM40); Pedro Tudela & Pedro Almeida “Cronicaster 028”. Performances: Frank Bretschneider at festival Jauna Muzika (Vilnius, CAC), Ambar (Paulo Raposo, John Grzinich, Maksim Shenteliev) at event VYgyvai7 (Vilnius, CAC). Exhibitions: “The Owl Project” at Lydgalleriet (Bergen). Festivals: “THE WHITE NIGHT” Contemporary Art Forum 2008 Riga, Garso Zona 2008 festival Vilnius. Movies: “My Blueberry Nights” directed by Kar Wai Wong; “Opium: Diary of a Madwoman”, directed by Janos Szasz; “4”, directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky; “Dust”, directed by Sergej Loban. Book: “The Witch of Portobello” by Paulo Coelho.