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Crónicast 048, “The Lone Drone” by The Beautiful Schizophonic

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:23:11 +0100

Crónicast 048, “The Lone Drone” by The Beautiful Schizophonic
32'03", 61.8MB

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.

The Crónicaster presents regular digital releases of Crónica related pieces: radio broadcasts, live performances, special remixes, and everything else we can get our hands into. Crónicaster is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

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Crónicast 047, “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:49:34 +0100

Crónicast 047, “Terror Film for Radio” by Durán Vázquez
27'59", 64.1MB

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.

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Crónicast 046, “So On” by Gintas K

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:58:26 +0100

Crónicast 046, “So On” by Gintas K
28'38", 39.4MB

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

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Crónicast 045, Essays on Radio mix by paL

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:02:56 +0100

Crónicast 045, Essays on Radio mix by paL
57'00", 78.4MB

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.

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Crónicast 044, On the Concept of History (An Introduction / 2008 Top 16) 78RPM Transcriptions by Stephan Mathieu

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:23:12 +0000

Crónicast 044, "On the Concept of History" (An Introduction / 2008 Top 16)
78RPM Transcriptions by Stephan Mathieu, 40'23", 46.3MB

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.

Tracklist:

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

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Crónicast 043, Innen & Auren

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:05:51 +0000

Crónicast 043, Innen & Auren, 43'38", 92.1MB

Patrick Franke, Daniel Neumann, Ole Schmidt & Chris Weinheimer, recorded live in Muenster, 29 November 2008.

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Crónicast 042, Pure Hati

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:08:50 +0000

Crónicast 042, Pure Hati, 9'50", 22.6MB

Recorded live in Muenster, 29 November 2008.

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Crónicast 041, Natal Dos Experimentais 2008

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:53:54 +0000

Crónicast 041, Natal Dos Experimentais 2008, 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.

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Crónicast 040, @c

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:42:42 +0000

Crónicast 040, @c, 38'46", 53.3MB

Recorded May 10, 2008 at the Offf festival in Lisboa.

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Crónicast 039, Brigitta Bödenauer

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:57:04 +0000

Crónicast 039, Brigitta Bödenauer, 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”.

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Crónicast 038, Feltro

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:04:20 +0000

Crónicast 038, Feltro, 28'46", 39.6MB

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

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Crónicast 037, Jorge Castro

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:39:03 +0000

Crónicast 037, Jorge Castro, 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
correo@manipulatto.com

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Crónicast 036, Jorge Haro

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:41:37 +0100

Crónicast 036, Jorge Haro, 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.
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Crónicast 035, Vitor Joaquim

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:58:21 +0100

Crónicast 035, Vitor Joaquim, 23'31", 43.6MB

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

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Crónicast 034, The Sound of eBay

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:16:09 +0100

Crónicast 034, The Sound of eBay, 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!

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Crónicast 033, A Mix for Framework by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:14:06 +0100

Crónicast 033, A Mix for Framework by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, 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”

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Crónicast 032, "Abibes" by Enrico Coniglio

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:37:29 +0100

Crónicast 032, "Abibes" by Enrico Coniglio, 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.

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Crónicast 031, "Orla" by Carlos Santos

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:03:10 +0100

Crónicast 031, "Orla" by Carlos Santos, 28'07", 32.2MB

This audio piece is a full recording of a 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.

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Crónicast 030, Pure

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:09:03 +0100

Crónicast 030, Pure, 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.

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Crónicast 029, Steinbrüchel

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:43:52 +0100

Crónicast 029, Steinbrüchel, 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.

Crónicast 028, Pedro Tudela & Pedro Almeida

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:51:00 +0100

Crónicast 028, Pedro Tudela and Pedro Almeida, 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.

Crónicast 027, The Beautiful Schizophonic

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:23:44 +0100

Crónicast 027, The Beautiful Schizophonic, 24'12", 27.7MB

Crónicast 027 features The Beautiful Schizophonic performing live in Passos Manuel, Porto.

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 wich we travel, while admiring their uniqueness. This is The Beautiful Schizophonic, performing live for the first time live in Portugal.

This performance was recorded December 12, 2007, at Passos Manuel, Porto. Thank you, and good night.

Crónicast 026, Tam

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:55:50 +0000

Crónicast 026, Tam, 15'11", 17.4MB

Crónicast 026 features Tam performing live in Passos Manuel, Porto.

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 12, 2007.

Crónicast 025, Aki Onda, Gert-Jan Prins & @c

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:28:38 +0000

Crónicast 025, Aki Onda, Gert-Jan Prins & @c, 34'54", 66.4MB

Crónicast 025 features @c, Gert-Jan Prins and Aki Onda in the second of three Crónica-curated performances in the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival, at the ICA in London.

The Crónicaster presents regular digital releases of Crónica related pieces: radio broadcasts, live performances, special remixes, and everything else we can get our hands into. Check back often because we will update the section regularly and *there will be no backups* — as server space is limited, whenever any new file is uploaded, the previous will be deleted.

Crónicaster is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Crónicast 024, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Gintas K & Pal

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:06:53 +0000

Crónicast 024, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Gintas K & Pal, 46'44", 42.8MB

A good start to 2008!

We're expecting quite a year at Crónica, with new releases by @c, Gilles Aubry, Mosaique, Tu M', Cem Güney, Pure and Gintas K. A new compilation is being prepared to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the label, and a fine selection of podcasts are ready to be delivered in the meantime.

Crónicast 024 features The Beautiful Schizophonic, Gintas K and Pal in the first of three Crónica-curated performances in the 2007 Atlantic Waves festival, at the ICA in London.

The Crónicaster presents regular digital releases of Crónica related pieces: radio broadcasts, live performances, special remixes, and everything else we can get our hands into. Check back often because we will update the section regularly and *there will be no backups* — as server space is limited, whenever any new file is uploaded, the previous will be deleted.

Crónicaster is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.