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Experimental musician and sound artist
Musical artist
Francisco López is an
avant-garde
experimental musician and
sound artist .
He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries and festivals, such as:
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York City) ,
London Institute of Contemporary Arts ,
Paris Museum of Modern Art ,
National Auditorium of Music ,
Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art ,
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art ,
Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art ,
International Film Festival Rotterdam ,
Sónar ,
Darwin Fringe Festival ,
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art .
For the Spanish Pavilion of the
Expo 2008 , López presented a "double sonic intervention", consisting of both an indoor sound installation and an outdoor performance.
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In 2006, López won the First Prize for the Sound Art Competition of the
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León .
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He has received honorable mention of the
Prix Ars Electronica on three occasions
[3] (1999, 2002, 2007) and is the recipient of the
Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.
He is director and curator of SONM (The Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art).
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Selected discography
The following is a partial discography, from the more than 200 releases by Francisco López.
(1983) Untitled (Anomma)
(1990) La Primera Aventura de Cekoni y Conike , with
Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Toracic Tapes / Irre Tapes)
(1993) Azoic Zone (Geometrik)
(1994) Tonhaus (Hyades Arts)
(1995) Warszawa Restaurant (
Trente Oiseaux )
(1996) Paris hiss (Banned Production)
(1996) Belle Confusion 966 (
Trente Oiseaux )
(1997) Addy en el país de las frutas y los chunches (
Alien8 Recordings )
(1998) La Selva (
V2_Archief )
(1998) Belle Confusion 969 (Sonoris)
(1999) Untitled #89 (
Or )
(2000) Untitled #104 (
Alien8 Recordings )
(2000) Belle Confusion 00 , with
Amy Denio (Absolute)
(2000) Untitled #92 (
Mego )
(2001) Whint , with
Zbigniew Karkowski (Absolute)
(2001) Nav , with
John Duncan (Absolute)
(2001) Buildings [New York] (
V2_Archief )
(2002) Le Chemin du Paradis , with
Steve Roden (Fario)
(2003) Wasps (Longbox)
(2004) A Szellem Álma , with Marc Behrens (Absolute)
(2005) Mavje , with Andrey Kiritchenko (
Nexsound )
(2006) Untitled #180 (
Alien8 Recordings )
(2006) Buzzin' Fly / Dormant Spores , with
Z'EV (Lapilli)
(2006) Hysechasterion (Antifrost)
(2007) Lopez Island (Elevator Bath)
(2007) Wind [Patagonia] (
And/oar )
(2008) Technocalyps (
Alien8 Recordings )
(2009) HB , with
Lawrence English (Baskaru)
(2009) Through The Looking-Glass (
KAIROS )
(2009) Untitled #228 (ini.itu)
(2010) Machines (Elevator Bath)
(2010) Amarok (Glacial Movements Records)
(2010) Köllt / Kulu (Störung)
(2011) Untitled #244 (
Sub Rosa )
(2011) Krmn , with
Maurizio Bianchi (
Important Records )
(2011) Titans , with
Novi_sad (GH Records)
(2011) Untitled #275 (Unsounds)
(2012) Untitled #284 (
Crónica )
(2012) BioMechanica - BM01 , with
Arturo Lanz (Geometrik)
(2013) Lith , with
Aernoudt Jacobs (
Sub Rosa )
(2013) Untitled #308 (Very Quiet Records)
(2013) Heitsi-Eibib-Rec (Yugen Art)
(2014) Hyper-Rainforest (Nowhere Worldwide)
(2015) Untitled #274 (
Important Records )
(2015) Yo-kai 17.1ch sound installation (Sapporo noble*north2)
(2016) Anima Ardens (
Sub Rosa )
(2017) Untitled #352 (Nowhere Worldwide)
(2018) Untitled #360 (Emitter Micro)
(2019) Ekkert Nafn , with Miguel A. García (
Crónica )
Music for video, film and dance
Partial listing:
[5]
1985 'Andalucía', video by Rafael Flores.
1992 'Vigo, paseos visuales', video by Matusa Barros.
1994 'Katodiko-2', video by Armando Benito.
2003 'köllt',film by Francisco López and Jorge Simonet.
2006 '
TechnoCalyps ', documentary film by
Frank Theys .
2009 "Mamori", film by
Karl Lemieux .
2015 “Zagreb Confidential”, soundtrack film by Darko Fritz & Ivan Klif.
2016 “Anima Ardens”, dance piece by choreographer Thierry Smits / Companie Thor.
References
External links
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