Subject: Francisco Lopez in Concert
From: Thomas Neuhaus
2. Juni 2015, 19:30
Pina Bausch Theater
Folkwang Universität der Künste, Klemensborn 39, 45239 Essen
Das ICEM hat den Klangkünstler und Komponisten Francisco Lopez zu einem
Konzert eingeladen.
Lopez‘ Konzerte sind durch seine ungewöhnliche Bestuhlung und die
Verwendung von Augenbinden besondere Klangerfahrungen.
Zu seiner Person:
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures
on the stage of sound art and experimental music. His experience in the
field of sound creation and work with environmental recordings covers a
period of more than 25 years, during which he has developed an
impressive sound universe that is completely personal and iconoclastic
and based on profound listening to the world. He has performed hundreds
of concerts, projects with field recordings and sound installations in
50 countries all over the world, including the main international
museums, galleries and festivals, such as: PS1 Contemporary Art Center
(New York), Museum of Modern Art (Paris), International Film Festival
(Rotterdam), Festival des Arts (Brussels), Darwin Fringe (Darwin,
Australia), Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Museum of Modern Art
of Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Center of
Contemporary Art (Kita-Kyushu, Japan), etc. His extensive catalogue of
sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with more than 100
international artists) has been published by more than 170 recording
companies all over the world and he has received the honorific mention
of the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz) on three occasions.
Zu seinen Konzerten:
Francisco López’s sound performances are something beyond a „normal“
music concert. An intense and rich sonic immersive experience in the
dark, with a surround multi-channel sound system and blindfolds provided
for the audience. Virtual worlds of sound created out of a myriad of
original sources collected all over the world -from rainforests and
deserts to factories and buildings from multiple locations in the five
continents- and mutated and evolved during years of studio work through
the master compositional skills of López’s universe.
The space is reconfigured with a multi-channel surround system around
the audience, which is placed in seats arranged in concentric circles
facing the outside array of speakers. The performer operates from the
center of the space (not on stage), in order to be able to control live
the sound as is heard by the audience.
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