{"id":10704,"date":"2021-02-09T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:11:22","slug":"gml-variations-reviewed-by-vital-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153GML Variations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Vital Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10705\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cronica168-2021_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Robotic Gamelan of Casa de Musica is just as cool as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d imagine it is. In fact, Google it right now. Check out some photos of the thing, then meet me back here\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 see, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that a neat thing? Gamelans are cool\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 robots are cool\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and so a robotic gamelan is\u00c2\u00a0very\u00c2\u00a0cool. Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais are the composers behind @c and the Cronica label. In 2018, they were commissioned to write a piece called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153GML 123\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the Robotic Gamelan to play; their generative digital composition activated the gamelan and introduced new sounds into the space. This album includes that piece and also four studio-created variations (the title is quite literal) and a coda. Because this is, essentially, the same piece repeated a few times, I found that it works better listened to one track at a time rather than all in one sitting. The pace and density remain similar from start to finish, which suggested to me that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153GML Variations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is better considered as a collection of individual pieces than an hour+ single experience. But gamelan music is just so lovely, listening to the ringing percussion steadily morph into elongated digital smearing tones is a lot of fun. The 4th variation is my favourite; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the most removed from its recognizable source, 30 minutes of slow liquid volleys with hints of ringing bells and reverberant acoustic space.\u00c2\u00a0(HS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/vitalweekly.net\">Vital Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3328354301\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/gml-variations\">GML Variations by @c<\/a><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robotic Gamelan of Casa de Musica is just as cool as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d imagine it is. In fact, Google it right now. Check out some photos of the thing, then meet me back here\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 see, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that a neat thing? Gamelans are cool\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 robots are cool\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and so a robotic gamelan is\u00c2\u00a0very\u00c2\u00a0cool. Pedro Tudela and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153GML Variations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Vital Weekly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[528,16],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-528","tag-atc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}