Montreal Mutado
Original source environmental recordings done in Montreal, 2000-2006. Mutated, composed, recorded and mastered at Mobile Messor (Madrid, Bucharest, Montreal) and Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris), 2000-2006. Remastered and re-structured for this sound installation at Mobile Messor (Amsterdam), 2008.
For almost seven years I lived and worked in Montreal. During this time I developed multiple sound projects involving field recordings that I carried out throughout the city, both indoors and outdoors. My approach to this kind of sound material has always been the outcome of a fascination for the idea and the potential of an independent world made of sound, arising -with an entity of its own- from the actual sound, regardless of its origins and its social / environmental context. A world constituted by phenomenological and emotional properties, where sonic essence –instead of representation- is the defining feature of its imaginary geography.
FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
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.