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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by African Paper

Crónica bringen eine neue CD des britischen “Environmental Sound Artist” Simon Whetham heraus. “Successive Actions” ist eine Wiederholung einer größeren kinetischen Soundperformance-Projektreihe, in der laut Label “verschiedene aus veralteter und weggeworfener Verbrauchertechnologie geborgene Motorgeräte durch das Abspielen von Tonaufnahmen aktiviert werden. Dadurch entstehen wiederum neue Klänge aus den Geräten, die mit verschiedenen Mikrofonen und Techniken …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” reviewed by Vital Weekly

Music by Simon Whetham we reviewed quite a bit. ‘Successive Actions’ is already his fifth release for Cronica and another apparition of his “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. This produces new sounds from the …

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“Loud Listening” reviewed by Fluid Sonic Fluctuations

It’s an exciting time, we’re only a month into 2019 and I’ve already received quite a lot of great releases that I’ve reviewed recently. Now it’s also time to introduce new series on this blog as well as continue with the first 2019 selection of music on Fluid Sonic Fluctuations (with my updated semi-random selection …

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“Crossovers” reviewed by Fluid Sonic Fluctuations

Hello, I’m back once again and today I’ve got another great release on the Portugese label CRÓNICA for you. The 2012 Various Artists compilation CROSSOVERS which compiles a big selection of collaborative performances from events organized by British sound artist Simon Whetham as part of his project Active Crossovers. The compilation download is in 16-bit/44.1kHz …

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Simon Whetham’s “Against Nature” reviewed by Oro Molido

Para la realización de las bases sonoras de estas grabaciones, Simon Whetham se trasladó durante los meses de octubre a noviembre de 2013 a varios lugares de Noruega. Against Nature está dividido en cinco partes donde se explora el rango de frecuencias que va desde lo más extremo (parte 1), pasando por las bajas frecuencias …

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Corollaries comes to a conclusion

2016 is coming to a close and with it also the Corollaries series, curated by Simon Whetham, and published monthly by Crónica. Corollaries compiled works from Active Crossover: Mooste, a cross-cultural collaborative residency curated by Whetham and hosted by MoKS, in April and May 2015. All works in this series were composed from material compiled …

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