novidades nas netlabels nacionais

«Peter Memmer is originally from Germany and is a former classical dancer who used to live in Portugal until very recently - the cover photo was taken by Peter at a typical portuguese Carnival festivity at Loulé - before moving again to another european country, Spain, if I'm not mistaken. Musically, one could easily think of Peter's work like something between Manitoba/Caribou and Kieran Hebden's Four Tet: Contemporary electronic pop with traces of pop-rock from last century. On the other hand, Eye also touches fringes of good old experimental territory, and even some electroacoustics too, churning out some nice drones and minimal textures somewhere along the middle part of 'Plays'. But the keyword here is 'Pop' without a shadow of a doubt. Excellent release!»
- Pedro Leitão



in http://www.monocromatica.com/netlabel/releases/tube105.htm


TatsuMaki e NrV são produtores musicais, e de ruído, há longos anos. Pioneiro da cena industrial portuguesa, TatsuMaki é um dos mais importantes artistas do panorama industrial em Portugal e tem ligações ao mundo da música que remontam aos anos 80. NrV, que começou em obscuras bandas de hardcore, há bastante tempo que se interessou pela música electrónica e já editou pela MiMi Records, com o seu projecto Post-Mortem Reflex.

Juntos, TatsuMaki e NrV têm vindo a misturar drum’n’bass, industrial, psicadelismos electrónicos e tudo o que lhes passe pela cabeça nos VortexSoundTech.

“Terrorize the Old Man”, uma peça com 19’56’’, parece ter sido improvisada por estes dois músicos numa longa e sombria noite na sua cidade, Braga, uma cidade conhecida pelo seu sufocante ambiente religioso, mas também pela perigosa, e por vezes escandalosa, criatividade musical de alguns dos seus habitantes.

“Terrorize the Old Man” é uma longa viagem a locais onde provavelmente o ouvinte se sentirá inseguro e desconfortável. Padrões rítmicos obsessivos, percussões pesadas e vagas de sons vão e vêem conduzindo o ouvinte às profundezas de territórios desconhecidos onde a electrónica impera.

Seja o que for, esta não é seguramente música que se ouça facilmente, mas assim que nos deixarmos envolver por estes sons, eles tornar-se-ão viciantes e o regresso será inevitável.
- João M. Gonçalves




in http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/pt/album86.php

programação zdb janeiro

Jan 11 2008 11:00P
Colectivo Páscoa (PT) + Projecto Almagreira (PT) Lisbon
Jan 12 2008 11:00P
Deolinda (PT) Lisbon
Jan 18 2008 11:00P
Jozef van Wissem (NL) Lisbon
Jan 19 2008 11:00P
Bypass (PT) + All Star Project (PT) Lisbon
Jan 25 2008 11:00P
Dead Combo (PT) Lisbon
Jan 26 2008 11:00P
If Lucy Fell (PT) // convidados: Dead Combo (PT) Lisbon

necrostilet entre os melhores de 2007 na trompa

o projecto necrostilet de tiago morgado, e marco ramos, ficou cotado em 143º lugar no top dos melhores da trompa de 2007, cinco lugares acima, do artista audio-visual hugo paquete, com quem deram o seu primeiro concerto no censura prévia em braga.. os necrostilet agradecem a quem teve em conta o seu primeiro ep como uma das melhores realeases de 2007 e prometem, voltar a carga com um álbum em 2008, que represente um salto técnico e qualitativo do ponto de vista estético em relação aos seus eps antecessores from utero to space e trimegistus

peixe:avião em destaque no blogue a trompa

a banda bracarense peixe:avião teve, recentemente destaque pela sua primeira maqueta, que foi considerada como uma das melhores de 2007, no mesmo blogue

