News

check it out

Also the release appears in modisti

07/01 PORTO – BREYNER 85 (c/ Myûto)
Rua do Breyner, 85 – 23:30 | 5€

10/01 VIGO – ALG-A LAB
Camiño da Igrexa, n254. Barrocas, Valadares 18:30 | free entry

12/01 A CORUÑA – CASA DAS ATOCHAS
Rua Atocha Alta 14 (Montealto) 21:00 | 3€

13/01 FERROL – ATENEO FERROLÁN
Rúa Magdalena 202-204 20:30 | 3€

****************************

Ángel Faraldo (ES, 1980) is a musician concerned with improvisation, digital instrument design and composition. He studied Classical Guitar at the Royal Conservatoire of Madrid and holds a Master’s Degree in Sonology (Royal Conservatoire, The Hague). As an improviser, he usually plays his computer-based instrument MISS. He has performed and worked throughout Europe, with improvisers such as Günter Heinz or Mike Majkowski, and collaborated with ensembles such as Orquesta FOCO or GIV. His most recent projects embrace the electroacoustic duet with Yolanda Uriz YUAF (release available at larraskito netlabel), the quartet Majkowski/Altman/Uriz/Faraldo, The Royal Improvisers Orchestra (NL) as well as extensive solo playing with MISS. His most recent compositions include the interactive sound-installation diario de Cualquiera (2006-2007) and Apropiación (2006), for two computer- -processed narrators, pre-recorded music and choir. His tape piece Talla (2005) was selected in the first Radio Art Context “En el aire”, organized by Hablar en Arte (Madrid). Currently he is designing a project with the POW ensemble (NL). MISS is a computer-based musical instrument which represents an attempt at integrating certain compositional rules within improvisational contexts. Basically, the course of playing with it is the course of developing a composition in which the gestures of the performer are interpreted to simultaneously shape the timbre, envelopes, sequences and structure ofthe intervention.

www.angelfaraldo.info

ZLB, debuted in 2007 with the shoegaze flavored and minimalism inspired “Through the eyes of a dream”. More recently he has been flowing into ambient and drone delicate tapestries, weaved with the objective of slowly making your soul wonder into other worlds, at the same time strange and familiar. His latest album, “I was vaguely aware of something” is “of a meditative nature with psychedelic undertones, a gentle calmness sometimes shadowed by the threat of anxiety, of being launched outwards”. ZLB is currently working on a massive simulated spatial string system, which will spit out a densely packed spectrum of all your favorite frequencies, and then, many more too. Slow delicate evolution of sometimes calming, other times unsettling drones is still the plat du’jour.

www.myspace.com/zelub
www.friendlyvirus.org/artists/zlb/

Under the moniker of timitiminono, David Félix conjures up a series of soundtracks for imaginary zombie movies set in Lassie America, where little boys fall down deep dark wells and the skies are heavy with the constant menace of storm. timitiminono has been exploring the concept of plunderphonics as applied to acousmatics, by transforming sounds plundered from his environment, electronics, city, radio, pets, etc. into objects with their own very personal aural identity, confusing loops with drones, samples with synthesis, and creating a music that is simultaneously meditative and emotional. David Félix started this project with no academic musical background, before he discovered the Pythagorean monochord, John Oswald, or the Indian tambura. He has released “microexorcism” (Cryoworks, 2008) and “red” (Friendly Virus, 2009), as well as contributing tracks to the Friendly Virus compilation “Everything is missed” (2008) and “Shhhh…”, a radio piece by austrian experimental composer Bruno Pisek (on Kunstradio, 2009). His solo live performances include the first edition of Festival Rescaldo (Lisbon, 2007), experimental venue Klub Moozak (Vienna, 2008) and both editions of Festival Falhado (Lisbon, 2008 and 2009). David Félix is co- -founder and an active collaborator of the Friendly Virus collective.

www.myspace.com/timitiminono

Myūto is a project of musician Filipe Lopes (born in 1981, in Porto). In 2003 he graduated in Music Education and in 2007 he graduated in Composition. In 2006 we was awarded best experimental audio at the Festival Black&White (pt) and in 2007 he was a resident composer at Miso Music Portugal (LEC – pt). In 2009 he finished his Master’s Degree at the Institute of Sonology, working with Paul Berg, Joel Ryan, Kees Tazellar among others. Since 2007, he belongs to FactorE, the resident educational ensemble in the Educational Services at Casa da Música, in Porto. Also, since the year 2009 he his a teacher of electronic music at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, in Porto.

www.filipelopes.net

Flyer in pdf format

Breyner 85 – pictures

Getting close to Christmas, this seems like a nice time to be generous and contribute with out little gift, another release from Friendly Virus. We are excited to expand our Friendly Virus universe to another country of  the asian continent, this time Korea.

