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
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
- baby Petra can read and write!… and she draws nicelly!
- twitterrific: the best and fastest way of web feeding… yet!
- concert: a vietnam story: carl minnemann (bass), pedro almeida (piano) and kitato (slideshow)
- performance/concert: “music for 6 guitars”, by Ben Frost… i had a great experience playing so intensely!
- ce started the Unlimited Releases with VVAA: Mus*****c ce032
- Handy Japan: creating in Porto (Portugal) inspired by the japannese culture. Lara and i organized the event!
- crónica concert: natal dos experimentais, 9 musicians breathing properly (Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal)
- i got my first ipod touch… Lara is motherchristmas!
- we have a piece of land: Sangemondes (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
- Mr. Obama, black, president of the USA!… change… true!
Gintas K’s best of 2008
Wrapping up 2008 and opening 2009, we compiled the year’s highlights from Crónica’s artists and friends. First of the lot, Gintas KraptaviÄius!
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 028â€. 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 Madwomanâ€, directed by Janos Szasz; “4â€, directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky; “Dustâ€, directed by Sergej Loban. Book: “The Witch of Portobello†by Paulo Coelho.
Don’t forget: get 2 for 1 when shopping direct from Crónica until January 6
Don’t forget: until January 6 you can still get two Crónica releases for the price of one when you order directly from us. It’s simple: for each CD you pay for, you get to choose a second one, our offer!
From the archives: o.blaat
2004.06.04 — Keiko Uenishi [US/JP] was at Aniki Bobó (Porto, Portugal) for her release on Crónica “Two Novels: Gaze / In the Cochleaâ€
Merry Christmas Baby, Season’s Greetings
New Crónicaster: Brigitta Bödenauer
Tonight: Crónica’s Natal dos Experimentais 2008
Tonight Crónica will present the 2008 edition of “Natal dos Experimentais†with an exquisite 9tet, featuring Gustavo Costa, Jonathan Uliel, Miguel Cardoso, Miguel Carvalhais, Neil Davidson, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela, The Beautiful Schizophonic and Vitor Joaquim.
After the performance, Cruz and Paulo Vinhas will DJ in the bar and club.
The entrance is free and Crónica will be giving away xmas gifts, so come and join us at Passos Manuel, in Porto, from 23 onwards.
Quartet #2 (Fantomas Quartet) by Koen Nutters
Brian McKenna, Koen Nutters, Morten J Olsen and Martijn Tellinga will perform Koen Nutters’ Quartet #2 (Fantomas Quartet) for 4 players, 4 mixers, 4 speakers and 4 laptops (running iTunes), next Friday, December 19 at Gallery W139, Warmoesstraat 139, Amsterdam. Free entrance!