FRANCISCO LOPEZ
Untitled 93
MEGO034 (LP only)
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.
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)..
What others have said about his work:
- '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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FALS.CH
fals.ch
FB25 (3 CDROM)
UPC: 1753-33122-2
In 1995 Mego already had the idea of doing an internet only label. During
this time Falsch was only realized using real-audio, and so the fun was
limited. Since then Mego have worked hard building an on-line system, which
takes advantage of the current and new possibilities, available through
advanced internet technology.
At the moment Mego present music on demand in MP3 format, online audio
rendering and html xlat. This CD-R includes mp3 files, html, dcr data of
all falsch artists so far.
The fals.ch server is still a linux system, running apache webserver
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sooner. All is done with free software. The machine's physical location is
at silverserver headquarters, Vienna.
This 3 cd rom featuring mp3 files from the best of the first 24 releases
on fals.ch (MEGOs mp3 only sublabel).
Featuring: Christoph de Babalon, Evol, Fon, cd slopper, i.d., Kent, Kim
Cascone, Mause, Massimo, Frank Metzger, Pimmon, Satans Torande
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