107: Cem Güney + Ephraim Wegner

The acceleration of technological progess has been the central feature of this century. Predictions are that the pattern of exponential growth (Moore’s Law being the most prominent example) that technology follows will lead to change comparable to the rise of human life on earth, or change so rapid and profound that it will represent a rupture in the fabric of human history. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence; this change is the hypothetical event defined as “Technological Singularity”. When technological progress becomes so rapid and the growth of artificial intelligence so great, the future after the singularity will become qualitatively different and harder to predict. Utopian predictions offer a gradual ascent with enormous benefits to mankind, contrasted starkly with other darker visions of the singularity with rapidly self-improving superhuman intelligences creating paradigm shifts that would represent a breakdown in the ability of humans to model the future thereafter, leading to the end of the human era.

In respect to the aforementioned subject, our projects primary concern is to simulate conceptual modeling techniques implemented in the design, learning and production processes of an Artificially Intelligent Digital Signal Processor. In this case our simulation is realized via sound generation and in direct connection is the abstraction that, an AI-DSP could be acknowledged as an extension of it’s creator and would be designed in this respect. Although sensitive and concerned with the implications of the singularity in general, there is great potential that leads us to have positive and even utopian thoughts of a human-equivalent machine designed to generate sound autonomously for the benefit of mankind.

Musically the topic was implemented in various ways: The composition is divided into three parts: Design, Test and Launch. Design begins with pure sine waves which generate different interferences. Thereafter, a more complicated structure, consisting of voice, feedback and bit errors develops. Test starts with processed voice recordings played in the form of a canon. Different tones and words simulate sounds already existing in our surroundings. Bit by bit the machine takes over the action of the musicians and manipulates the voice recordings by means of a logical defined structure. Launch is based on Christian Wolff's techniques for structured improvisation. Digital noise processed with different filter settings is played according to a call & response scheme. Lastly, sounds are generated with spatial movement according to a score.

How to Survive in the Post−Human Era was performed live as an 8 channel version and debuted at the Festival for Applied Acoustics, Köln-Germany, 11.06.2011. Ephraim Wegner: Laptop & Midi Controller; Cem Güney: Laptop & Midi Controller.

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106: Piotr Cisak

“Memoria” was created using a Tascam handheld recorder, an electric guitar and bow, without overdubs.

Piotr Cisak aka Kepa Yew comes from Gdansk, but in 2009 he moved to Cracow. He organized a series of events called Prima-Materia and led the radio broadcasts from Radiofonia for a year (2011–12). Kepa Yew promotes music like ambient, experimental and drone which also produces. As a DJ, Cisak mixes melodic, reflective and widely hipnotic electronic music. His work is available through his website: kepayew.prima-materia.com

Photo by Mariusz Lemiecha.

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105: Raitis Upens

This is an audial interpretation of surreal poetry by the Latvian poet Andris Ogriņš. A composition with a comic character was created according to subjective associations and my sense of aesthetics. There is only technical file name under my nameless work. This is because mentioned poets work was intended without name, but unfortunately the name appears by the editor's choice. So I reject it here.

[email protected]

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104: Hugo Paquete, “Dispersive Velocity of the Masses”

This composition was develop in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics, Germany, to be integrated in the Klangdoom, exploring the Zirkonium software possibilities for sound specialization in a 48 channel sound system.

This composition is configured as a formal and conceptual operation, reflecting different dynamic organizations of sound forces and masses that move in different directions. Accentuating the object dynamics that displace large sound masses suspended in the air, in a space of tension. Lines between order and chaos. Manipulating expectations and intentions. Deconstruction of the dynamic tension. Exploring details of reactive actions. With the use of low frequencies that affect the taxation of sound material in the bodies and in its origins, an intentional bias in a physical sensorial level of disorder is created.

Hugo Paquete (1979) is an intermedia and sound artist which in his research uses concepts about space and microtonality as a visual and audible ecosystem according to spatial and psychological characteristics (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective, communicative, evocative and environmental). The result is an audible interaction, open and indeterminate to the present time scales nano and macro. Territory of hyper-sensation and experimentation, observation and enclose the body in the listening act, turning it active and explored referential and resonator propulsive in a psycho-acoustic level. In his works he uses technical elements and practices from field-recording to computer generated sound synthesis and audio spacialization, denoting an interest in stochastic probabilities between computer algorithmic and programming interaction.

He was a resident artist in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics. He received a ZKM grant for the development of different compositions, multimedia projects focused in sound spacialization and interaction between sound and psycho-acoustic in multichannel configuring systems and free software uses. He received a commissioned compositional work from Chris Ziegler to develop an interactive composition system for iPhones, integrated in a dance media piece premiered at the ZKM in 2011 with the name “Pygmalion”.

He has actively presented his research in solo and collaborative art activities, nationally and internationally. He is developing other project with the name SSTFM and Quadrivium project focus in electroacoustic and acousmatic music.

He collaborated with the Lithuanian Artist Julijonas Urbonas to the development of the sound composition to the Talking Doors project that earned the Prix Ars Electronica of 2010, and a recommendation from the jury of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010 and a honorary mention in the Media, Live 2011 Grand Prix in Turku, Finland.

Copyright Hugo Paquete by STIM.SE

103: Refusenik, live at Balta Nakts

REFUSENIK is alias of Lithuanian composer/sound artist Arturas Bumšteinas, dedicated to his solo synthesizer music, recorded in studio and performed live.

“Balta Nakts” was a live set performed at Space Textures event in the Balta Nakts festival in Riga, September 2012. The concert took place in the unusual venue under the roof of central city market in Riga — to be more precise, in its vegetable pavilion. The concert happened in the middle of the night with the market being in business, with the vegetable stalls selling their goods for the audience of wandering midnight market shoppers (and some experimental music aficionados too).

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102: Hugo Paquete, “Striping Strings and Broken Objects”

This composition was develop in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics, Germany. For be integrated in the Klangdoom exploring the Zirkonium software possibilities for sound spacialization.

This composition is configured as a dynamic study for prepared piano and other electronic sounds, generated and processed elements. To compose this work Hugo Paquete develop some patches where he explores additive and subtractive synthesized signal processing from the material source and stochastic composition methods to construct oscillation of frequencies and tones and granulation. Constructing and deconstruction, the referential origins of the sound with collage technique.

The tension of striping the time strings of physics to just stay with broken objects.

Hugo Paquete (1979) is an intermedia and sound artist which in his research uses concepts about space and microtonality as a visual and audible ecosystem according to spatial and psychological characteristics (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective, communicative, evocative and environmental). The result is an audible interaction, open and indeterminate to the present time scales nano and macro. Territory of hyper-sensation and experimentation, observation and enclose the body in the listening act, turning it active and explored referential and resonator propulsive in a psycho-acoustic level. In his works he uses technical elements and practices from field-recording to computer generated sound synthesis and audio spacialization, denoting an interest in stochastic probabilities between computer algorithmic and programming interaction.

He was a resident artist in the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics. He received a ZKM grant for the development of different compositions, multimedia projects focused in sound spacialization and interaction between sound and psycho-acoustic in multichannel configuring systems and free software uses. He received a commissioned compositional work from Chris Ziegler to develop an interactive composition system for iPhones, integrated in a dance media piece premiered at the ZKM in 2011 with the name “Pygmalion”.

He has actively presented his research in solo and collaborative art activities, nationally and internationally. He is developing other project with the name SSTFM and Quadrivium project focus in electroacoustic and acousmatic music.

He collaborated with the Lithuanian Artist Julijonas Urbonas to the development of the sound composition to the Talking Doors project that earned the Prix Ars Electronica of 2010, and a recommendation from the jury of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2010 and a honorary mention in the Media, Live 2011 Grand Prix in Turku, Finland.

