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Miguel A. García and Daniel Simon offer a severe diptych. Although both pieces are constructed similarly on superimposed layers struck here and there by incisive elements, they are quite distinct in character. The second, to become appears intense, grave, as do its sounds. Drift, which opens the diptych, is more brilliant; it’s lighter. But its abrupt ending prepares us for what follows. The duration of both pieces, approximately five minutes each, invites the listener to listen repeatedly. In this sense, I specially recommend listening to drift for the second time right after to become, thus transforming the diptych into a triptych where to become is the central element. As you listen, drift reaches depths strengthened by to become that, in first instance (or at least that is what happened to the undersigned) had nearly passed unnoticed.

Miguel A. García y Daniel Simon nos ofrecen un díptico severo. Pese a que ambas piezas están construidas de modo similar, sobre capas superpuestas atravesadas en ciertos momentos por elementos incisivos, poseen un carácter bien distinto. La segunda, to become aparece intensa, grave, como sus sonidos. drift, que abre el díptico, resulta más brillante, más liviana. Pero su final abrupto nos prepara para lo que sigue. La duración de las dos piezas, en torno a los cinco minutos cada una, invita al oyente a una repetida escucha de las mismas. En este sentido, recomiendo especialmente escuchar drift por segunda vez justo después de to become, convirtiendo el díptico en un tríptico con to become como elemento central. En esa escucha, drift alcanza profundidades potenciadas por to become que, en una primera aproximación (o al menos así le ocurrió al que firma estas líneas) habían pasado casi desapercibidas.

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Album: Drift / To become
Artists: Miguel A. García & Daniel Simon
All tracks Composed and produced by:
Miguel A. García & Daniel Simon. 2012

Text by: Rubén Gutierrez
Artwork by Mario Bastian
Reference: RT_005 hybridaRT_label
Digital label for download.

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We don’t need to think back to the London riots of August 2011 to find ourselves in a Ballardian context. Figures like the Spanish employment minister Fátima Báñez, the president of the Community of Madrid (Spain), Esperanza Aguirre or the magnificent Angela Merkel would have been characters that border on the implausible, and could have even been included in Ballard’s dystopian visions. Thanks to the aggravation and extension of penal consequences in marches, the hardening of the Spanish penal code intends to slow down the likely escalade of civil insurrection provoked by the State’s aggressive economic and social reforms, closing a context that, once again, leads us to the democratic agony and depletion of resources narrated by James G. Ballard. As regards discourse, for Ballard these resources are a search for bridges that will make certain metaphors explicit. Affirming that Miguel A. García and Daniel Simon’s music in drift/to become could have been produced in the catacombs of Ballardian cities presided by cathedral-like shopping centres and immaculate airports, is all the more evident for certain readers who affirm that this music is without a doubt a product of a social context governed by people like Mariano Rajoy or Angela Merkel. But, in any case, that’s the way it is. If you doubt it, I urge you to listen to drift/to become in your car, at night, as you travel with no clear destination down a bypass of any European city.

We do not know, nor de we need to know, the work process followed by Miguel A. García and Daniel Simon. We may suppose that beforehand they agreed, more or less explicitly, on certain guidelines. But whatever the case may be, drift/to become manifests the potentiality of the joint work of this duo. They’re smart these two. They offer us ten fantastic minutes that leave us longing, ever so strongly, for more, much more.

Ni siquiera hace falta remontarnos a las revueltas que tuvieron lugar en Londres en agosto de 2011 para situarnos en un contexto ballardiano. Personajes como la ministra española de empleo Fátima Báñez, la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre o la mágnifica Angela Merkel hubieran sido personajes que rayasen en lo inverosímil, incluso, en las proyecciones distópicas de Ballard. El proceso de endurecimiento del código penal español, que pretende, gracias al agravamiento y extensión de consecuencias penales en manifestaciones, poner freno a la más que probable escalada de insurrección civil provocada por las reformas regresivas en lo económico y en lo social en el Estado español cierra un contexto que, de nuevo, nos lleva a las situaciones de agonía democrática y agotamiento de procesos y recursos narrados por James G. Ballard. El recurso es estas líneas a la figura de Ballard se debe a la búsqueda de puentes que expliciten, en el plano discursivo, ciertas metáforas. La afirmación de que la música de Miguel A. García y Daniel Simon en drift/to become podría ser la música producida en las catacumbas de las ciudades ballardianas, presididas por los catedralicios centros comerciales y los inmaculados aeropuertos, resulta más clara para ciertos lectores que afirmar que esta música es sin duda la propia de un contexto social gobernado por personajes como Mariano Rajoy o Angela Merkel. Pero, en cualquier caso, así es. Si lo dudan, prueben a escuchar drift/to become en su coche, por la noche, recorriendo sin un claro destino alguna carretera de circunvalación de cualquier ciudad europea.

No conocemos, ni falta que nos hace, el proceso de trabajo que emprendieron juntos Miguel A. García yDaniel Simon. Podemos suponer que ciertas pautas fueron acordadas, más o menos explícitamente, de antemano. Pero sea como sea, drift/to become pone de manifiesto la potencialidad del trabajo conjunto de este dúo. Son listos estos dos. Nos ofrecen diez fantásticos minutos que nos dejan con ganas, con muchas ganas, de más.
Written by / Texto escrito por: Rubén Gutierrez.

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Audio Files	Flac	VBR MP3	Ogg Vorbis	WAVE
01 Drift	23.0 MB	7.1 MB	3.0 MB	56.0 MB
02 To become	23.2 MB	5.9 MB	2.8 MB	49.6 MB

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www.panyrosasdiscos.net [pyr40] lali barriere, miguel a. garcía, tomás gris – chamber music

miguela — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:56:22 +0000

pyr040 barriere, garcía, gris – chamber music

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bowed metal. electric hum. squeals and squelches. fractured percussions. is it live? is it electro? low rumbles and fluttering squeaks. droning tones while construction labors away underneath it all. wheels and gears. pulsing menace threatens to break free. voices in the dark. clicks and pops. insects learning. atmospheric radio signals, clouds roll in. ambiguity.

lali barriere, miguel garcía and tomas gris documented this improvised electro-acoustic session in february of 2011. objects were miked, amplified, not miked, not amplified, etc. electronics were used. 17.54 minutes.

recorded live in arphouse, madrid, 11-2-11. edited by miguel a. garcía. mastered by ferran fages & tzesne. drawing by raúl domínguez

music by
lali barriere – objects, miguel a. garcía – electronics, tomas gris – objects

a trio of sound artists, manipulators, mathemeticians, improvisers, etc. lali barriere plays amplified objects, cracklebox, etc. alone and with others. he’s also known to work with pure data and field recordings. soundworker miguel garcía plays in cooloola monster, plays solo, collaborates with numerous and curates festivals. tomas gris tends to experiment with prepared turntables, mixers and contact microphones.

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tomas gris

[Occasion 2011-02] Miguel A. García . Lamb

miguela — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:36:53 +0000

[Occasion 2011-02] Miguel A. García . Lamb
3-track EP
01. Lamb (Stanislav Vdovin Remix) [05:00]
02. Lamb [17:00]
03. Lamb (Stanislav Vdovin Reprise) [04:12]

by Miguel A. García, Stanislav Vdovin
artwork by Raul Dominguez
www.occasionlabel.org

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This weird drawing, non-typical for the label, hides the release «Lamb» by the artist Miguel A. Garcia from the Basque Country. Let’s take a look in the window of some house, being outside and off the ground. What do we see? Human relations as they are. Relations between man and woman.
Miguel A. Garcia is a musician interested in formal sound constructions, in those, which are usually described as electroacoustics. His composition, second on this single, consists of field recordings, analogue noises and sounds of accordion. Built by «On/Off» principle, the track concentrates attention on the events, which are normally not noticed, or which are so usual, that slip «the field of view» of our consciousness. Author himself recommends listening at a very low volume to let enviromental sounds be weaved in structure of composition for additional experience.
Prologue and epilogue of the release (Stanislav Vdovin Remix and Reprise) are more musical and can be interpreted as beginning and ending of relations, when emotional peak is reached, and worlds of two are illusive, trying to understand each other and themselves.
Though, we let the listener draw own parallel and apply this music to own experience. One can be said with confidence: your time won’t be wasted.

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miguela — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:57:53 +0000

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reductive/ debut del sello y primera referencia

daniel del rio — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:48:21 +0000

texturas mínimas y souvenirs sonoros

http://reductivemusic.com

reductive / debut y primera referencia:

red01. I am scratching a cd in a room _ CHOI JOONYONG

I am scratching a cd in a room (reductive 01, 2010, compact disc)

Choi Joonyong : prepared cds

1 track (running time 21:26)

released: autumn 2010

extended info .pdf (spanish)

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Artist’s note:

The process of this recording was done by the following sequence:

record the sound of sinewave -> Part 0

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 0 and scratch the cdr -> Part 0 cdr

record the sound of Part 0 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 1

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 1 and scratch the cdr -> Part 1 cdr

record the sound of Part 1 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 2

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 2 and scratch the cdr -> Part 2 cdr

record the sound of Part 2 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 3

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 3 and scratch the cdr -> Part 3 cdr

record the sound of Part 3 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 4

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 4 and scratch the cdr -> Part 4 cdr

record the sound of Part 4 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 5

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 5 and scratch the cdr -> Part 5 cdr

record the sound of Part 5 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 6

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 6 and scratch the cdr -> Part 6 cdr

record the sound of Part 6 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 7

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 7 and scratch the cdr -> Part 7 cdr

record the sound of Part 7 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 8

make a new cdr with the sound of Part 8 and scratch the cdr -> Part 8 cdr

record the sound of Part 8 cdr played on a cd-player -> Part 9

This recording contains Part 1 ~ 9 in numerical order.

Artist bio:

Choi Joonyong started making noise with Hong Chulki as Astronoise from 1996.

He plays electronic instruments such as opened cdplayers, reel tape player and speakers. He is participating in harsh noise band called Master Musik as well as playing solo, and made 3 solo albums with error sounds from cdplayers.

He is running a record label called Balloon & Needle introducing experimental music from Korea.

website > www.balloonnneedle.com

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PRÓXIMA REFERENCIA:

red02. daniel del rio, roberto mallo – circular

reductive / 2010

ordering and info: http://reductivemusic.com

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miguela — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:55 +0000

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hybridart netlabel [rt_005] miguel a. garcía & daniel simon – drift / to become

[rt_005] miguel a. garcía & daniel simon – drift / to become

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www.panyrosasdiscos.net [pyr40] lali barriere, miguel a. garcía, tomás gris – chamber music

[Occasion 2011-02] Miguel A. García . Lamb

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reductive/ debut del sello y primera referencia

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