New Crónicaster: “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez

A piece by Durán Vázquez for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008. With this piece, conceived for radio, I wanted to work on three of my main influences: cinema, electroacoustic music and politics. Playing with the several meanings of terror I set up a sound travel that imitates the movie pictures montage with one aim …

Durán Vázquez’s best of 2008

In the worst side: Mr. Obama, the great swindle of our time (I am sorry but I have to say it) The progress of warlike capitalism (once again) In the best side: the Goya prizes for “La Soledad” by Jaime Rosales, one of the great and most special film directors starting of Larraskito netlabel, nice …

Sudamericaelectronica releases “Compilación Iberoamericana #02”

Sudamericalectronica has just released the second issue of “Compilación Iberoamericana”, a CD + DVD pack featuring works of Jorge Haro, Jorge Castro, @c, Vitor Joaquim, Durán Vázquez and many many other artists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The DVD was compiled by Jorge Castro and the CD by Jorge Haro.

RadiaLX 2008 website is up

The RadiaLX 2008 radio art festival is happening between September 20 and 28 in Lisboa, gathering a set of artists, instigators and producers which will deliver public interventions, performances, workshops, radio broadcasts, discussions and conferences. Curated by Paulo Raposo and Ricardo Reis, RadiaLX will among others feature Gilles Aubry performing live and broadcasts by Crónica, …

“Product 01” reviewed by Ikon

Spannend: zwei Künstler mit höchst unterschiedlicher regionaler und musikalischer Herkunft, mit heterogenen Ästhetiken und Produktionsstrategien auf einer Split-CD. Der in Australien arbeitende Sumugan Sinavesan präsentiert in insgesamt 8 Tracks eine Auswahl experimentel-ler, oft sehr improvisiert klingender Soundcollagen, deren mal fragilere (“Sinus3), mal grob-körnigere (“One Note Solo3) Struktur vorschnelle Kategorisierungen immer wieder gekonnt unterläuft. Sinavesan, dessen …

“Product 01” reviewed by Bodyspace

Registam-se novos sinais de vida para os lados da etiqueta Crónica. Desta vez, responsabilize-se o projecto Product, uma série de split CDs que, com a música de Sumugan Sivanesan e de Durán Vázquez, se inaugura. Confrontação e fusão – diz-nos a press release que serve de promoção a este objecto – encontram-se no cerne da …