Copyright Hugo Paquete by STIM.SE

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101: Durán Vázquez, live at Vigosónico

Performed at Vigosónico, Vigo, Galicia, October 19th 2011. Durán Vázquez improvised with prerecorded materials, live electronics and occasional fragments of video. Includes samples from previous tracks on Crónica's “Mus*****c”, Expo_net's “Physikos, Aphysikos” and Mahorka's “Selected Ambience Wars”. Main live-sound source courtesy of SynFactory synthesizer software. Dedicated to the ignominious memory of Cecil Rhodes.

Download file 47'26", 113.9MB

100: @c, live at Opensound

Performed by @c (Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais) at IPA, Lisboa, 28 June 2012. Recorded live by Marc Behrens and Carlos Santos, mixed by @c. Based on the soundtrack for “Ovo”, a play by the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, premiered in February 2012. Recorded voice by Sara Henriques. Photo by João Tuna.

Download file 36'18", 87.1MB

099: Gintas K

Gintas K live at echoraum in “Viskas gerai Alles gut”, May 12, 2012. Original photo by Rita Valiukonyte.

Download file 27'07", 65.1MB

098: Phonic Psychomimesis

“Riga Walkthrough” is a dreamlike sound collage, a mental constructions of the city representing sonic urban colorfulness. The work consists of ingredients as: traffic, public transport, crowds (bars, cafes, markets, stations, shopping malls, supermarkets), sport games, amusement parks, concerts, cinemas, theaters, kindergartens, fireworks, street musicians, airplane drones, church bells, footsteps, halls, hangars, birds, rain, bicycle and skateboard sounds, flagpoles, movements of security cameras, suburban night-time ambiences and other details.

Recorded and composed by Raitis Upens and Rihards Bražinskis, 2012.

Download file 27'02", 65.1MB

097: Alexandr Vatagin

Live @ Riesa Efau / Dresden on September 3rd, 2010. Photo and recording by Konrad Behr. Alexandr Vatagin (Cello & Laptop) plays live reworked songs from his second album "Shards" (Valeot Records/2009).

Alexandr Vatagin lives as a musician and producer in Vienna. Besides his solo work he is a member of Tupolev & Port-Royal. He is also the founder of Quarz and he runs Valeot Records and Liska Records. His third solo album "Serza" will be released in November 2012 and Quarz's first album "Five Years On Cold Asphalt" is due out on September 3rd, 2012 on Crónica.

Download file 39'37", 95.1MB

096: Jazznoize

Live at Sala Plutón (Valencia, Spain), March 24, 2012. Field recordings collected and processed in 2011 and early 2012 in the cities of Valencia and Murcia, in places where the environment of urban centers is subjected to the production relations of our times.

Territory: woods, dry land, coast. Social relations: popular culture in danger of extinction, cults of death, structural crisis, social struggle, rituals and traditional holidays. These were the sound sources starring in this performance.

Beyond the descriptive and the exposure of many seemingly unrelated facts, the purpose of the performance was to show the communication links of our sound history, limited to the environment and social practice, to enjoy listening to it from other angles.

Download file 18'34", 44.6MB

095: Tiago Morais Morgado

Tiago Morgado (b. 1988) is a violist, improviser, composer and programmer. He studied with Jorge Alves, Gerhard Doderer, Tomás Henriques, Rui Dias, Gustavo Costa and Carlos Guedes, among others. He attended semminars, workshops, masterclasses and lectures with people such as Peter Evans, Fred Frith, Mark Dresser, Jason Hwang, William Parker, Trevor Wishart, Anette Vande Gorne, Andre Bartetzki, Douglas Kahn, Hans Timmermans, Pedro Rebelo, Mario Vieira de Carvalho, Ruy Vieira Neri and Miguel Azguime. He was associated with :papercutz in the final of their lylac promotion tour, playing in venues and festivals as sxsw, exit festival, plano b (opening for High Places), and the Islington Metal Works. XS Records, the netlabel of which he was the founder and curator from 2008 to 2010, has released his music as well as music of Karlheinz Essl, Agnes Heginger, Klaus Burger, Mathew Ostrowski, among others. He is currently starting a MA Degree at Institute of Sonology in Den Haag with the title "A personal approach to hyper-improvisation and hyper-composition, in the mediation between compositional and improvisatory practices in the human-machine interaction". There he is taking courses with, among others, Kees Tazelaar, Richard Barrett, Joel Ryan, Frank Baldé, Paul Berg, Raviv Ganchrow and Paul Jeukendreup.

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094: Micromelancolié

Live performance for guitar, saw, contact microphones, field recordings, samplers, microsamples & some mashed-up pieces from 77industry and 49animals.

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093: Mosaique

Mosaique live at AADKmigrationen, Nomadics festival, Supermarkt, Berlin, 2012.03.17.

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092: Manuel Mota

Manuel Mota live at Natal dos Experimentais 2011, Passos Manuel, Porto, 2011.12.16. Photo by Marc Behrens.

Download file 16'47", 40.3MB

091: Carlos Santos

Carlos Santos live at Natal dos Experimentais 2011, Passos Manuel, Porto, 2011.12.16. Photo by João Ricardo.

Download file 18'13", 43.7MB

090: Marc Behrens

Marc Behrens live at Natal dos Experimentais 2011, Passos Manuel, Porto, 2011.12.16. Performed live on Uher 4000 Report-L and Teenage Engineering OP-1. Photo by João Ricardo.

Download file 15'15", 36.6MB

089: Pure

Pure live at Le Grand Bumm 15, Südpol, Luzerne, 29.10.2011

Download file 33'00", 79.3MB

088: “Shibboleths” by Piotr Kurek

Shibboleths is a title of an audio play and sound performance of Piotr Kurek presented at the Mimar Sinar University of Fine Arts in Istanbul and Nijmegen's Extrapool, curators of the Audiotoop series. Recordings were taken in December 2011 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. 

087: The Beautiful Schizophonic

Space as an instrument, played by the melancholy of an electric guitar. Clouds of dark-matter in sound, sculpting the atmosphere of the medieval church into an aural signifier of decay. Edited recording of an audiovisual performance that took place on the Autumn Equinox, at Igreja de S. Vicente, Évora.

Download file 15'57", 38.3MB

086: Andrea Neumann & Guests

Andrea Neumann, Ana Veloso, Diana Combo, Filipe Silva and João Martins met at a workshop organized by the Serralves contemporary art museum. Together, they explored the relationships between music and gestures, working at two levels: group improvisation and the awareness of the movements necessary for the production of sound and for daily communication. The process involved an analysis of movement during the musical and social performances, the selection of motions, their practice and representation in the context of a stage performance, in synchronization with the music composed during the workshop. This is a recording of one of their improvisation sessions, at the foyer of the Serralves auditorium.

Andrea Neumann
Ana Veloso
Diana Combo
Filipe Silva
João Martins

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085: Xesús Valle live in Sónar 2011

This live set was performed in the past edition of Sónar Barcelona 2011. An ensemble of processes of granular synthesis, analog synthesis and raw field recordings that serves as a guideline to create a balanced narrative line of experimental electronica, sound design and sound art.

Xesús Valle captures all kinds of field recordings, sound-walks and sound actions which he manipulates in the computer to generate real-time narrative compositions. In addition to creating original soundtracks, he works on sound design for documentaries, short films and the Internet.

www.alg-label.com/Xesus-Valle
google+/xesusvalle

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084: “Čiurlionis” by Gintas K

This piece was created during a residency in August 2011 in Druskininkai, where the Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) lived. This work was created from recordings made in Čiurlionis's house and performed live on August 29th at the Čiurlionis Memorial Museum.

