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Crónicast 108, Pure

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:34:56 +0100

Crónicast 108, “Blind Flight” live at Ultrahang Festival, Budapest
12'54", 31MB

“Blind Flight”, from “Ification” recorded live in Budapest 22.3.2007

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 107, Cem Güney + Ephraim Wegner

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:44:45 +0000

Crónicast 107, “How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” by Cem Güney + Ephraim Wegner
27'24", 65.8MB

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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Crónicast 106, Piotr Cisak

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:18:44 +0000

Crónicast 106, Piotr Cisak
29'08", 70.0MB

“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

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Crónicast 105, Raitis Upens

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:33:28 +0000

Crónicast 105, Raitis Upens
18'01", 43.3MB

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.

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Crónicast 104, Hugo Paquete

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:51:07 +0000

Crónicast 104, Hugo Paquete
16'01", 23.1MB

“Dispersive Velocity of the Masses” 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.

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Crónicast 103, Refusenik

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:15:55 +0000

Crónicast 103, Refusenik
33'58", 81.6MB

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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Crónicast 102, Hugo Paquete

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Crónicast 102, Hugo Paquete
16'00", 23.1MB

“Striping Strings and Broken Objects” 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.

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Crónicast 101, Durán Vázquez

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:14:44 +0000

Crónicast 101, Durán Vázquez
47'26", 113.9MB

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.

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Crónicast 100, @c

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:33:33 +0000

Crónicast 100, @c
36'18", 87.1MB

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.

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Crónicast 099, Gintas K

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:59:55 +0100

Crónicast 099, Gintas K
27'07", 65.1MB

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

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Crónicast 098, Phonic Psychomimesis

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:37:26 +0100

Crónicast 098, Phonic Psychomimesis
27'02", 65.1MB

“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.

An uncompressed surround WAV version is also available for download.

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Crónicast 097, Alexandr Vatagin

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:00:41 +0100

Crónicast 097, Alexandr Vatagin
39'37", 95.1MB

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.

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Crónicast 096, Jazznoize

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:23 +0100

Crónicast 096, Jazznoize
18'34", 44.6MB

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.

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Crónicast 095, Tiago Morais Morgado

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:25:16 +0100

Crónicast 095, Tiago Morais Morgado
15'15", 36.7MB

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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Crónicast 094, Micromelancolié

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:09:38 +0100

Crónicast 094, Micromelancolié
34'19", 82.4MB

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

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Crónicast 093, Mosaique

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:53:25 +0100

Crónicast 093, Mosaique
33'16", 79.9MB

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

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Crónicast 092, Manuel Mota

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:50:08 +0100

Crónicast 092, Manuel Mota
16'47", 40.3MB

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

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Crónicast 091, Carlos Santos

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:26:12 +0100

Crónicast 091, Carlos Santos
18'13", 43.7MB

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

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Crónicast 090, Marc Behrens

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:20:16 +0000

Crónicast 090, Marc Behrens
15'15", 36.6MB

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.

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Crónicast 089, Pure

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:46:36 +0000

Crónicast 089, Pure
33'00", 79.3MB

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

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Crónicast 088, Piotr Kurek

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:49:36 +0000

Crónicast 088, Piotr Kurek
29'45", 71.5MB

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.

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Crónicast 087, The Beautiful Schizophonic

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:33:21 +0000

Crónicast 087, The Beautiful Schizophonic
15'57", 38.3MB

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.

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Crónicast 086, Andrea Neumann & Guests

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:30:42 +0000

Crónicast 086, Andrea Neumann & Guests
22'01", 52.9MB

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.

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Crónicast 085, Xesús Valle

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:08:14 +0000

Crónicast 085, Xesús Valle live in Sónar 2011
37'06", 89.1MB

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.

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Crónicast 084, Gintas K

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:01:52 +0100

Crónicast 085, Gintas K
21'07", 50.8MB

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.

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Crónicast 083, Mathias Delplanque

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:26:44 +0100

Crónicast 083, Mathias Delplanque
31'26", 75.5MB

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…).

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Crónicast 082, UN

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:34:38 +0100

Crónicast 082, UN
31'59", 76.8MB

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

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Crónicast 081, Herde Katzen

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:27:01 +0100

Crónicast 081, Herde Katzen
38'03", 91.5MB

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 Herde Katzen used a Portable DAT Recorder with microphone and Digidesign protools for post processing. Recorded between 2001-2002.

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Crónicast 080, Durán Vázquez

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:33:10 +0100

Crónicast 080, Durán Vázquez
17'31", 42.1MB

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

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Crónicast 079, Ennio Mazzon

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:28:22 +0100

Crónicast 079, Ennio Mazzon
26'30", 63.7MB

"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.

