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Francisco López, Hyper-Rainforest

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Radio Show: ARTonAIR

Impossible Music: Francisco López, Hyper-Rainforest

Why can’t you see in outer space and why can’t you hear in a rainforest?
A conversation, with sound illustrations, with the composer and sound artist
Francisco López in advance of his performance at EMPAC in Troy, New York
on April 28, 29, 30, 2011. Touching on his past and future creations and experiments
including a 2001 work for the now inaccessible Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage interior and
even a recording of our Clocktower clockworks. Plus a a profile of his remarkable new
project, SONM (Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art), in Murcia, Spain.

About the EMPAC project: Hyper-Rainforest is a monumental sound piece
(90 speakers and 64 channels in two nested hemispheres of integrated speakers).
All music in this performance stems from field recordings—but it does not simulate
the natural reality of the original locations. Instead, the work creates a sonic hyper-reality,
a virtual world of sound and music that goes beyond a trip to a rainforest.
The original materials are observed, analyzed, and composed to create a piece that surrounds
the audience, moving deep into the sounds themselves and toward new sounds still rooted
in their origins. This world premiere, was commissioned by and developed in residence
at EMPAC (The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center,
a part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). The curator is Micah Silver.

Excerpts heard in this segment are from Lopez pieces: KRMN FL, Buildings (New York),
Fango de Euripteridos, Untitled #244, A Tasty Swarm of Small Signals #252, and 300 Tapes.

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metaminaFNR

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MetaminaFNR introduce a new programming, after the emissions during the last May of the double cassette compilation “Madrid is Ruido” released by the label “For Noise’s Sake “, after some clandestine broadcasts and the search for a new server where to stay temporarily. In December we will be devoted to listening  the great project “A Tasty of Small Signals” edited on DVD for the label Störung (Barcelona) and the Centro Puertas de Castilla (Murcia) and curated by Francisco López.

2 minutes 91 microcompositions made by 7 international artists: James Webb, Lawrence English, Francisco López, Asmus Tietchens, Louis Dufort, Alan Courtis y Zbigniew Karkowski.

http://storung.com/media/publicaciones/str008_official_review.pdf

We wanted to stream it in a special way and work on the possibilities of the code and experiment with new broadcasts formats. For that we are developed a script in “Pure Data” which will mix up the 91 microcompositions “on the fly”, following different probability distributions (Markov Chains) assigned to each of the fragment, so we will listen different versions and structures of the mixer depending on the day and time.

Audio stream url: http://suservidor.servideo.org:8000/metaminaFNR.ogg

web: http://metaminafnr.hotglue.me/

A TASTY SWARM OF SMALL SIGNALS

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Among an obviously vast field of interesting choices, I invited six artists from different continents to join me in this micro-compositional effort:

    Project’s Radio Broadcasts:

    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 19 May 2011 – James Webb

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    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 2 June 2011 – Lawrence English

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    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 16 June 2011 – Francisco López

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    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 30 June 2011 – Asmus Tietchens

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    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 21 July 2011 – Louis Dufort

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    Radio show KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 4 August 2011 – Alan Courtis {mp3remote}http://www.sonm.es/media/audio/radio/Alan-Courtis.mp3{/mp3remote} Radio show

    KOWS No Pigeonholes EXP 18 August 2011 – Zbigniew Karkowski {mp3remote}http://www.sonm.es/media/audio/radio/Zbigniew Karkowski.mp3{/mp3remote}

The idea of micro-compositions is always an interesting challenge (particularly for artists who normally work in much larger formats) and -when taken seriously- tends to produce surprising and compelling results. With no “theme”, no restrictions other than a precise duration of two minutes per micro-composition, and keeping the radio broadcast in mind, ninety-one pieces were created for this project.

The result is a very modular constellation of small audio pieces that can be organized in a number of ways for broadcast. The project is now being offered for broadcast in radios worldwide (online: only streaming, no downloads) and open to recombination -as seen fit by the broadcaster- acknowledging its modularity: organized according to the original plan of thirteen weeks with one artist per day of the week, with monographic shows per artist, with thirteen different shows with pieces from all the artists… and with any other imaginable permutation of these small -but tasty- signals.

Francisco López

Interested radios / broadcasters, please contact: franciscolopez@franciscolopez.net

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A Tasty Swarm of Small Signals” (DVD-audio Störung, Spain 2010) review at Vital Weekly (The Netherlands), January 2011.

This might be the future of releasing music. I think I said that before, with some of the Empreintes Digitales DVD’s, containing no images but 24-bit audio. And a lot more difficult to extract and rip and share (for free). But perhaps also a bit too much for audiophiles? I am not sure. Francisco Lopez curated this project, with consists of seven artists, each delivering no less than thirteen two-minute audio compositions. Why seven, thirteen and two, you may wonder? I am not sure either, but Lopez did a nice selection. Besides himself we have here James Webb, Lawrence English, Asmus Tietchens, Louis Dufort, Alan Courtis and Zbigniew Karkwoski. Which I guess makes an interesting selection from various parts of the world of experimental music. The serious avant-garde is represented by Dufort, who
does a fine job on the matter at hand, and while heavily under the influence of acousmatica, the briefness of the pieces makes it all nice.
Webb and English both represent the world of field recordings and ambience. Delicate pieces here, in which a certain amount of musical-ness slip through the gaps. Lopez and Tietchens also deal with field recordings and electronics, but their work is much more abstract than English and Webb’s. In Lopez’ case thirteen pieces of mildly droning affairs of heavily treated rainfall or ventilation shafts (or some such, you can’t be sure with Lopez), whereas Tietchens offers his highly atomized sparks of sounds and silence. Alan Courtis and Zbigniew Karkwoski are both on the more traditional noise spectrum, each at a side, firmly apart. Karkowski with some highly computerized noise patterns, at times fiercely loud and sometimes a bit less loud, but throughout firmly gritty and digital, while Courtis is much more quiet (than we are used of him?), but not allowing any silence in his work. Drone based soundscapes of a big city at night – perhaps – like indicated through the visual on display. An excellent compilation, which is of course a bit long – three hours – to be played at once, but you could select one a day and have a great week.

Frans de Waard

MURCIA SOUND MATTER

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CD MURCIA SOUND MATTER

(AB), José María Pastor, Iona Pergo, Manuel Palma, María Hernández, Miguel Hernández, Macarena Llamas, Juan Jesús Yelo, Susana López, José Perelló, Sergio Sánchez and Francisco López.

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Radio show: No Pigeonholes EXP

Radio: KOWS, California (www.kows.fm)

Host: Don Campau (www.doncampau.com)

Date: March 17th 2011

Track: 06, Susana López, Vortex

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Typically, the sound recordings are contemplated as representations of reality.

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