Download file 21'07", 50.8MB

083: “Radio Station” by Mathias Delplanque

This sound work was commissioned by French independent radio JET FM (Nantes) in May 2008. Mathias Delplanque spent one week recording sounds in the radio's offices and used them as a material for a composition halfway between sound documentary, musique concrète and electronica.

"Radio Station" takes part in Mathias Delplanque's series of works dedicated to the acoustic of specific spaces and contexts ("Call Center", "L'Inondation"…). This piece focussed on the relation between sound and its broadcasting space, creating multiple degrees of sound and listening. We are not listening to music, we are listening to recordings of music played in the radio's offices (mixed with ambient sounds, voices etc…).

Download file 31'26", 75.5MB

082: “The Geometry of an Abyss (Variations 1 and 2)” by UN

A calling card for UN, a hybrid collective somehow led by Anselmo Canha, Heitor Alvelos and José Maria Lopes. Its claimed mission is the reversal of all things deserving of reversal: literally, metaphorically and magically. Watch out for the greatest hits of all time sung backwards some time in the near future — a homage to long-held myths of satanic backmasking from the golden age of vinyl.

The Geometry of an Abyss is a mash-up of various sources developed by UN between 2003-2010:

• Field recordings of occasional traffic in downtown Porto at 3AM, 2003.
• The Monkey and the Guitar do BlackNoddy, 2006.
• Field recordings @ CCStop: dozens of rock bands rehearse in a bankrupt shopping mall, their sounds echoing and mashing through the deserted corridors, 2007.
• A shredded orchestra of 10 harmonicas, Awarehouse of Why, Aveiro, October 2007. Conducted by Len Massey and HA.
• Live Tunisian horn and American trumpet improvs over the phone to the UK, December 2007.
• JML and AC untune an acoustic guitar by a river bank in Orbacém, Northern Portugal, late Summer 2008. HA provides water percussion in the distance.
• Silvestrov karaoke on a Sunday morning, late Summer 2009.
• Solo late-night electric guitar solos, December 2009.

Munched and spit out against the clock by HA, December 2010. Properly reconstructed and mastered by AC a few days later. More un at unwww.org

Download file 31'59", 76.8MB

081: “Decay And Structure (Complete Score)” by Herde Katzen

Working title of “art film”: Decay And Structure. The basis for this movie were four strange dreams of one man. On a plan, the director in this film intended to have no dialogues, only sound and visuals.

For this soundtrack we used a Portable DAT Recorder with microphone and Digidesign protools for post processing. Recorded between 2001-2002.

Download file 38'03", 91.5MB

080: Durán Vázquez

Live performance at the Strangelet meeting in Vigo, Galicia (Spain). March 25, 2011.

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079: “For Warmth” by Ennio Mazzon

"For Warmth" has been composed in memory of a rainy night in Istanbul [28/10/10].

Raindrops, traffic and city's echoes have been recorded from my hotel's room, in front of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque).

That night I couldn't sleep. My bed wasn't warm enough so I started recording.

Recorded, assembled and produced by Ennio Mazzon.

Download file 26'30", 63.7MB

078: SeaBed

I've seen these waves before.
Lapping over my shoes.
Making my socks wet.
They all look the same. In every corner of this world.
I've tried to capture their movements. Freezing them in time.
I don't know why I wanted to.
But I still do.
They look so beautiful.
Calm. Rhythmic.

Like they are trying to become part of our world, but keep slipping back into the darkness.

Inspired by the ocean, island horizons, and the space of the ocean depths, SeaBed looks to contrast the calm of the ocean and its simultaneous ferocity, through an evolving, pulsating wall of sound. SeaBed is the current project of New Zealand born artist and designer Craig Johnson. He is currently based in Reykjavík and Berlin.

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077: .at/on

Live recording of Anton Holota at “Swod: in the night of sparkling ambient”, Cinema club, Kyiv, Ukraine, 24th October 2008.

Download file 31'16", 61.2MB

076: “Shadow (of Shadows)” by Arturas Bumšteinas

“Shadow (of Shadows)” for organ and electronics, Algirdas Biveinis (organ).

This piece was composed by Arturas Bumšteinas in Warsaw, November 2010 and premiered by Algirdas Biveinis in Vilnius, December of the same year. The premiere took place in St. Johns' church which accommodates the largest pipe organ in Lithuania. The concert was attended by a set of different people: few old couples, young family with children, a lost tourist, several friends and author's father. Imagine a dark and freezing winter evening… Dark means pitch black and cold means -25°C. The piece was recorded with several portable recorders placed around the area of church, one extra microphone was placed outside the church to record the sounds of crows flying above the roofs of Vilnius' old town.

Later, during mixing at home, a poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” written and recited by Alfred Lord Tennyson and a random female voice fragment from Youtube was added to the mix.

The piece itself is a harmonic analysis of Soviet Lithuania's (1940-1990) anthem. It could be likened to a shadow which is cast by an object. In this piece's case it's a shadow of another shadow.

Special thanks to: Pure, Vilius Lys, Antanas Kučinskas, Vidas Pinkevičius, Rytis Mažulis, Vilnius' University, Kęstutis and Vaida.

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075: “Templos” by Luis Marte

“Templos” is an installation where the behavior of sound in pre-twentieth century churches is explored. In this case, an installation was presented at the Areatec foundation in Buenos Aires, where the church of San José de Flores was taken as the parameter. The opening event featured a live performance with fragments of the various works as well as guests.

Luis Marte: sound work; Ana Larrategui and Roberta della Monica: voices; Gabriel Cicuttin: video.

Download file 14'32", 34.9MB

074: Emmanuel Mieville

These is a sound mixed journey through south-east Asia, recorded in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Hong Kong and one close island.The significant sonorous aspects you can hear are the Hong Kong tramway (called “ting ting” by locals, because the driver hits that bell now and then). Also from Hong Kong is the traffic signal for blind people (beeps). The birds are from Kuala Lumpur, as the street voices, the industrial noises are taken on Cheng Chau island, in fish market with ice cutting machines, and Chinese fishermen talking. All electronic elements are taken from a composition released an a 3" CD, on Lona records, a Hong Kong label.

Recorded and composed by Emmanuel Mieville.

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073: Michael Delia & Simon Whetham

Michael Delia and Simon Whetham collaborative performance recorded at the Školská 28 gallery space in Prague Saturday 20th November 2010.

Simon Whetham was invited to perform at Školská 28, Prague, on 20th November 2010. In addition to playing his signature solo field recording composition, using only recordings captured in Prague in the week preceding the concert, he also requested to be introduced to local musicians in order to collaborate and improvise with them. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Director of Školská 28 put Simon in contact with US artist and sometime Prague resident Michael Delia.

After a brief meeting and an exchange of CD's they played an improvised collaborative set, Michael playing various instruments through effects and Simon playing field recordings and processing some of Michael's sounds.

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072: “The Virgin and the Plague” by Enrico Coniglio

Going with my binaural mics on the 21st November 2010 to the Basilica of St. Mary of Health (in italian “Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute”) at Punta della Dogana (Venice-Italy), during the typical feast-day. Thousands of people visit the main altar of the church to give thanks to the Virgin Mary and ask to keep them in good health. The church was built in 1631 after the Senate decided to honor the Virgin Mary of Health for delivering Venice from a plague.

This is a composition of raw recordings take with binaural microphones. From the minute 0 to 5:50 I'm walking over the “Ponte votivo”, a temporary bridge set up on barges over the Grand Canal, and then through narrow streets until to reach the church and enter in the middle of the hall. From 5:50 to 8:50 I'm walking slowly through the crowd towards the main altar and then behind, to sit on the “coro” stalls where people stop, pray and pass in front a Virgin Mary icon. From the minute 08:50, you can hear a series of recordings of prayers and organ tunes.

Use headphones for best result. Photo by Donato Gagliano.

Download file 20'26", 29.6MB

071: Gintas K

Live recording of Gintas K’s performance in Porto, June 29th 2010.

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070: Ranter's Bay

Live recording of Ranter's Bay in the context of Tan inauditos!! (So unheard!!) performances at Casa das Atochas, A Coruña city, Galicia (Spain), on August 19, 2010.

Download file 28'52", 41.6MB

069: MDMME

Live recording of MDMME in the context of Tan inauditos!! (So unheard!!) performances at Casa das Atochas, A Coruña city, Galicia (Spain), on August 19, 2010.

Download file 31'29", 45.4MB

068: Durán Vázquez

Live recording of Durán Vázquez in the context of Tan inauditos!! (So unheard!!) performances at Casa das Atochas, A Coruña city, Galicia (Spain), on August 19, 2010.

Download file 23'38", 34.1MB

067: o.blaat, Ran Slavin, Vitor Joaquim

This long due recording documents the third of the three performances at the ICA curated by Crónica for the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival on November 10, 2007. This performance was a collaboration between o.blaat, Ran Slavin and Vitor Joaquim, with live visuals by Mud.

Download file 42'36", 90.2MB

066: “Innsbruck 6020 der weg” by tamtam

In summer 2005 we spend a week doing outdoor recordings in Innsbruck. Our goal is to create a composition of and with city sounds. The geographical situation of the city nourishes the idea behind the composition… Nestled in the Inntal valley, closed off to the north by the Nordkette mountain chain, in the south by highlands and Patscherkofel peak.

We begin our route high up in the north on the Seegrube… Approach the city via the Hungerburg district toward Büchsenhausen… Cross the Innbrücke bridge and reach the old town… Wander there through the courtyards of the new city (city center, Pradl, Saggen) toward the Brenner highway, crossing it on our way upward toward lake Lanser See — in the southern part of the valley.

We stop from time to time to record the sounds around us. Our starting material becomes a topology of loudnesses, frequency images and rhythmic structures of the city.

We compile these original sounds we have recorded into 4 related sections, which serve as the first layer of the composition; for the second layer of the piece, we edit the original sounds we have used using filters; the third and fourth layers are musical structures and interventions using bass and sampler.

tamtam are Hannes Strobl (bass) & Sam Auinger (sampler). An alternative version of this piece can be found at tamtam's website.

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065: “Linnut” by Eosin

Linnut, by Eosin, is the first of an ongoing series of compositions using vinyl lock grooves and field recordings.

Somebody asked me: what is this track about? what is its story?

I don't know about its meaning and its story lies on the procedure of its own production. For my participation in Tinynoise festival, last October, i got two Staalplaat Soundsystem LP made for Yokomono that I was experimenting in real time during my performance, this is, I was listening for the first time and using the locked grooves, combining them with pre-recorded sounds I had already edited.

I enjoyed the result and the loops inspired me to use them as a structure for further tracks. I recorded some mixes and then edited, creating a sequence to which I added a parallel layer made of field recordings of various sources.

It's analog and digital, improvisation and control in processed real time experiments.

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064: “Bodrum” by Cem Güney

This new composition by Cem Güney was created from recordings made during a short vacation in Bodrum. The piece intends to chronologically project a day spent from noon to midnight, in three parts: part I, 5:08, part II, 2:15, part III, 4:03.

Download file 11'27", 27.5MB

063: “Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” by Audio_z

“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” in a contradictory way is said to be one of those unspoken stories at their purest. Could, let's say — a lost photographic sentiment for a memory of the space; fading tones of a chime and human voices; alienated intersections of whistle, transparent high-frequency sprays and streams of white noises; almost cubist evolvent of domestic affair with an acoustic guitar; a chant concealed in dissemination and revealed as a concealment; sketch of a childish organ turning into a seed for a swarm of metallic crows, which disappears indulging it's own disillusionment – could it be actually considered as a story? If yes, it's more about fragments. Have you ever relinquished your desire for a book itself just because you’d been haunted by its table of content?

“Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” was created by Audio_z, or Tautvydas Bajarkevičius, a sound artist, writer and curator based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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062: “Chords” by Loïs Laplace

“This is a seven part piano recording made in 2005, a short time after I saw a free jazz concert during which Tony Oxley was playing drums. I was intrigued by Tony Oxley’s relaxed attitude, the fluid and easy way of movements of his hands and arms in the mean time of a high energy music creation — at these moments notes were accelerated and the time seemed suspended.”

Download file 13'59", 33.6MB

061: “Duel second” by BOLD: Bellavance / Bernier / d'Orion

BOLD is the trio of Alexis Bellavance, Nicolas Bernier and Érick d'Orion. This performance was recorded live during a residency at "Le lobe" in the context of "Festival Art Nomade" in October 3rd, 2009.

Download file 17'34", 42.2MB

060: “Hysteresis 1+2” by Cem Güney

“Hysteresis 1+2”, is an improvised recording of pre-recorded shortwave radio transmissions, online radio broadcasts and TV transmissions, with the company of a minidisc player, a stereo walkman headphone, objects and computer.

The compositions main purpose is to research the psychological effects of hysteresis (a lag between an effect or response and the force that caused it), compositional elements such as silence, amplitude modulation, and the effects it may have on the listener.

The two tracks constructed to be played sequentially are consolidated for this release. “Hysteresis 1”, 5:11; “Hysteresis 2”, 5:11.

Composed & edited in August 2008 by Cem Güney, mastered by Miguel Carvalhais.

Download file 10'22", 24.9MB

059: “Lohberg” by Michael Rüsenberg & Peter Hölscher

This piece covers an abandoned industrial area in the “Ruhrgebiet”, Germany, called “Lohberg”. The photographs (~250) were taken there in summer 2009 on a cloudy day. The soundtrack is derived from field recordings of the Gdansk dockyard in Poland in November 2009. This somehow is a demo version of the initial piece, which is about 65 minutes long and much slower in transitions.

Michael Rüsenberg, born 1948, works as radio journalist and has been a sound artist for the last 17 years.

Peter Hölscher, born 1958, works as graphic designer and has been sculptor and photographer for 20 years.

Download file 11'56", 123.01MB

058: “Throw~” by Ephraim Wegner

Throw~ is an instrument originated from the synthesis of different Pd Abstractions created on different occasions during 2009. It combines several synthesis forms and can be played in different manners. The composition of the piece arose from the tonal configuration of the single functions. Throw~ is completely hand played with Pd. Recorded live at the “Music for: CPU's, Instruments and Objects” event, November 2009, in Freiburg.

Download file 16'26", 37.6MB

058: “Futurónica 4” by Miguel Carvalhais

“Futurónica 4” is the fourth and final in a series of hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009. This mix included pieces by Marc Behrens, Durán Vázquez, Gilles Aubry, Enrico Coniglio, Heitor Alvelos, Lawrence English, Paulo Raposo, Ákos Garai and @c.

Download file 60'00", 144.1MB

056: “Futurónica 3 — Cool-age” by Pedro Tudela

“Futurónica 3 — Cool-age” is the third in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.

Download file 60'00", 144.1MB

055: “Call Center” by Mathias Delplanque

This sound piece is the stereo version of a multichannel sound installation I realised for the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City” in the shape of the “Lille 3000” festival which happened in Lille (France) between October 2006 and January 2007. The work is based on sounds recorded during the summer of 2006 in a call center in Gurgaon (suburbs of New Delhi), during a 3 weeks residency commissioned by the french embassy in India. It was originally broadcast on 6 speakers + 1 subwoofer.

Download file 30'18", 72.8MB

054: Mosaique

Recorded live at Club Jesus, Berlin, November 8, 2009.

Download file 32'00", 73.4MB

053: “Futurónica 2 — Radios and Guitars” by Pedro Almeida

“Futurónica 2 — Radios and Guitars” is the second in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.

