{"id":7796,"date":"2015-09-11T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:28:01","slug":"modular-works-2015q1-reviewed-by-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Modular Works 2015Q1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cronica098-2015_520.jpg\" alt=\"cronica098-2015_520\" width=\"520\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7765\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cronica098-2015_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cronica098-2015_520-260x254.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\nIn the recent surge of modular synth use, the hardware and the process occasionally overtake the music. Lost is the power of modular systems as tools for composition. In this latest installment of his continuing Modular Works series, Dutch underground maven, Vital Weekly contributor and longtime mastering engineer Jos Smolders corrects this imbalance.<br \/>\nSmolders made this set of four pieces under the influence of the Pierre Henry box set he had recently mastered, and the French auteur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specter looms large, both in the patience of these compositions and flair for dramatic development. The restrained use of concrete sound and extended field recording excerpts creates an organic dialogue with the carefully crafted synth figures. <em>Matt Wuethrich<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent surge of modular synth use, the hardware and the process occasionally overtake the music. Lost is the power of modular systems as tools for composition. In this latest installment of his continuing Modular Works series, Dutch underground maven, Vital Weekly contributor and longtime mastering engineer Jos Smolders corrects this imbalance. Smolders made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=7796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Modular Works 2015Q1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Wire&#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":[356,314],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-356","tag-jos-smolders","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","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=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}