In April 2023, Crónica was invited to celebrate its twenty years of ongoing activity at Rádio Eira — eira.osso.pt — a project by the OSSO collective that broadcasts in FM for the local communities in São Gregório and Caldas da Raínha, Portugal. The first hour of this broadcast was dedicated to a conversation between OSSO’s Ricardo Jacinto and Nuno Morão and Crónica’s Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela, a talk focused on the label’s activity and on collaborating, curating, and publishing experimental music and sound art in an ever-changing context. Following that, Carvalhais and Tudela conducted a three-hour live broadcast that revisited each of the more than 200 releases in Crónica’s catalogue.
This mix was more than a walk down memory lane. Taking each year of Crónica’s history as a unit, the mix developed an archaeology of the label, a retrospective and critical look that framed every release in its chronological context while also trying to understand them in the present. This was a look at the past with sights set on the future of continuing to publish, help produce, and distribute new music.
Crónica, 2003
- @c, 9, Hard Disk, 001~2003
- Pedro Tudela, Walker 1, Là Où Je Dors, 002~2003
- Longina, Nosác, !Siam Acnun, 003~2003
- Vítor Joaquim, 8, La Strada is on Fire (And We Are All Naked), 004~2003
- Pedro Tudela, Rasgão.aif, On Paper, 005~2003
- Pal, Wrapping, On Paper, 005~2003
- Pure + Durán Vázquez, All This Paperwork, On Paper, 005~2003
- Stephan Mathieu, Stilleben mit einem Mann, der Musik auf einem Kamm spielt (für Walter Marchetti), On Paper, 005~2003
- Sumugan Sivanesan, Steam, Product 1, 007~2003
- Autodigest, Compression 2, A Compressed History of Everything Ever - Recorded, Vol. 1, 006~2003
- @c, 11, Hard Disk, 001~2003
Crónica, 2004
- @c, 20, v3, 010~2004
- Ran Slavin, Desert Rain, Product 02, 009~2004
- Paulo Raposo & Marc Behrens, Further Consequences of Reinterpretation, 008~2004
- OK.Suitcase, -04 0506-4, Product 03, 011~2004
- o.blaat, eight-o, Two Novels: Gaze / In the Cochlea, 012~2004
- Björgúlfsson/Pimmon/Thorsson, Still Important Somekind Not Normally Seen (Always Not Unfinish, 014~2004
- Tilia, ...and coming back, vous rêvez/vous ne rêvez pas, 015~2004
- @c, 36, Product 04, 017~2004
- Ran Slavin, Piano, Product 02, 009~2004
- Autodigest, A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, vol.2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live, 016~2004
- Paulo Raposo & Marc Behrens, Further Consequences of Reinterpretation, 008~2004
Crónica, 2005
- Boca Raton, Circle 4, Product 05, 019~2005
- Freiband, Times, Product 05, 019~2005
- Heimir Björgúlfsson & Jonas Ohlsson, Spelled Thru (USA... USA... Style), King Glitch, 018~2005
- James Eck Rippie + Paulo Raposo, Natureza Morta, Product 06, 023-2005
- Pimmon, Ears That Hear, Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, 020~2005
- Pita, 59.5..., Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, 020~2005
- Ákos Garai, To Bjeller, Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, 020~2005
- Miguel Carvalhais, 303, Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, 020~2005