balanço do concerto de mécanosphèrre em braga @ teatro circo 21/12/07

Ontém, dia 21 de Dezembro de 2007, teve lugar no teatro circo, um concerto do projecto intercontinental (neste caso só com elementos franco-portugueses), Mécanosphére. O concerto teve lugar no pequeno auditório, tendo sido protagonizado pela figura controversa de Adolfo Luxúria Canibal Vocalista dos Mão Morta, acompanhado pelas linhas de electrónica e música concreta de Jonathan Hhy (membro fundador), pela bateria de Gustavo costa (musico convidado, figura de rosto da let's go to war e membro de projectos como children for breakfast, most people have been trained to be bored, lost gorbachevs, stealing orchestra, motornoise, genocide, etc - colaborou ja com john zorn no ensamble português cobra) e de Benjamin Brejon (membro fundador, detém também um papel relevante ao nivel da componente de electronica do projecto), e finalmente henrique fernandes (lost gorbachevs, stealing orchestra, Arzach, Oddawn, tendo já colaborado com John Zorn, Damo Suzuki, Três Tristes Tigres).
O concerto seguiu a estética a que o grupo já nos habituou um género de música de fusão, num contexto pós-surrealista, de certa maneira dadaísta e cyber-punk, num cenário algo conceptual, tendo o concerto tido uma certa componente cénica por parte de adolfo luxúria canibal, que ia introduzindo uma imagem de decadência da raça humana, da loucura no processo criativo e existencial, tudo num cenário pós-apocalíptico. Já no tocante à componente musical as músicas apresentavam praticamente todas a mesma forma e direcção, com uma tendência para cescer para um momento de climax, seguido de um decair constante.
Regra geral, um bom concerto. Ficamos a aguardar o próximo álbum da banda a editar em 2008


Na imagem: Jonathan Hhy, Benjamin Brejon

novidades na test tube

«As you struggle to stop your thoughts, you can still hear the conversation of some neurons. Sometimes they sound like little pieces of metal sliding over a self-constructed organism, or granular rings that create ephemeral vibrations. In any case, they lead you into a psychic silence where you are able to listen to a higher consciousness. The enlightenment and awakening of your being brings you the true nature of creation. As you listen, you can create a new world formed of legendary islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, pleasantly sink into deep waters, or embrace your own neurological research. Once you find yourself floating, “Satori in Atlantis” allows this experience to last longer and create new beginnings to deeply understand the world you imagined. With this insightful sonic production, you are able to associate and assemble the wisdom of eastern philosophies and quantum mechanics. Allen’s creations succeed in becoming a source of energy.
Satori can be found in every moment of life, it is wrapped in all daily activities, its goal to unwrap them to see and hear satori. Be ready to submerge into a very profound view of the unified field. Be ready to journey into deeper levels of intelligence in nature and establish a dialog with your “self.”»
- Sebastian Alvarez

in http://testtube.monocromatica.com/releases/tube104.htm

orka veer assina pela feudal records

o músico norte-americano natural de michigan orka veer (aka michael samuel mc carthy) acaba de assinar pela feudal records, uma editora de indie norte americana, como vista à edição em suporte físico do seu album sam's solutios. O disco explora o trip-hop com influências de indie, estando prevista uma edição remasterizada do mesmo para 2008

existe uma nova editora portuense chamada schizzofrenik records podem visitar o site da mesma em http://www.schizzofrenik.com/

a trompa com nova casa

o blog a trompa conta com uma nova página em http://a-trompa.net/
todos os posts previamente publicados encontram-se disponível nesta versão daquele que é considerado por muitos como um dos pincipais blogs de música portuguesa

in http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/12/12/all-handmade-mister-resistor-music-ensemble-live-in-nyc-sunday/#more-2756

All-Handmade Mister Resistor Music Ensemble, Live in NYC Sunday
By Peter Kirn
Related: CDM, circuit bending, DIY, Electronics, ensembles, etsy, events, handmade music, handmademusic, hardware, make, NYC, oddities, software, tutorials & more
Tired of conventional instrumentation? How about toy robots named Freddy and Teddy, a violin with a bow made out of cassette tape, and a synthesizer assembled from a 1960s electric guessing game?

We have a special guest performance for the next Handmade Music party, organized by CDM in New York with Etsy.com and Make Magazine. The Mister Resistor ensemble features various musical oddities — electronic and acoustic — created by students at Parsons The New School for Design.


Mister Resistor - the video from ranjit on Vimeo.


Mister Resistor Preview 1 from ranjit on Vimeo.

