[ about ]

short bio Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. For almost forty 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 environmental recordings, workshops and sound installations in over seventy countries of the six continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with hundreds of international artists) has been released by nearly 400 record labels / publishers worldwide. He has been awarded four 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]

The big blur theory (PDF)

Live in Dundee

Imagine the sonic center of a maelstrom and you'll have some idea of the relentless swirling mass of thrum López generates [...] a masterful exercise in controlled sound manipulation [www.textura.org]

Perfectly formed sonic power, done in a rampaging style, combining ear-splitting volume with almost seismic catharsis [Giag, Latvia]

Powerful and ominous. Could be anything from tectonic movements to amplified bloodflow [www.chaindlk.com]

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]

López steadily turns (and tunes) the air within your ears against you [Dutch East India, USA]

After listening to this man Lopez I don't know what's going on in the world anymore [The Sound Projector, UK]

This donisis will change your view on what music could be [Drone, Germany]

A sonic beast [...], a paradox to confound physicists and philosophers alike [Dutch East India, USA]