- Lawrence English, Parallel (midgap), Happiness Will Befall, 022~2005
- Autodigest, After The Orgy (7" Radio Edit), Essays on Radio: Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, 020~2005
Crónica, 2006
- Vitor Joaquim, Slow Moments, Flow, 025~2006
- Freiband, Rammel, Leise, 026~2006
- Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer, Hidden Name, 027~2006
- Gintas K, Kūlgrinda, Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound, 024~2006
Crónica, 2007
- The Beautiful Schizophonic, La lectrice, Musicamorosa, 029~2007
- @c, soixante-quatre (pour T.B.S.), Musicamorosa, 029~2007
- Ran Slavin, DAT Beats, The Wayward Regional Transmissions, 028~2007
- Davor Mikan, Gehässig, Täuschung, 030~2007
- Davor Mikan, -, Täuschung, 030~2007
- Davor Mikan, Flimmer, Täuschung, 030~2007
- Ran Slavin, Jericho 6AM, The Wayward Regional Transmissions, 028~2007
Crónica, 2008
- Cem Güney, A Phonetics Theme, Praxis, 034~2008
- Pure, Iron Sky, Ification, 038~2008
- Tu M’, That, Is That You, 035~2008
- Tu M’, Sea n° 43, Mus*****c, 032~2008
- Ran Slavin, Above a City, Nocturnal Rainbow Rising, 037~2008
- Gilles Aubry, 2, Berlin Backyards, 036-2008
- Ran Slavin, Nocturnal Rainbow Rising, Nocturnal Rainbow Rising, 037~2008
- @c, 68 , Mus*****c, 032~2008
- Mosaique, Archae, Filare, 033~2008
- @c, 72, Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom, 031~2008
Crónica, 2009
- Marc Behrens, Real Player f*cked my Netscape Settings, Compilation Works 1996-2005, 041~2009
- Morten Riis, [new.s], Digital Sound Drawings, 039~2009
- Morten Riis, [d.raw], Digital Sound Drawings, 039~2009
- Gintas K, Something In The Grass, Lovely Banalities, 040~2009
- Durán Vázquez, Seagulls, Home, Sweet Home, 045~2009
- UBERMORGEN.COM && Nussbaumer, 081007_110011_curtisvo, 1001 Songs of eBay, 043~2009
- Marc Behrens, Sleppet (2-3) Avalanches, Water and Stones, Sleppet, 046~2009
- Piotr Kurek, Part I, Lectures, 042~2009
- The Beautiful Schizophonic, Musgo, Erotikon, 044~2009
- Futurónica titles
Crónica, 2010
- Arturas Bumšteinas, Boletus Satanas, Pastoral, 055~2010
- Gintas K, 3, So On, 054~2010
- Nicolas Bernier, line (c), strings.lines, 053~2010
- Ephraim Wegner, Swarm, Audible Landscapes, 052~2010
- Mosaique, Fissures, Shattering Silence, 051~2010
- Pure + Durán Vázquez, STOORM, Crónica L, 050~2010
- Ran Slavin, Chemical Canaries and Car Alarms, The Mediterranean Drift, 049~2010
- Mathias Delplanque, Passeport 6 (Nantes), Passeports, 048~2010
Crónica, 2011
- Oriol Rosell, Seidl 03, Ulrich Seidl E.P, 058~2011
- Steinbrüchel, Invert, Leftovers (Reworked), 060~2011
- Marc Behrens, Neighbour GS, Poststop, 061~2011
- Janek Schaefer, Tinkerbelles, Double Exposure, 062~2011
- @c, 78, Homem Fantasma, 056~2011
- Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello, Christening the Blackbird, Acute Inbetweens, 057~2011
- Irene La Sen & Jazznoize, 1, Humus (2005-2010), 059~2011
Crónica, 2012
- Francisco López, Untitled #284, Untitled #284, 066~2012
- Arturas Bumšteinas, Gwizdały, Jakov & Gwizdały, 072~2012
- Quarz, Five Years on Cold Asphalt, Five Years on Cold Asphalt, 070~2012
- Stephan Mathieu & David Maranha, Strings, Strings, 064~2012
