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absolute norway

francisco lópez
live @ black box theatre, oslo
ultima - oslo contemporary music festival
fri. 14 october 2005 - 8:00pm

more info -> http://www.blackbox.no

francisco lópez
live @ avantgarden theatre, trondheim
sat. 15 october 2005 - 11:00pm

more info -> http://www.avantgarden.no absolute lausanne

francisco lópez
live @ luff festival
casino de montbenon, lausanne
thu. 13 october 2005

more info -> http://www.luff.ch

Programmation musicale LUFF 05

Mercredi 12 octobre : Nuit Bruits de corps curated by Tochnit Aleph
Soirée musicale dédiée aux performances bruitistes interrogeant le corps dans toutes ses dimensions.

- Masonna (Alchemy/J)
- Zbigniew Karkowski & Atsuko Nojiri (Sub Rosa/PL/J)
- Daniel Menche (Soleilmoon/Antifrost/USA)
- Dear Daniel & Michael... (Tochnit Aleph/D)
- Dave Phillips (Tochnit Aleph/Mego/CH)
- Sudden Infant (Blossoming Noise/CH)
- Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device (Dualplover/Aus)

Jeudi 13 octobre : Black and Blue Night
Soirée musicale dédiée aux expérimentations électroniques et électro-acoustiques sondant l'ensemble du spectre sonore au plus profond de ses textures et couleurs.

- Pita & Jade (Mego/A)
- Francisco López (Alien8 rec./Esp)
- Vladislav Delay (Huume rec./Fin)
- Francisco Meirino (Groundfault rec./CH)
- Mystery Frequency (Hardact rec./CH)

Vendredi 14 octobre : Seminal Rock'n'Roll Night
Soirée musicale dédiée au rock'n'roll décadent et à sa diva, Alan Vega.

- Alan Vega (USA)
- Etant donnés (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier/F)
- Melt-Banana (A-Zap rec./J)
- The Licks (CH)
- James d'O (Midinette rec./CH)

Samedi 15 octobre : Post Electronic Night
Soirée musicale dédiée à la fin de la musique électronique, quand le hip hop ou le punk s'en empare.

- DAT Politics (Chicks On Speed rec./F)
- Airborn Audio (Ninja Tune/USA)
- Cobra Killer (Monika38/D)
- Syndrôme WPW (Midinette rec./CH)
- Jo la Noïze (CH)
- Deknoid (CH)
absolute montpellier

francisco lópez
live @ festival sonorités
centre chorégraphique national, montpellier
sat. 8 october 2005

more info -> http://sonorites.chez.tiscali.fr absolute milano

francisco lópez
talk + live show

@ audiovisiva festival
castello sforzesco, milan
sat. 1 october 2005

more info -> www.audiovisiva.com
absolute johannesburg

francisco lópez
UNYAZI Festival
Wits Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
sept. 3rd, 10:00pm - live concert @ main theatre
sept. 4th, 10:30am - lecture @ amphitheatre

UNYAZI Festival of electronic music and sonic arts
1-4 September 2005
Wits Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa

The first festival of electronic music and sonic arts in Africa

The computer, the sampler, and the turntable. The new sound technologies embraced by the post-rave generation have linked them into a network of experimental and unconventional musicians going back to the electroacoustic pioneers of the 1960s. Over the last decade this explosion of creative collaboration between several generations of electronic musicians and sonic artists has been celebrated in a growing number of international events, such as the Sonar Festival in Barcelona and the Phonotaktik in Vienna. Now electronic music is coming to Johannesburg with the UNYAZI festival.

NewMusicSA, the South African Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, is proud to present UNYAZI - the first festival of electronic music and sonic arts in Africa. Over four days in September, top international musicians, teachers, and artists will be featured together with African musicians who are working in this field.

Under the curatorship of South African composer Dimitri Voudouris, the festival will run from 1 - 4 September in Johannesburg at venues on the Wits University campus in Braamfontein, in association with the Digital Arts and Music Divisions of the Wits School of Arts.

