{"id":10698,"date":"2021-01-29T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2021-01-29T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:42:06","slug":"pedro-rebelos-listen-to-me-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Rebelo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen to me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We last heard Portuguese composer Pedro Rebelo<\/strong> in 2011, when he played stiff classical piano<\/a> on Faint for the School of Music and Sonic Arts of Queen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s University in Belfast. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s here today with Listen To Me<\/em>(CRONICA<\/a> 161-2020), a process based electro-acoustic thing which seems to continue the academic lineage to some degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The starting point is scientific research conducted at the Iberian Nanotechnology Lab in Braga, where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re working on projects associated with food safety. Rebelo isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t doing the research himself, and I sense he could care less about whether that tin of Red Beans conforms to international food standards, but he does like the machines he found in the labs. Yes, everything from air fans to compound mixers, and the hissing sound made by liquid nitrogen when you pour it out, all of these sounds were fair game for his microphones of curiosity. He found it such a rich environment that he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but imagine the machines were coming to life and whispering \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen To Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in his ear, hence the title of the work. He created a sound art piece, did it as an audio installation in GNRation, and then remade it into the two sides of this cassette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Rebelo is probably not the first electro-acoustic composer to make use of the rhythms and grinding drones of machines, but he turns in a decent canvas on this occasion, with plenty of dynamics and textures and very little in the way of unwanted post-processing and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153treatments\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In this manner, he allows the devices to speak for themselves. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not learning anything much about nanotechnology, or about food safety, or the work of those scientists in the INL, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably not the point. All the same, I do prefer it when a musician can engage with the subject matter a bit more, exhibit a bit of conceptual rigour. Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

via The Sound Projector<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n