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, Paris Museum of Modern Art, National Auditorium of Music,

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, Darwin Fringe Festival, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art. 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 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. 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 (Toracic Tapes / Irre Tapes) * (1993) ''Azoic Zone'' (Geometrik) * (1994) ''Tonhaus'' (Hyades Arts) * (1995) ''Warszawa Restaurant'' ( Trente Oiseaux) * (1996) ''Paris hiss'' (Banned Production) * (1996) ''Belle Confusion 966'' ( Trente Oiseaux) * (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 John Duncan (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' ( And/oar) * (2008) ''Technocalyps'' (

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

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

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) * (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', documentary film by Frank Theys. * 2009 "Mamori", film by

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. * 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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