{"id":10826,"date":"2021-08-27T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10826"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:12:21","slug":"francisco-lopezs-dsb-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10826","title":{"rendered":"Francisco L\u00c3\u00b3pez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DSB\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another strong release from Francisco L\u00c3\u00b3pez<\/strong><\/a>, the very prolific sound artist whose passion and headstrong ways often lead him to make grand gestures and pronouncements, along with the music. Today on DSB<\/em> (CRONICA<\/a> 166-2021) he is reiterating \u00e2\u20ac\u201c absolutely verbatim \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the claims made for a 2018 release untitled#360 for the Emitter Micro label in Berlin, and noted here<\/a>. The relevant passage is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an astonishing reversal of the traditional widespread subservience of sound to story-telling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the open shell of an apparent narrative becoming sound work\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These phrases, and the artistic intention, continue to apply to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s release, the cassette DSB<\/em>. As with the 2018 record, my take is that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty much producing a very artistic sound-effects record, but at the same time L\u00c3\u00b3pez wishes quite strongly that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear it as a story or narrative, and just concentrate on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new form of weird experimental music\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that he offers. This is extremely difficult given the generous amount of the content on the tape, and the fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very redolent of a radiophonic play; one can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but hear it as the story of a submarine, possibly during wartime, with a brief strafe of gunfire and bomb explosions from an air attack, followed by lots of sub-aquatic adventures and some flurries of wind and rain when the sub surfaces now and again. For the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153interior\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scenes, L\u00c3\u00b3pez has much fun with the submarine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sonar pulses and humming boxes of electrical equipment, weaving it into the general fabric of DSB and supplying plenty drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fully appreciate this is\u00c2\u00a0not<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0the desired response, but on the other hand it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to hear this sometimes-austere Spanish fellow injecting a lot more maximalism into his work. Known for years as a master of silence and inaudible records, he currently seems to be enjoying a purple patch where the joys of noise and incident can be savoured. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all for it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we dive at dawn! Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another strong release from Francisco L\u00c3\u00b3pez, the very prolific sound artist whose passion and headstrong ways often lead him to make grand gestures and pronouncements, along with the music. Today on DSB (CRONICA 166-2021) he is reiterating \u00e2\u20ac\u201c absolutely verbatim \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the claims made for a 2018 release untitled#360 for the Emitter Micro label in Berlin, and noted here. The … <\/p>\n

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