Francisco López

SPAIN - GUEST ARTIST
Project: Immersive Concert
Artistic discipline: Sound art
Location: Corral del Carbón (S. XIV)
Inauguration: 3 de December

The concerts created by sound artist Francisco López are immersive listening experiences which take place in darkness, using multi-channel surround sound systems and at which the audience is invited to wear blindfolds. Created from a multitude of original ambient recordings (both natural and artificial sounds) made all over the planet, the concerts are not “soundscapes” so much as virtual worlds of sound in which the listener develops their own experience in a setting where the rules and parameters of immersion are defined by the sounds themselves, experienced as space and as dynamic physical forces. Francisco López will compose a new sound work in real-time.

INFORMATION
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in over 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has been released by more than 250 record labels worldwide. He has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios]

website: www.franciscolopez.net

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