Download file 60'00", 144.1MB

052: “Ruminagem remix” by Miguel Cabral, Carlos Santos & João Silva

Industrial archaeology is a rich field of exploration for transdisciplinary arts. The machines and the “junk” that witnessed the past of the “Casa da Moagem” in Fundão, Portugal, are used by Miguel Cabral, Carlos Santos and João Silva to create an installation that is also a complex musical "instrument" that is performed alongside the audio and video recordings made on site. ruminagem.wordpress.com

Download file 28'49", 69.2MB

051: “Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” by Cruz

“Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” is the first in a series of four hour-long programs that Crónica broadcasted in Rádio Futura in Porto, during the Future Places festival of 2009.

This program was compiled and mixed by Cruz in one set, one take. Artists and tracks are not in order of appearance:

1. Aleksey Petin; Vostok, Rmx in the Future
2. Bernard Parmegiani; Transition
3. Boredoms; Boredom with God on Noise (excerpt), Hawaiian Disco Without Bollocks
4. Butthole Surfers; Concubine (excerpt)
5. Cécile, Arnold and Rudolph Dolmetsch; Awake, Sweet Love
6. Durán Vázquez; Seagulls
7. Farmers Manual; Nomad 137 (excerpt), 371 Adv3
8. General Magic; Nur Commerce Duflirten
9. Gigantiq; A Few Steps From Your Shoulder
10. Inna & Vadim; Illusions
11. Jason Kahn, Pablo Reche, Anla Courtis;
12. Lasse Maraugh; Rain on Window Trondheim 2002
13. Marc Behrens; Sleppet
14. Michael Snow; Sinoms
15. Pure; Fire, Iron Sky (excerpt)
16. Stephan Mathieu; Frequenzen
17. Vitiello+Machinefabriek; Crackle Box, Thumb Piano

Download file 60'00", 144.1MB

050: “Safe (Long Stereo Version)” by Pedro Tudela

“Safe (Long Stereo Version)” is a reedited and remixed stereo version of the soundtrack for Pedro Tudela's installation “Safe”, exhibited in the vault of the rectory of the University of Porto from May to July 2009.

Download file 15'33", 34.3MB

049: “Variations (1, 2, 3)” by Skug

Skug was founded in Freiburg/Germany by Ephraim Wegner and Florian Huth in 2003. Though meanwhile both musicians live in different towns of Germany, they still meet regularly to compose new pieces of music, to program music software or just in order to make music. The field recordings heard on Variations (1, 2, 3) were recorded between 2007 and 2008 in the Black Forest and reinterpreted with bass, guitar, electronics and brass instruments. On variations 2 and 3 Wolfgang Zumpe plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Skug's music creates a very visual aspect which gives enough space to the listener to realise his own imagination and to unfold his own fantasy. Like in fine arts, a picture emerges successively by applying one layer of colour after another, Skug create their work bit by bit. Spaces are interchangeable – topoi that exist and can be experienced anytime and everywhere.

anti-matter-plant.org

Download file 20'20", 40.7MB

048: “The Lone Drone” by The Beautiful Schizophonic

The Beautiful Schizophonic live at Casa da Música, Porto, on the 4th April 2009. Post-tropical ambiences at dusk, imaginary scenic drives through inner vistas and a special version of Aysha, a soundscape from the forthcoming album “Erotikon”. All beautifully captured live by Marc Behrens.

Download file 32'03", 61.8MB

047: “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez

A piece by Durán Vázquez for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008.

With this piece, conceived for radio, I wanted to work on three of my main influences: cinema, electroacoustic music and politics.

Playing with the several meanings of terror I set up a sound travel that imitates the movie pictures montage with one aim in mind: to introduce the audience into a shocking experience that puts together all those possible meanings of terror. Indeed it seems the times of changes we live in are like a terror movie... well, these are my feelings.

I took original sounds from movies and also from original music by me, including my previous piece “Asturias, patria querida” in which I worked on March 11th 2004 sounds taken from different Spanish radio stations, the day of the trains megablast in Madrid.

I selected the movies Zeitgeist by Peter Joseph (2007), Imprint by Takashi Miike (2006), Le Monde Selon Bush by William Karel (2004), Hellraiser by Clive Barker (1987) and Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski (1968). With these sources and my own stuff I set up a montage full of stereotyped but disturbing sounds, all organized into the sequencer software. The cut & paste process is the main tool in this work.

Download file 27'59", 64.1MB

046: “So On” by Gintas K

A piece by Gintas K for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008. Innuendos, errors, noise, microwaves, banalities, crackles, soft pulses of synthesized tones.

Download file 28'38", 39.4MB

045: Essays on Radio mix by paL

A mix by paL for the RadiaLX radio festival in 2008, from the tracks released in the Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time? compilation and several other sources.

Download file 57'00", 78.4MB

044: “On the Concept of History”
(An Introduction / 2008 Top 16)

78RPM Transcriptions by Stephan Mathieu. Monaural re-recordings made with a mechanical HMV 102 gramophone, Decca Cactus Needles and a customised Oktava MK-319 microphone.

This selection is part of an upcoming series of transcriptions by Stephan Mathieu.

Download file 40'23", 46.3MB

1. Telephone Effect #1
   Standard Sound Effect Records #903
   mid 1930s
2. Kelly Harrell
   Oh Molly Dear, Go Ask Your Mother
   Victor Records #20280-A
   June 09.1926
3. Blind Willie Johnson
   God Moves On The Water
   Vocalion Records #03051 B
   Dec. 12.1929
4. Biddleville Quintette
   I'm Tormented In Flames
   Paramount Records #12813-B
   Aug. 01.1929
5. Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist)
   Death Is Only A Dream
   Vocalion Records #B1096
   April 19.1927
6. Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean-des-Matine
   Josquin Despres: Deux Chansons - 1/ Se congié prends (à 6v), 2/ Vive le Roy (à 4v)
   Disques L'Anthologie Sonore #108
   1941
7. Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds
   Don't Mess With Me
   Okeh Records #4752B
   Dec. 06.1922
8. Steam Shovel In Operation
   Standard Sound Effect Records #302A
   mid 1930s
9. Prof. Erwin Brodky, clavichord
   J.S. Bach: Sarabande and Gavotte, 5. French Suite
   Parlophone Records #B.37033 II (2000 Years of Music Box-Set, compiled by Dr. Curt Sachs)
   early 1930s
10. The English Singers
    William Byrd: O Christ Who Art The Light (Evening Hymn)
    Roycroft Records #161
    early 1930s
11. Norfolk Jubilee Quartette
    Ezikek Saw The Wheel
    Paramount Records #12217-A
    July 17.1924
12. Woody Guthrie
    Grow, Grow, Grow
    Cub Records #4A
    1948
13. Frank Ferera and John Paaluhi
    Ua Like No Alike
    Okeh Records #41012
    March 03.1928
14. DeZurik Sisters
    Sweet Hawaiian Chimes
    Vocalion Records #04704
    Dec. 16.1938
15. Telephone Effect #6
    Standard Sound Effect Records #903
    mid 1930s
16. Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers
    Lord, Lord He Sure Be Good To Me
    Okeh Records #8559
    Feb. 28.1928

On The Concept of History

043: Innen & Auren

Download file 43'38", 92.1MB

Franke Neumann Schmidt Weinheimer INNEN & AUREN

The piece INNEN & AUREN is a mixed and edited version of the concert INNEN & AUßEN, that took place as AlulaTonSerien.Konzert #35 at the New Building of the Gallery for Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Dec. 15, 2007. Neumann, who edited it, translated the spatial experience of the live concert to this stereo version. The chronological order of the concert was kept, but condensed. No sounds or effects were added.

For the original concert, the four performers created a set-up, which took place in three rooms inside the gallery and outside the gallery. Each of the four performers had his own position and function within the set-up and with each position made a certain statement about the relationship between inside and outside.

