Francisco López (musician)

Francisco López
Francisco López in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Francisco López
Born	1964
Origin	Madrid, Spain
Genres	Experimental music Musique concrète Sound art Soundscape Noise music
Occupation(s)	Musician Sound artist
Years active	1982–present
Website	www.franciscolopez.net

Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.

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, Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sónar, , Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.

For the Spanish Pavilion of the Expo 2008, López presented a "double sonic intervention", consisting of both an indoor sound installation and an outdoor performance.^[1]

In 2006, López won the First Prize for the Sound Art Competition of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.^[2] He has received honorable mention of the Prix Ars Electronica on three occasions^[3](1999, 2002, 2007) and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.

He is director and curator of the sound archive .^[4]

Selected discography[]

The following is a partial discography, from the more than 200 releases by Francisco López.

• (1983) Untitled ()
• (1990) La Primera Aventura de Cekoni y Conike, with Miguel Ángel Ruiz ()
• (1993) Azoic Zone ()
• (1994) Tonhaus ()
• (1995) Warszawa Restaurant (Trente Oiseaux)
• (1996) Paris hiss ()
• (1996) Belle Confusion 966 (Trente Oiseaux)
• (1997) Addy en el país de las frutas y los chunches (Alien8 Recordings)
• (1998) La Selva (V2_Archief)
• (1998) Belle Confusion 969 ()
• (1999) Untitled #89 (Or)
• (2000) Untitled #104 (Alien8 Recordings)
• (2000) Belle Confusion 00, with Amy Denio ()
• (2000) Untitled #92 (Mego)
• (2001) Whint, with Zbigniew Karkowski ()
• (2001) Nav, with John Duncan ()
• (2001) Buildings [New York] (V2_Archief)
• (2002) Le Chemin du Paradis, with Steve Roden ()
• (2003) Wasps ()
• (2004) A Szellem Álma, with ()
• (2005) Mavje, with (Nexsound)
• (2006) Untitled #180 (Alien8 Recordings)
• (2006) Buzzin' Fly / Dormant Spores, with Z'EV ()
• (2006) Hysechasterion ()
• (2007) Lopez Island ()
• (2007) Wind [Patagonia] (And/oar)
• (2008) Technocalyps (Alien8 Recordings)
• (2009) HB, with Lawrence English ()
• (2009) Through The Looking-Glass (KAIROS)
• (2009) Untitled #228 ()
• (2010) Machines ()
• (2010) Amarok ()
• (2010) Köllt / Kulu ()
• (2011) Untitled #244 (Sub Rosa)
• (2011) Krmn, with Maurizio Bianchi (Important Records)
• (2011) Titans, with Novi_sad ()
• (2011) Untitled #275 ()
• (2012) Untitled #284 (Crónica)
• (2012) BioMechanica - BM01, with Arturo Lanz ()
• (2013) Lith, with Aernoudt Jacobs (Sub Rosa)
• (2013) Untitled #308 ()
• (2013) Heitsi-Eibib-Rec()
• (2014) Hyper-Rainforest ()
• (2015) Untitled #274 (Important Records)
• (2015) Yo-kai 17.1ch sound installation (Sapporo noble＊north2)
• (2016) Anima Ardens (Sub Rosa)
• (2017) Untitled #352 ()
• (2018) Untitled #360 ()
• (2019) Ekkert Nafn, with Miguel A. García (Crónica)

Music for video, film and dance[]

Partial listing:^[5]

• 1985 'Andalucía', video by Rafael Flores.
• 1992 'Vigo, paseos visuales', video by .
• 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 Karl Lemieux.
• 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
• Francisco López discography at Discogs
• Francisco López at AllMusic
• Francisco López at IMDb