{"id":11623,"date":"2025-02-24T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:05:12","slug":"miguel-a-garcias-eraginie-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11623","title":{"rendered":"Miguel A. Garc\u00eda\u2019s \u201cEraginie\u201d\u00a0reviewed by\u00a0The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11299\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cronica206-2023_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some years ago&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/xedh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Miguel A. Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;informed me he was starting to work with string ensembles and classical players, directing musicians who can sight-read music to play his scores or execute directions in music devised by him. This represented quite a departure from his usual solo work with laptops, mixing desk, and processed recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep hoping to get sent a CD of the \u201cnew\u201d sock-it-to-em Garc\u00eda approach, but today\u2019s record&nbsp;<em>Eraginie<\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/cronicaelectronica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CR\u00d3NICA<\/a>&nbsp;206-2023) doesn\u2019t seem to be representative of it. Instead, it\u2019s four tracks of very grainy and granular processed noise, which suggest he hasn\u2019t yet traded in his Apple Mac for a conductor\u2019s baton. The label are hoping to wow the audience with Garc\u00eda\u2019s new hi-fi approach, telling us he\u2019s turned his back on all that home-made distorted messy noise that he used to trade in, and has created a record fit to be broadcast on any art gallery PA system, the better for its sedate audience to savour the subtle tones and textures and delicate glitchoid experiments. A number of fellow creators have provided \u201cadditional raw sound sources\u201d for him to create this record, namely Pedro A. Mirones, Maite Mugerza, Garazi Navas, Schahram Poursoudmand, Alex Reviriego, and the American Jeff Surak of Zeromoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, I found little excitement or tension in these slow grey stretches of digital combines, and I miss the days when my favourite Spaniard from Bilbao would send me genuinely shocking and unsettling records of home-brew noise. But maybe I\u2019ll learn to love this low-key mode of Miguel\u2019s \u2013 after all, better to be served a cucumber cocktail than given a digital slap in the mush. <em>Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesoundprojector.com\/2025\/02\/22\/dry-trade-winds\/\">The Sound Projector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago&nbsp;Miguel A. Garc\u00eda&nbsp;informed me he was starting to work with string ensembles and classical players, directing musicians who can sight-read music to play his scores or execute directions in music devised by him. This represented quite a departure from his usual solo work with laptops, mixing desk, and processed recordings. I keep hoping &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miguel A. Garc\u00eda\u2019s \u201cEraginie\u201d\u00a0reviewed by\u00a0The Sound Projector&#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":[571,249],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-571","tag-miguel-a-garcia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","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=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11624,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}