untitled #284 by francisco lópez
Original environmental source materials recorded in Lisbon during the spring of 1992.
Edited, mutated, composed, mixed and mastered at ‘mobile messor’ (Amsterdam), summer 2011.
Commissioned by Maria Matos Teatro Municipal for the event ‘Dia da Abundância’. Premiered at the Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, on July 16th 2011. Many thanks to Pedro Santos, Joaquim René, Ana Gomes, Zé Rui, Mafalda Santos and all the crew of Teatro Maria Matos.
[Note: occasional distortion in this piece is an aesthetic decision and is explicitly intentional; its extent and characteristics will vary according to the speakers/headphones used]
Photograph by Francisco López.
(c) francisco lópez 2011 - www.franciscolopez.net
Immaterial release by nowhere [worldwide] 2023
Previously released on CD audio (edition 500 copies) by Crónica Electrónica (Portugal) in 2012:
https://www.cronicaelectronica.org
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realm of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty+ years he has realized hundreds of live performances, projects with environmental recordings, and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide.