New release: “Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz” by Miguel A. García / Durán Vázquez

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Luigi Russolo’s letter known as L’arte dei Rumori, a Futurist manifesto usually quoted as being the landmark that pointed out incorporation of the so-called noise in the western musical tradition. And ten decades may seem to be a lot of time but the truth is that Russolo’s legacy (not …

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 …