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 …

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 …

“Crónica L” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Cronica celebrates their 50th release with L, a compilation pairing 18 Cronica artists into collaborations. This results in 9 new compositions, exploring various facets of the label’s approach to hazy, electro-acoustic sound art. While it’s difficult to pin Cronica down to a distinct sound, the artists here chiefly work in drones, in which field recording …

“Crónica L” at Terje Paulsen’s 2010 Favorites

Crónica’s compilation, released in 2010 to mark our 50th edition, was selected as one of the highlights of 2010 by Terje Paulsen at Spiritual Archives. “Crónica L” was freely distributed to all the subscribers of Neural magazine (issue #36, May 2010) and not sold through any of the usual distribution channels. We do however still …