Airplane noise interrupted my early outdoor sound recording attempts in the forests around Frankfurt. And so, after a while, I figured I would kick the pastoral, turn the concept upside down, and specifically record the airplane noise instead. Aiear was planned as a field recording project since 1996. In 2023 I resumed the project and composed …
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New release: Síria’s “Mahe Man / Mau Jeito”
Síria is back! After the two fantastic albums Boa-Língua and Cuspo, Diana Combo’s Síria is back with two new tracks, Mahe Man, composed with Jeremy Young after the Persian song Bote Chin by Ali Akbar Sheyda, and Mau Jeito, composed by Kaveh Sarvarian and remixed by @c. Mahe Man / Mau Jeito is now available to …
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Philippe Petit’s “A Divine Comedy” reviewed by Felthat
Philippe Petit took up on a truly epic endeavour – both Dante Aligheri’s Divine Comedy and Gustave Dore illustrations for this classic work have been an inspiration for his newest work beautifully released as a double cd by Portuguese label Crónica based in Oporto, Portugal. It is a long set of narrative pieces which Philippe …
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Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 2” reviewed by Anxious
Ten album jest drugą częścią serii, w której badam procesy usuwania dźwięków z ich oryginalnego kontekstu i cięcia ich na małe kawałki. W ten sposób dźwięki zostają oddzielone od swojego źródła i tym samym oderwane od tego, co pierwotnie reprezentowały. To, co jest dla mnie interesujące i stanowi wyzwanie w tym projekcie, to znalezienie obszaru, w którym reprezentacja znika, a dźwięk staje się abstrakcją. Gdzie to jest, zależy od oryginalnego …
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New release: Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 2”
We’re very happy to announce the release of Jos Smolder’s Textuur 2 his second release in this series in Crónica. This album is part 3 in a series where Smolders investigates processes to strip sounds from their original context and slice them into tiny bits. Each Textuur project is built up in a similar fashion. …
Hannes Strobl’s “Transformation Sonor“ reviewed by Ambient Blog
Without it being explicitly mentioned, one could say that Transformation Sonor by Hannes Strobl is also very much in line with the music and sound of Eliane Radigue: ‘Transformation Sonor explores the idea of process, of the slow transition from one musical situation to another, of transformation on the threshold of equivalence and differentiation. Expressive, outward gestures that allow the sound …
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Jos Smolders’s “Textuur 2” reviewed by African Paper
In den nächsten Tagen erscheint der zweite Teil von Jos Smolders’ “Textuur”-Projekt auf Crónica. Als Grundidee geht es um die permutative Überführung tanzbarer Musik in ein elektroakustisches Setting. Dazu heißt es in den Ausführungen des niederländischen Sounddesigners und Komponisten: “With this project, I wanted to investigate the immersion of dance music into an electroacoustic environment. …
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David Lee Myers’s “Strange Attractors” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Sometimes working under his own name and at other times working as Arcane Device, which he has done since the mid-1980s, New Yorker David Lee Myers creates music using feedback systems, most of which he makes and develops himself. On this recent album “Strange Attractors”, Myers feeds a mix of feedback, found sounds and other …
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New release: Hannes Strobl’s “Transformation Sonor”
We’re very proud to present a new release by Hannes Strobl, Transformation Sonor, a composition that explores the idea of process, of the slow transition from one musical situation to another, of transformation on the threshold of equivalence and differentiation. Expressive, outward gestures that allow the sound to fade into the background are avoided. Sound …
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Roel Meelkop’s “Viva in Pace” reviewed by The Sound Projector
Roel Meelkop’s career as a sound artist stretches back some 40 years since he started the post-industrial project THU20 with four other musicians in the early 1980s, and later decided to dedicate his career to investigating sound and music while studying visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Among …
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