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Francisco López

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Over the last twenty years Francisco López has been developing a powerful and consistent world of minimal electroacoustic soundscapes, 'trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrète music'. To date, his catalog comprises more than 140 sound works, which have been released by one hundred record labels from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, UK, Norway, Greece, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Japan, China, Australia. He has toured extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, North, Central and South America, Japan and Australia doing acousmatic performances, and he has received commissions from a number of reknown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization (Rotterdam), Yale University Theater (New Haven), the Ralph Lemon Company (New York), the Zeitkratzer Ensemble (Berlin), Creative Time (New York), Quartier Ephemere (Montreal) and Sound Traffic Control (San Francisco).
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Releases:
Frio (2xCass)   Tonspur Tapes 1987
Frio (Cass, Album, C60)   Not On Label 1987
Frio (Cass, Album, C60)   Not On Label 1987
Aranas (Cass, Album, C40)   EGK 1988
Crustoceanium (Cass, MiniAlbum)   Linea Alternativa 1989
El Mundo Azul De Los Picnogonidos (Album) (2 versions)   Nihilistic Recordings ... 1989
Sample 3 (Cass, Album, C60)   Grabaciones Goticas 1989
Fango De Euripteridos (Album) (2 versions)   Hyades Arts ... 1990
UAISCM4:Tlaloc (Album) (2 versions)   Toracic Tapes ... 1991
Budapest / Sofia (Cass)   Bizarr Verlag 1992
O Parladoiro: The Long Awaited Vigo Town Concert (Cass)   Anomma 1992
Azoic Zone (Album) (2 versions)   Geometrik ... 1993
Fragment 5 (Cass)   N D 1993
Azoic Zone (Cass)   OBUH Records 1994
Tonhaus (CD)   Hyades Arts, Asellus 1994
Qal'at Abd'Al-Salam - O Parladoiro Desamortuxado (CD)   Linea Alternativa, Asellus 1995
Warszawa Restaurant (CD)   Trente Oiseaux 1995
Belle Confusion 966 (CD)   Trente Oiseaux 1996
Paris Hiss (Cass, Album, C60)   Banned Production 1996
Untitled Single Piece 1 (2 versions)   Drone Records 1996
Untitled Single Piece 4 (7", Whi)   Povertech Industries 1996
Addy En El País De Las Frutas Y Los Chunches (2 versions)   N D ... 1997
Untitled Music For Geography (CD, Album)   Sedimental 1997
Belle Confusion 969 (CD)   Sonoris 1998
La Selva (CD, Album)   V2_Archief 1998
Temizlemek (2xCD)   Linea Alternativa 1998
Untitled 74 (CD, Album)   Table Of The Elements 1998
Untitled #90 (Album) (2 versions)   Pre Feed ... 1999
Untitled #91 (CD)   Edition . . . 1999
Untitled (1981-1983) (CD, Mini)   Staalplaat 1999
Untitled (1993) (CD)   Staalplaat 1999
Untitled (1998) (CD, Album)   Generator Sound Art 1999
Belle Confusion 00 (CD)   .Absolute. [Seattle] 2000
Belle Confusion 0247 (CD)   .Absolute. [Seattle] 2000
Nav (2xCD)   .Absolute. [Osaka], Allquestions 2000
Untitled #104 (CD)   Alien8 Recordings 2000
Untitled #89 (CD)   OR 2000
Untitled #92 (LP, Whi)   Mego 2000
Untitled (2000) (CD, Album)   Ignis 2000
Untitled Single Piece 2 (7", Ltd)   Klanggalerie 2000
Whint (2xCD)   .Absolute. [London] 2000
Buildings [New York] (CD, Album)   V2_Archief 2001
Knowing When To Not Know (CD, Mini)   Antifrost 2001
Untitled (1999) (CD)   Subsound Records 2001
Le Chemin Du Paradis (CD, Album)   Fario 2002
Untitled #115 (7")   Edition . . . 2002
