Crónica 032~2008

032~2008

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  • Produced by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela.
  • Cover photo by JCruz.
  • Mastered by MCarvalhais.
  1. Janek Schaefer: Broadstairs Children’s Piano Trio
  2. @c: 73
  3. Gilles Aubry: s6t8r
  4. Lawrence English: A Certain Death by Drowning
  5. The Beautiful Schizophonic: Music For Lonely People
  6. Ran Slavin: Summer Clouds
  7. o.blaat: Snark and Caramel
  8. Paulo Raposo: A Bag of Water
  9. Mosaique: Tapis
  10. paL: shezalready5
  11. Cem Güney: Subsequently Ad Hoc To Daylight Mistreatment
  12. Gigantiq: A Few Steps From Your Shoulder
  13. @c: 68
  14. Freiband: Rob’s Longest Beard
  15. Tu M’: Sea n° 43
  16. Pure: 643
  17. Heitor Alvelos: O Corpo é que Paga
  18. James Eck Rippie: Black Transmission
  19. Pedro Tudela: Op1s2s2m
  20. Vitor Joaquim: The Devil is in the Detail
  21. Marc Behrens: Website
  22. Durán Vázquez: Segunda Natureza (Noite)
  23. Autodigest: Judas! (Leave Her Alone version)
  24. Gintas K: Excerpt from

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Author notes

  • Janek Schaefer: I found this loop on a School Music 7” from the 60’s while rehearsing before a concert at a college on the south coast. After the concert one of the students asked me what it was, so I made him an innocent little piece with it.
  • Gilles Aubry: This track is based on recordings of several empty rooms at Stralau 68, a former venue for experimental music in Berlin.
  • Lawrence English: Source materials record in Porto, where the ocean ate my shoes. Special thanks to Paulo and Miguel.
  • Ran Slavin: Summer Clouds is from the upcoming release Metal Sleeping Place
  • o.blaat: Recorded in an apartment in E. Village, NYC. It is a reduced-version of "Car décalé légèrement" w/o wiimote. Its feedback system used an iPod speaker.
  • Paulo Raposo: voice reading Blanchot by Andrew Paterson
  • Mosaique: Church Organ played by L. Cerqueira, Recorded by R. Ganhão/J. Ferreira in Spring 2007 at the Sé Cathedral, Lisboa.
  • Cem Güney: imperious and ever present is duality; the time-space continuum fragile.
    an industry that requires conformation to consolidate, generates harsh stitching.
    subsequently ad hoc to daylight mistreatment; lapse in mood how many? interpolation exclusively nocturnal; eventually...
  • Gigantiq: Recorded May 15 2006 at the Etching Table, Lisbon. Edited in January 2008.
  • Freiband: a remix of some kind or another
  • Tu M’: Recorded live at “Vico Santa Chiara” Studio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy. Rossano Polidoro: laptop, mixing board; Emiliano Romanelli: laptop, mixing board.
  • Heitor Alvelos: Constructed from field recordings, Porto and London, January 2006. Buried in the mayhem is an anonymous male whistling the first 10 bars of a Portuguese pop hit from the 1980s, possibly testing the acoustic potential of a car tunnel on the coldest day of the year. The very tailend is soap-opera karaoke schmaltz turned avant-garde drawing class.
  • James Eck Rippie: installation recordings, 2002.
  • Pedro Tudela: made with “Segredo/Secret (2+more)” installation audio material
  • Vitor Joaquim: voice: Caterina Varela
  • Marc Behrens: Based on the loading problems of an intermediate version of the Marc Behrens website that contained embedded sound, produced 2001.
  • Autodigest: A draft from an upcoming release pertaining to the first golden age of bootlegging. With thanks to R.Waters for trying to sing a song.

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