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Crónicast 078, SeaBed

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:01:18 +0100

Crónicast 078, SeaBed
5'55", 14.2MB

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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Crónicast 077, .at/on

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 14 May 2011 10:11:43 +0100

Crónicast 077, .at/on
31'16", 61.2MB

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

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Crónicast 076, Arturas Bumšteinas

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:00:28 +0100

Crónicast 076, Arturas Bumšteinas
40'07", 96.3MB

“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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Crónicast 075, Luis Marte

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:33:13 +0100

Crónicast 075, Luis Marte
14'32", 34.9MB

“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.

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Crónicast 074, Emmanuel Mieville

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:35:46 +0000

Crónicast 074, Emmanuel Mieville
33'14", 47.9MB

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.

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Crónicast 073, Michael Delia & Simon Whetham

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:17:58 +0000

Crónicast 073, Michael Delia & Simon Whetham
23'14", 33.5MB

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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Crónicast 072, Enrico Coniglio

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:33:00 +0000

Crónicast 072, Enrico Coniglio
20'26", 29.6MB

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.

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Crónicast 071, Gintas K

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:14:28 +0000

Crónicast 071, Gintas K
28'00", 62.4MB

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

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Crónicast 070, Ranter's Bay

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:36:32 +0000

Crónicast 070, Ranter's Bay
28'52", 41.6MB

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.

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Crónicast 069, MDMME

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:16:28 +0000

Crónicast 069, MDMME
31'29", 45.4MB

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.

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Crónicast 068, Durán Vázquez

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:00:43 +0000

Crónicast 068, Durán Vázquez
23'38", 34.1MB

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.

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Crónicast 067, o.blaat, Ran Slavin, Vitor Joaquim

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:29:50 +0000

Crónicast 067, o.blaat, Ran Slavin, Vitor Joaquim
42'36", 90.2MB

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.

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Crónicast 066, “Innsbruck 6020 der weg” by tamtam

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:12:16 +0100

Crónicast 066, “Innsbruck 6020 der weg” by tamtam
33'16", 48MB

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).

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Crónicast 065, “Linnut” by Eosin

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:02:56 +0100

Crónicast 065, “Linnut” by Eosin
10'58", 26.4MB

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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Crónicast 064, “Bodrum” by Cem Güney

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:39:07 +0100

Crónicast 064, “Bodrum” by Cem Güney
11'27", 27.5MB

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.

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

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:43:36 +0100

Crónicast 063, “Bits, Pieces And So Far Beyond” by Audio_z
35'29", 68.1MB

“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 envolvent 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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Crónicast 062, “Chords” by Loïs Laplace

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:41:07 +0100

Crónicast 062, “Chords” by Loïs Laplace
13'59", 33.6MB

“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.”

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Crónicast 061, “Duel Second” by Bold

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:39:10 +0100

Crónicast 061, “Duel Second” by Bold: Bellavance / Bernier / d'Orion
17'34", 42.2MB

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.

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Crónicast 060, “Hysteresis 1+2” by Cem Güney

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 02 May 2010 10:05:19 +0100

Crónicast 060, “Hysteresis 1+2” by Cem Güney
10'22", 24.9MB

“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.

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Crónicast 059, “Lohberg” by Michael Rüsenberg + Peter Hölscher

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:04:43 +0100

Crónicast 059, “Lohberg” by Michael Rüsenberg & Peter Hölscher
11'56", 123.01MB

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.

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Crónicast 058, “Throw~” by Ephraim Wegner

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:19:32 +0100

Crónicast 058, “Throw~” by Ephraim Wegner
16'26", 37.6MB

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 Freibu

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Crónicast 057, “Futurónica 4” by Miguel Carvalhais

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:07:57 +0000

Crónicast 057, “Futurónica 4” by Miguel Carvalhais
60'00", 144.1MB

“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.

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

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:44:53 +0000

Crónicast 056, “Futurónica 3 — Cool-age” by Pedro Tudela
60'00", 144.1MB

“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.

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Crónicast 055, “Call Center” by Mathias Delplanque

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:26:33 +0000

Crónicast 055, “Call Center” by Mathias Delplanque
30'18", 72.8MB

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.

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Crónicast 054, Mosaique

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:30:41 +0000

Crónicast 054, Mosaique
32'00", 73.4MB

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

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

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:43:45 +0000

Crónicast 053, “Futurónica 2 — Radios and Guitars” by Pedro Almeida
60'00", 144.1MB

“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.

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

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:06:07 +0000

Crónicast 052, “Ruminagem remix” by Miguel Cabral, Carlos Santos & João Silva
28'49", 69.2MB

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.

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Crónicast 051, “Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” by Cruz

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:25:18 +0100

Crónicast 051, “Futurónica 1 — Heard and overheard” by Cruz
60'00", 144.1MB

“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:

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

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

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:13:46 +0100

Crónicast 050, “Safe (Long Stereo Version)” by Pedro Tudela
15'33", 34.3MB

“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.

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Crónicast 049, “Variations (1, 2, 3)” by Skug

editor@cronicaelectronica.org — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:01:16 +0100

Crónicast 049, “Variations (1, 2, 3)” by Skug
20'20", 40.7MB

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.

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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.

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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.