{"id":11716,"date":"2025-07-01T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:43:33","slug":"new-release-haarvols-horizons-of-suspended-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11716","title":{"rendered":"New release: Haarv\u00f6l\u2019s \u201cHorizons of Suspended Zones\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At the end of the 1990s, Hakim Bey wrote a book about the then-emerging possibility of the virtual. With the lucidity for which he is known, he recognized at the time that the virtual was nothing more than a new avenue for the expansion of capitalism. He introduced the concept of temporary autonomous zones<\/em> as a kind of Foucauldian heterotopia<\/em>\u2014 spaces that existed only for as long as they could evade capture. Today\u2019s reality reflects a radical intensification of what Bey was referring to in the 1990s. Temporalities have changed completely. We are now almost overwhelmed by an incessant pursuit of instantaneity, accompanied by the mounting impatience it inevitably breeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The temporalities of sound, therefore, are naturally different too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time must be disobeyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sounds of our autonomous zones aim to be the opposite of what technology offers us today: fascination and dazzle through excess \u2014 more buttons, more effects, louder\u2026 AI. These are bare sounds, defiantly rejecting the paraphernalia that surrounds them. They are simple yet perhaps carry the greatest complexity of all: turning their backs on spectacle and presenting themselves as they are: unmasked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work is the outcome of a series of studio sessions recorded during the summer and autumn of 2024. We followed an exploratory approach grounded in clearly defined premises and a pre-conceived compositional outline shaped by three key notions that are central to us: repetition, silence, and duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no post-production manipulation. What you hear is what was played. Inactual<\/em> by conviction, this represents an utterly contemporary mode of being. These are sounds that seek to endure as a resistant, autonomous possibility \u2014 even if only fleetingly. Suspended between silences. Those marvelous, singular, sounds that Cage taught us to hear. They are there to last for as long as they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Composed and played by Fernando Jos\u00e9 Pereira and Jo\u00e3o Faria at the\u00a0backyard studios<\/em>. Haarv\u00f6l are Fernando Jos\u00e9 Pereira (sounds), Jo\u00e3o Faria (sounds), Rui Manuel Vieira (images).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horizons of Suspended Zones<\/a><\/em> is now available as a limited-release CD, stream of download from Cr\u00f3nica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of the 1990s, Hakim Bey wrote a book about the then-emerging possibility of the virtual. With the lucidity for which he is known, he recognized at the time that the virtual was nothing more than a new avenue for the expansion of capitalism. He introduced the concept of temporary autonomous zones as a kind … <\/p>\n

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