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The new @c album, GML Variations<\/a><\/em> is now available to download or stream. There are also still some copies available of the limited release CD in a gatefold sleeve, so get them while you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GML Variations<\/em> started with a commission to compose a piece for the Robotic Gamelan of Casa da M\u00c3\u00basica, in Porto, to be presented with other works in a public showing spanning several days.\u00c2\u00a0GML 123<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was a generative system that controlled the actuators in the Robotic Gamelan while projecting several other sounds into the very resonant space of Casa da M\u00c3\u00basica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foyer. The piece was presented in January 2018 and shortly afterwards recorded in the same location. After receiving the recording, we found ourselves being drawn to it over and over and, as often happens to us, we started experimenting: revisiting the original composition, manipulating its recordings and creating new material, eventually developing the four variations and coda that complete this album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this process, we were unearthing echoes and memories of the first composition, transforming the original sounds to the limits of recognition, and finding structures that were already latent in, but were not expressed by, the initial piece. These pieces are therefore not six independent compositions but rather six different perspectives over a single work, six ways of listening to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the course of this work, we developed a seventh piece,\u00c2\u00a0Jeden, Dwa, Osiem (dla Ma\u00c5\u201agorzaty)<\/em>, published in the compilation\u00c2\u00a0Intermediale: Simulacra Soundscape 3<\/em>. We also performed versions of the variations in a stream for Audiotalaia during the first lockdown of 2020, in a performance with Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Rangel at Rivoli, Porto (in which we worked on for almost a year, and that we first had to postpone and ultimately cancel because of the pandemic), and in a concert at Passos Manuel, Porto (released as the\u00c2\u00a0GML Vars. Live<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0single).\u00c2\u00a0GML Variations<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0closes this cycle of work, at least until we find ourselves drawn to this material again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais collaborate as\u00c2\u00a0@c<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0since 2000, composing, performing, and creating sound installations. They have released and performed extensively, often collaborating with other artists and collectives in a practice marked by radical experimentalism with computational sound. In 2003 they established Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica, a label dedicated to experimental music and sound art, that they have run since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. GML 123<\/em> (9:45)<\/li>
  2. GML var. 1<\/em> (7:06)<\/li>
  3. GML var. 2<\/em> (17:30)<\/li>
  4. GML var. 3<\/em> (10:12)<\/li>
  5. GML var. 4<\/em> (30:02)<\/li>
  6. GML coda<\/em> (4:59)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    All pieces composed by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela.\u00c2\u00a0GML 123<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was commissioned in 2018 by Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Alberto Gomes and Digit\u00c3\u00b3pia for the Robotic Gamelan of Casa da M\u00c3\u00basica in Porto (developed by Rui Penha, Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Lu\u00c3\u00ads Azevedo, and Miguel Ferraz).\u00c2\u00a0GML 123<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was recorded by Tiago \u00c3\u201angelo in 2018 at Casa da M\u00c3\u00basica.\u00c2\u00a0GML vars. 1\u00e2\u20ac\u201c4<\/em> and\u00c2\u00a0GML coda<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0were composed in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n