Francisco López is an

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ian and

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ist. He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries and festivals, such as: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York City), London Institute of Contemporary Arts,

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, Darwin Fringe Festival,

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. For the Spanish Pavilion of the

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, López presented a "double sonic intervention", consisting of both an indoor sound installation and an outdoor performance. In 2006, López won the First Prize for the Sound Art Competition of the

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. He has received honorable mention of the

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on three occasions(1999, 2002, 2007) and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology. He is director and curator of SONM (The Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art).

Selected discography

The following is a partial discography, from the more than 200 releases by Francisco López. * (1983) ''Untitled'' (Anomma) * (1990) ''La Primera Aventura de Cekoni y Conike'', with

Miguel Ángel Ruiz Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías (born August 27, 1952), better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritualist and neoshamanistic texts. His work is best-received among members of the New Thought movement that focuses on anci ...

(Toracic Tapes / Irre Tapes) * (1993) ''Azoic Zone'' (Geometrik) * (1994) ''Tonhaus'' (Hyades Arts) * (1995) ''Warszawa Restaurant'' (

Trente Oiseaux Trente Oiseaux is a record label founded by experimental musician Bernhard Günter in 1995. Early releases featured musicians such as Francisco López, Roel Meelkop, John Duncan, Jim O'Rourke, Daniel Menche and Günter himself. A bout of ill ...

) * (1996) ''Paris hiss'' (Banned Production) * (1996) ''Belle Confusion 966'' (

) * (1997) ''Addy en el país de las frutas y los chunches'' (

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) * (1998) ''La Selva'' ( V2_Archief) * (1998) ''Belle Confusion 969'' (Sonoris) * (1999) ''Untitled #89'' ( Or) * (2000) ''Untitled #104'' (

) * (2000) ''Belle Confusion 00'', with

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(Absolute) * (2000) ''Untitled #92'' ( Mego) * (2001) ''Whint'', with

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(Absolute) * (2001) ''Nav'', with

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(Absolute) * (2001) ''Buildings ew York' ( V2_Archief) * (2002) ''Le Chemin du Paradis'', with Steve Roden (Fario) * (2003) ''Wasps'' (Longbox) * (2004) ''A Szellem Álma'', with Marc Behrens (Absolute) * (2005) ''Mavje'', with Andrey Kiritchenko ( Nexsound) * (2006) ''Untitled #180'' (

) * (2006) ''Buzzin' Fly / Dormant Spores'', with

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(Lapilli) * (2006) ''Hysechasterion'' (Antifrost) * (2007) ''Lopez Island'' (Elevator Bath) * (2007) ''Wind atagonia' (

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) * (2008) ''Technocalyps'' (

) * (2009) ''HB'', with

Lawrence English Lawrence English (born 1975/76) is an Australian composer, artist, and curator from Brisbane. His work is broadly concerned with the politics of perception, specifically he is interested in the nature of listening, and sounds' capability to occ ...

(Baskaru) * (2009) ''Through The Looking-Glass'' (

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) * (2009) ''Untitled #228'' (ini.itu) * (2010) ''Machines'' (Elevator Bath) * (2010) ''Amarok'' (Glacial Movements Records) * (2010) ''Köllt / Kulu'' (Störung) * (2011) ''Untitled #244'' (

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) * (2011) ''Krmn'', with

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(

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) * (2011) ''Titans'', with

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(GH Records) * (2011) ''Untitled #275'' (Unsounds) * (2012) ''Untitled #284'' ( Crónica) * (2012) ''BioMechanica - BM01'', with Arturo Lanz (Geometrik) * (2013) ''Lith'', with Aernoudt Jacobs (

) * (2013) ''Untitled #308'' (Very Quiet Records) * (2013) ''Heitsi-Eibib-Rec'' (Yugen Art) * (2014) ''Hyper-Rainforest'' (Nowhere Worldwide) * (2015) ''Untitled #274'' (

) * (2015) ''Yo-kai'' 17.1ch sound installation (Sapporo noble＊north2) * (2016) ''Anima Ardens'' (

) * (2017) ''Untitled #352'' (Nowhere Worldwide) * (2018) ''Untitled #360'' (Emitter Micro) * (2019) ''Ekkert Nafn'', with Miguel A. García ( Crónica)

Music for video, film and dance

Partial listing: * 1985 'Andalucía', video by Rafael Flores. * 1992 'Vigo, paseos visuales', video by Matusa Barros. * 1994 'Katodiko-2', video by Armando Benito. * 2003 'köllt',film by Francisco López and Jorge Simonet. * 2006 '

TechnoCalyps ''TechnoCalyps'' is a 2006 Belgian transhumanism documentary film written and directed by Frank Theys. It explores the advance of technology. Documentary precept Set as a three-part documentary, ''TechnoCalyps'' posits that genetics, robotics, a ...

', documentary film by

Frank Theys Frank Theys (born 1963 in Uccle, Belgium) is Belgian filmmaker and visual artist. Theys lives in Brussels and Amsterdam. Theys' video and interactive installations to experimental film, documentary, and theater performance have been placed into c ...

. * 2009 "Mamori", film by

Karl Lemieux Karl Lemieux is a Canadian film director best known for his collaborations with Montreal-based post rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor and his 2016 film '' Shambles''. Biography Karl Lemieux joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 – wh ...

. * 2015 “Zagreb Confidential”, soundtrack film by Darko Fritz & Ivan Klif. * 2016 “Anima Ardens”, dance piece by choreographer Thierry Smits / Companie Thor.

References

External links

Official website
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