LOPEZ, FRANCISCO — HYPER-RAINFOREST

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Nowhere Worldwide - The Epoche Collection vol. 1

Release Year: 2014

Note: massive sound installation from 2011 (Troy, New York, presented on 82 speakers in the dark!) consisting of layers of collected pure rainforest field recordings (1990-2010) done at multiple locations (more than 10 countries!) => a really immersive acoustic trip (the rainforest sounding at times like a real ocean) with lots of details, listen to the glistening noises of animal & insect wildlife, weather, waterfalls and pure atmosphere...comes in F. LOPEZ own label, lim. 300 copies only !!

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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" 'Hyper-Rainforest' is a large-scale sonic immersive sound installation - performance in the dark. It was curated by Micah Silver and commissioned by Empac (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) in Troy, New York. It was created at Mobile Messor (Amsterdam, Troy) with original non-transformed rainforest recordings, and premiered in April 2011 with a specially designed ad hoc double-dome array of 82 speakers in the large Empac concert hall. Original environmental recordings done between 1990 and 2010 at multiple locations of tropical, sub-tropical and cold rainforests in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Gambia, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Japan, Senegal, South Africa, USA, Venezuela. [Edition March 2014 - 300 copies]. Release format: CD audio (professionally-duplicated CDR)" [label info]