The event took place on 5 August and due to the weather conditions, the concert was moved from Krasnogruda to Sejny, where it took place at the former Yeshiva, in the Zustrich common room.
The series focuses on music and creative work connected with the art of field recording, with concerts taking place in special locations across the region – places that are significant both acoustically and symbolically.
This time, the guest was one of the most important figures in the field. A legend of field recording, Francisco López filled the space with sound.
It was difficult to describe the event simply as a concert. Rather, it was a sonic performance and an immersive listening experience. López is renowned not only for his extraordinary recordings and experimental music releases, but also for his work exploring the boundaries of sound art and the ways in which it is experienced – work that he has developed through writings and manifestos.
López has played a crucial role in the development of field recording as an art form. One of the first artists to consciously move beyond its documentary function, he treated field recordings as an autonomous artistic language – a living source of extraordinary sounds and sonic textures. He also developed specific approaches to listening, including the practice known as “blind listening”.
Francisco López is internationally recognised as one of the most important figures in experimental music and sound art. For more than forty years, he has worked with sound and field recordings, developing an impressive, entirely individual and iconoclastic sonic universe based on deep listening to the world.
He has created hundreds of sound installations, field-recording projects, concerts and performances in more than eighty countries. His work has been presented at major concert halls, museums, galleries and festivals around the world, including the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Festival des Arts in Brussels, EMPAC in Troy, USA, Darwin Fringe in Darwin, Australia, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyūshū, Japan, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Spain Pavilion at Expo Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
His extensive catalogue of sound works – including solo projects, live and studio collaborations, as well as curatorial and artistic projects involving more than a thousand artists – has been released by nearly 500 record labels and publishers around the world.