Funded principally by the National Arts Council of South Africa, the festival will feature the extraordinary range and variety of electronic musics from Africa and the rest of the world. UNYAZI will consist of

. a symposium with presenters from Europe, the Americas and Africa,

. workshops and live performances throughout each day of the Festival by some of the most well-known names in the sonic arts both internationally and nationally, from tape music to kwaito and everything in between.

Come and experience legendary names such as the Egyptian Halim El-Dabh and American pioneer Pauline Oliveros in electrifying performances and workshops.

Halim El-Dabh is regarded as Egypt�s foremost living composer and has been a pioneer in electronic music since his first tape experiments in 1944. Like Bela Bartok his work draws on his field research into traditional musics from North Africa and Ethiopia and he has explored both electronics and folk instruments such as the Egyptian clay drum, the �darabukha�. Pauline Oliveros is an American composer, performer, author and philosopher who has profoundly influenced contemporary American music through her works with improvisation, electronic music, myth, ritual and mediation.

A wealth of other composers and performers will come from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Zimbabwe and the USA - Rodrigo Sigal, Lukas Ligeti, Blake Tyson, Yannis Kyriakides, Matthew Ostrowski, Maxime Rioux, George Lewis, Luc Houtkamp+POW, Francisco López, Sandra Ndebele, My Kingdom For A Lullabuy, Schnee.

Local electronic musicians will not be neglected. At Unyazi you can also catch performances by artists and composers from all over South Africa: Warrick Sony, Brendon Bussy, Louis Moholo, James Webb (Cape Town), Theo Herbst and the KEMUS Ensemble (Stellenbosch), Sazi Dlamini, Jürgen Bräuninger + Sazi Dlamini and Zim Ngqwana (Durban), and Carlo Mombelli, João Orecchia, Skwatta Kamp, Pops Mohammed, Rheza Khota, James Sey, Skid, Chris Wood and Dimitri Voudouris (Johannesburg).

Workshops will be conducted by Blake Tyson , Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Brendon Bussy, and Luc Houtkamp who with local composers and performers will develop over the four days a local POW ensemble that will perform live on the last day of the Festival.

A bonus will be the screenings of the films of Aryan Kaganof. Kaganof, South Africa�s most exciting filmmaker, has worked closely with electronic musicians in many of his films.

A special Listening Room will host performances of works for premixed tape.

Complete information and schedule at: http://www.newmusicsa.org.za.
absolute montreal

francisco lópez (es/can)
carlos gifonni (us)
wapstan (can)

live @ sala rosa
4848 st. laurent, montreal
19/08/05 - 9:00pm

www.alien8recordings.com:
Francisco López will make his annual return to the Sala Rosa for his first show in nearly a year on Friday August 19. Joining him on the bill will be Carlos Gifonni from NYC and local artist Wapstan. The doors are at 21:00 and show will commence at 22:00. Admission is pay what you can on a sliding scale of $10-$15.
absolute east

eastern tour

francisco lópez
michael gendreau
jeff surak

June 25 - Tallinn @ Von Krahl Theatre
w/Andres Lõo aka ARS INTEL KI WA
June 27-28 St. Petersburg @ GEZ
w/Hladno, Cisfinitum, Porch Nap
June 29 - Moscow @ Tarakan
w/Alexei Borisov
June 30 - Jaroslavl @ Museum of Fine Arts
w/Alexei Borisov
July 2 - Kiev @ A&T Trade Shop
w/Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra
July 6 - Warsaw @ Contemporary Art Center
July 8 - Kaunas @ Zilinskas Art Gallery
July 9 - Liepaja @ Fontaine Palace
fahrstühle

live world premiere of "fahrstühle" ("elevators")
by francisco lópez

@ leipzig opera
augustusplatz, leipzig
june 5th 2005 - 6:30pm

as part of the festival "heimat moderne"
commissioned and organized by forum zeitgenössischer musik leipzig

more info ->
http://www.heimatmoderne.de
http://www.kreuzer-leipzig.de
absolute sheffield

Lovebytes festival (sheffield, uk):

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
Live performance: 15th Apr / 10:00pm-11:00pm
Lecture presentation: 16th Apr. / 2:45pm-3:45pm

"With complete darkness and an enormous surround sound system, López controls processed environmental recordings to deliver an astonishingly powerful performance reaching both extremes of dreadful force and the most subtle aural edges."

