Re: (idm) Nuno Canavarro

From pimmon
Sent Tue, Sep 7th 1999, 11:09

At 15:32 6/09/99 -0700, Sean wrote:

I emailed Rafael Toral who creates wonderful drone/ambient
washes with guitar...his works cover rich dense MBVish
landscapes on 'Wave Field', through to the organic lushness
of Aeriola Frequency CD (perdition plastics)...this is a beautiful
release and I recommend it highly if you enjoy abstract electronics..

a quote from Rafael:

"The exploration of resonance from the guitar world as in Wave Field 
took me to later finding myself working with pure electronic resonance, 
the material of this piece.[Aeriola Frequency]

'Cyclorama Life' [first track] is performed with an empty circuit,
basically a 
feedback loop using as main instruments two 8-second delays with a 4-band 
parametric equalizer. There's no input, the loop is constantly nourishing 
and digesting itself." --

As to the rest of the questions below, here are Rafael's responses...

>the mego web site's "events" sections lists the following gig as having
>occured in may:
>
>        Christian Fennesz and Peter Rehberg make 2 gigs in Portugal together
>            with Rafeal Toral, Paulo Feliciano and Nuno Canvarro
>
>1. did anybody go to this?

"Yes, not many people, but a nice little crowd. The first gig was in Vila
Nova de
Foz Coa, a very small town in the north mountains - in the middle of nowhere,
really. It was on an open air amphitheatre that had a huge valley and
mountains as
background. We used a 1 meter wide white cube with color lights inside which
responded to sound dynamics, the whole thing resembled a UFO encounter...
Next day was in a club in Lisbon, the sound was not as good and we were
tired from
the trip, so it wasn't as good, i think."

>2. who are the other artists listed?

"Just us."

>3. does this mean nuno canavarro is still making music?

"Unfortunately, in spite of my efforts, Nuno didn't join us. He didn't give up
making music, but we can't say he's making any. I'm still trying to bring him
"back to life"..."

Hope this helps...

paul