Event Details
Thursday May 7
FRANCISCO LÓPEZ
with guest Joda Clément
Co-presented with Abient Editions
Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets $15 regular, $10 member, senior & student
The Music Gallery and Abient Editions are proud to present the Toronto debut of Francisco López, internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene.
Francisco López's sound performances are something beyond a "normal" music concert. An intense and rich sonic immersive experience in the dark, with a surround multi-channel sound system and blindfolds provided for the audience. Virtual worlds of sound created out of a myriad of original sources collected all over the world — from rainforests and deserts to factories and buildings from multiple locations in the five continents — and mutated and evolved during years of studio work through the master compositional skills of López's universe.
Over the last 25 years, Francisco López has been developing a powerful and consistent world of sound creations, “trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrète music.” To date, his catalog comprises more than 180 sound works, which have been released by over 140 record labels throughout the world. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries of the five continents.
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.
Joda Clément
Toronto based artist Joda Clément has been performing and composing experimental music in Canada for over 10 years. Born in 1981 and raised in Ontario, he began his earliest experiments with electronic music at the age of 14. Since then he has been developing a unique repertoire of methods and techniques for working creatively with sound. His work incorporates analog and acoustic instruments, the human voice, found objects and non-descript sounds recorded from the natural and urban environment, blurring the distinction between sources to create landscapes of sound that unite the properties of both musical and everyday contexts. Joda integrates these elements into compositions, improvisation, installations, and performances throughout Canada and in the US.
His first album Movement + Rest was released by Alluvial Recordings in 2005, followed by the collaborative Cherry Beach Project in 2006 with Nigel Craig — a desolate, site-specific nightmare recording made within a vacant waste oil storage facility on Cherry Beach in Toronto.
Press Quotes:
“Neither ambient nor isolationism, this music goes far beyond that” [Self, Spain]
“A truly (awe-)inspiring experience of boundless sonic depth” [Experimental Musical Instruments, USA]”
“He sharpens both the perception of space and the sense of hearing” [Karbon, Switzerland
“López is playing on the keyboard of silence” [Bad Alchemy, USA]
“The most intense and elementary ambient work I've ever heard” [Scientifica Intercosmo, Germany]