- Luis Marte, Eiffel, Eiffel, 071~2012
- Piotr Kurek, Heat, Heat, 068~2012
- Ephraim Wegner & Julia Weinmann, eins bis sechzehn, eins bis sechzehn, 069~2012
- Simon Whetham, Fabricaria, Loud Listening, 067~2012
Crónica, 2013
- Arturas Bumšteinas, Opera Povera, No End of Vinyl, 079~2013
- @c, zweiundneunzig (für Pure), No End of Vinyl, 079~2013
- Cem Güney, City I, Water-Nature-City, 080-2013
- Mise_en_scene, 443.2, 443, 075~2013
- Miguel A. García, Monnom, Monnom / Hertz, Gigahertz, 074~2013
- @c, 83e, Half-Life, Still Life, 077~2013
- Simon Whetham, (Interlude, Lifesigns/Ashcloud), Never So Alone, 073~2013
- Arturas Bumšteinas, LLULL, Meubles, 081~2013
- Lemures, IV, EP, 082~2013
- Lemures, II, Lemuria, 083~2013
- Emmanuel Mieville, Locus Sonus, Concret-Sens, 084~2013
- Pure, This Side, The End Of Vinyl, 078~2013
- Marc Behrens, Queendom (featuring Yôko Higashi), Queendom Maybe Rise, 076-2013
Crónica, 2014
- Emidio Buchinho & Ricardo Guerreiro, W.o.W. – Wand of Watt, W.o.W. – Wand of Watt, 090~2014
- Mathias Delplanque, Part 4, Transmissions, 088~2014
- Mikel R. Nieto, The Sound of Underwater Friction Produced by Movement, The Sound of Underwater Friction Produced by Movement, 089~2014
- @c, 100, Ab OVO, 085~2014
- Monty Adkins, Residual Forms, Residual Forms, 086~2014
- Luís Antero, (ANT(i)SOM), (ANT(i)SOM), 087~2014
- @c, 103, Ab OVO, 085~2014
Crónica, 2015
- Phonophani, Ma.Org Re.Mx (alexremix2mix) , Ma.Org Pa.Git Re.Mx, 092~2015
- Arturas Bumšteinas, Gamelan Descending a Staircase, Gamelan Descending a Staircase, 100~2015
- Porcje Rosołowe, Mantodea Chorda, Insects 4-7, 093~2015
- Alexander Rishaug, Pa.Git, Ma.Org Pa.Git, 091~2015
- Martijn Tellinga, Positions, for those involved, Positions, 097~2015
- Maile Colbert, Doors and Doors and Corridors, Siebzehn bis ∞, 096~2015
- Monty Adkins, ufs_4, Unfurling Streams, 094~2015
- Attilio Novellino / Saverio Rosi, Part 1: 60-Spindle Mechanical Reel, BARDAZZI & GATTI, 1928, Lanificio Leo, 095~2015
- Jos Smolders, TomTomTomTom, Modular Works 2015Q1, 098~2015
- Gintas K, 3.16, Loud Listening Murano, 099~2015
- Porcje Rosołowe, Serpentinus Fascia, Insects 4-7, 093~2015
Crónica, 2016
- Ran Slavin, Music for Lost Film, Thermo Swing & Quanta+Else - Studio Blanks 01-02, 108~2016
- Vitor Joaquim, Cargo, Geography, 117-2016
- Tarab, Gleaners, Gleaners, 121~2016
- James Alexander Wyness, Igavene Olevik, Igavene Olevik, 122~2016
- Tamtam, Urban Dialog, Urban Dialog, 119~2016
- Arlene Tucker & Guy Dowsett, Hypnomatic, Hypnomatic, 120~2016
- Dawn Scarfe, Alone Together, Alone Together, 118~2016
- Tuulikki Bartosik, Primary Reception, Primary Reception, 116~2016
- Jim Haynes, It Doesn’t Matter, Throttle and Calibration, 115~2016
- John Grzinich, Prevailing Wind, Tangled Under, Prevailing Wind, Tangled Under, 114~2016
- Ulrich Mitzlaff, X-two, X-RUN-4 Prismatique, 113~2016
- Fernando Godoy, Is the space empty, only to be filled with the energy of this voice, Is the space empty, only to be filled with the energy of this voice, 112~2016
- @c, 118 (Reduction-Reflection), Three-Body Problem, 111~2016
- Sound Meccano & Jura Laiva, Sireli Laul, Sireli Aeg, 110~2016
- Ran Slavin, Collapsing Melody, Bittersweet Melodies, 109~2016
- Simon Whetham, Contact, Contact, 107~2016
- Mise_en_scene, Primary Fields, Primary Fields, 106~2016
- Andreas Trobollowitsch, tuul, Roha, 105~2016
- Richard Eigner, When the Days All Tip from Nests and Fly Down Roads, When the Days All Tip from Nests and Fly Down Roads, 104~2016
- Simon Whetham, Against Nature, Against Nature, 103~2016
- Yiorgis Sakellariou, Everything Emanating from the Sun, Everything Emanating from the Sun, 102~2016
- Emidio Buchinho & Carlos Santos, The Venus of Pistoletto, The Venus of Pistoletto, 101~2016
Crónica, 2017
- Gintas K, Particles, Under My Skin, 124~2017
- µ0, .appnd Kombinat , .appnd, 125~2017
- Durán Vázquez, Solus Ipse, Hiku Komuro, Hikikomori, 129~2017
- Graeme Truslove, Suite II, Divergent Dialogues, Intuited Architectures, 130~2017
- David Lee Myers, World Tube, Superpositions, 134~2017
- Jos Smolders, NowHere, Nowhere: Exercises in Modular Synthesis and Field Recording, 123-2017
- Yiorgis Sakellariou, Stikhiya, part 2, Stikhiya, 131~2017
- Emmanuel Mieville, Nyorai, Juryo: Durée de la vie de l'ainsi-venu, 126~2017
- Monty Adkins, Sounds of the Shadow, Shadows and Reflections, 133~2017
- Dan Powell, A Walk to the Sea: Exceat to the Coastguard Cottages, At Cuckmere, 135~2017
- Mise_en_Scene, Constellation / Deformation 1, Constellation / Deformation, 132~2017
- Luca Forcucci, The Waste Land, The Waste Land, 128~2017
- Ran Slavin, Acousmatis, Digital Junkies in Strange Times, 127-2017
Crónica, 2018
- @c, einhundertvierundzwanzig (für TAMTAM), Rheingold, 143~2018
- Monty Adkins, Moeror, Moeror, 140~2018
- Isabel Latorre, Isabel Latorre Plays Pauline Oliveros (Live recording 27.05.2017), For Pauline, 144~2018
- Síria, A Lua da Eva, Cuspo, 142~2018
- Vacuamoenia, Panphonia, Panphonia, 141~2018
- Simon Cummings, ULTRA-—infra, 間 (ma), 139~2018
- Mathias Delplanque, TU, Témoins, 138~2018
- Tarab + Artificial Memory Trace, AMT- Kraparticle 3, Obex, 136~2018
Ifs, Harmonic Form, Manifold Basketball, 137~2018
Crónica, 2019
- @c, Repetição, Espaço, Pausa, Repetição, 150~2019
- Mise_En_Scene, LO, -O-R-G-A-N-, 152-2019
- Ephraim Wegner & Daniel Bisig, Jetzt, Jetzt, 147~2019
- Luís Antero & Darius Čiuta, S, Sound, 145~2019
- Trondheim EMP, Joining The Bots, Poke It With A Stick / Joining The Bots, 146~2019
- Miguel A. García, Applainessads, Ekkert Nafn, 151~2019
- Haarvöl + Xoán-Xil López, Don't Look Back, Run (Trauma), Unwritten Rules of a Ceaseless Journey, 148~2019
- Guido Flichman, Hydrums, Clorofila Voyeur, 149~2019
Crónica, 2020
- TAMTAM, Standby, A100, 156~2020
- Arturas Bumšteinas, Orgelsafari (Bonus), Orgelsafari, 154~2020
- Philip Samartzis & Eric La Casa, Captured Space 2, Captured Space, 153~2020
- Matilde Meireles, Sunnyside, Sunnyside, 159~2020
- Natura Wiva, Rubinetto, 2017, Deriva, 162~2020
- Roel Meelkop, Crossmodulated 3, Crossmodulated, 163~2020
- Rutger Zuydervelt & Bruno Duplant, Le doute, L’incertitude, 157~2020
- Øyvind Brandtsegg, Vectors and Intervals (Nidaros), Nancarrow Biotope, 165~2020
- Nicola Di Croce, Deus Sive Natura, Deus Sive Natura, 164~2020
- Pedro Rebelo, Listen to me #2, Listen to me, 161~2020
- Miguel A. García & Oscar Martin, Kularrate, Kularrate, 158~2020
- Síria, Boa-Língua, Boa-Língua, 155-2020
- Pedro Tudela, Auditório, Auditório, 160~2020
Crónica, 2021
- Mad Disc, Material Composition 1, Material Compositions, 177~2021
- Máquina Magnética, A, Máquina Magnética, 176~2021
- Yiorgis Sakellariou, Be Pavadinimo, Degti, 171~2021
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Exile and Other Syndromes, Exile and Other Syndromes, 167~2021
- Lucas Alvarado, La Ausencia Como Lenguaje, La Ausencia Como Lenguaje, 172~2021
- @c, GML Vars. Live, GML Vars. Live, 168s-2021
- Monty Adkins, With Love. From an Invader., With Love. From an Invader., 175~2021
- @c, GML var. 4, GML Variations, 168~2021
- Jos Smolders, Plate 3, Submerge-Emerge, 169~2021
- Miguel A. García, Evhiblig, Evhiblig, 178~2021
- Francisco López, DSB-A, DSB, 166~2021
- @c, Seis Elementos, Installations: Seis Elementos, 174~2021
- Dan Powell, The Piano Grits Its Teeth, Four Walks at Old Chapel, 170~2021
- David Lee Myers, GEO 3 Gondwana, Reduced to a Geometrical Point, 173~2021
Crónica, 2022
- Sun Dog, Souche, Col des Tempètes, 192~2022
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Withering Field, Withering Field, 189~2022
- TAMTAM, Stromschauen, Stromschauen, 182~2022
- @c, LMY-7-10, Installations: LMY-7-10, 179~2022
- Monty Adkins, Remote Communion, Remote Communion, 183~2022
- TAMTAM, For Morton, Eleven Songs, 187~2022
- Haarvöl + Xoán-Xil López, The Coeval of a Former Time to Come, The Uncanny Organization of Timeless Time, 191~2022
- Bruno Duplant, Sombres Miroirs, part 2, Sombres Miroirs, 188~2022
- Morten Riis, vores utilstrækkelighed., Lad enhver lyd minde os om, 186~2022
- Gintas K, Variation, Lėti, 185~2022
- Emídio Buchinho & Ricardo Guerreiro, (Un)Folding, (Un)Folding, 190~2022
- Matilde Meireles, or 38 metres, Life of a Potato, 180~2022
- André Gonçalves + Angélica Salvi, Movement I, As Things Flow (for Waters’ Witness), 193~2022
- @c, S(o)al, Installations: S(o)al, 194~2022
- Øyvind Brandtsegg, Neuronal Recirculation, Persistent Disequilibrium, 184~2022
Crónica, 2023
- Marla Hlady & Christof Migone, Beat, Swan Song, 196~2023
- Miguel A. García, harmattans, Eraginie, 206~2023
- @c, 88R, for computer, synthetic percussion, For Percussion, 200~2023
- Ilia Belorukov, Searching Between Some Bushes, Scattered Underfoot, 195~2023
- Matilde Meireles, Vanishing Points, Vanishing Points, 205-2023
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Withering Field Live, Withering Field Live, 199~2023
- Luca Forcucci, Cantus, Terra, 198~2023
- Roel Meelkop, Viva in Pace IV, Viva in Pace, 201~2023
- Ana Guedes, Splicing_archives_, Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds, 207~2023
- TAMTAM, Stromschauen Live, Stromschauen Live, 197~2023
- Miguel A. García & Coeval, Huncill, Huncill, 202~2023
- David Lee Myers, Yet Another Shore, Strange Attractors, 203~2023
- @c, Octo _ _ _ _, Installations: Octo _ _ _ _, 209-2023
- Enrico Coniglio, Luci Fisse, Luci Fisse / Luci Erranti, 208~2023
- Philippe Petit, Drinking the Acheron River at its Source Part IV, Drinking the Acheron River at its Source, 204~2023
