{"id":9247,"date":"2006-02-20T08:25:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T07:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2006-02-20T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T07:25:52","slug":"essays-on-radio-reviewed-by-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9247","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Essays on Radio\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pour f\u00c3\u00aater ses deux ans d&#8217;existence, le tr\u00c3\u00a8s estimable mais encore tout jeune label portugais Cronica a d\u00c3\u00a9cid\u00c3\u00a9 de rendre un hommage paradoxal au plus ancien des m\u00c3\u00a9dia invisibles utilis\u00c3\u00a9 par l&#8217;homme : la radio. Initiatrice chez beaucoup du go\u00c3\u00bbt pour les modulations al\u00c3\u00a9atoires ou les exp\u00c3\u00a9riences de white noise, la radio constitue encore aujourd&#8217;hui une source in\u00c3\u00a9puisable d&#8217;investigation et d&#8217;extraction sonore, ce que les musiciens invit\u00c3\u00a9s sur ce Essays on Radio tendent encore \u00c3\u00a0 prouver. Des fr\u00c3\u00a9quences cin\u00c3\u00a9tiques de Random industries aux exercices de langues \u00c3\u00a9trang\u00c3\u00a8res de Paulo Raposo en passant par le minimalisme tonal de Steinbr\u00c3\u00bcchel, les diff\u00c3\u00a9rentes pi\u00c3\u00a8ces musicales passent au crible le d\u00c3\u00a9terminisme radiophonique dans son ensemble. Saturations et gr\u00c3\u00a9sillements sont donc de la partie, mais r\u00c3\u00a9servent des atmosph\u00c3\u00a8res fluctuantes, selon l&#8217;appr\u00c3\u00a9ciation du tuner de chacun des compositeurs, tour \u00c3\u00a0 tour lisses et ambiantes, ou plus agressives et frontales. Certains titres comme le Goebbels Pupils de Duran Vasquez, m\u00c3\u00aalant discours de fond ultra-traditionnaliste et bruits de craquements au premier plan, interpellent m\u00c3\u00aame sur le double niveau de perturbation de la radio, l&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9vidente tenant \u00c3\u00a0 l&#8217;appr\u00c3\u00a9ciation du discours reproduit et intelligible, et la sous-jacente tenant aux d\u00c3\u00a9sagrements physiques qui peuvent brouiller la retransmission. Un projet ambitieux mais qui s&#8217;accommode tr\u00c3\u00a8s bien de la contrainte requise des deux minutes, une allusion-clin d&#8217;oeil \u00c3\u00a0 l&#8217;anniversaire de leur label h\u00c3\u00b4te, mais \u00c3\u00a9galement une occasion de retrouver la facilit\u00c3\u00a9 de permutation d&#8217;une source \u00c3\u00a0 l&#8217;autre propre \u00c3\u00a0 la captation radiophonique.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Catala<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pour f\u00c3\u00aater ses deux ans d&#8217;existence, le tr\u00c3\u00a8s estimable mais encore tout jeune label portugais Cronica a d\u00c3\u00a9cid\u00c3\u00a9 de rendre un hommage paradoxal au plus ancien des m\u00c3\u00a9dia invisibles utilis\u00c3\u00a9 par l&#8217;homme : la radio. Initiatrice chez beaucoup du go\u00c3\u00bbt pour les modulations al\u00c3\u00a9atoires ou les exp\u00c3\u00a9riences de white noise, la radio constitue encore aujourd&#8217;hui &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Essays on Radio\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Octopus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[420,419],"class_list":["post-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-420","tag-419","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}