{"id":4726,"date":"2011-07-30T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T11:14:14","slug":"shattering-silence-reviewed-by-musique-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4726","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shattering Silence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Musique Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/051-2010-b.jpg\" alt=\"Shattering Silence\" \/><br \/>\nMosaique is Jan Ferreiras a Portuguese musician and on this album he is exploring areas new to him. To quote his own words\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In this release I worked for the first time with analogue synthesis. It was new territory so I spent long time exploring timbres and textures and what especially drew my attention was the &#8220;sharpness&#8221; of sound as if one could sense its outlines like with forms and shapes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to know more about what he means by analogue synthesis as most of this actually sounds very digital to me. A great proportion of the sounds lack the warmth I would associate with analogue synthesisers or VST versions of analogue equipment.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find the 100 or so minutes this album runs for very enjoyable. Possibly just over half of it reminds me very much of Farmers Market (who had a few releases on the Mego label, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if they are still around or not?) with perhaps Oval and COH as other influences. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plenty of glitch crackly randomness and on the few tracks where the analogue basis of it is more obvious it sounds like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come from the school of old style industrial. The tracks that sound more digital and crackle and pop like tomorrow are actually the most successful. One piece that combines the two \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tessian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has the most horrible combination of two oscillators that are slightly out of tune with each other (on purpose) that spoils the remaining sounds that would have benefited from not having the two flies stuck in a jam jar sound accompanying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosaique is Jan Ferreiras a Portuguese musician and on this album he is exploring areas new to him. To quote his own words\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In this release I worked for the first time with analogue synthesis. It was new territory so I spent long time exploring timbres and textures and what especially drew my attention was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shattering Silence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Musique Machine&#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":[389,54],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-389","tag-mosaique","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","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=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}