The set-up included: a microphone outside of the gallery (Franke, outside), speakers behind a glass wall, microphone in room 1, feed from Franke and computer (Neumann, room 1), speakers outside the gallery and in room 1, two headphones in room 3, microphone, sine wave generator, feed from Franke and computer (Schmidt, room 3), four speakers in room 1, one speaker outside the gallery, violin, bass flute with internal microphones and electronics (Weinheimer, room 1).

042: Pure Hati

Download file 9'50", 22.6MB

Pure and Hati recorded live in Muenster, 29 November 2008.

041: Natal dos Experimentais 2008

Download file 53'06", 106.8MB

Gustavo Costa, Jonathan Uliel, Miguel Cardoso, Miguel Carvalhais, Neil Davidson, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Vitor Joaquim & Autodigest perform at the fourth edition of Crónica’s Natal dos Experimentais, in Passos Manuel, Porto, December 19 2008.

040: @c

Download file 38'46", 53.3MB

@c + Lia recorded live on May 10, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

039: Brigitta Bödenauer

Download file 33'36", 30.8MB

Brigitta Bödenauer DJs at Klub Caryca in Kraków on September 7, 2008, with a special focus on Pure’s latest release in Crónica, “Ification”.

038: Feltro

Download file 28'46", 39.6MB

Feltro aka André Gonçalves. Recorded May 10, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

037: Jorge Castro

Download file 27'43", 51.2MB

Jorge Castro aka Fisternni. Recorded on May 10, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

• manipulatto.com
myspace.com/fisternni
• sudamericaelectronica.com
• [email protected]

036: Jorge Haro

Download file 27'09", 53.6MB

Jorge Haro is a sound and audiovisual artist based in Buenos Aires. He is the director of LIMb0, a series of concerts in Buenos Aires, the co-director of the ExperimentaClub + LIMb0 project and of the Sudamérica Electrónica label.

Recorded on May 9, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

More information: jorgeharo.com.ar, limb0.org, sudamericaelectronica.com, myspace.com/experimentaclublimb0

035: Vitor Joaquim

Download file 23'31", 43.6MB

The Devil is in the Detail, by Vitor Joaquim, recorded live at Casa da Música, Porto, May 3rd 2008.

034: The Sound of eBay

Download file 8'40", 11.9MB

www.sound-of-ebay.com

A project by UBERMORGEN.COM
Sound coding by Stefan Nussbaumer, visual coding by Lia, script coding by Erich Kachel

Story

First there was silence...
Then there was data...
But there was no story...
Just images and sounds...

Cities were built and a grid was laid on top of the topography.

Within this global grid a company named eBay became the largest marketplace, with very local marketspaces. eBay is romantic and seductive, not like the local fleamarkets in Paris (Le marché aux puces de Saint-Ouen) but sexed up a million times bigger and spherically transcended, much more effective and thoroughly commercialized. We love it! “The Sound of eBay” is the affirmative high-end lowtech contribution to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hypercatastrophic shock-capitalism.

The sound is cool, the machine produces masses of songs and replicates millions of times throughout the networks – flooding the net, a bubbling sea of artifical songs visualized in CONTEMPORARY teletext – a continental drift within a macromusic universal urban scape. Trash-Radio.

Forget the technology, it’s lustful entertainment, baby!

033: A mix for Framework

Download file 57'00", 118.2MB

“Framework”, phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity, presented by Patrick McGinley, broadcast every Sunday on Resonance 104.4 FM in London, or worldwide on resonancefm.com

The April 13, 2008 edition featured a “Chronicle of Crónica”, mixed by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais from music that Crónica has released or was about to release, looking back to the first five years of Crónica and ahead to what we hope is a much longer time.

The full mix is presented here without track markers, with the timing in the mix of each of the tracks used.

• 00:00-28:25
  Gilles Aubry, “Berlin Backyards”
  in Berlin Backyards (tbr)
• 02:00-11:13
  Paulo Raposo, “A Bag of Water”
  in Mus*****c
• 04:08-10:02
  o.blaat, “one morning” (w/ Kaffe Matthews)
  in Two Novels: Gaze / In the Cochlea
• 06:10-15:16
  Pigeons in the street, recorded by Miguel Carvalhais
• 10:49-15:56
  Lawrence English, ”Relocated (UTC)”
  in Happiness Will Befall
• 12:57-18:22
  PT’s cats, recorded by Pedro Tudela
• 16:19-17:47
  Gintas K, track 8 from ”Lovely Banalities“ (tbr)
• 17:19-23:47
  @c, “18” (with Manuel Mota and João Hora)
  in v3
• 20:57-21:59
  Recorded live (1:02:026) by Pedro Tudela
• 21:22-27:42
  The Beautiful Schizophonic, “Music for Lonely People”
  in Mus*****c
• 23:09-27:04
  @c + Vitor Joaquim, “Ouvertüre”
  in De-Tour, Feld 005, 2007
• 25:20-42:19
  @c, “Blues“, recorded live May 19 2006
  Crónicast 016
• 27:57-30:14
  Ákos Garai, “To Bjeller”
  in Essays on Radio
• 29:19-31:40
  Boca Raton, ”Circle ’4“
  in Product 05
• 31:18-34:09
  James Eck Rippie, ”Black Transmission“
  in Mus*****c
• 32:39-36:37
  “01.1 - 01.4” (work in progress files) by Pedro Tudela
• 35:08-39:14
  Ran Slavin, “DAT Beats”
  in The Wayward Regional Transmissions
• 37:33-41:48
  Cem Güney, “A Phonetics Theme”
  in Praxis
• 40:23-41:23
  Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer, “Maori Love Song”
  in Hidden Name
• 41:00-41:59
  Davor Mikan, “Animal”
  in Täuschung
• 41:44-43:31
  Autodigest, “Expansion”
  in A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 1
• 42:01-44:13
  Davor Mikan, “Der Eisverkäufer explodiert einfach”
  in Täuschung
• 42:18-45:28
  Freiband, “De Kabale Brug”
  in Leise
• 44:00-46:45
  The Beautiful Schizophonic, “La Lectrice” (avec Colleen)
  in Musicamorosa
• 45:12-49:47
  o.blaat, “Nightvision”
  in Two Novels: Gaze / In the Cochlea
• 46:11-47:17
  Tilia, “...and coming back”
  in vous rêvez/ vous ne rêvez pas
• 46:20-54:45
  Feltro, from Crónicast 021
• 47:41-54:53
  Sonega, Alentejo, Portugal. Recorded by Pedro Tudela
• 50:07-52:20
  @c, “56E1”
  in Compilatorio #2, Alg-a, 2006
• 52:14-56:59
  Pal, live at Passos Manuel, 22 December 2007
• 53:09-56:59
  [des]integração, “4to”
  in On Paper
• 56:34-57:00
  Karlheinz Stockhausen, ”…on sound”

032: “Abibes” by Enrico Coniglio

Download file 12'11", 14.1MB

“Abibes” is the name of an ex coastal depot of GPL, classifyed as an “high risk of accident area”, in Porto Maghera, a big industrial site at the door of the Venice lagoon (Italy).

I have recorded same samples from the environment with a binaural stereo mic, so use headphones for the best result. In a second time I’ve work on the recordings adding some guitar/synth drones treated with Cycling ’74 technology. Here is the result.

031: “Orla” by Carlos Santos

Download file 28'07", 32.2MB

This audio piece is a full recording of an audiovisual concert called “memory”, presented @ Bang Festival, FBAUL, Lisbon, on April 3, 2008. Audio by Carlos Santos and video by André Sier.

I renamed it “Orla” because the sound material deals with the notion of presence, something that’s concrete, that we take for granted in a audible way, but never presents itself in a fully open range, something near the threshold, as the video imagery accents that with its black canvas and small emerging white signs.

