Plenty has changed in Rafael Toral’s music throughout his career, but cross-fertilization and collisions of disparate methodologies have been constants. In the 1990s, the Lisbon-born artist made mostly guitar-based music, devising his own aesthetic from a starting point in the pure, resonant sound shared by American minimalists Phill Niblock and Alvin Lucier, like-minded Chicago experimentalist […] The post Portuguese experimentalist Rafael Toral launches an ambitious new phase  appeared first on Chicago Reader.