Artist:         Francisco López
Title:           untitled #233 | ©
Date:          2008
Duration:   10′00

photo by: Francisco López

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THE SOUND

Original environmental sound matter recorded at Mamori Lake in the Brazilian Amazon in 2008.

My first visit to the Brazilian Amazon took place twenty years ago. Like the other rain-forests in the world I have had the opportunity to explore, the Amazon has been a constant source of fascination and inspiration. My approach to the work with field recordings is essentially phenomenological and spiritual, and thus I have very little interest in representation, against most current perspectives on phonographic art. Since 2005 I direct an annual residency / workshop for sound artists and composers at Mamori Lake in the Amazon. You can find complete information about this creative and vital experience through the link below. (edited and mastered at mobile messor, Amsterdam 2009)

THE ARTIST

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 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. - Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios

Links: http://www.franciscolopez.net | http://www.franciscolopez.net/amazon.html

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Aritis:        Yann Novak
Title:         Indoors / Outdoors | ©
Date:        2009
Duration:  8′59

photo by: Robert Crouch

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Recording something that was uniquely, Los Angeles posed a challenge at first.  When you think about the traditional identifiers of a city, Los Angeles falls short–there is no central core, no common meeting place.  Los Angeles seems to be a conglomeration of smaller areas, each with its own history and culture.  No single place or experience felt uniquely Los Angeles to me.  I stopped looking for a place and started thinking about the lifestyle of Los Angeles. Then it dawned on me. I had never experienced a lifestyle where the line between indoors and outdoors was blurred or even nonexistent.  This blurry line is built into many buildings, restaurants and homes in Los Angeles.  For this piece, I decided to focus on my own blurry line, the roll up door in my loft that is open so much of the year.  This door acts as the main passage to the outside and supplies the space with 90% of its light.  This blur is not just structural. During the night this door casts light and sound out into the ally, tinting it with the activities of the loft’s inhabitants.  In exchange, crickets make their way towards the light, and find small notches indoors to chirp through the night.  The resulting recording was done in this blur, sitting somewhere between the indoors and the outdoors.

THE ARTIST

Yann Novak (b. 1979 Madison, WI) is a sound artist, composer and designer based in Los Angeles.  His work utilizes different forms of digital documentation as a point of departure.  Through the digital manipulation of these sound and image files, his works serve as a translation from documents of personal experiences into new compositions fueled by the original experience.  His compositions have been published by Dragon’s Eye Recordings (US), The Henry Art Gallery (US), Infrequency (CA), and smlEditions (US). Novak’s installations and performances have been presented internationally at prestigious events and venues including American Academy in Rome (Rome, Italy), Decibel Festival (WA), Henry Art Gallery (WA), Las Cienegas Projects (CA), Lawrimore Project (WA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (CA), Mutek Festival (Montreal, QB), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), TBA Festival (OR) and Western Bridge (WA).

Links: www.yannnovak.com | www.dragonseyerecordings.com

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