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Francisco Lopez is internationally recognized as one of the major

figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past

30 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. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field

recordings, workshops and sound installations in over 60 countries of

the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live

and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has

been released by more than 250 record labels worldwide. He has

been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the

competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the

Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.

Éric La Casa  I  The influence of the local. The propagation of sound

in a locale is a complex vibratory / undulatory phenomenon which

involves acoustic measurement just as much as it involves aesthetic

appreciation. How to account for the size of things by their sonic

properties? Beyond technical protocol, listening becomes tied up in

the surfaces of the world. Recordings, sonic readings, open out into

a musical form which reactivates a perception of that which

surrounds us, whether visible or not; a reinjection. Thus, for fifteen

years or so, my musical practice has been a series of

experimentations / improvisations with this sonic locale. As it passes

through my microphones, the site of the survey - everyday life - is

transformed into a site of play. The dimensions of the real world

generate sonic representations whose proportions found another

perspective on the world.