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ART’S BIRTHDAY PARTY 2022
Susana López uses hybrid methodologies, combining analogue and digital elements, using voices, field recordings, handmade instruments, synthesizers and drum machines. In her compositions and performances she processes all these different sound materials through the notions of exploration, repetition, distortion and duration. Her works allow the listener to enter into a form of trance, generating a mantra that makes it possible to reach other sensory experiences. The result is a ritualistic music that invites active listening.

“NachtMusik” introduces us to a dark, pulsating atmosphere that very gradually envelops the listener, creating an increasingly unstable and disturbing mass of sound. Its unstoppable evolution always develops in several layers, each of which presents great autonomy. This dynamism provokes in the listener a continuous questioning of whether we are experiencing a paradigmatic example of “drone music”, or if these apparently static sounds have attained a vitality that transcends that stylistic demarcation, and rather invites us -simply but radically- to submerge ourselves in the flow of sound and to abandon ourselves through this listening experience.

We face, indeed, a “Nachtmusik”, that is to say, a “Night Music”, in which the echoes of a pulsating and constant rhythm (not far from a heartbeat), remind us that certain compositions can (and perhaps should) be considered as something strangely similar to a living being.

Nachtmusik

Pieza compuesta en agosto de 2021 a partir de grabaciones bioeléctricas de hongos realizadas por Michael Prime.
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I have a new collaboration with Michael Prime, we have made an album with recordings made from mycelia.
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"These sounds were produced by living fungi, Shitake mushrooms still attached to their mycelial bodies. A mushroom is actually the fruiting body of a fungus, the ‘body’ of which consists of the mycelium, a network of rootlike structures that run through the substrate (the log, compost, sawdust etc.). A mushroom still connected to a growing mycelium produces a varied and interesting rhythm, while a mushroom that has been picked produced only a static tone. All living organisms produce a faint electrical current, which constantly fluctuates according to the state of the organism. This current can be amplified and used as a control signal for an oscillator, producing a sound which directly reflects the state of the organism".

Continuum Outdoor Books

Grabaciones de campo transformadas, cajas de ritmos deconstruídas, sintetizadores humanizados y voces sintetizadas.
Field recordings, electronics and Supercollider.

Razor Edge

Minimalist electronic music
Deep Listening and sonic awareness
Created in SuperCollider

Pieces created by Susana López aka Susan Drone
Released by Important Drone Records
https://importantdronerecords.bandcamp.com/album/four-sinusoids-to-eliane

Four Sinusoids To Eliane

Four Sinusoids To Eliane II

Transformed field recordings, deconstructed drum machines, humanized synthesizers and synthesized voices.
Layered looping and granulation in SuperCollider.

Counting Thunderclaps

En 2013, con motivo del décimo aniversario de Centro Puertas de Castilla (Murcia), realicé la instalación “NOOSFERA SONORA”. En este espacio cultural se encuentra también la Fonoteca de Arte Sonoro y Música Experimental (SONM), establecida por Francisco López en 2010.
El objetivo de la exposición fue dar a conocer la música experimental de todo el planeta a través de los artistas sonoros presentes en el archivo de SONM. 
Entre los diferentes espacios que formaban la exposición, dispuse una zona de escucha aislada, en la que se podían descubrir a diferentes artistas sonoros que formaban parte de esta Noosfera, aquí van algunos de los que seleccioné.

1- Ilios
2- Eliane Radigue
3- Leif Elggren
4- Pauline Oliveros
5- Juan Piñera
6- John Duncan
7- Chop Shop
8- Amy Denio
9- Alan Courtis
10- Zbigniew Karkowski & Robert Piotrowicz
11- Masami Akita

Noosfera Sonora / Podcast

Released on Sarah Rasines great label “Crystal Mine”.
The tape is a split with Pia Achternkamp
40 _ Crystal Mine
Side A: Happy/Pretty/Healthy/Rich by Pia Achternkamp
Side B: Huldra by Susana López aka Susan Drone.
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Crystal Mine. Burgos - Berlín - Murcia, 2020.
You can buy it at: susanndrone@gmail.com
This split is the consequence of the multiple affinities sonorous and artistic of Pia Achternkamp and Susana López (Susan Drone). Due to their common influences such as Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley or Charlemagne Palestine and their love for strange sounds, experimentation, drones, ... these two sound explorers have met several times at national festival events. This tape reveals that common affinity for creating dark music, but not depressing, for building their own sonic instruments and for performing live shows that invite them to escape to other worlds of fantasy and reflection.

Huldra

Ectoplasma Electrónico

Ectoplasma Electrónico

New track for compilation "A Journey Around My Room" tribute to Xabier de Maistre, thanks to @moradasonica #travellingwithoutmoving #lockdown2020 #soundexperimentation #sound #dronemusic #isolation #hibernation #room #confinement #closure #reclusion
https://wetdreamsrec.bandcamp.com/track/susana-l-pez-spain-era-lunar

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Era Lunar

This track is the result of a field recording workshop held at Skotfoss and Løveid Locks in April 2019. The workshop was part of the Greenlightdistrict Arts Festival 2019.
The workshop aimed to capture the sonic identity of a closed down industrial site in the south of Telemark, Norway. 
Artistic leader was Jørgen Larsson. Producer for Greenlightdistrict was Tom Hovinbøle. 
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Collecting sound is my habitual endeavour. Using recorded sound as my raw material, detach it entirely from its source and reconstruct it through a series of electronic processing. Texture rich tracks blend the sounds of my journeys. From heavily droning soundscapes towards a more rhythmic narrative.

Summer Solstice

Abstract, Experimental, Drone, Electroacoustic, Soundscapes, Ambient, AV, Minimalist Electronic Music.

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