“Untitled #284” reviewed by Bad Alchemy

Eines muss ich López hier lassen. Die ruhigen, leicht ominös rauschenden Passagen dieses Soundscapes eigen sich gut, um dabei Baudrillard zu lesen. Sein Essay über “Die Gewalt im Bild” etwa. López zitiert daraus selbst den Satz: So kann man sagen, dass hinter jedem Bild etwas verschwunden ist (das macht ja gerade die zweideutige Faszination des …

SOUND//SPACE, a pop-up record store and community hub

SOUND//SPACE is a pop-up record store and community hub celebrating independent thinking and making in music and sound art, via physical performances, workshops, talks and more. The official opening for SOUND//SPACE and for the V22 Summer Club itself (where SOUND//SPACE is located) is on 5 May from 5pm until late, with Will Montgomery and Carol …

“Untitled #284” reviewed by Vital Weekly

In 1992 Francisco Lopez did a bunch of ‘environmental recordings’ in Lisbon. In 2011 he did an ‘extensive evolutionary transformation’ of these recordings and presented that in Lisbon. No wonder the CD of that of that piece is now released on a Portuguese label. Its a forty-three minute in a fashion that Lopez uses a …

New release: “Loud Listening”

Four Italian soundscape artists worked in four ailing Italian industrial sites. Their work aimed to capture the strength of industrial noises, providing a “loud experience” of mechanical hums, natural drones, metal squeaks, waves of steam and the sounds of raw materials, simultaneously proposing to reflect over the meaning and the high social value of industries …