Um disco, dois músicos/compositores: a proposta contida em «Product» resulta eficazmente, e não só pelo muito semelhante enquadramento estético das músicas de Sumugan Sivanesan e de Durán Vázquez, como também pelas suas equivalentes preocupações sociais e polÃticas; o primeiro contra a xenofobia e a intolerância do actual Governo australiano, demonstradas, por exemplo, no caso dos …
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“Product 01†reviewed by Terz
Keine normale Split-CD, sondern eine korrespondenz von Bewusstsein und Ästhetik. Der Australier Sivanesan mit kompromisslosen Digitalexperimenten, deren Kopfhörerrezeption nur äußerst bedingt empfohlen werden kann. Sehr pointierter und konsequenter Ausdruck, wie auch das enthaltene Video, das die restriktive Asylabwehrpolitik und Xenophobie seines Landes zum Thema hat. Vázquez arbeitet sich ähnlich zermürbend wie minimal durch Klangschichten, um …
“Product 01†reviewed by Touching Extremes
Both these two electrocuting circuit breakers – splitting a CD like it was a vinyl, one side each – could be a new force, right now, in the new “post everything” scene, at least in the urban landscape/altered sound perception area. Sydney-based Sivanesan mostly works on those frequencies that change your listening as you move …
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“Product 01†reviewed by Bad Alchemy
Die Weiterführung der durch das coverdesign von Revdesign.pt/Def auch optisch serialisierten grauen Reihe besteht in der split-CD Product. Acht körnig rauschende Arbeiten des in Sydney beheimateten Video/audio-Künstlers Sumugan Sivanesan werden kontrastiert mit sieben elektronisch rumorenden Traumbildern des Autodidakten Durán Vásquez. Sivanesan steuerte neben seiner aus Fieldrecordings, digitaler Polyphonie und Feedback geschichteten Klang-Raum-Kunst auch die Videos …
“Product 01†reviewed by Vital
The first is what is called in the world of vinyl a split release, but there is not an appropiate term for it yet for the CD version. One person is first, the other second. So it goes. First here is one Sumugan Sivanesan from Sydney, Australia. Before turning his laptop on, he played in …
“Product 01†reviewed by Black
SUMUGAN SIVANESAN experimentiert mit Collagen aus hochfrequenten Fiepsen, Digital Noise, Field Recordings und Feedbacks, erstellt daraus Tracks zwischen Ambient, Drone, Clicks’n’Cuts und Noise. Die zweite Hälfte der CD, aufgenommen von DURÃN VÃZQUEZ beginnt in ähnlichen Bereichen, zeigt aber später eher Anklänge von Cut-Ups und Loops aus Spieluhrklängen, dumpfen Scheppern, aber jeweils verziert mit digitalen Klängen. …
“On Paper†reviewed by Sodapop
Per la serie se non sono matti non li recensiamo ecco a voi direttamente dal “Portugal”: On Paper. Pedro Tudela introduce il sampler parlando della carta e del fatto che collezionando vari mucchi di poster si è interessato al concetto stesso di carta come materiale, al suo utilizzo ed al rapporto che quest’ultimo ha con …
“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 1†reviewed by Time Off
As you may imagine compressing all the recorded sound of the past 100-plus years would be no easy, or for that matter ‘quiet’, task. This conceptual piece is a heavy listen – deep reverb caverns are intersected with tiny clipped particles of noise. This then rolls into tiny high-pitched noise fragments that bring to mind …
“Product 01†reviewed by Phosphor.de
The Product Series aims at fusion and confrontation through releasing the work of two artists in a single´CD. This returns to the vinyl split mentality, but this time using digital media. These releases are comprised of audio and/or audiovisual work of two artists plus a special Cronica guest to produce the cover artwork. Sumugan Sivanesan …
“A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 1†reviewed by Trax
Autodigest se autodefine como una simulación de los procesos de la implosión cultural. Apoya sus teorÃas en el hiperconformismo de Baudrillard, y la compresión tiempo-espacio de David Harvey. Bien. En cristiano, la pretensión de Autodigest es combinar sonidos y presentar luego une enciclopedia que resuma La Existencia. Más claro aún, por si no nos hemos …
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