New release: Emiter’s “Repetition and Memory”

We’re proud to present Emiter’s first release in Crónica, his EP “Repetition and Memory”. Recording, listening, movement, rhythm. There are many traces that create infinite possibilities to combine into new qualities. Traces, recording, time, frequency. Repetition and memory. Alan Burdick writes that “The golden age of the ear never ended (…) It continues, veiled by …

Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Aural Aggravation

Simon Whetham’s latest work is a fascinating hybrid which incorporates found sounds and elements of layering in order to create a whole other world, a different dimension. The album itself is part of a larger project, which is more readily explained through quotation than a stumbling stab at paraphrase: Successive Actions is an iteration of …

Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” reviewed by Chain DLK

In “Loop. And Again.”, Matilde Meireles invites listeners on a journey through Belfast’s hidden electromagnetic undercurrents, each track a sonic impression of the city’s humming, droning core. The album emerges from her research project “X Marks the Spot”, where Meireles mapped telecommunications boxes whose ambient emissions formed unexpected symphonies across Belfast. Through three immersive tracks …

Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Anxious

Successive Actions to iteracja szerszej serii kinetycznych performansów dźwiękowych, w których różne urządzenia silnikowe, odzyskane z przestarzałych i wyrzuconych technologii konsumenckich, są aktywowane za pomocą odtwarzanych przez nie nagrań dźwiękowych. To z kolei generuje nowe dźwięki z urządzeń, które są wzmacniane za pomocą różnych mikrofonów i technik. Tytuł pochodzi z książki Dirka Raaijmakersa The Art of Reading …

Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” featured on Bandcamp Daily

Residents of Belfast may have noticed strange signs pasted onto telecommunication boxes around their neighborhoods in the past decade. One such sign, on Balfour Avenue, read: “Producing a continuous sound composed of: 92Hz, 120Hz, 178Hz, 235Hz, 408Hz, 580Hz, 1184Hz, 1327Hz, 3282Hz.” These were the work of Matilde Meireles, a sound artist and researcher whose X Marks the Spot project …

New release: Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions”

Successive Actions is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series Channelling in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers’s The …

“Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds” reviewed by Neural

Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context, supporting ecological sensitivity, giving life to significant sound experiences, and in iconic spaces, designing routes that guide visitors through them, while at the same time encouraging reflection …

New release: Hannes Strobl’s “Weben Song”

“The things around us speak like housings that make something sound, like musical instruments…” wrote Jacob Böhme in 1622 in his work De signatura rerum. While working on a performance-installation (doublelucky productions) at the former Leipzig Cotton Mill (founded in 1884 and at the time the largest cotton mill in continental Europe), I began experimenting …

Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les Fantômes” reviewed by Chain DLK

Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les fantômes” is an immersive journey that sits at the intersection of sound art, memory, and the imagination. A prolific composer from Northern France, Duplant draws inspiration from literary figures such as Gaston Bachelard and Stéphane Mallarmé, blending their philosophical musings with musical influences from the likes of John Cage and Eliane …