Microtopies 2026: 141 miniatures de música i geografia
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Released: July 31, 2026
Produced by Gràcia Territori Sonor
Label: Gràcia Territori Sonor
Format: Digital

This is the fifteenth album Microtopies’ global call, a collection of sonic miniatures that make up a special edition of the weekly radio program ‘Música i Geografia’ (Ràdio Gràcia, Barcelona), produced by Gràcia Territori Sonor.

The aim is to take a sonic journey across a map of events arranged at random, since the pieces received have been included on the album in strict order of reception.

This year we have received 141 pieces from 103 locations in 35 countries. An absolute record, far surpassing the previous one, and one that makes us extraordinarily happy. We invite you to take this journey. We offer it to you with the highest possible sound quality: the same as the recording submitted by the authors. So don’t listen to it through your computer speakers—plug it into a decent sound system or put on a good pair of headphones. If you don’t, you’ll miss many sounds and frequencies…

Have a good trip! Gràcia Territori Sonor would like to thank all the artists who have selflessly participated in this project… Thank you for making Microtopies 2026 come true!


Includes the composition “A gash on the veil of Maya”

ORIENT EXPRESS
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Released: June 27, 2024
Produced by Morada Sónica
Label: Wet Dreams Records
Format: Digital

INTERNATIONAL CALL «ORIENT EXPRESS»

Tribute to the piece «ME VOY A TOMAR EL ORIENT EXPRESS», created by EDUARDO POLONIO in 1974

«ME VOY A TOMAR EL ORIENT EXPRESS» was created by EDUARDO POLONIO in 1974 and is situated in the repetitive minimalist movement that the artist launched at the end of the 1960s. A repetitive pattern with a clear railway inspiration, implements an immersive sound journey of purely electronic sounds for just over seven minutes. Evident are the parallels that arise with the works of Terry Riley and Steve Reich, with whom Polonio was in contact in those years. Reich would not be far from Polonio’s approaches; we find an example of this parallelism in his contemporary “Music for 18 Musicians” (1974-1976). The duration of “I’m going to take the Orient Express” is no obstacle to generating that “perpetuum mobile” towards an incomprehensible confine that can be glimpsed at the end.


Includes the composition “Destructured flows”

Éliane Radigue
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Released: October 22, 2023
Produced by Shaun Robert
Label: Institute For Alien Research
Catalog Ref: IFAR 4’33” 205
Format: Digital

Éliane Radigue tribute album 


Includes the composition “Soffio ipostatico”

A Estranha Ordem das Coisas
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Released: May 12, 2023
Organized and produced: Arte Estranha
Mastered: Ricardo Thomasi
Label: Arte Estranha
Format: digital


A palavra ordem vem se tornando cada vez mais intrigante. Afinal de contas, o que te organiza? Desmontando o fetiche dosextremos (ordem/desordem) e despindo-se da dualidade cartesiana, o que se revela é um modo organização que não seconfunde com outra coisa senão com o estranho.

“(…) O que temos é a crise de uma noção central nos dispositivos de legitimação e no imaginário modernos: a noção de ordem.E com ela assistimos à rediscussão da noção de desordem (…)” Wilmar do Valle Barosa.

“A ordem? É tudo o que é repetição, constância, invariância, tudo o que pode ser posto sob a égide de uma relação altamenteprovável, enquadrado sob a dependência de uma lei. A desordem? É tudo o que é irregularidade, desvios com relação a uma estrutura dada, acaso, imprevisibilidade. Num universode pura ordem, não haveria inovação, criação, evolução. Não haveria existência viva nem humana” Edgar Morin.

“Ando muito completo de vazios. Meu órgão de morrer me predomina. Estou sem eternidades. Não posso mais saber quandoamanheço ontem. Está rengo de mim o amanhecer. Ouço o tamanho oblíquo de uma folha. Atrás do ocaso fervem os insetos.Enfiei o que pude dentro de um grilo o meu destino. Essas coisas me mudam para cisco. A minha independência temalgemas”. Os deslimites da palavra, Manoel de Barros.

As iniciativas do Arte Estranha buscam estimular a criação sonora e integrar artistas de diferentes perfis e projeções em tornode um mesmo eixo temático de trabalho. Assim, acreditamos estimular a produção e difusão musical, bem como fortalecer adiversidade que compõe a cena da música experimental que é feita hoje.


