From November 15th through December 22nd Francisco López will be off all communication, since he will be directing his annual residency/workshop in the Brazilian Amazon at Mamori Lake, where there's no telephone or internet connection (in the middle of the jungle!). You can send any email communication to his usual address franciscolopez [at] franciscolopez.net.

He'll start taking care of that right after December 22nd. Apologies for any inconveniences.

francisco lópez
imersive multi-channel live performance
based on mutated field recordings from the brazilian amazon

Museo Arqueológico Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid
Plaza de las Bernardas s/n
Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Tuesday November 11th - 20:30h
Free entrance

francisco lópez

Friday Nov. 7th - 2:00PM: Lecture on sound philosophy @ Royal College of Music
Saturday Nov. 8th - 9:00PM: Live immersive performance @ Fylkingen

more info:
http://www.kmh.se/home_en.php
http://www.fylkingen.se/

francisco lópez
lecture on sound creation / field recordings

@ London College of Communication
University of the Arts, London
Wednesday Nov.5th - 2:00PM

"kill your timid notion" festival

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
at dundee contemporary arts
152 nether gate, dundee, scotland
sunday october 12th, 2008 - 8:00pm

Francisco López
"Trilogy of the Americas - Buildings [New York]"

Friday, October 10, 8pm
Judson Church
55 Washington Square South
New York City
$15 / $10 students, seniors, EMF Subscribers

Francisco López is known for his virtual worlds of sound created from myriad original sources collected all over the world, from rainforests and deserts, factories and buildings, from multiple locations in the five continents. His performance, excerpted from his monumental Trilogy for the Americas, is a rich excursion into a virtual world of sound originating from multiple locations throughout New York City, mutated and evolved during years of compositional work. In the concert, the room is dark, blindfolds are provided for the audience, and the sounds project from a multi-channel system around the room.

More info:
http://www.emfproductions.org/upcoming/lopez.html
http://www.eartotheearth.org

"21:100:100"
100 works by 100 artists from the 21st Century

Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival
and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

11 October - 15 November 2008
Melbourne, Australia

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
tribute to Inannis Xenakis

@ kulturbunker, cologne, germany
sept 28th 2008 - 8:00pm

francisco lópez
sound installation + live immersive performance
@ lokaal01, breda, netherlands

live show: sept 27th 2008 - 8:00pm
sound installation: sept 26h - october 26th, 2008

francisco lópez
live solo performance
@ blackbox / cuba
sept 26th 2008 - 8:30pm

aufabwegen präsentiert:
Geräuschwelten #47
FRANCISCO LÓPEZ (absolute concrete music, Madrid)
&
FETISCH PARK (first performance in many years by this legendary project!)
Nachholtermin vom Juni 08!!!
&
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE (42 Entgleisungen in Stereo, Caen)

26.09.2008 - Freitag
Black Box/cuba
Achtermannstr. 12, 48143 Münster
Einlass: 20.00h, erstes Konzert: 20.30h

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
Reina Sofia National Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid
Sept 19th 2008 - 8:00pm

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
sept. 13th @ chinch, belgrade

francisco lópez
@ LABoral - centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Gijón, Spain
Sept. 11th 2008
4:00pm - lecture / discussion
8:00pm live immersive performance

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
@ full pull festival

scanienparken (malmoe, sweden)
sept 7th 2008 - 6:00pm

francisco lópez
live multi-channel outdoor immersive performance

@ Full Pull Festival, Malmoe, Sweden
Sept. 7th, 2008

Full Pull 08 - aug 23-sep 21
The future is bright though the color theme for Full Pull 08 is black. The fourth edition of Full Pull festival presents music, art and video from August 23 to September 21. Together with partners from Copenhagen to Kristianstad Full Pull 08 open the doors at ten different venues and public spaces filled with music, art and activities. Participating artists are now presented under ARTISTS.

francisco lópez
live immersive multi-channel performance
@ levontin 7, tel aviv
friday 08/08/08 at 4:00pm

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
@ uganda, jerusalem
thursday 07/08/08 at 9:00pm

Live immersive performance with multi-channel rotating speaker system designed and constructed by Aernoudt Jacobs

as part of the exhibition "Crosswire"
3 - 26 July 2008
presented @:

Nederlands Instituut voor MediaKunst
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
Tel. 020 6237101
www.nimk.nl

The exhibition and performance series "Optofonica presents: Crosswire" comprises sound installations and audiovisual environments enabling immersive and spatial sonic experiences through bodily and multi-sensory perception. Whilst the various works offer different points of access to sound experience, all are designed to achieve a distinct impact on the visitors' physical system, their bodies and brains. As a result, compositions become perceptible as holistic phenomena. Crosswire is curated by Maurizio Martinucci on the basis of the Optofonica platform which is devoted to the presentation of the current state of art in synesthetic media and sound spatialization. At last year's 5 days off media festival Optofonica presented live performances and screenings.
"Crosswire" is now its first exhibition.

