{"id":11971,"date":"2026-09-10T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:01:03","slug":"roel-meelkops-antithesis-reviewed-by-silence-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11971","title":{"rendered":"Roel Meelkop\u2019s \u201cAntithesis\u201d reviewed by Silence and Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the album \u201cAntithesis\u201d by Roel Meelkop\" class=\"wp-image-11956\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cronica253-2026_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A travers Antithesis, Roel Meelkop s\u00e8me le doute, brouille les pistes, dilue le monde dans un amas de field recordings fragment\u00e9s, cinq titres se dressant en opposition au dernier morceau de l\u2019album, drone d\u2019une heure compos\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de sonorit\u00e9s granulaires, le tout formant un ensemble disparate reli\u00e9 entre eux par une dynamique commune: Celle de l\u2019existence et de sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 cr\u00e9er des sons, qu\u2019ils soient d\u2019origine naturelle ou d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s par l\u2019homme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roel Meelkop construit un tout \u00e0 l\u2019image du monde et de ses multiples quantiques, \u00e9l\u00e9ments n\u00e9s de l\u2019imagination de l\u2019homme, car chaque titre pr\u00e9sent est le fruit d\u2019un assemblage et d\u2019une recherche intellectuelle et non d\u2019un geste improvis\u00e9 surgi de nulle part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Si pour certains, Antithesis est le r\u00e9sultat d\u2019explorations oppos\u00e9es, il se r\u00e9v\u00e8le pour moi comme un ensemble de titres unis par le geste et la pens\u00e9e, la d\u00e9marche et l\u2019intention, les six titres fa\u00e7onnant dans la mati\u00e8re, des textures \u00e0 l\u2019abstraction sensorielle commune. Brillant. <em>Roland Torres<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceandsound.me\/2026\/09\/09\/roel-meelkop-2\/\">Silence and Sound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A travers Antithesis, Roel Meelkop s\u00e8me le doute, brouille les pistes, dilue le monde dans un amas de field recordings fragment\u00e9s, cinq titres se dressant en opposition au dernier morceau de l\u2019album, drone d\u2019une heure compos\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de sonorit\u00e9s granulaires, le tout formant un ensemble disparate reli\u00e9 entre eux par une dynamique commune: Celle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roel Meelkop\u2019s \u201cAntithesis\u201d reviewed by Silence and Sound&#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":[629,514],"class_list":["post-11971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-629","tag-roel-meelkop","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971","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=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions\/11972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}