Includes the composition “Materia destrutturata”

11 Schegge. Musica Italiana Avventurosa
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Released: September 19, 2022
Produced and Mastered by Francesco Covarino
Label: tsss tapes
Format: brown cassette Cassette + Digital Album (edition of 200)


Includes the composition “Blocks #1”

in Focus 6
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Released: July 15, 2022
Produced by R. Romano
Label: RMN Classical
Catalog Ref: CLS220501
Format: Digital

Contemporary Music – a sub-branch of classical music – is more alive than ever in the new album “In Focus 6” where eight different composers from different backgrounds and countries show us what it is possible to achieve when ingenious ideas meet talented performers.

The eight composers include (in order of track-list) João Pedro Oliveira, Gianluca Deserti, Rei Hamakawa, Nicola FumoFrattegiani, Ion Marmarinos, Benjamin Montgomery, Philippe Mathis and Petar Jovanov. While some are professors at prestigious universities, all the composers are establishing themselves in the contemporary scene by winning numerous international competitions and call-for-works.

Here, they are joined by a string of excellent performers including Duo Sigma, Ales Lavrencic, Sebastiano Gubian, Hirofumi Uematsu, Riccardo Catria, Roadrunner Trio, Linda Jenkins, Alexander W. Ravitz, Heeyoung Choi and Shaun Stojkovski.

This eclectic ensemble shows the true potential of contemporary music with nine new tracks written for instruments including piano, cello, flute, clarinet, flugelhorn, voice and electronic. With works that go from solo to duo and trio, passing from the latest modern experimentations to folklore and world music.


Includes the composition “Der hohle Zahn”

VA – The 400th Murmur
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Released: December 2, 2021
Produced by Murmure Intemporel Netlabel
Mixed/Mastered by Mikolaj Krzaczek (THAMNOS)
Label: Murmure Intemporel Netlabel
Format: Digital
Cover : Yves Tanguy – The Satin Tuning Fork – 1940
Photos by Ironside. Sleeve design by Graph’Hypnotic

ALL STYLES OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSICS
Compilation for the 400th release of the netlabel Murmure Intemporel


Includes the composition “Contracted chest”

La Llamada 2020
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Released: October 11, 2020
Produced by La Llamada – Ferro White Museo Taller
Label: La Llamada
Format: Digital

Este álbum compila las obras seleccionadas en la convocatoria 2020 de miniaturas sonoras “La Llamada”, organizada por elmuseo taller Ferrowhite y Bahía[in]sonora. 


Includes the composition “Human Breath”

SEAMUS Miniatures 2020 – Monophonics [Original mono masters]
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Released: August 11, 2020
Produced by SEAMUS Records
Label: SEAMUS Records
Format: Digital

The SEAMUS Electroacoustic Miniatures Series is a semi-annual album release of fixed-media works addressing a specifictheme per each iteration. This year’s theme, Monophonic, teases out the ‘miniatures’ genre, inviting submission of works 3minutes max. in length, that are created to be experienced in a monophonic format.


Includes the composition “Monoblock Noise Stream”

FREQUENCY ILLUSION | Studies in Radio
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Released: July 24, 2020
Produced by Shaun Robert
Label: Institute For Alien Research
Catalog Ref: IFAR 4’33” 135
Format: Digital

Album dedicated to the radio. 


Includes the composition “Contracted chest”

Il suono delle lingue
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Released: July 13, 2020
Produced by Delta Produzioni
Label: Taukay
Catalog Ref: taukay 167
Format: CD and Digital

At the beginning of 2019, the cultural organization Delta Produzioni issued an international call for electro-acoustic works. DeltaProduzioni has over 25 years of experience in organizing events and competitions that have involved thousands of participantsfrom all around the world.
The concept for this call for works was to examine acoustic material that explores the sound of words. The works submittedneeded to contain the specific phonemes (not necessarily set to a melody or harmonized) of the language of the composers, inorder to create a sound-fresco based on the use of the words and their elaboration. The acoustic material, selected by a groupof experts from the 209 compositions received from 36 countries, is now available on CD.


Includes the composition “Flos Asisium”

in Focus 2
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Released: July 16, 2020
Produced by R. Romano
Label: RMN Classical
Catalog Ref: CLS200501
Format: Digital

The new release, titled “In Focus 2”, is part of a new editorial line created by RMN Classical to showcase brilliant talents andcreators selected from the RMN Classical roster.
With this new series RMN Classical wants to build awareness around those composers that have already achieved remarkableresults in their career and were awarded international prizes of notable importance.


Includes the composition “NOF4”

Electroacoustic & Beyond vol.4 Various Artists
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Released: September 13, 2019
Produced by R. Romano
Label: RMN Classical
Catalog Ref: CLS190601
Format: Digital

This album, the fourth of the series, features all the winners of the Call for Electroacoustic Works 2019, launched to discovercomposers that use technology to conceive, manipulate and create new imaginative and unexpected sounds, music andcompositions.