The course is taught by Ranjit Bhatnagar, who’s been a regular at Handmade Music with robotic Theremins, MIDI ironing boards, and other alternative instruments. Ranjit explains how the course works:

Background: for the last few years I’ve been teaching a studio class in Parsons’ department of Design & Technology (that’s the multimedia & physical computing department). The class is called Mister Resistor, and it’s about making homemade instruments and performing with them. I introduce the students to circuit bending, simple acoustics, synthesis, and the like, and get them making and playing their own instruments. The “final exam” for the class is a public concert. Last year’s class did their concert at the Flux Factory gallery in Queens, in the midst of a giant sound sculpture I’d worked on.

I know we have other instructors out there, so if you use similar techniques in your class (or would like to), let us know about it!

I’ll be flying all the way from Australia back to New York to co-host Mister Resistor on Sunday at another installment of Handmade Music. Various other reasons this one is special:

I’ll be hosting a free workshop using a ribbon controller electronics kit from PAiA Corporation. Even the kits are free to makers, until we run out. (More on that kit and how to get it wherever you are soon.) You can do the whole thing without soldering, even if you’ve never done this before.
We’ll have free beverages, supplied by Function Drinks.
It’s in Manhattan, not in Brooklyn — our friends at Etsy Labs hooked up a fantastic space in SoHo called openhousegallery, 201 Mulberry Street near Spring Street.
It’s in the afternoon (2-5p), rather than at night. And you can still catch the NYU ITP show Monday. (Just go; you’ll understand.)
As always, if you’re in town, stop by and bring your own projects for show and tell if you like. (Hint: they don’t even have to function properly. We’re relaxed like that.)
Once again, that’s Sunday, 12/16, 201 Mulberry Street in SoHo, completely free, you’ll hear great music, and you’ll learn to make electronics without soldering even if you never have before.

Invite and ensemble details + music, misterresistor.com
Handmade Music Event on Facebook

Speaking of events, there’s been so much awesomeness and I’ve been so very much in Australia that I’ve gotten way behind, so apologies about some cool events I didn’t get up. I would be remiss, though, in not pointing to another ensemble, partly because you can go while I’m in a 747 over the Pacific, but mostly because I hope by second semester we’ll have massive battle of the band competitions between these things. NYU’s own NIME ensemble after the jump.

Oh, and to the 95% of readers not in New York, a calendar for CDMworld is definitely in the works so we can share the love.

From our friend the insanely busy Jamie Allen:

NIME @ Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY
In collaboration with R. Luke DuBois’ ‘Algorithmic Composition’

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Performances 8PM-11PM
Installations begin at 7PM

NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression.
NIME: creating new performance tools for digital music.
NIME: a graduate course at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

In the sixth annual NIME end-of-semester performance, students will perform on a series of newly designed electronic instruments that aim to keep the “live” in live performance of digital music. The NIME performances are presented by ITP instructors Jamie Allen and Gideon D’Arcangelo. ITP students from R. Luke DuBois’ “Algorithmic Composition” class will present installations and performances as part of the evening’s proceedings.

Computer music is usually played with a keyboard and mouse. Laptop musicians often sit at a desk and give performances that are little more than watching someone engage in “office gestures.” The idea behind NIME is to go beyond the mouse and keyboard, beyond even piano keyboards and drum pads, and develop performance tools that make the most out of the new opportunities that digital music offers.

NIME students answer questions like:
- “What will the next generation of musical instruments look like?”
- “What will they be able to do that traditional instruments can’t already do?”
- “What aspects of traditional instruments will we want to retain in digital instruments?”"

Over the course of this year’s 14-week course, students are developing projects such as an musical weaving loom, a instrument made of speakers that feed back and make glorious noise, an augmented rocking chair, a musical abacus and a host of others.

NIME at ITP
http://itp.nyu.edu/nime
Jamie Allen 347-563-5941, jamie@nyu.edu
Gideon D’Arcangelo 917-750-6950, gideon@nyu.edu

ITP
http://itp.nyu.edu
George Agudow 212-998-1891, george.agudow@nyu.edu

EXIT ART
475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street)
New York, NY 10018
(212) 966-7745
info@exitart.org
http://www.exitart.org


Mister Resistor - the video from ranjit on Vimeo.