Enfolding Plane is the debut album from korean artist Ji Youn Kang, currently living in Den Haag:

The pieces that make up this album were created from my deep affection to Korean ritual music, and at the same time from many attempts to ‘re-present’ the musical drama with spatial movements and structures of sounds or their constructions.

The title ‘Enfolding Plane,’ the title of one of the pieces, refers to the developing polyphony of both musical and spatial structures. All pieces were composed for the Wave Field Synthesis (192 loudspeakers) located in the Scheltema Complex in Leiden, Netherlands, and re-arranged for Quadraphonic/Stereo system for the album.

This October the 10th, Friendly Virus brings  legendary japanese noise artist KK Null to Porto, Portugal, as part of the line-up of the TRAMA performance art festival, with the precious support of the Fundação Serralves. Check out TRAMA’s site here, including the excellent programme and more info and details.

More links:

TRAMA

Fundação Serralves

KK Null myspace

KK Null official site

Our last release for this summer is “I miss you” by spanish musician Ángel Faraldo.

“I Miss You” provides an experience of elegant electronic textures. Digital sounds resulting from the interaction between the individual and the machine. Instants, emotions and impulses transformed into music through the common language of mathematics and the craft of digital instrument design.

After his first release with Yolanda Uriz and a wide experience improvising with a number of musicians, Ángel Faraldo presents “I miss you”, his first solo work with his computer-based environment for musical free improvisation MISS.

Alejandro Durán Barreiro

Expanding our little label into Japan we present our latest release by Nobuto Suda:

The oldest tradition of tying a can to each edge of a long thin wire has been lost in this day and age. And yet, using guitar and a number of effects, Nobuto Suda seems to communicate with us using such a medium, the sounds travelling a great distance through the wire, adding up the resonances and echoes of its surroundings. “zUnya” is what you hear at your end of the thin wire, delicate frequencies and slices of feedback and wandering tones, scaffolding into a sense of timelessness.

The oldest tradition of tying a can to each edge of a long thin wire has been lost in this day and age. And yet, using guitar and a number of effects, Nobuto Suda seems to communicate with us using such a medium, the sounds travelling a great distance through the wire, adding up the resonances and echoes of its surroundings. “zUnya” is what you hear at your end of the thin wire, delicate frequencies and slices of feedback and wandering tones, scaffolding into a sense of timelessness.Te oldest tradition of tying a can to each edge of a long thin wire has

been lost in this day and age. And yet, using guitar and a number of

effects, Nobuto Suda seems to communicate with us using such a medium, the

sounds travelling a great distance through the wire, adding up the

resonances and echoes of its surroundings. “zUnya” is what you hear at your

end of the thin wire, delicate frequencies and slices of feedback and

wandering tones, scaffolding into a sense of timelessness.

We are glad to anounce our 6th release by american artist, Sublamp.

Using nothing but a nintendo ds, american artist sublamp blends equal parts

science fiction and science textbook to give us an unclassifiable music that

feels old and wrinkled yet sharp and wizened. “Ghost theories” produces warm

and slightly alarming strength from its deep tones and haunted melodies,

which are sometimes framed in, even consumed by, mossy and thriving

crackles, beautiful in their imperfection.

Using nothing but a nintendo ds, american artist sublamp blends equal parts science fiction and science textbook to give us an unclassifiable music that feels old and wrinkled yet sharp and wizened. “Ghost theories” produces warm and slightly alarming strength from its deep tones and haunted melodies, which are sometimes framed in, even consumed by, mossy and thriving crackles, beautiful in their imperfection.

some pictures from the festival: