Rafael Toral biography, Rafael Toral discography
Rafael Toral is a musician and artist.Born in Lisbon, he has been performing
live since 1984.Lisbon for his performance An Angel Moves too
fast to See.Sonic Youth's record NYC Ghosts and Flowers.Having produced video pieces since 1994, used in both live performances
and installations, his visual output has been increasing.This video has been added to your favorites.Please login to add to flag a video.Why not trying posting one?Rafael explains his pocket lamp instrument made by his own."YouTube recommends upgrading to a safer, modern browsersuch as Firefox.Note: some videos not suitable for minors may still appear in search results.Thank you for sharing this video!Please login to add to favorites.The video has been added to your playlist.Please login to add to flag a video.I'm having some trouble figuring out which movement corresponds to what sound, is it like a theremin?I'm clueless, mind telling me how the gloves work?Live recording excerpt of Space Study 1, perfor..."YouTube recommends upgrading to a safer, modern browsersuch as Firefox.It's epic, it's intimate, it's a personally served 10 course meal at a table for two at the edge of the Grand Canyon."Wave Field 5' and '6' were recorded to hard disk from the vibrating body of a Fender Jaguar wired through a Morley wah, Korg guitar synth (no synth, filters only), Dod graphic EQ, Alesis reverb and compressor, Ashly Parametric EQ and Sansamp.""Rafael Toral's music is guitar based, but doesn't seem to involve any of the usual guitar histrionics.This is Rafael Toral's 11th release, the first for the Quecksilber label, and another continuation of his "Space Program."So basically, this is electronic music played with a jazz sensibility.Toral brings a performative aspect to electronic music that it often sorely lacks.The initial album Space is like a roadmap, accompanied by three distinct serieses: the performance series "Space Studies" (which started in 2004), and the record series "Space Elements" and "Solo Series."The present CD is the first in that series and the second materialization of the program.On this album, Toral appears as a musician who simply plays an instrument on an individual, human and physical level.The CD version of this album is released by Touch (UK).Rafael Toral is a musician, producer and sound engineer.Space marks a radical change in Rafael Toral's music.There is a long line of connections and fusions between jazz and electronic music, and I envisioned that a step beyond would not be more jazz with electronics, but on electronics."He slowly merged hours of live and studio recordings into "Space" (the program's first release), which is no less than a full orchestra of such instruments.The album Space belongs to neither of these, but is rather the "Space program's" fundamental release.These early pieces are at the other end of that line."Design by Jon Wozencroft, photography by Heitor Alvelos Considered by the Chicago Reader to be 'one of the most gifted and innovative guitarists of the decade', Rafael Toral has been developing in the last 15 years a unique sound world, having been as influenced by Alvin Lucier and Brian Eno as by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine.He's also a member of MIMEO, the electronic orchestra featuring Keith Rowe, Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Kaffe Matthews and many others.Fourth release in this limited series on Touch (as with the previous Fennesz CD, this is not actually a CDR, but a regular pressed CD).Engine' is a piece for two guitars, one bass, twin modulated feedback circuits, motorized strings, analog modular system, routing audio mixer and several other devices.It's performed simultaneously on two channels."Name:Rafael ToralProfile:Rafael Toral is a musician and sound engineer also active in visual arts.Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1967, he has been performing live since 1984.Having attempted to study music, he realized his path was one of exploration and discovery, to which conventional music teaching was irrelevant.Exploring relations between sound phenomena such as resonance or difference tones and the human capacity for creative listening, Toral has developed a sound world weaving a unique blend of references such as ambient, rock, chance and improvisation.Toral performed extensively throughout Europe, Japan and North America, mostly solo but having as well collaborated with Sei Miguel, Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, Dean Roberts, Christian Fennesz, John Tilbury and Jim O'Rourke.He has also produced rock bands (Pop dell'Arte, Tina and the Top Ten, Supernova, Toast, Clockwork), presented video and multimedia installations and performed music of Phill Niblock and John Cage.Art of Sound", at the Hayward Gallery in London, 2000, or "Echo Room", a piece for delayed feedback random sound filtering, recently at the ICC in Tokyo.Chasing Sonic Booms (CD)
Ecstatic Peace!Sun (2xCD)
Letter To An Old Dog (...Portuguesa (CD)
Mills Session (Introdu...If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately.The first (and possibly most important) part
of his epic 'Space Program' which is said to comprise of more than ten solo
releases to be released over the next few years, the disc sees Toral laying
down his guitar in favour of homemade electronic generators and modular
synthesizer parts and moving into the realms of the 50s and 60s proto electronic experimentation.The
tracks at first may not scream of jazz or improv in the classic sense, but
listen closer and there is more than a passing similarity, indeed if we
replaced synthesizer squelches with muted trumpet or tenor sax then the
similarities would be far more evident.
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