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Lopez, Francisco: Untitled (2021-2022) [2 CDs] (Bu Lang Tribute Cake)

A double CD of composed environmental sound works from Francisco López, assembling raw field recordings from locations including Tenerife, Eswatini, Israel, Georgia, Chile, and the southwestern USA, along with a film soundtrack and a collaboration with Felipe Otondo, creating immersive, abstract electroacoustic pieces with intentional silences and textural extremes.
 

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UPC: 728633826834

Label: Bu Lang Tribute Cake
Catalog ID: BLTC003
Squidco Product Code: 36438

Format: 2 CDRs
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack - 4 panel
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A monumental double CD work from composer and sound artist Francisco L—pez, untitled (2021Ð2022) continues his exploration of immersive sonic environments, sculpted from unprocessed and often extreme field recordings gathered over the course of more than a decade. Created across multiple global locations — including Bologna, Tenerife, Dalvik, The Hague, Bangkok, Loosduinen, and Rosclave — this limited edition release (100 copies) presents a series of profound sonic investigations into the natural and constructed world.

The compositions, all part of L—pezÕs ongoing untitled series, include:

    untitled #398 Ð Macizo de Teno and Macizo de Anaga, Tenerife (2020)

    untitled #412 Ð Mlawula Nature Reserve, Eswatini (2011)

    untitled #411 Ð Negev Desert, Dead Sea, and Golan Heights, Israel (2008Ð2009)

    untitled #408 Ð Undisclosed desert locations, Southern Utah and Southern California (2015Ð2020)

     untitled #410 Ð Tblisi, Mestia, Ipari, and Chaladi, Georgia (2012)

    untitled #403 Ð Original soundtrack for the film Imaginary Futures by Darko Fritz

    untitled #401 Ð Constructed from raw materials provided by Felipe Otondo from the Soundlapse project (Chile)

Composed with L—pezÕs distinctive approach to deep listening, the pieces feature intentional use of silence, quasi-silence, and even digital clipping as integral structural and aesthetic elements. Each piece rewards focused engagement, revealing intricately layered environments that blur the line between documentation and abstraction.

Recommended for listeners of electroacoustic composition, soundscape art, and expanded field recording practices, this is a richly conceived and rigorously composed album that encapsulates L—pezÕs mastery in reshaping reality into transcendent sound art.


Artist Biographies

"Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.

He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries and festivals, such as: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York City), London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Paris Museum of Modern Art, National Auditorium of Music, Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sónar, Darwin Fringe festival, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.

For the Spanish Pavilion of the Expo 2008, López presented a "double sonic intervention", consisting of both an indoor sound installation and an outdoor performance.

In 2006, López won the First Prize for the Sound Art Competition of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. He has received honorable mention of the Prix Ars Electronica on three occasions(1999, 2002, 2007) and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.

He is director and curator of the sound archive SONM."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_L%C3%B3pez_(musician))
6/25/2025

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. Untitled #398 [excerpt] 13:10

2. Untitled #412 7:19

3. Untitled #411 22:43

4. Untitled #403 21:14

CD2



1. Untitled #408 [excerpt] 15:09

2. Untitled #410 25:12

3. Untitled #401 10:00

4. Untitled #405 [excerpt] 16:23

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