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>Over the last eighteen years Francisco López has been developing a powerful
>and consistent world of minimal electro-acoustic soundscapes, 'trying to
>reach an ideal of absolute conrète music'. To date, his prolific catalog
>comprises more than 90 sound works, which have been released by 50 record
>labels from Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, France, UK, Italy, Poland,
>Austria, Canada and USA. He has toured extensively through Europe and
>America doing acousmatic performances, and he has received commissions from
>a number of reknown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and
>Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization, Yale
>University Theater and the Ralph Lemon Company.
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>Through what he once called as 'the exploration of the universe
>of broad-band noise from the real world', his music arises from the
>processing of environmental recordings. In deep contrast to the classical
>soundscape movement (and even despite his paradoxical past involvement
>with related organizations as the Environmental Tape Exchange, the World
>Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the Nature Sounds Society), his vast
>activity doing field recordings all over the world (nearly 30 countries in
>four continents) never pursued a documentary or representational goal, but
>a dramatically opposite object sonore perspective. And in this sense, the
>evolution of his aesthetics and conceptual background is a profound process
>of refinement towards an extreme musical purism, with a voluntary and
>forceful refusal of any visual, procedural, relational, semantic,
>functional or virtuosostic elements. What is left is an astonishingly
>powerful musical essence capable of reaching both the deepest and most
>dreadful abysms of crude strengthness and the most subtle and diffuse aural
>edges; a complex territory of anti fast-listening where perceptual
>awareness and the power of naked music are strikingly rediscovered; a world
>where things are uneasy, unclear, unsolved and where one is forced to
>inmerse and search. He calls it belle confusion. (Pedro Higueras, Sonom
>Studios)..
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>What others have said about his work:
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>- 'The most intense and elementary ambient work I've ever
>heard' (Scientifica Intercosmo, Germany)
>- 'A truly (awe-)inspiring experience of boundless sonic
>depth' (Experimental Musical Instruments, USA)
>- 'The complete vanishing of any comfortability; an existential thread'
>(ZAP, Germany)
>- 'Neither ambient nor isolationism, this music goes far beyond that'
>(Self, Spain)
>- 'Only suitable for music explorers' (Música 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
>unique sound once you do' (Intransitive, USA)
>- 'Iconoclastic and lucid' (Dude, Spain)
>- 'He sharpens both the perception of space and the sense of
>hearing' (Karbon, Switzerland)
>- 'López is playing on the keyboard of silence' (Bad Alchemy, USA)
>- 'This donisis will change your view on what music could be' (Drone, Germany)
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