Francisco López “untitled #272 [Antarctica Variations]” a 3-hour multi-channel immersive installation/performance Based on online streaming underwater recordings from under the Antarctic ice shelf.
Created at mobile messor (Amsterdam) in 2010 through detailed editing and sequential filtering of a large amount of recorded materials from the live streaming of PALAOA (PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean), a permanent underwater array of hydrophones under a 100-meter thick ice sheet on the Ekström ice shelf in Antarctica.
Francisco López
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 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 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has been released by more than 250 record labels worldwide. He has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios]
www.franciscolopez.net