Tag Archives: Durán Vázquez

“Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz” reviewed by Sonidos Restringidos

Este año se celebra un siglo de la publicación del manifiesto L’arte dei rumori (El arte de los ruidos), escrito por el futurista italiano Luigi Russolo en marzo de 1913 (puedes leerlo, traducido al castellano, en este blog), y a buen seguro proliferarán recordatorios y reivindicaciones de las ideas revolucionarias entorno a la concepción musical …

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“Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz” reviewed by Loop

This is a collaboration between Miguel A. García and Durán Vázquez for a split album in Crónica’s Unlimited Series. The piece ‘Monnom’ composed by García lasts 17 minutes approximately and shows a repetitive, mechanic and provocative noise. Drones in the background are the basis of sound design which are articulated in complex software. ‘Hertz, Gigahertz’ …

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Futurónica 81

Episode 81 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, February 8th. The playlist of Futurónica 81 is: Durán Vázquez, Pictures From The Atlantic City Of Vigo (2009, Home, Sweet Home, Crónica) Miguel A. García, Monnom (2013, Monnom / …

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New release: “Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz” by Miguel A. García / Durán Vázquez

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Luigi Russolo’s letter known as L’arte dei Rumori, a Futurist manifesto usually quoted as being the landmark that pointed out incorporation of the so-called noise in the western musical tradition. And ten decades may seem to be a lot of time but the truth is that Russolo’s legacy (not …

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New podcast: Durán Vázquez

Performed at Vigosónico, Vigo, Galicia, October 19th 2011. Durán Vázquez improvised with prerecorded materials, live electronics and occasional fragments of video. Includes samples from previous tracks on Crónica’s “Mus*****c”, Expo_net’s “Physikos, Aphysikos” and Mahorka’s “Selected Ambience Wars”. Main live-sound source courtesy of SynFactory synthesizer software. Dedicated to the ignominious memory of Cecil Rhodes. Download here …

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De Rastros, Paisaxes e Arqueoloxías Sonoras

“About Trails, Landscapes and Sound Archaeologies”: a highly recommended performance at the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela. Next Tuesday, November 6, at 20h30. In the tradition, surely inaugurated by Alvin Lucier, of making audible with the help of technological processes natural acoustic phenomena usually unnoticed into an ordinary ear is a whole school of electronic …

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