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Municipal Center Puertas de Castilla is home to this collection, which is being cataloged and digitized for public access, both physical and virtual
The councilman of Culture, Rafael Gomez, has traveled to Madrid today to present at the National Museum Auditorium Centro de Arte Reina Sofia online audio archive of the Sound Archive of Sound Art and Experimental Music, SONM, made by the artist Francisco Lopez during the last thirty years through direct exchanges with thousands of artists from around the world.
For presentation, the councilman of Culture has been accompanied by Francisco Lopez, founder of the Music Library, and Marta Lopez Brown, director of the Municipal Center Puertas de Castilla and Sound Archive.
This sound library is the result of intense activity as an artist and focuses on one of the most essential aspects of the international community of artists sound: the exchange and collaboration, both physical and telematics.
It is therefore a personal collection, subjective, partial and particularly focused on the global community of artists called "independent" or "underground", where Francisco Lopez has participated since the late seventies.
The result is a huge variety and representativeness of the broad universe of sound practices in experimental music and sound art.
With about 9,000 references on cassette, vinyl, CD and DVD, this audio library consists predominantly limited editions - in many cases self-releases from the artists themselves - covering all types of aesthetic movements, periods, publishers and sound demonstrations: electronic music, concrete, industrial, noise, minimal, improvisation, soundscapes, glitch, turntablism, avant-garde, etc..
The collection is on permanent extension with contributions from many sound artists from around the world who want their work to be properly preserved and disseminated the resources of the music library.
Home now permanently in the center doors of Castile in Murcia, the collection is being cataloged and digitized for public access, both physical (in the facilities of the Music Library of the Centre) and virtual (in the Music Library website).
In addition to the multiple uses of funds as a public resource the conception of this music library is a dynamic basis for generating all kinds of parallel broadcast, exhibition, research and new creation.
Since its inception, the music library has an ongoing program of concerts, installations, seminars, publications and information exchange relationships internationally.
Given the gigantic proportions, the extreme dynamism, the boundless variety and rapid mutation and crossover of the world community of sound artists, any attempt of this kind is always a small "node" in this immense "noosphere" of creation and global communication.
Despite this, we intend to conduct this music library to a position of world reference for the preservation, see, hear, dissemination, exchange, research and promotion of experimental music and sound art.
Such a task is only possible with the active collaboration of those who constitute this global community of sound designers and this is - in effect - an implicit offer of participation in this project and for everyone.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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