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Francisco Lopez

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realms of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty-five years he has realized hundreds of concerts / performances, projects with environmental recordings, field research and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide. Among other prizes, López has been awarded five times with honorary mentions at the Prix Ars Electronica and is the recipient of a Qwartz Award for best sound anthology.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realms of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty-five years he has realized hundreds of concerts / performances, projects with environmental recordings, field research and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide. Among other prizes, López has been awarded five times with honorary mentions at the Prix Ars Electronica and is the recipient of a Qwartz Award for best sound anthology.

Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003
20-year collection from the pioneer of absolute concrète music. Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003, is the centerpiece to this prolific artist's catalog. Housed in a stunning black on black embossed box. Released as a cooperative operation from Bl…
live in Montreal
This live offering marks our fourth release with Madrid, Spain’s Francisco López in as many years. Over the same period we have organized nearly a dozen live events with the artist. This release documents an especially memorable performance from 2002…
TechnoCalyps
Continuing his 'exploration of the universe of broad-band noise from the real world,' Francisco López delivers his latest tour de force, the original soundtrack to the film TechnoCalyps by Frank Theys. TechnoCalyps is a documentary in three parts on …
Conops
Conops is a work created from recordings of environments which are dominated by networks of insect sound. It is a composition of sound immersion that is not designed to represent reality, but rather transform it into a new sound universe, absolute an…
Audioscope - New Electronic Music From Madrid
Two tracks each by Francisco Lopez, Luis Mesa, Juan P. Monreal, Antonio Garcia, Miguel Ruiz, 1 track each by El Sueno de Hyparco, Markus Breuss, Orfeon Gagarin.
untitled # 90
The sonic vibrancy of tropical rainforests is highlighted on the one long (45 minutes) track of Untitled #90. But, of course, in the hands of Francisco López, the kinetic sounds are manipulated and shaped in most imaginative ways. Opening with the bu…
belle confusion 969
long out of print, Produced in part by the Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music (CDMC), and the Spanish National Radio (RNE). Recordings made between 1990-1996 in tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica…
Le chemin du paradis
Another installment from the Fario label in their attempt to bring together two artists. Usually these CDs consist of three tracks: one  collaborative track and one by each artist solo. For this fifth CD two Vital Weekly household names show up: Fran…
Untitled #164
Using field recordings made in Brussels together with TRMX, Johan Vandermaelen, Martiens Go Home, and Building Transmissions, López mutates and records these into an intense 73 minute composition that takes the sounds of a city and transforms them in…
untitled music for Geography
Specially re-mixed material Francisco Lopez created for the dance work, Geography, by the The Ralph Lemon Dance Co. which premiered at Yale in New Haven. At the time Francisco already had established himself as an important new composer working with …
untitled (2005)
On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep es…
Absolute noise ensemble
Francisco López's Absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: Alain Wergifosse, Albert Mestre, Antón Ignorant, Carlos Medina, César Góngora, Christian Dergarabedian, Daniel Menche, Ferrán Fages, Francisco López, Games Addiction, Ilios, Io casino, Joe …
Live in San Francisco
With his ongoing pursuit of an 'absolute concrète music,' Francisco López has recontextualized the sounds of the world around us by pushing these sounds to their polar extremes. At times, he has imposed gaping silences and eradicated all but the slig…
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