From Pietro Sent Mon, Feb 28th 2000, 16:57
From Pietro Sent Mon, Feb 28th 2000, 16:57
>From the desk of Dutch-East-India.. >FRANCISCO LOPEZ >Untitled 93 >MEGO034 (LP only) > >Over the last eighteen years Francisco L=F3pez has been developing a= powerful=20 >and consistent world of minimal electro-acoustic soundscapes, 'trying to=20 >reach an ideal of absolute conr=E8te music'. To date, his prolific catalog= =20 >comprises more than 90 sound works, which have been released by 50 record= =20 >labels from Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, France, UK, Italy, Poland,=20 >Austria, Canada and USA. He has toured extensively through Europe and=20 >America doing acousmatic performances, and he has received commissions from= =20 >a number of reknown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and= =20 >Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization, Yale=20 >University Theater and the Ralph Lemon Company. > >Through what he once called as 'the exploration of the universe=20 >of broad-band noise from the real world', his music arises from the=20 >processing of environmental recordings. In deep contrast to the classical= =20 >soundscape movement (and even despite his paradoxical past involvement=20 >with related organizations as the Environmental Tape Exchange, the World=20 >Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the Nature Sounds Society), his vast=20 >activity doing field recordings all over the world (nearly 30 countries in= =20 >four continents) never pursued a documentary or representational goal, but= =20 >a dramatically opposite object sonore perspective. And in this sense, the= =20 >evolution of his aesthetics and conceptual background is a profound process= =20 >of refinement towards an extreme musical purism, with a voluntary and=20 >forceful refusal of any visual, procedural, relational, semantic,=20 >functional or virtuosostic elements. What is left is an astonishingly=20 >powerful musical essence capable of reaching both the deepest and most=20 >dreadful abysms of crude strengthness and the most subtle and diffuse aural= =20 >edges; a complex territory of anti fast-listening where perceptual=20 >awareness and the power of naked music are strikingly rediscovered; a world= =20 >where things are uneasy, unclear, unsolved and where one is forced to=20 >inmerse and search. He calls it belle confusion. (Pedro Higueras, Sonom=20 >Studios).. > >What others have said about his work: > >- 'The most intense and elementary ambient work I've ever=20 >heard' (Scientifica Intercosmo, Germany) >- 'A truly (awe-)inspiring experience of boundless sonic=20 >depth' (Experimental Musical Instruments, USA) >- 'The complete vanishing of any comfortability; an existential thread'=20 >(ZAP, Germany) >- 'Neither ambient nor isolationism, this music goes far beyond that'=20 >(Self, Spain) >- 'Only suitable for music explorers' (M=FAsica Global, Spain) >- 'The new loverboy of intelligent noisists' (Vital, The Netherlands) >- 'He makes you find the music, and rewards you well with rich and utterly= =20 >unique sound once you do' (Intransitive, USA) >- 'Iconoclastic and lucid' (Dude, Spain) >- 'He sharpens both the perception of space and the sense of=20 >hearing' (Karbon, Switzerland) >- 'L=F3pez is playing on the keyboard of silence' (Bad Alchemy, USA) >- 'This donisis will change your view on what music could be' (Drone,= Germany) > > > ___________________________________________ p i e t r o d a s a c c o a u d i o - n i m b u s c j a m 91.5 fm saturdays from midnight - 2am EST 9745 lynngrove cr, windsor, ontario, n8r 1b8, canada g r o o v e s m a g a z i n e www.groovesmag.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx For additional commands, e-mail: xxx-xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx