17, 23 and 24 January, Lisboa, Teatro A Barraca. Festival Rescaldo 08, featuring The Beautiful Schizophonic, One-Off, Carlos ZÃngaro with Nobuyasu Furuya, among others.
“Täuschung†reviewed by Adverse Effect
Four years in the making, the 28 miniatures (as, indeed, they generally are; only one piece goes over the four minutes mark, only a few hover around the two-to-three-minutes length, and the remainder range from eleven seconds to being barely much longer than a minute) here by Mikan, a Vienna-based artist given to combining algorithmic music with handmade sounds, resemble the type of scrunched-up electro-acoustic compositions RLW has perfected over the years. Balls of light and dark bounce against jagged and often jarring micro-patterns teased into something then invitingly teased elsewhere. As with other such works, this is not a place to turn to for comfort or to get dragged along by. Instead, Mikan creates a completely absorbing space where sounds are explored and pushed into new realms perfectly reflecting the whole gamut of emotions without the crutches served by convention. It is music designed to climb inside, and it works fantastically.(RJ)
Tonight: André Gonçalves, Michael J Schumacher, Tom Chiu and Nisi Jacobs live in NY
Solos and duos and a fourtet improv at Monkey Town.
New Crónicaster: @c
Gintas K’s Lovely Banalities is in production
The 40th Crónica release, Gintas K’s Lovely Banalities, with magnificent cover art by David Muth, is in the final stages of production. Copies are expected soon!
Ran Slavin’s solo evening in Tel Aviv
Next January 7, Ran Slavin will be performing at the Third Ear Ozenbar & Ozen Cinema, at King George’s St. in Tel Aviv. A solo evening will feature two live audiovisual performances at 20.30 and 22.30 and four screenings at all third ear cinemas.
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Crónica is now available at Zero”
We’re happy to announce that starting with the new year, Crónica is now also distributed online by Zero”, a new Berlin and Vienna-based independent download service for electronic music. Only one release available so far, but more are on the way. As usual, Boomkat continues to carry all of Crónica’s releases, in MP3 or FLAC formats.
Mosaique’s best of 2008
- Anja Lechner & Dino Saluzzi – Ojos Negros (ECM)
- Johnny Greenwood –There will be blood (and the film, too!!)
- Marcus Schmickler presenting “Altars of Science” in Cologne
- Stockhausen audio-installation “Stimmung” in a water-reservoir at Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
- Stephan Mathieu‘s “Radioland” (Live and Cd)
- Cindy Sherman‘s exhibition at Louisiana, Denmark
- Wolfgang Tillmann‘s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- Axel Dörner & Toshimaru Nakemura live at Ausland, Berlin