Hey again, here’s yet another part of my CRÓNICA review series, today focussing on this 2011 album by @C HOMEM FANTASMA. @C is the (in this case) electroacoustic duo of Miguel Carvalhais (one of CRÓNICA’s founders) and Pedro Tudela. The album is presented here in a 16-bit/44.1kHz CD quality download and includes the album cover …
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Living for more than 20 years in Germany means to get in touch with its big myths and traditions. The Nibelung saga is one of the major ones, leading you back and forth to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, one of which key-points being the treasure buried in the Rhine river. The starting points …
Next week, Crónica will celebrate its 15th anniversary with three performances in Salão Brazil in Coimbra (Thursday 11), SMUP in Parede (Saturday 13), and Céu de Vidro in Caldas da RaÃnha (Sunday 14). @c, Vitor Joaquim, and SÃria will perform, showcasing some of their latest work.
Tamtam is a duo of Sam Auinger on sampler and field recordings and Hannes Strobl on electric upright bass and here they have a piece that deals with the old German saga, called Die Nibelungen, as immortalized by Richard Wagner in his opera cycle Die Ring Des Nibelungen. In the Rhine River lies a treasure …
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Rheingold by Tamtam
Rheingold by Tamtam
After yesterday’s première in Lisbon, @c will present “Lâminas†once again today in Braga’s gnration. This performance will count with Angelica V. Salvi (harp), João Pais Filipe (percussion) and Ricardo Jacinto (cell and electronics). Also today, at gnration’s gallery, @c will open their new installation “A/Bâ€.
Now sixteen albums down the line, Portuguese duo @C continue to refine their own brand of subatomic click n’cut ambience with Three-Body Problem, which began life as Agapornis – another puppetry piece soundtrack (like Ab Ovo before it); one inspired by the writer Anaïs Nin. The title symbolises the logistical synergy of three phases of …
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Becoming- from Miguel Carvalhais on Vimeo. “Becoming-†is a site-specific installation exploring the interplay between architecture, space, flora and the garden’s visual and acoustic fields. The installation makes this interplay explicit, through a montage of planes and reflective surfaces within the cistern. “Becoming-†was created for the Cistern of the Casa de Frescos at the …
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“6 Elementosâ€, a new work by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais (aka @c) is opening tomorrow in Porto, in the exhibitions room of the Rectory of the University of Porto. This new piece was commissioned as a part of the program of events for “Espaço, Corpo, Bem-Estar†and will be shown until November 4th.