Untitled #123 (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 2002
Untitled #91 (DVD)   Edition . . . 2002
Untitled Single Piece 5 (7", Ltd, Whi)   90% Wasser 2002
Live In ’s-Hertogenbosch (CD, Album)   Bottrop-Boy 2003
Turnoff (CD, Mini)   Noise Asia 2003
Untitled #74 (CD, RE)   Authorised Version 2003
Wasps (CD, Mini)   Longbox Recordings 2003
A Szellem Álma (2xCD)   .Absolute. [Koblenz] 2004
Untitled #119 (CD, Mini)   Lapilli Recordings 2004
Untitled #150 (CD, Album)   Antifrost 2004
Live In Montréal (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 2005
Live In San Francisco (CD)   23five 2005
Mavje (CD)   Nexsound 2005
Solid State Flesh / Solid State Sex (2xCD)   Low Impedance Recordings 2005
A Sudden Pest Of Droning Pseudoinsects (4x7", S/Sided, Ltd, Whi)   Eozoön Editions 2006
Absolute Noise Ensemble (2xCD, Album, Car)   Blossoming Noise 2006
Buzzin' Fly / Dormant Spores (CD, Album)   Black Rose Recordings, Lapilli Recordings 2006
Drowning / Untitled #185 (LP)   Crippled Intellect Productions 2006
El Dia Anterior A La Emergencia De Los Adultos De Magicicada (CD, Mini, RM)   Purple Soil 2006
Hysechasterion (CD, Album, Ltd)   Antifrost 2006
Split (Lathe, 10", Ltd)   Somnimage 2006
Untitled #164 (CD)   Unsounds 2006
Untitled #180 (CD, Album, Car)   Alien8 Recordings 2006
Untitled (2005) (CD, Album, Car)   Anoema Recordings 2006
Lopez Island (CD, Album, Ltd)   Elevator Bath 2007
Wind [Patagonia] (CD, Album, Dig)   and/OAR 2007
Conops (CD, Ltd)   GD Stereo 2008
Live In Auckland (CD, Album)   Monotype Records 2008
Nowhere Short Pieces 1983 To 2003 (2 versions)   Blossoming Noise ... 2008
TDDM (2xCD, Album)   Sonoris 2008
Technocalyps (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 2008
Untitled #213 (CD, Mini)   Self edition 2008
Untitled #188 (CD, Album, Ltd)   CONV 2008
Untitled (2006 - 2007) (2xCD)   Monochrome Vision 2008
HB (CD, Album)   Baskaru 2009
In De Blaauwe Hand (CD)   Korm Plastics 2009
Through The Looking-Glass (5xCD, Comp)   Kairos 2009
Rumor De Materia Vol. 1 (Cass, Album, Ltd)   IEP  
Remixes:
Tattoo (CD, Album) Birds (Lopez Mix) Unit Circle Rekkids 2000
[r*] Iso | Chall (CD) Untitled #85 Mego 2000
Rolex (CD, Album) Untitled #112 Smalltown Supersound 2002
Encyclopedia - RW (CD) R (Untitled #162) Antifrost 2004
Alter (CD) Untitled #154 Hydra Head Records, Double H Noise Industries 2006
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Will (Album) (3 versions)   S/M Operations ... 1983
Async / Aambs (Cass) Aambs ZH27 1991
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Alcala De Henares Mixer) (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Alcala De Henares) (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Casa Del Paco) (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Circulo De Bellas Artes) (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Gijon Mixer) (2 versions)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Gijon) (2 versions)   ZH27 1993
Succeeding Generations Of Flies (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1993
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (Paco Remixes) (2 versions)   ZH27 1995
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes (ZH Remixes) (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1995
Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes -BC Remix (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1995
Sonar 98 (4xCD, Comp) Untitled Music For Geo... So Dens 1998