030: Pure

Download file 31'26", 72.0MB

Recorded live at Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin on January 29th 2008. The performance uses mainly sounds from Pure’s forthcoming studio album, to be released by Crónica later in 2008.

029: Steinbrüchel

Download file 41'02", 84.8MB

Steinbrüchel performs live variations of “Basis”. Recorded on May 10, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

“Basis” was released on Room 40. Many thanks to Oriol Rossell Costa, Miguel Arsénio, Miguel Carvalhais + Pedro Tudela.

028: Pedro Tudela & Pedro Almeida

Download file 35'07", 31.6MB

Pedro Tudela and Pedro Almeida recorded a rehearsal for a performance at the auditorium of Casa da Animação, in Porto. Tudela’s laptop and microphones created sounds of gestures and attrition that met the ASR piano of Pedro Almeida.

027: The Beautiful Schizophonic

Download file 24'12", 27.7MB

Marvellous sweeping drones take us back to memories of deserted landscapes. This is the soundtrack of an impossible road movie, of simple complexities and multi-tonal melodic formations, geological oddities through which we travel, while admiring their uniqueness. This is The Beautiful Schizophonic, performing live for the first time in Portugal.

This performance was recorded December 21 2007 at Passos Manuel, Porto. Thank you, and good night.

026: Tam

Download file 15'11", 17.4MB

A laptop and ideas. That’s the shortest and the best definition for Tam’s music.

Based in Porto, Tam explores the infinite possibilities conceded by electronic gadgets and computers. The styles presented are pretty vague and vast: House, Techno, Minimal, Ambient , Acoustic or Experimental, they all depend on the mood of the author.

Some very low-fi video work is often incorporated in the live shows. The visual work is focused mainly on landscape, the human figure and several pointless situations of our daily lives. For the “Natal dos Experimentais” live-act  Tam recorded several field recordings and samples and played them randomly for about twenty minutes. Is it improvisation? Maybe...

This performance was recorded December 21, 2007 at Passos Manuel, Porto.

025: Aki Onda, Gert-Jan Prins, @c

Download file 34'54", 66.4MB

Second of the three performances at the ICA curated by Crónica for the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival on November 10, 2007. The first live collaboration between @c, Gert-Jan Prins and Aki Onda, with visuals by Gert-Jan Prins.

024: The Beautiful Schizophonic, Gintas K, Pal

Download file 46'44", 42.8MB

First of the three performances at the ICA curated by Crónica for the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival on November 10, 2007. The first live collaboration between The Beautiful Schizophonic, Gintas K and Pal opened the night with stunning visuals by Tina Frank.

023: Brigitta Bödenauer

Download file 19'21", 26.6MB

Brigitta Bödenauer live @ Knapp 20070706

Absynth-generated sine waves, recorded and manipulated sounds from cigarette lighters and a recorded violin.

The choice of sound files and dynamics basically referred to the specificity of the room: a small place, full of people, slowly filling with sound-layers with little "movement", predominantly static and just "moving within a certain area".

Brigitta Bödenauer works in sound, video and animation. She lives in Vienna. She has contributed to Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time? DVD

Knappsession is a series of live-concerts at a private appartment in Vienna.

022: Musikmagazin 07.08.31

Download file 56'36", 52.2MB

Broadcasted by Ephraim Wegner on 2007.08.31 at Radio Dreyeckland, Freiburg.

1. The Beautiful Schizophonic, les oiseaux qui dorment en l’air from Musicamorosa
2. Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer, Quartet For Flute, Piano And Cello from Hidden Name
3. The Beautiful Schizophonic, Aquatica (Canto-beijo) from Product 6
4. The Beautiful Schizophonic, cantiques à la gloire du soleil from Musicamorosa
5. Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer, White Wings / Child Okeford from Hidden Name
6. The Beautiful Schizophonic, zéphir marin, féerique comme un clair de lune from Musicamorosa
7. Vitor Joaquim, Moments of Your Time from Flow
8. Vitor Joaquim, Slow Moments from Flow
9. @c, soixante-quatre (pour T.B.S.) from Musicamorosa
10. Tenniscoats, To Do First from Totemo Aimasho, thanks to Room 40

021: Feltro

Download file 24'32", 16.9MB

Recorded and edited July 07, by André Gonçalves with guitar and doepfer modular synthesizer.

020: James Eck Rippie & eRikm

Download file 21'37", 24.8MB

This improvised turntable piece was recorded live at Festival Mediarte 4.0 in Monterrey, Mexico on September 27, 2006.

019: Mosaique

Download file 25'36", 29.8MB

Jan Ferreira was born in 1986 in Lisbon, half german, half portuguese, he’s currently studying sound for image at the Restart school.

About the music: my interest in musicmaking grew when I first got my hands on some simple music software around 5 years ago. it developed into the more experimental side, when I started composing music with internal feedback systems 2 years ago. Now im exploring the acoustic sound, recording and sampling instruments and feeding them through circuits that "densify" certain harmonics, resulting in sound masses that retain certain timbres of the source instruments. Those are then layered and the notes eventually transposed. Apart from equalization, no plug-ins are involved. About the meaning or content of the music, I prefer to let it speak for itself. I hope you enjoy!

018: MCarvalhais & Return Dj Crónica

Download file 32'36", 47.9MB

A Crónica-only set recorded at the School of Arts from the University of Porto (FBAUP), January 11, 2007.

Including composition by: Autodigest (Essays on Radio: 021), The Beautiful Schizophonic (Product 6: 023 & Essays on Radio: 021), Cáncer (Product 3: 011), Gintas K (Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound: 024), Heimir Björgúlffson & Jonas Ohlsson (King Glitch: 018 & Essays on Radio: 021), Heitor Alvelos (Essays on Radio: 021), James Eck Rippie & Paulo Raposo (Product 6: 023), O.Blaat w/ Kaffe Matthews (Two Novels: Gaze / In the Cochlea: 012), Paulo Raposo & Marc Behrens (Further Consequences of Reinterpretation: 008), Pawel Grabowski (Product 6: 023), Pedro Tudela (On Paper: 005), Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer (Hidden Name: 027).

017: Ran Slavin, A Recorded Transmission

Download file 14'08", 30.8MB

Ran Slavin has been experimenting with live video and performative real-time audio since the mid-nineties, developing live sets of "hyper-reality streams" where each image is already the next one, criss-crossing to form a perceptually layered hybrid of illusive meaning where the video spectrum and texts determine the sound within an environment of controlled randomness.

Slavin’s visual work has been described as intense urban surrealism. His audio work is a wide culmination of signal processing, both from acoustic sources or field recordings, from which digitally derived sonic panoramas emerge. His live performances present audio-visual realms unfolding between the urban and the abstract, super impositioning the real and hyper real, at times on the threshold of digital painting. The live transmissions hold a close interaction between sound and video. His latest video performances make use of sound which is generated solely from the video source, from the color and hue spectrum. His diverse catalogue of videos hover around short films of digital fiction, graphic design, and post production. His latest 40 minute fiction film “Insomniac City” has been recently released on the Mille Plateaux label as a DVD/CD and also new work on the Sub Rosa label was released in 2006.

016: @c, blues

Download file 22'06", 30.8MB

Thanks to: AlanS., AngeloB., AntónioC., DavidL., DennisH., IsabellaR., JoãoD., JoséF., KyleM., RoyO., RuiE., ZéTóF.

Commissioned by “Corta Film Festival”. (Re)composed by Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela and performed live on May 19, 2006 in Auditório da Biblioteca Almeida Garrett, Porto.

015: Gintas K

Download file 24'13", 27.7MB

Respect to GyS, Juodo and Bob Dylan.

