francisco lópez | 1988 | c42 | upf°26

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francisco lópez - 1988
1. 1988 - [20:00]
2. 1988 - [20:00]

For almost a decade, starting in 1980, I worked almost exclusively with walkman recorders and cheap cassette players. From the beginning, sound recordings were intuitively for me "worlds in themselves", always markedly different from the original "reality", always full of their own thrilling features. I developed my own, very simple -but very efficient- techniques for sound transformation using only cassettes. I couldn't afford the prototypical "experimental" tools of those times: reel-to-reel recorders, synthesizers, rhythm boxes and the like. With hindsight, this limitation turned out to be a great advantage and an important lesson, that has remained vividly present for me until today: the most essential tools are spiritual, not technical.
[Francisco López]

PLEASE NOTE: This piece is extremely subtle. Virtually all its audio content is completely inaudible through laptop, smartphone or equivalent small speakers.
Good quality speakers or headphones -as well as a very quiet surrounding environment- are highly recommended for ideal listening.
credits

Created at Messor Studios (Madrid) in 1988
Re-edited and remastered at 'Hundred Islands
Studios' (Rosclave enclave) in 2022
(c) francisco lópez 1988, 2022

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