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=46RANCISCO L=F3PEZ & MARC BEHRENS / J=DCRGEN ECKLOFF
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STAALPLAAT AUDIO-GALERIE

=46REITAG      17.09.1999      21.30
Rosenthaler Str. 39 (2. HH, 1. Stock)
Berlin / Hackscher Markt



Over the last eighteen years Francisco L=F3pez has been developing a powerfu=
l
and consistent world of minimal electroacoustic soundscapes, 'trying to
reach an ideal of absolute conr=E8te 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 involment 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 virtuosistic 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, October 1997



Infos:   T: 44 34 02 90      E: berlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Rosenthaler Str. 39 (2. HH, 1. Stock)

Berlin / Hackscher Markt

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</bold>Over the last eighteen years Francisco L=F3pez has been developing
a powerful and consistent world of minimal electroacoustic soundscapes,
'trying to reach an ideal of absolute conr=E8te 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,
=46rance, 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
involment 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 virtuosistic
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, October 1997




Infos:   T: 44 34 02 90      E: berlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx=20



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Staalplaat Berlin audio galerie: Rosenthaler Str. 39 10178 Berlin Germany

P.O.Box 540205-10042 Berlin Tel : +49 (0)30 44340290 Fax: +49 (0)30 44340291

Visit: http://www.staalplaat.com

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