With GyS we talked about collaboration. I did my part from his sounds (mostly guitar sound). His computer crashed, so... some parts of the podcast are from that. Some parts from the work Sri Lanka triptych - done from Juodo sounds from his field recordings made in Sri Lanka. And Blowing In The Wind... never thought that it is Bob Dylan song, just some folk song, but seems it is Bob Dylan.

014: Miguel Carvalhais & Return Dj Crónica @ Sónar 2006

Download file 58'13", 68.4MB

Crónica was invited to SonarLab where its publishing strategy and overall catalogue quality was recognized as groundbreaking and paired with the work from the likes of Line, Intr_Version, Spekk and Plop. This cast is a recording of a showcase of Crónica material that was hosted by Crónica artists and editors, Miguel Carvalhais & Return (aka João Cruz) in a DJ set at SonarDôme, Sónar2006 in Barcelona.

013: o.blaat

Download file 19'12", 22.1MB

Keiko Uenishi, aka o.blaat, is based in Brooklyn, New York. This performance was recorded live in Passos Manuel, Porto, June 10, 2006.

012: Davor Mikan

Download file 29'58", 34.3MB

1. Riss
2. Der Eisverkaeufer explodiert einfach.
3. Fort
4. Ein Tag
5. Wenn Nora allein bleibt,
6. Das Gewitter hat sich in eine Bahnhofshalle zurueckgezogen
7. Black and golden black
8. Gruen Golden (Mikan & Wysozky live recording, Vienna 2004)

Davor Mikan lives and works in Vienna, where he creates music about failure, beauty, lust and delusion in the context of psychoacoustic effects and in a personal sense (self-delusion).

011: Marc Behrens

Download file 26'31", 24.3MB

Live in Cologne 2005 [Architectural Commentaries and Untitled Songs]

010: The Beautiful Schizophonic

Download file 19'22", 22.7MB

1. Last Sound Of Winter
2. Sleep Archives
3. Ciel de Silence
4. Kissing The Snow With Dark Blue Lips
5. More A Loner Than A Wolf

This is a special selection to Crónicaster. Sound design by Jorge Mantas. Acoustic guitar on “Kissing The Snow With Dark Blue Lips” by Tobias Strahl.

file under: romantic drones. Best effect with headphones.

009: Gigantiq live @ Rua do Rosário 141, Porto

Download file 25'26", 23.6MB

On the 17th December 2005, the labels Crónica, Sirr, Grain of Sound and Ristretto gathered for a celebration of the holiday season in Rua do Rosário 141, Porto. Along with the presentation of five releases from the four labels, both @c (Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais) and Gigantiq (Nuno Moita and André Gonçalves) performed. Crónicast 009 is an excerpt from Gigantiq’s performance. Our thanks to those who made it possible and those who attended this special evening.

008: @c live @ Rua do Rosário 141, Porto

Download file 23'02", 34.7MB

On the 17th December 2005, the labels Crónica, Sirr, Grain of Sound and Ristretto gathered for a celebration of the holiday season in Rua do Rosário 141, Porto. Along with the presentation of five releases from the four labels, both @c (Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais) and Gigantiq (Nuno Moita and André Gonçalves) performed. Crónicast 008 is an excerpt from @c’s performance, Gingantiq will follow soon on Crónicast 009.

Our thanks to those who made it possible and those who attended this special evening.

007: Laptop Non Stop @ Universidade Católica do Porto, part 3

Download file 36'17", 52.7MB

This cast is the final of three documenting the “Laptop Non Stop” performance in the auditorium of Porto’s Universidade Católica, on the 14th May 2005. The programme of this recording is: Carlos Zíngaro, Vitor Joaquim, Álvaro Barbosa, Pedro Tudela, Miguel Carvalhais, Carlos Santos and Pedro Almeida. The live video for the entire programme was performed by Return. This sound recording, as well as the video documentation was kindly provided by the UCP School of Arts.

006: Laptop Non Stop @ Universidade Católica do Porto, part 2

Download file 19'43", 31.0MB

This cast is the second of three documenting the “Laptop Non Stop” performance in the auditorium of Porto’s Universidade Católica, on the 14th May 2005. The programme of this recording is:

1. Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais: @c
2. Carlos Santos & Pedro Almeida, duo

005: Laptop Non Stop @ Universidade Católica do Porto, part 1

Download file 13'59", 20.0MB

This cast is the first of three documenting the “Laptop Non Stop” performance in the auditorium of Porto’s Universidade Católica, on the 14th May 2005. The programme of this recording is: Álvaro Barbosa, Carlos Zíngaro and Vitor Joaquim.

004: selected by Return

Download file 14'30", 19.9MB

This cast was selected from the Crónica catalog, one Thursday, the 7th of July, from 2005, and is dedicated to everyone in the city of London. Today we are all Londoners, cheers to you all.

1. Paulo Raposo & Marc Behrens: 12, from Further Consequences of Reinterpretation, Crónica 008~2004
2. o.blaat: I Wish I Had My Cofee While The Radio Was On, from Essays on Radio, Crónica 020~2005
3. Paulo Raposo: Mit Brief Und Uhr, from On Paper, Crónica 005~2003
4. Boca Raton: Circle ‘7, from Product, Crónica 019~2005

003: Pedro Tudela & AGF

Download file 30'57", 42.6MB

Saturday, May 29, 2004, recorded live at the Serralves Auditorium in Porto. This performance was part of Tudela’s exhibition “Sobre”, shown at the Serralves Museum and Tudela invited Antye Greie-Fuchs to join him live.

002: Essays on Radio, Musa Lusa #37, part 2

Download file 31'46", 26.0MB

This is the second of two parts of an exclusive mix of the release “Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?” (Crónica 020~2005) broadcasted on Musa Lusa, a program hosted by Miguel Santos on Resonance 104.4FM on the 25th April 2005. This was the premiere broadcast of the compilation.

The tracklist for part 2 is:

1. Paulo Raposo, Verbatim
2. Ákos Garai, To Bjeller
3. Christine Fowler, 2 minutes
4. Steinbrüchel, AM/FM
5. Miguel Carvalhais, 0303
6. o.blaat, I Wish I Had My Cofee While The Radio Was On
7. Lawrence English, In Preparation
8. Ran Slavin, Golden Twilight Moments
9. Pure, Free Radio Azimuth
10. @c, int.13/35
11. Freiband, Gong Station & Chimes
12. Pawel Grabowski, Untitled 2:00
13. Pablo Reche, Expo Radio
14. Boca Raton, Along The Line
15. John Hudak, The Big Beat
16. Longina, Oidar
17. Nick Dan & Sumugan Sivanesan, Radio01
18. Heimir Björgúlfsson & Jonas Ohlsson, Thanks for Nothing

001: Essays on Radio, Musa Lusa #37, part 1

Download file 26'04", 21.5MB

This is the first of two parts of an exclusive mix of the upcoming release “Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?” (Crónica 020~2005) broadcasted on Musa Lusa, a program hosted by Miguel Santos on Resonance 104.4FM on the 25th April 2005. This was the premiere broadcast of the compilation.

The tracklist for part 1 is:

1. Autodigest, After The Orgy (7” Radio Edit)
2. Vitor Joaquim, Radio_0
3. The Beautiful Schizophonic, A Radiophonic Fairytale
4. James Eck Rippie, Radio
5. Heitor Alvelos, Had A Scanner Been Born On The Bosphorous
6. Stephan Mathieu, Radiance
7. @c, int.14/37
8. Ok.Suitcase, -sf 0905-04
9. Pedro Tudela, Atmosfera Reduzida
10. Gilles Aubry, Ridiot
11. Antmanuv, Silent Haarp
12. Pal, 2ofmytime_x
13. Luis Marte, Exploraciones 5
14. Durán Vázquez, Goebbels’s Pupils