[xs-65] DNP X-Citer - algorrithmic chaos

artist: DNP X-Citer
album: algorrithmic chaos

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release date: 25/08/2009
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When Tiago Morgado idealized Algorrithmic Chaos for his DNP X-Citer alter ego he thought of a way to break, in a certain way, with the IDM tradition, following some of the guidelines defined by Scanner the german musician (in the sense of not confining IDM to reductionist formulas). The background for this DNP X-Citer ep is Tiago's influences and reverence to artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre (warp records), Alva Noto, Ryochi Ikeda and Byetone (raster noton) but also Nine Inch Nails and his approach to industrial rock that Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and etc... brought to music. All this influences can be identified in the electronic part of the DNP X-Citer ep which serves as the basis for an improvised "free/structured" with alto viola. Again in this improvisation several references can be found, such as, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sunders, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, among others.

The electronic part of the ep was worked with the use of algorithmic composition techniques, where instruments in the DAW (digital audio workstation/sequenciador) were triggered by MIDI, according to simple theoretical and systematized assumptions from the AC Toolbox (designed by Paul Berg from the Sound Institute of Haia). tiago morgado as been working with these tool because he believes that it can be helpful in his work with algorithmic composition.

Algorrithmic Chaos is a technical work, without an a priori conceptual background, but when Tiago Morgado analyzed it a posteriori an organized chaos appeared. And based on that, using contemplation maybe you the listener can identify a theme for this ep.

[xs-63] subterminal - filled with light

With eyes wide open.
Like in a reawakening. A strange awake that repeats itself every night; every passing day, or so it seems. Like a virtual experience; or maybe not. Maybe it is just a normal but scary awakening. ... "Filled With Light".

"Filled With Light" awakens us in two different ways. The first, because it is only an EP which is part of an album yet to be released; the second, because in that album, poetry, a core element always present in Subterminal's work, makes an eulogy to digital life. "Filled With Light" is like a trailer of a full movie that we anticipate; a summary with a beginning middle and end. For now, the awakening is what matters most and "Filled With Light" awakes; awakes us.

In that slow awake, "With You" introduces us to the theme, to the electronic principle that conducts the EP. However, "Filled With Light" is the track that captures our attention; because of the movement; the layers of sound; the excellent alto viola played by Tiago Morgado. There is a slight techno-industrial mood coloring Leonardo Rosado's words, the man behind Subterminal. At last, "For the First Time" definitely introduces us to what's coming. A confrontation with a different reality; or, an almost-reality. "For the First Time" introduces us to a confrontation between poetry and technology, created by dense sound ambiences, images, differing in rhythm and form. They are different lines of the same life; parallel or perpendicular. The exhaustion of conflict.

"Filled With Light" was composed and played almost entirely with an iPhone, with some extra sounds from other objects. After "Alumina" and "Insight", released in 2009, the reawakening of Subterminal is of happiness. "Filled With Light" is a great step forward when comparing with prior releases, which leads to the expectation of a very interesting conceptual album. Coupled with the refinement of his personal electronic universe, the author added a better voice treatment. The production of the EP was made by Tiago Morgado.

... to keep the eyes wide open.

Press Review by Rui Dinis, A Trompa


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release date: 03/08/2009

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release de subterminal (aka leonardo rosado) na clinical archives

Venho por este meio anunciar a release de subterminal (aka leonardo rosado), na clinical archives, na qual tive o prazer de colaborar no tema frozen tide, a tocar viola d'arco. intitulada insight, trata-se de uma reflexão sobre o paradoxo da causa-efeito. Trata-se de um álbum assumidamente trip-hop com influências de toda uma série de músicos e projectos maioratariamente alemães, de trip hop, idm, dark ambient, industrial e spoken word, de destacar agf, exurban, adamned.age, die minimalistn, einsturzende neubauten, coil, swans, alva noto, throbbing gristle, etc.

Segue abaixo a press review e o material que está no blog da clinical:

Artist: Subterminal
Title: Insight
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Date: 2009-05-08
Keywords: electronica; avant-garde; cinematic; poetic; other
Tracklist:
01 - Youth Without Youth - 8:23 (320 kbps
02 - Let There Be Light - 5:14 (320 kbps)
03 - Frozen Tide - 6:26 (320 kbps)
04 - Detuned Buzz - 5:55 (320 kbps)

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The premise of the album Insight comes from a possible definition of INSIGHT - An insight is the derivation of a rule which links cause with effect. The mind is a model of the universe built up from insights. - Based on this, Insight was composed using a random process of forward expansion of musical structures, establishing an equilibrium state and jumping to new territory, a different direction than the previous one, leading to insights on different musical styles. It starts with an approach to ambiance, changes to nujazz structures, continues the journey through contemporary music (with the help of Tiago Morgado playing Alto Viola in Track 3) and finishes with an approach to trip hop. The message delivered by the album, the explosion of communication technologies and their reflection on the way we interact with each other, the insights allowed by science and its contradictions.

Suterminal is the expression of one person with its main focus on exploring the collision between soundscapes and poetry, using automatic expression based on science - WORDSOUNDSCAPES. The automata is used on the construction of words/poems and sounds/music that jointly deliver messages to the society towards activities of REFLECTION. Words and sounds have different meanings, depending on its listener, but only if he/she takes sometime to dwelve in the complexity of him/herself stimulated.

Contact:
http://sbtrmnl.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/sbtrmnl

4 releases novas na xs.records.pt netlabel

Venho por este meio apresentar as 4 novas releases da xs records, as duas primeiras de projectos estrangeiros, que conheci através de blogs, de outras netlabels, foruns, e do myspace, as as restantes, da minha autoria (duas gravações que remontam já para algum tempo atrás), mas que são representativas de uma nova etapa creativa da minha parte que está agora a começar e que deverá culminar com a edição de um projecto meu de maiores dimensões... a ver vamos...

Obrigado por ouvirem
tiago morgado xs.records.pt.netlabel

PS: ha algumas pequenas lacunas no upload dos ficheiros para os servidores do archive, que deverão ser solucionadas assim que possivel

Today we have a spoken word lp to present to all of you guys... it's called vital error and it's the last aparition of pangea, a friend of ours callled juan arroyo (he has previously released some stuff in test tube), and which features the colab of kenji siratori, a japanese cyber punk poet well known in the web and which has featured colaborations in my project uncle bart comes to have breakfast.

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Recorded on my balcony one summer afternoon while watching a particularly vicious storm lash the coastline, literally destroying everything in its wake, then slowly going out to sea. this is how it felt to be there, the air thick with electricity and a sinister atmosphere of profound unease...
this record is playable at any speed.
http://www.myspace.com/natautomata

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Songs for someone é como que um tardio iniciar de uma nova etapa e como que um preparar de uma novo ciclo de releases (e quem sabe, até projectos) por parte de Tiago Morgado, mentor da netlabel XS Records [portuguese netlabel].

Songs for someone faz-se então adivinhar como que um abrir de novos caminhos no sentido de uma espiritualidade vivida essencialmente através da música, e que encerra tudo aquilo que faz com que o autor do mesmo sinta a existência de uma razão para continuar a fazer música. Uma espécie de mistica onde a angústia, a paixão, o sofrimento, o amor, o equilibrio se encerram numa vivência espiritual conduzida através da música.

Trata-se portanto de uma maneira de transmitir através do seu instrumento com recurso a processamento (pedais e racks direccionados essencialmente para o processamento de guitarra electrica), aquilo que sente em relação a alguém ou algo, em relação ao tudo ou nada, caminhando num sentido de abraçar uma linguagem que cruza em alguns momentos o minimalismo presente na musica de compositores como Steve Reich ou Philip Glass, a uma quase sugestão de tratamento micropolifónico, tão típico da música de Brian Eno.

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Universal compassion is one more registry of the solo project of Tiago Morgado, this time with two small experiments in the style of christian fennesz (some sort of shoegaze noise, where piano drones, are processed over the time).

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Novas releases na xs records

[xs 26] Cláudio Moreira Showcase @ fnac bragaparque 2-6-08

Steping aside presentations to those ones that have someway been inside the work of the netlabel, claudio moreira presents himsfelf in this new recording registry this time, in a small showcase in the braga's fnac, a small city in the north of Portugal
With an aesthetic aproach completely avant gard and influences which come from Boulez to Stockhausen to John Cage and so on, Claudio Moreira (horn compostion and radios) presents himself in this registry together with virigilio oliveira (basson and radios), with who performs his own works, and tiago morgado which joins them to make an intercourse between works of tiago morgado as a composer and improviser adn to the aesthetic of the instrumental writting of claudio moreira.
Even minding that it's a small work, it allows us to have a more clear wider and more concret and precise vision of the work of claudio moreira while composer and performer and eventually to reveal a future and promiser member of the next generation of portuguese musicians and composers.




[xs 25] La Stanza Bianca-Cristina Bardo Thodol

this fine band brings another great release to our netlabel where we can listen to some sort of intercourse between free improv and progressive/post-rock, resulting in an astonishing musical stuff


[xs 24] algo - there will never be another you

AL has found GO in a universe far away from here, l. where sun would come. AL was listening to Rihm and Shnittke and GO was listening to Alvo Noto and Murcof. It was love and hate at first sight. From this first and unique encounter there have gotten to the history this 11 digits, in shape of sound. For some people incompreensible, for other ones weird. For them, just ALGO.

News on xs records

[xs-14] Tiago Morgado - Playing to GhostsYou are in the middle of nothing.you are surrounded by the darkness and the emptiness of your mind, surrounded by ghosts. your ghosts, not the ghosts of anyone else. you want to run, but you cannot hidde from yourself. and then, at the end of a tunel, you see yourself highlighted with a piano, in the middle of a theatre. you want to play, but you cannot because there is not anyone to listen to you. only your ghosts are sitted in the middle of the audience. then, when the concert ends up, you wake up. you see that you were not sleeping. and then you want to continue with your routine, but you are not able to because you feel empty and tired of living and bleeding the dreams of someday.

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About the [xs-09] Minson Hidden Monster EP release
We’re glad to anounce that the minson Hidden Monsters EP, released in March, is finally available for listening. here we have a text present on the cover which induces us in the mtihologycal theme of the album.

“Beneath us was nothing now to be seen but a black tempest, till looking east between the clouds & the waves, we saw a cataract of blood mixed with fire and not many stones throw from us appeard and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstruous serpent: at last to the east, distant about three degrees appeard a fiery crest above the waves slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks till we discoverd two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of smoke, and now we saw, it was the head of Leviathan, his forehead was divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tygers forehead: soon we saw his mouth & red gills hang just above the raging foam tinging the black deep with beams of blood, advancing toward us with all the fury of a spiritual existence.”
BLAKE, William, The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell

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