Indian Hills Sojourn (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1999
Noise For Miller Lite (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1999
Refrigerating Outdoor Bridges (Cass, S/Sided, C60)   ZH27 1999
Cast A Line To The Sea (CDr)   ZH27 2000
Lágrimas De Miedo N°7 - Gulliver (CD) Untitled #88 Fear Drop 2000
Klr (CD) Untitled #98 Ar.ms 2001
Mottled Ceremony For Cutting Inline (CDr) Mottled Ceremony For C... ZH27 2001
Mundo Das Ferramentas (CD, Album) Conducting Hurricanes Gracia Territori Sonor 2001
Antichton (CD, Album)   Hrönir 2002
Ode To Contentious Fussy Lovelies (CDr) Ode To Contentious Fus... ZH27 2002
Zan Francisco Trio (CDr)   ZH27 2002
Blank Field (CD, Comp)   Alien8 Recordings 2005
Starless And Bible Black Sabbath (CD, Album)   Alien8 Recordings 2006
Airport Symphony (2xCD, Album, Met) Untitled #203 Room40 2007
Redrawn, Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek Remixed And Covered (CD, Album) Untitled 221 Not On Label 2009
Tracks Appear On:
Codex (Cass, Album, Ltd, Comp) Messor Structor IEP 1985
Necronomicon 3 (Cass, Comp, C90) Sima Necronomicon 1986
La Chair Entre Les Lignes (Cass, Comp) Paloma Tiene Ahora Ojo... Les Ballets Mécaniques 1988
Ambient Complot (Cass) Aambs Extrema Pasion 1991
Audioscope (CD, Comp) Pieire I, Pieire II Geometrik 1992
Hyades Museum Vol. 2 (Cass, Comp) Fragmento Hyades Arts 1992
The Best Of Irre-Tapes Volume V (IT066 - IT080) (Cass, Smplr, Comp, C90) Excerpt Hypertonia World Enterprises 1992
DISContact! II (2xCD) El Mundo Depués De La... Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) 1995
Madrid - A Soundscape Collective - Abriendo La Ciudad Del Sol Habitado (CD) Un Recorrido Bajo El E... Zwerg Productions 1995
Decay (CD, Comp) Untitled # 76 Ash International 1997
Links Outta Here (CD, Comp) Untitled Piece For Abb... Generator Sound Art 1997
Psychogeographical Dip (CD, Comp) Untitled Piece From Mc... GD Stereo 1997
Régénération - Dégénérescence (2xCD, Comp) Implantation De 10 Mac... Kaon 1997
Tulpas (5xCD, Album) Untitled Piece Selektion 1997
Just About Now (CD) Untitled #78 V2_Archief 1998
Revista De Arte Sonoro 3 (CD) Untitled #79 Centro De Creación Experimental 1998
Roma - A Soundscape Remix (CD, Comp) Untitled # 80 Noteworks 1998
Sonar 98 (4xCD, Comp) Untitled Music For Geo... So Dens 1998
Ballet Radar (CD, Mixed, Ltd) Ballet Radar Not On Label 1999
Sneak Preview Volume Two (CDr) Untitled Excerpt Staalplaat 1999
Soundscapes Be)for(e 2000 (2xCD) La Selva (Excerpt) SSC 1999
The Architecture Of The Incidental (CD, Comp) Untitled #87 GD Stereo 1999
Lockers (12") Untitled #93 ERS 2000
Lágrimas De Miedo N°7 - Gulliver (CD) Untitled #88 Fear Drop 2000
New Forms - Compilation (2xCD, Comp) Untitled #94 Raster-Noton 2000
Observatori 2000 Compilation (2xCD, Comp) El Sueno Del Hombre De... Subterfuge Records 2000
Sonar 2000 (4xCD) Live At Highlands Grounds So Dens 2000
電子 雑音 5 (CD, Comp) Untitled #100 MSBR Records 2000
90% Wasser (CD) Untitled Single Piece ... 90% Wasser 2001
Klr (CD) Untitled #98 Ar.ms 2001
Ringtones (CD, Comp, Album) Untitled #124 Touch 2001
The Sound Of Nature ~ The Nature Of Sound (CD) Untitled #86 Kaon 2001
Fals.ch 02 (CD, Mini) Francisco López Live ... Falsch 2002
Helene Marie: Reinterpretations (2xCD) Untitled #95 Alluvial Recordings 2002
Lowercase-Sound 2002 (2xCD, Ltd + Box) Untitled #118 Bremsstrahlung 2002
Persepolis + Remixes. Edition 1 (2xCD) Untitled 113 For Ianni... Asphodel 2002
