Crónicast 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.

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Crónicast 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.

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Crónicast 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.

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Crónicast 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.

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Crónicast 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.

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Crónicast 044, "On the Concept of History" (An Introduction / 2008 Top 16)

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.

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Tracklist:

1. Telephone Effect #1

2. Kelly Harrell

3. Blind Willie Johnson

4. Biddleville Quintette

5. Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist)

6. Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean-des-Matine

7. Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds

8. Steam Shovel In Operation

9. Prof. Erwin Brodky, clavichord

10. The English Singers

11. Norfolk Jubilee Quartette

12. Woody Guthrie

13. Frank Ferera and John Paaluhi

14. DeZurik Sisters

15. Telephone Effect #6

16. Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers

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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, 9'50", 22.6MB

Recorded live in Muenster, 29 November 2008.

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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, 38'46", 53.3MB

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

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