@c + Drumming GP‘s “For Percussion” reviewed by Percussive Notes

For Percussion is a collection of six electronic tracks with various acoustic elements incorporated into the recordings. Some of these tracks were recorded live during performances from 2002 to 2008, while others have been recently revisited in 2022. The electronic components and core compositions were created by @c a duo composed of Miguel Carvalhais and …

New release: @c + Jérôme Noetinger‘s “Expansão“

Expansão stems from a performance in July 2022 in Porto. This performance was commissioned by Sonoscopia that hosted a residency leading to it. During that period the three musicians explored synergies in their approaches to music-making with electronics, computers, and concrete sound, preparing structures and strategies that would shape the performance. Similarities, intersections, tensions, contrasts, …

 @c’s “Installations” reviewed by Nieuwe Noten

Miguel Carvalhais en Pedro Tudela, de mannen achter het Portugese Crónica, vormen sinds 2000 samen ook een duo: @c. De twee zijn vooral bekend door hun installaties, waarvan een paar jaar geleden ook een fraai boek, met de doeltreffende titel ‘Installations’ uitkwam. Uit mijn recensie citeer ik hier nogmaals hun opmerking over dit genre: “an installation a holistic work …

20 Years × 180 Minutes

Goodbye 2023. It’s been great to celebrate Crónica’s twentieth. And we wouldn’t like to leave you without leaving just one more thing… So here it is, an end of the year, special release, exclusively through our Bandcamp page, “20 Years × 180 Minutes”, a 21-track mix revisiting Crónica’s history throughout these first two decades. In …

New release: @c’s “Installations: Octo _ _ _ _ (2019)”

During their collaboration as @c, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais developed several installations, often site-specific and ephemeral works. This series of releases in Crónica is dedicated to revisiting these installation works, occasionally with situ recordings, but also further exploring the computational systems developed for the works, archival materials, and other assets, presenting new compositions that unfold …

New release: @c + Drumming GP’s “For Percussion”

Many years in the making, this album collects works created for or with Drumming GP, a percussion ensemble founded by Miquel Bernat, a world-class performer and teacher. “For Percussion” gathers pieces that intersect @c’s experimental and computational approaches to music with Drumming GP’s mastery of performance and percussion. Tracklist: Credits: “For Percussion” is now available as …

@c + Drumming GP‘s “For Percussion” reviewed by Vital Weekly

The Portuguese duo of Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela have already been working together for over twenty years. They can be seen as both pioneers and prophets of all things laptops. Much of their music finds its roots in interacting together, with software, hardware and sounds. Here, they do something unusual for them: working with …

Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s “Installations / Instalações” reviewed by Neural

Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais (known as @c) are a prolific duo of musicians and sound artists. As founders of the groundbreaking Crónica label, they have performed captivating audiovisual sets on countless occasions since the early 2000s and have continuously produced a series of short-lived installations. Nineteen of these installations are documented and discussed here. …

New release: @c’s “Installations: S(o)al (2021)”

During the twenty-plus years of their collaboration as @c, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s work spanned composition and performance but also, and prominently, several installations, often site-specific and ephemeral works that have at most been documented with short videos. This series of releases in Crónica is dedicated to revisiting and documenting these installation works, not only …