"Optofonica presents: Crosswire" is a production of 5 days of media in cooperation with the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst. 5 days off takes place from 2 - 6 July in Paradiso and De Melkweg, more information: http://www.5daysoff.nl


INSTALLATIONS:

Aernoudt Jacobs: Phantom Melodies
Phantom Melodies is an installation with a number of self-constructed rotating speakers, each producing a specific stream of sounds. The speakers are placed in a space where the public can walk about freely. The installation is playing in a constant loop: as a result it is perceived as a constantly shifting sound field. The sound field is created from the rotation and speed alterations in accordance to the sounds and the timeline of the score. The sound field is an automated composition from movements in time.

Kaffe Matthews: Sonic Bed
While lying on Kaffe Matthews' Sonic Bed the visitor becomes physically affected by a spectrum of sound vibrations shifting underneath and around them. The 12 channel sound system immersed in the bed plays a specially constructed sound work, vibrating through and moving around the visitor.
Subtle and dynamic, at times beyond hearing, the composition uses the architectural map of the human body and frequencies it is tuned to as its score.
Sonic Bed will play music to feel rather than just listen to, for 1 to 6 people at a time.

Telcosystems: Semaphore
Semaphore is a cinematographic installation that emphasizes a subdued and meditative state by submerging the audience in a world of pulsating and shifting shapes. The work is created from two basic compositional premises; pulse and feedback. The backbone of the compositions a stream of visual and sonic pulses, leaving its intervals to be explored and brought to life bya feedback generating network, consisting of envelopes, gates, compressors and masks. The intertwining layers provide the experience of an elaborate audiovisual time-space-continuum. Running almost entirely without input from the outside world, the system becomes a magnifier of its own rudimentary functions and algorithms.

Sagi Groner : Liso Armonium
Liso Armonium (Liso = "cut" in greek)
Two mechanical switches control the distribution of sound to the many speakers erected as pillars, arches or other architectural and sculptural forms, adapted to the hosting space. The sound 'travels' and 'spirals' up and down the speakers structures as the dials on the switches revolve. The switches in effect chop the input sound signal in many segments which are directed to different speakers. Invisible 'pockets' of sound can be discovered by moving in the space.

TeZ + Janis Pönisch : Optofonica Capsule
The Optofonica Capsule is a futuristic design/architectural object, featuring a mechanized structure whose parts form an autonomous immersive audiovisual environment. The shell-like shape of the capsule wraps the body of the visitor to optimize the experience of surround and Tactile Sound. Low frequencies are transduced directly into the bone-system of the human body, thereby converting the sound into hyper-perceivable vibration; this adds a completely new sensorial dimension to the fruition of the piece and expands the possibilities of creation by the artists.


PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS:

wed 2 july
19h:30 Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
20h:30 Aernoudt Jacobs

thu 3 july
19h:30 Martijn Tellinga / Cédric Pigot

fri 4 july
19h:30 Telcosystems

sat 5 july
19h:30 Optofonica Surround Cinema

sun 6 july
19h:30 Aernoudt Jacobs
20h:30 Francisco López

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) performance on the opening night features virtual instruments designed specifically for each composition created for the Orchestra within the Second Life platform and are played by artists from all around the world making live music together. AOM's concert includes the beautiful and powerful THE HEART OF TONES (mixed reality version) by iconic composer Pauline Oliveros (aka Free Noyes), and the mesmerizing composition FRAGULA by sound artist Björn Eriksson (aka Miulew Takahe).

Aernoudt Jacobs' work is the culmination of an investigation into how the sounds from the field recordings can be processed into a different context. Field recordings for Jacobs are more than just recordings. The facts, memories and context of the recording are more interesting and provide an additional reason for (re)constructing them.
Perception is an important aspect of his sound work. Observing music, sound and harmonies is a physical, emotional and intellectual activity that is always associated with personal memories.The properties of a particular piece of music or a sound will influence each individual's perception.

