This album has a keen tendency to have a touch of the dramatic about it, as if the music once acted as the soundtrack to […]
Tag: Musique Concrète
Francisco López :: Untitled#281 (Störung)
‘Field recordings are typically viewed and listened to as referential or simulative. My approach with environmental sound matter moves away from this representational perspective and […]
Nicolas Bernier :: frequencies (a / fragments) (Line)
Bernier combines sounds from mechanically triggered tuning forks with digital soundwaves, using a micro-controller to trigger sequences via software, activating solenoids that hit rows of […]
Ákos Garai :: The Imagined River (Kaon)
Evoking the fog of ghosts hovering over the pale grey fields of asphodel, the realm of dreams. With its nineteenth recording, “La Rivière” keeps on […]
Philippe Petit :: Needles in Pain (Alrealon Musique)
Needles in Pain is a “symphony” for three turntables and an extra tone arm recorded in real time at the 2009 FIME festival in Portugal. Petit […]
Mark O’Leary & Erdem Helvacioğlu :: Istanbul (TIBprod. Italy)
A discreet, but colorful whole, a stream of consciousness both as concrete as a cobblestone and light as a breeze off the saline sea. If […]
Kassel Jaeger :: Deltas (Editions Mego)
A new rider on its aftershock wave, navigating borders between concrète-fabricated retro-fit experimentalism and newer ambient noise and electroacoustic improv, this Swiss pitch-shifter nicks shticks from […]
Kreng :: Works For Abattoir Fermé 2007 – 2011 (Miasmah)
As we approach the end of 2012 it’s time for all those lovely independent record labels to indulge in fierce session of one-upmanship, pulling out […]