To hear on Sunday 5 and 12 March 2017, 14:00 - 21:00 Uhr:
Created at ‘mobile messor’ (worldwide), 2014-2015.
by Francisco López
Francisco López on 'untitled #337':
- A composition between sound piece and sonic environment.
- Generated by means of the ‘Low-resolution High Definition Lopezsonics’® system (LHDL) [at 16kbps / 16-bit].
- This 80-minute piece comes in an audio file of 9.6 MB (yes, Megabytes). This is a size rate nearly 100 times smaller than a prototypical CD-standard or .wav file audio “quality” (44 kHz / 16-bit).
- Crucially, however, this is not a compressed version of any original file but rather the actual file-piece as it has been conceived and created. All sonic artifacts have been deliberately generated, selected and maintained for aesthetic reasons.
- Play at maximum volume.
Unlike the tedious customary traditional recommendation, this is not a loud piece but rather a very subtle one, where the essential sonic details will only be audible –and audible in the right way- at maximum volume (no loud surprises or irresponsible tricks).
[This apparent paradox is explained by intentional subsonics, which actually produce a file-piece with strong amplitude levels (easily seen in the waveform or volume indicators, for those interested) that make impossible an undistorted increase in perceptible volume in the file itself.]
- Please use decent headphones or speakers. Typical laptop or handheld-device speakers will render completely inaudible sound (thus generating even more tedious reactions of the head-scratching kind, like “there’s no sound”, “it’s a conceptual silent work”, and crap like that).
- This piece comes with no artwork.
- Conceived to be easily distributed, in a direct personal way, as a simple email attachment (below the current size standard of 10 MB maximum), without even the need of a classic website-based download. Feel free to re-distribute and disseminate.
Audio Field Reports nos. 1-59 / soundactivism 1-38: Interviews since January 2014 with the individual artists, concept and design by Knut Remond. Limited editions audio cassette, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
Francisco López is a sound artist and experimental musician. For more than thirty five 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 seventy countries of the six continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has been released by more than 350 record labels / publishers worldwide. He has been awarded four times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.
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