There you go...
live in montreal

THIS THURSDAY: FRANCISCO LÓPEZ CD LAUNCH

Francisco López will be launching his fourth release on Alien8 Recordings. The release, titled "Live in Montreal" was recorded on July 20, 2002 at the Sala Rossa. Thursday's event will be a listening event of the release and the public is encouraged to engage with the artist who will be on hand to discuss the work.

This launch takes place Thursday March 24 at 6 PM at Cluny, a bistro located in Old Montreal's Darling Foundry art space run by Quartier Ephemere. The address is 745 rue Ottawa, between Prince and Queen.
absolute amazon

MAMORI ART LAB - AMAZON, BRAZIL
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
PHOTOGRAPHY � SOUND � ARCHITECTURE � DESIGN
27th JUNE - 3th OCTOBER 2005

Students and professionals of these areas are invited to interact with one of the most sensational environments of our planet, from the respect and the admiration that the place deserves.

WORKSHOPS 2005:

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ (sound)
XABIER ERKIZIA (sound)
CURRO CLARET (design)
MARTIN RUIZ DE AZUA & GERARD MOLINÉ (design)
QUIM VIÑOLAS (architecture)
CARLOS BARRANTES (photography)
ROGER GRASAS (photography)
SANTIAGO CIRUGEDA (architecture)
MARKO SLOBODANOV BRAJOVIC (architecture)
MANUEL ARENAS (architecture)
AFFONSO ORCIUOLI & IGNASI PEREZ ARNAL (architecture)

info:
website: www.malab.net
Mamori Art Lab Workshop
Mamori Lake (Manaus, Brasil) - July 2005

Title:
Natural and virtual sound environments: the 'real' world as a source for sonic creation

Given by:
Francisco L�ópez

Perspective:

My work with sound is based on an intense struggle with the question of what 'reality' is, and with the creation and development of new worlds of sonic experience. All my source materials come from field recordings I carry out myself in all sorts of (mainly) natural environments. I don't use any instruments (neither traditional nor electronic) to generate my sound materials. For me, the "real" world is the best sound generator. This exploration of the sonic world doesn't have a representational aim, which I consider to be one of the least interesting aspects of the interaction with so-called 'reality'. I regard sound as a phenomenological entity by itself, as a raw material detached from referentiality and specific meaning. My work is focused on the generation and careful construction of new virtual sonic worlds out of that raw material through an extensive process of mutation that can range from simple editing of the souns material to its complete transformation into an absolutely non-recognizable matter. The virtuality of these creations does not lie upon a sense of representation or replication of the original 'reality' but it rather aims to the production of a vivid hyper-reality ot meta-reality through a sonic space that doesn't exist in reality.

Goals and activities:

Under a perspective of creation, of hands-on experience and of discussion and interaction, this workshop tackles with the exploration of natural sound environments in the surroundings of Lake Mamori (Manaus, Brazil), both in their intrinsic features and in their potential as source material for the creation of new virtual sonic worlds.

The main aim of the workshop is the creative exploration -instead of a documentation one- of these sound environments. It is open to anyone with interest in a wide variety of areas within sound creation, nature exploration, or aphenomenological approach to reality. It doesn't have a technical character but it will include technical aspects in the practise of field recordings, and it may thus serve as an introductory work for those with no previous experience in this field. It is not directed to the bioacoustic recording of specific animal species, but rather to a holistic approach to sound environments as wholesome sonic spaces. Those with an interest in bioacoustics, however, are also welcome to contribute their perspective and experience in the context of the creative orientation of the workshop.

Among other specific aspects (including those that might arise from the collective discussion and work), the workshop will deal with:

- the perception of the astonishing sonic and spatial richness of the environments of a tropical rain forest such as Lake Mamori,
- the exploration of the creative potential of this outstanding reality,
- the awareness on the equally astonishing ubiquity of human-generated sounds, even in remote areas.

The acitivities will include:

- introductory sessions on field recordings and sound creation,
- field trips (both diurnal and nocturnal) for intense listening and recording of sound environments,
- collective listening and discussion sessions of the sound materials gathered,
- sessions of studio work (with laptop) starting from these materials.

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