The nine composers who are featured are (in order of playlist): Leah Reid, Benjamin Montgomery, João Pedro Oliveira, MeghanDineen, Daniel Mayer, Greg A Steinke, Nicola Fumo Frattegiani.

In an age where music genres and sound design become more and more blurred, the ten tracks include pure electronic works,works that mix acoustic instruments and electronic and works with voice, electronic and instruments. Each of the compositionspresented offers a distinctive and clear perspective of today possibilities, making use of advanced structures, soundmanipulations and various combinations of timbre and sound design.

The quality of these works should excite and inspire the audience, the experts and the more curious alike, offering a view of the21st Century electroacoustic music panorama, an intriguing land, vastly unexplored, rich of exciting sound investigations thathopefully many others will start to enjoy and follow, an art-form full of passionate composers and performers that can grow insize and popularity in the coming years.


Includes the composition “Banlieue cuivrée”

MICROTOPIES 2019
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Released: May 23, 2019
Produced by Gràcia Territori Sonor
Label: Gràcia Territori Sonor
Format: Digital

This is the album with the eighth global call for Microtopies. The Microtopies are sonic miniatures that shape a special edition ofRadio Música i Geografía (Ràdio Gràcia FM, Barcelona), the weekly radio program by Gràcia Territori Sonor.

The aim is to make a sonic route through a map of randomly assigned events, since the pieces received have been included instrict order of reception.

This year have been received 69 pieces from 11 countries.

Now, we invite you to take this journey. You will enjoy the maximum quality of sound recorded by the authors. Don’t listen tothem by your computer loudspeakers but rather plug them in a decent sound system or put on good headphones otherwise youwill miss a lot of sounds and frequencies…


Includes the composition “Breath Wood”

From Outer Space: A Leap Into The Future
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Released: September 1, 2018
Produced by Electronicgirlslabel
Label: Electronicgirlslabel
Catalog Ref: DSStore_201809
Format: Digital

What will soundscapes be like in the year 3018?

What will artificial intelligence’s long-term impact on sound production be?

What will the inhabitants of the New Planet listen to?

From outer space, a leap into the future is a new call for works by electronicgirls in cooperation with SubSculture Arts Festival,2018 edition. The aim of this open call is to showcase a selection of inspiring works based on their quality.

Selected artworks will be diffused through public listening during SubSculture Arts Festival, Bastione di S. Sofia, Treviso (Italy)on 8th September 2018 and collected in a digital release distributed for free on electronicgirls.org (release date: 10th September2018).


Includes the composition “Sequenze”

Capsules acousmatiques
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Year: 2018
Produced by Octandre Electroacoustic Music
Format: digital radio broadcasting & streaming

Retrouvez les capsules acousmatiques d’Octandre tous les dimanches à 12h12 sur Radio Station Essence
(www.stationessence.org/), produites en 2017-2018 avec le soutien de la Sacem (www.sacem.fr)

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Selected composition “Ropes, water and blocks” – capsule n°44

Carta sonora degli orti di San Pietro
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Year: 2017
Editor: Viaindustriae publishing
Format: booklet + cd
ISBN 978-88-97753-32-2

“La carta sonora degli Orti di San Pietro” (edited by Viaindustriae Sound with the contribution of Regione Umbria – Umbrialibri 2015 and 2016, in collaboration with the Fonoteca Trotta, the University of Perugia University’s Center for Scientific Museums and the Department of Agrarian, Food and Environmental Sciences in Perugia).

“La carta sonora degli Orti di San Pietro” was produced during UmbriaLibri 2015 and 2016, during the ninth and tenth edition of Manufatto in Situ, art and landscape workshop curated by Viaindustriae applied in the Medieval Garden and in the and Didactic-Social Garden of San Pietro, in collaboration with Fonoteca Regionale Trotta, the University Center for the Scientific Museums –University of Perugia and with the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences. The workshop hosted 18young visual and sound artists and 5 visiting artists, from different backgrounds, who recorded and mapped, documented and reinvented the places of the three gardens and their social relations. The outcome was a site-specific live set, “Campestre, mimetica“. From this experience, viaindustriae published the first “Quaderno di Campo” together with an audio CD, as aprototype of an editorial series in collaboration with the Fonoteca Trotta. This mapping configures and proposes a more systematic regional intervention starting from the Carta Sonora model to outline geography of interesting “acoustic places” interms of soundscape/soundscape/listening. On the cover of the editorial research, Eugenio Faina, founder of the IstitutoSuperiore Agrario di San Pietro, created from the beginning (1894) as a space for pedagogical “experimentation”.


Contributions from field recording, soundscape compositions and mixing