Martijn Tellinga and Cédric Pigot, respectively dutch and french sound artists, have been invited by Sagi Groner to present live multichannel sound compositions. Their acquaintance with acousmatics and experimental sound research makes their presence particularly appreciated in the context of

With Mortals Electrics Telcosystems brings a new audiovisual journey. Over the years they managed to achieve a seamless integration of human interaction and machine behavior. In their interaction with machines they create a form of live cinema in which they fuse the auditive and visual domain into a spatial experience, exploring the limits of the human sensory apparatus. Mortals Electrics brings restrained and lucid imagery, layers of strobing organic structures, deep machinic drones and waves of digital noise.

Optofonica Surround Cinema is a "formula" for high quality screenings of the audiovisual works produced for the Optofonica project by over 30 international artists. A selection from the consistent program, soon to be published on a DVD, will be screened in high resolution video (DV PAL) and uncompressed surround sound (6 tracks, 48KHz, 16 bit - NO AC3) directly from computer. OSC is a rare occasion to watch
experimental audiovisual creations at their best.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the underground experimental music scene. Over the last twenty five 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.

francisco lópez
live @ sala rossa, montreal
suoni per il popolo festival
june 30th - 8:30pm

rancisco lópez
live @ issue project room
brooklyn, new york
june 28th, 2008 at 8:00pm

Floating Points 2008
ISSUE Project Room

This Festival, in its third year, (formerly points in a circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room's Innovative house
speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.

In the hands of these diverse performers and sound artist, this fifteen-channel installation of hemisphere loudspeakers radically changes the concert experience for both performer and audience.

Each of the hemispheres radiates sound in all directions, activating the acoustics of this unique concert space. Immersive sonic
environments are generated, electronic sounds take on the characteristic intimacy of acoustic instruments, and location is liberated as a musical dimension.

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
@ observatori festival, valencia
june 21 7:00pm

International Exhibition ExpoZaragoza 2008
Zaragoza, Spain
June 14th - September 14th 2008

http://www.expozaragoza2008.es
http://www.expo-int.com


Francisco López - "VIRTUAL SONIC WATER"

"VIRTUAL SONIC WATER" is a double sonic intervention created by sound artist Francisco López for the Spanish Pavilion of the ExpoZaragoza 2008. It includes a performance in the outside surroundings of the Pavilion and a sound installation in the Omnimax theatre inside it, that present the contrast between ancestral sound techniques and the latest electronic technology. Both converge in the reproduction of water sound, yet none of them aims at simply "reproducing" but rather to give rise to an aesthetic and emotional experience through sound as a gate to access those levels of appreciation that each person can subjectively interpretate.

1 - "RAIN ORCHESTRA":
Place: outside surroundings of the Spanish Pavilion
Performance: every day at 10:30AM and 9:00PM
Approximate duration: 10 minutes

The rainstick is an ancestral instrument whose precise origin is unkown. It has been used for centuries by indigenous peoples worldwide. With the simplicity of a tube filled with particulated material (seeds, sand, shells) it produces a surprising and lush sound that imitates rain or a small water stream. "Rain Orchestra" is a composition - performance for 100 rainsticks performed by a coordinated group of 50 volunteers. This work explores, in a purely acoustic fashion, the sonority of this water simulation, as well as the textures and overlapping of sound layers that arise from the synchronous and random combinations of a myriad of these instruments.


2 - "SOUND VOYAGE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD'S WATERS":
Place: Omnimax of the Spanish Pavilion
Performance: every day at 9:30PM
Approximate duration: 15 minutes

The sound of water is a prototypical example of broad-band sound, that is, a sound that contains many different and simultaneous audible frequencies. In a sense, is a kind of sound material that contains, as a possibility, all the imaginable tones and harmonies. "Sound Voyage Throughout the World's Waters" is a sound installation designed for the sound system with hundreds of speakers of the Omnimax Theatre of the Spanish Pavilion, and it is peformed in complete darkness in this space. It does not present music in the traditional sense. Instead, it is composed of several virtual sound evironments created from a multitude of original field recordings of water of natural environments (oceans, rivers, lakes, rain, etc.) from all over the world, which have been recorded by the artist over the past twenty years. These sound materials have been transformed in the studio to give rise to an immersive and dynamic large-scale experience, with spatilization and movement of sound, that drifts between reality and an organic and unreal harmony, and that has been extracted - we could say distilled - from that original reality.

Festival Futuro Presente
Rovereto, Italy

Francisco López
Live immersive performance - Friday May 9th 9:00PM - Auditorio Fausto Melotti
Lecture / Discussion - Saturday May 10th 7:00PM - Sala Conferenze del Mart

francisco lópez

I jornadas de arte sonoro
facultad de bellas artes, universidad de granada, spain

april 10th, 2008
5:00pm at lecture "the international underground network and the 'real world' as environments fo sound creation"
7:30pm at live performance