{"id":9531,"date":"2017-01-17T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9531"},"modified":"2017-01-17T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:11:55","slug":"nowhere-exercises-in-modular-synthesis-and-field-recording-reviewed-by-silence-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9531","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Silence and Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8687\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cronica123-2017_520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cronica123-2017_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cronica123-2017_520-260x234.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122il aime comparer son travail \u00c3\u00a0 celui du calligraphe, Jos Smolders sculpte les sons plus qu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122il ne les peint, composant des structures au fluxes mouvants, o\u00c3\u00b9 glitches scintillants et bruitages familiers forment un tout \u00c3\u00a0 la pr\u00c3\u00a9cision abstraite.<\/p>\n<p>Car l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122abstraction est ici partout et ailleurs, comme pouss\u00c3\u00a9e par ces sons qui changent de consistance, \u00c3\u00a0 l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122image de trains et d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122avions qui se muent en lasers soniques, pr\u00c3\u00aats \u00c3\u00a0 d\u00c3\u00a9passer la vitesse de la lumi\u00c3\u00a8re, de cloches et de carillons devenant des souffles scintillants ou imp\u00c3\u00a9tueux. Les \u00c3\u00a9l\u00c3\u00a9ments dispos\u00c3\u00a9s se liqu\u00c3\u00a9fient pour prendre de nouvelles formes, mordant l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122espace pour s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122en impr\u00c3\u00a9gner et l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122habiller de couches modulables \u00c3\u00a0 la palpabilit\u00c3\u00a9 \u00c3\u00a9trange.<\/p>\n<p>Tout est dit dans le titre de l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122album, Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording, ne cherchant pas \u00c3\u00a0 tricher sur le contenu et le contenant. On est captiv\u00c3\u00a9 de par la facult\u00c3\u00a9 de cr\u00c3\u00a9er avec si peu de choses pour en dire autant, travaillant chaque \u00c3\u00a9l\u00c3\u00a9ment pour lui donner une carapace calme et pourtant secou\u00c3\u00a9e d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00a9ruptions granuleuses et de mati\u00c3\u00a8re min\u00c3\u00a9rale.<\/p>\n<p>Jos Smolders sait \u00c3\u00a9branler la qui\u00c3\u00a9tude avec ses irruptions rythmiques port\u00c3\u00a9es par les mouvements eux m\u00c3\u00aames, se r\u00c3\u00a9sumant \u00c3\u00a0 des variations pointillistes aux changements de direction permanents, entrainant l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122auditeur dans un espace aux allures de trou noir rampant, avec ses \u00c3\u00a9toiles emprisonn\u00c3\u00a9es et son Cosmos invisible. Lumineux.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roland Torres<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceandsound.me\/2017\/01\/17\/jos-smolders\/\">Silence and Sound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=454231624\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/nowhere-exercises-in-modular-synthesis-and-field-recording\">Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording by Jos Smolders<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e2\u20ac\u2122il aime comparer son travail \u00c3\u00a0 celui du calligraphe, Jos Smolders sculpte les sons plus qu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122il ne les peint, composant des structures au fluxes mouvants, o\u00c3\u00b9 glitches scintillants et bruitages familiers forment un tout \u00c3\u00a0 la pr\u00c3\u00a9cision abstraite. Car l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122abstraction est ici partout et ailleurs, comme pouss\u00c3\u00a9e par ces sons qui changent de consistance, \u00c3\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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":[340,314],"class_list":["post-9531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-340","tag-jos-smolders","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531","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=9531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9532,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}