{"id":11695,"date":"2025-06-03T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11695"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:57:59","slug":"new-release-j-l-maire-alfredo-costa-monteiros-lecoute-tactile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11695","title":{"rendered":"New release: J.L. Maire &amp;\u00a0Alfredo Costa Monteiro\u2019s \u201cL&#8217;\u00c9coute Tactile\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/237\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11696\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica237-2025_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>J.L. Maire and Alfredo Costa Monteiro\u2019s ongoing collaboration travels through sonic territories where two different but complementary approaches to sound and music production converge: the extended pure intonation and the exploration of timbre without fixed tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording in\u00a0<em>L&#8217;\u00c9coute Tactile<\/em>\u00a0emerged from an improvisation session in September 2024 in Costa Monteiro\u2019s studio. In this session, Maire used an extended scale of a bagpipe that the composer, \u201ctraditional botanist\u201d, and music theorist Erv Wilson described in his works. Costa Monteiro contraposed electroacoustic devices that included springs, homemade motors, and oscillators. Despite the seemingly contradictory approaches, both musicians share the search for processes in which feedback from circuits and sound as resonance take central roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the performance progresses, both sound spaces become mixed. The tuning of the modular synthesiser, which was at first precise, becomes progressively unstable. The electronically processes textures, on the verge of chaos, condense, little by little, into almost recognisable pitches. The space between the two musicians transforms from a pretension of encompassing a stable form and becomes, rather, a free search to which the act of listening contributes. The musician listens, hesitates, and proceeds in small steps through contact, as if in a type of tactile listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/237\/\">L&#8217;\u00c9coute Tactile<\/a><\/em> is now available to download or stream from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/237\/\">Cr\u00f3nica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.L. Maire and Alfredo Costa Monteiro\u2019s ongoing collaboration travels through sonic territories where two different but complementary approaches to sound and music production converge: the extended pure intonation and the exploration of timbre without fixed tones. The recording in\u00a0L&#8217;\u00c9coute Tactile\u00a0emerged from an improvisation session in September 2024 in Costa Monteiro\u2019s studio. In this session, Maire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: J.L. Maire &amp;\u00a0Alfredo Costa Monteiro\u2019s \u201cL&#8217;\u00c9coute Tactile\u201d&#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":[4],"tags":[608,607],"class_list":["post-11695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-alfredo-costa-monteiro","tag-j-l-maire","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695","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=11695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11695\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}