Created with extensively mutated environmental sound matter from Rotterdam. Commissioned by Soundtrackcity (Amsterdam) for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012.
www.soundtrackcity.nl
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Original environmental sound matter recorded in the Kop van Zuid - Erasmusbrug area in Rotterdam during 2011. Mutated, edited, mixed, and composed at mobile messor (Amsterdam), fall and winter 2011.

“untitled #290” was created as a mobile headphone-based piece, originally conceived for listening at the locations where the original raw recordings came from:

part 1 - Antoine Platekade
part 2 - Erasmusbrug
part 3 - Willemskade (waterfront)
part 4 - Nieuwe Mass River (water taxi crossing)
part 5 - Hotel New York Esplanade


アンタイトルド ナンバー 290
フランシスコ・ロペス

エクスペリメンタルリスナーにはおなじみの『Untitled』シリーズ290番となる今作は、2012年のロッテルダム国際映画祭のために制作された作品。ロッテルダム周辺の川辺を移動しながら録音されたフィールドレコーディングが中心の構成だが、曲目ごとに録音された場所がCDトレイ下やインナーに図解されているなど、これまでの彼の作品と比べて制作過程が想像しやすく、CDジャケットも含めてひとつの作品となっているのが特徴。エクスペリメンタル、コンセプチュアル初心者にも親しみやすいパッケージなので、「これまでにロペスは気になっていたけど聴く機会がなかった」というリスナーにもおすすめ。300枚限定、デジパック仕様12cmCD。


Track list

01. Part1
02. Part2
03. Part3
04. Part4
05. Part5


Credits

SADCD-003 / DQC-1241
AUDIO CD - 5 Tracks - 49’46”
Limited 300 copies
2014

Mutated, edited, mixed, and composed at mobile messor (Amsterdam), fall and winter 2011.
Thanks to Renate Zentschnig, Michiel Huijsman, Peter van Hoof and Barbara Ellison.
Front cover image: Francisco López / Inside image: Michiel Huijsman

First release on 30 April 2014
Distributed by SPACE SHOWER NETWORK INC

 

This is one of those CDs that you put on your player and then think "Is this CD actually playing?...And where's that weird noise coming from?", opening as it does with the muffled rumble of distant thunder, but before too long Lopez's serene drones start to materialise in the soundfield like abandoned panpipes playing themselves in the wind. This is the 290th numbered piece from prolific sound artist Francisco Lopez and all five tracks here are created entirely from mutated sound material recorded in Rotterdam in 2011, having been commissioned for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. It's quite a meditative and peaceful listen, but the sound sources themselves can be a bit of a guessing game, having evolved from their original form into soft industrial drones and weird boinks and dinks and rumbles. They're morphed into immersive, otherworldly atmospheres with an interesting mixture of menace and softness. Fans of ambient sound designers like Machinefabriek will enjoy this.

Norman Records