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| javier hernando |
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Minimalist
electronic. Electromagnetic resonances.
Involving loops. |
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Javier Hernando from 1979, as a member of the group Xeerox, has
produced different works of electronic music under identities like
Melodinamika Sensor, Sinusoidal, or under his own name. Parallel
to this, he was cofounder of the label Ortega y Cassette (1981).
Discos Esplendor Geométrico included three tracks of Melodinamika
Sensor in the compilation "Barcelona Sampler", an album with the
most significant of barcelona´s electronic underground (with Avant-Derničres
Pensées, 32 Guajar's Faragüit, Camino al Desván and Melodinamika
Sensor). In the nineties stand out the new cassettes in the label
Toracic Tapes of Madrid, and others self-published, now under his
own name or as Sinusoidal.
Also are important his collaborations with other artists in many
fields: in the chema alvargonzález installation "Temps de Pas" and
in the book and exhibition Alter Musiques Natives. Also in Sonar
95: Home Made Electronics, in sonic-film recreations of the tandem
of Berlin Traveler-Newcleus-Da Costa, and with the musical project
Mohochemie.
In parallel with his activities as a musician, Javier Hernando was
the person responsible since 1981, and for more than ten years,
of the spanish pioneer radio program, exclusively dedicated to industrial
and electronic music "Los Silencios de la Radio", inside Radio Pica.
"Luz Nacarina" (Micrograma, Geometrik), his first cd, is a digital
remastering of themes recorded in 1996-1998.
The music of Javier Hernando consist of, in the author´s own words,
"electromagnetic resonances with a polarity that ranges from austere
tones of achromatic desolation to soft modulations of hydrophile
cotton layers".
B. Amanuense
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- Destellos Mercuriales (cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1991)
- Totum Revolutum (cassette, Clonaciones Petunio, 1993, 1 track
of Javier Hernando with other artists as Superelvis, Gat, Audiopeste,
etc)
- Kirliania (cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1993)
- Bruma Cáustica (cassette, 1997)
- Luz Nacarina (CD, Geometrik-Microgama, 1999)
as Melodinamika Sensor:
- Melodinamika Sensor (cassette, Ortega y Cassette, 1982-1983)
- 4 grupos de Barcelona (LP, Esplendor Geométrico Discos, 1985,
sampler featuring four Barcelona avantgarde bands: Avant-Derničres
Pensées, Melodinamika Sensor, 32 Guajar's Faragüit and Camino
al Desván)
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"The ones that had the chance to access to some
of the self-edited cassettes of the diverse projects carried out
by Javier Hernando from the beginning of the 80's (recordings that,
on the other hand, could perfectly be published nowadays), we had
already consider as impossible that he would take the decision to
publish his works in less perishable formats. For the joy of all
the listeners of his 'Silencios de la Radio' in the first stage
of Radio Pica, Hernando does not only publish his first record but
he also coordinates the new sub-company of Geometrik, named Microgama.
His musical past dates from 1979 when he was a militant of the legendary
Xeerox. It can result ironical and unfair to cite Mouse on Mars,
Oval or the company Mego to define his 'Luz Nacarina', but it is
quite useful to place him. His explorer and sensory electronics
is built with scantly sonorous sources moulded in curves of surrounding
repetition that can turn into an intense one (Tremolo Sonda, Ecto
Kirliania) without the need of noisy supports, formerly ethereal
(Retorno tras Retorno), or counting on the mistery added by the
silences or the premonition of the sound that is not heard (atractiva
Bruma Caustica). In fact, when the sound appears (Rastrales, Gris
Omega) it results, as the whole album, more epidermic than agressive."
(Félix Suárez - ROCK DE LUX)
"Javier Hernando, driver, since 1981, of Radio
Pica's broadcast 'Los Silencios de la Radio', a programme indispensable
for knowing everything about experimental music and electronics
made in the world, has edited many tipes in the last two decades:
Melodinamika Sensor (1982-1983), Destellos Mercuriales (1990)...
One of the first appreciations that should be done about 'Luz Nacarina'
is realising about how the CD has enhanced and enlarged the listening
possibilities of its music. Because if there is anything characteristic
of Javier Hernando's performing, it is his special sense of the
detail, less motley than minimalist, with which he gets a high hypnotic
power. Becoming absorbed in the themes of 'Luz Nacarina' causes
a feeling of an intense anxiety. Their sounds reflect a distressing
and threatening post-industrial world. But they do it without fusses
nor theatrical effects. On the contrary, the whole CD transmits
-although it seems, a priori, a contradiction- an involving feeling
of fragility." (F.O.S. - AJOBLANCO)
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