Silents (Compilation) (CD, Comp) Untitled #120 Effe 2002
Suffer Enjoy (CD, Comp, Ltd, Album, Dig) Untitled Antifrost 2002
X + Y = XY (CDr, Comp) Untitled Alku 2002
Drone Records DJ-Set (CDr) Untitled Single Piece 1 Stillstand 2003
Eklegein V.1 (CDr, Album) Untitled #138 Eklegein Recordings 2003
Monovolumen (CDr) Untitled 140 Discos Noise 2003
OR MD comp. (CD, Album, Comp) Untitled#101 OR 2003
Record Of Shadows Infinite (CD, Comp) Untitled #133 Crucial Blast 2003
Volt-AA (2xCD, Comp) Live At Volt-AA Oral 2003
A Call For Silence (CD, Comp) Untitled #102 Sonic Arts Network 2004
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (2xCD, Comp) Untitled #148 Sub Rosa 2004
B!as: 2003 (3xCD + DVD) Untitled #103 Etat Lab 2004
Dissolution Tapes (CD) Untitled #144 Zeromoon 2004
Electronic Thisturbance (CD) SRTT-946 Thisco 2004
Erratum #4 / Sound Review / Art + Noise + Poetry (3xCD) Untitled #125 Erratum 2004
Fuga Experimental (CD) Untitled 127 Fuga Discos 2004
Hungry Ghosts (2xCD) Untitled #110 Mutant Music 2004
Intransitive Twenty-Three (2xCD, Comp) Untitled #134 Intransitive Recordings 2004
Observer Drift (2xCDr) Untitled #153 Authorised Version 2004
Rural Psychogeography (CD, Comp) Untitled #151 Nexsound 2004
Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations (2xCD) Untitled #168 Sonic Artstar 2004
This Place Is Dreaming (CD) Untitled #164 (Excerpt) (K-RAA-K)³ 2004
Void / Full (2xCD) Untitled #142 Antifrost 2004
.C. Works (2xCD) Untitled #139 Zeromoon, The Locus Of Assemblage, Sonora 2005
ALKUjiggerypokeryMIX (File, MP3) Untitled Alku 2005
Burned Bridges And Lost Loves (2xCD, Comp) Untitled #143 Bottrop-Boy 2005
Go-To-Cat-Man-Do (CD) Untitled #165 Monotype Records 2005
Homenaje (2xCD) Untitled #164 Exe Rackham Records 2005
A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000 (2xCD, Comp) Untitled Single Piece ... tUMULt 2006
Breaking Down The Barriers 1995-2005, Ten Years Of Afe (File, MP3, Comp) Untitled #141 Afe Records 2006
Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal Matière Sonore (CD, Album) Untitled #188 [Excerpt] Pogus Productions 2006
Sur-terre.net (Soundtrack For Variable Fiction) (CD, Comp) Untitled # 163 (For Pi... Ytterbium 2006
Airport Symphony (2xCD, Album, Met) Untitled #203 Room40 2007
Exploraciones Cotidianas (CDr) Untitled #192 Fuga Discos 2007
Festival Voor Nieuwe Muziek > Happy New Ears 2007 (CD) Untitled # 195 Gonzo Circus 2007
Hmmm Remix Compilation (CD, Ltd) Untitled #198 Le Son 666 2007
Less-Lethal Vol. 1 (CD, Comp) Untltled #194 Alku 2007
Mandorla Autumn Soundscapes (18xFile, MP3, Comp, 192) Untitled #209 Mandorla Netlabel 2007
Tangencial (File, MP3, Comp, 320) Untitled 198 Miga 2007
A Cleansing Ascension (CD, Comp, Ltd) Untitled #194 Elevator Bath 2008
Audible Geography (CD, Comp) Untitled #200 Room40 2008
Avontuurlijke Muziek 08/09 In Brabant (CD, Comp) Untitled #190 Gonzo Circus 2008
Dérives (CD, Album) Untitled #200 Universinternational 2008
Escaping From Color (Rapoon Recomposed & Remixed) (CD, Ltd, Comp, Gat) Untitled #193 Quasi Pop Records 2008
Nexsound Sampler #3 (CDr, Comp) Mavje (Extract) Nexsound 2008
Birmingham Sound Matter (CD) Untitled #225 Audiobulb Records 2009
Geluidpost (2xCDr, Ltd) Untitled #0908 Lokaal 01, Universaal Kunst 2009
RRR-1000 Lock Grooves (LP, Comp) Untitled RRRecords 2009
Vol. F (CD, Comp) Untitled #210 Zelphabet 2009
10 X 10 (5xCass, Comp) Untitled # 96 Banned Production  
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