Created by extensive evolution of original environmental sound matter recorded in the Kop van Zuid - Erasmusbrug area in Rotterdam during 2011. Mutated, composed, edited, mixed, and mastered 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:
Track 1 - Antoine Platekade [11:49]
Track 2 - Erasmusbrug [9:10]
Track 3 - Willemskade (waterfront) [13:46]
Track 4 - Nieuwe Mass River (water taxi crossing) [8:20]
Track 5 - Hotel New York Esplanade [6:40]
Commissioned by the Amsterdam-based organization Soundtrackcity (www.soundtrackcity.nl)
for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 (www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com)
Thanks to Renate Zentschnig, Michel Huijsman. Peter van Hoof and Barbara Ellison.
Photograph by Barbara Ellison. Artwork by Francisco López.
(c) francisco lópez 2011 - www.franciscolopez.net
Immaterial release by nowhere [worldwide] 2023
Previously released on CD audio (edition 300 copies) by Sad-Tokyo (Japan) in 2014:
https://sad-tokyo.com
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the main figures in the realm of experimental music and audio art. Over the past forty+ years he has realized hundreds of live performances, projects with environmental recordings, and sound installations in over eighty countries of the six continents. His work has been released by nearly 500 record labels / publishers worldwide.