"In 2004 Fracisco Lopez took part in the Brussels Sonic Matter project. The participants made field recordings of the streets and spaces of the city, which Lopez has now "mutated, composed, recorded and mastered" into a single 73 minute piece, Untitled #164. The grainy textures produced by Lopez from the materials efface any of the common signifiers of urban field recordings, be he still creates an uncanny and unlikely sense of place. It eases it's way slowly into earshot with a series of depth charge booms, muffled and reverberating, which powerfully sugest an illusory spacce or architecture. Windy gusts of low-frequency sound begin to predominate and, unusually for Lopez, some rhythmic punctuation is audible in the form of impatient tapping. Lopez enters similar territory for much of "Untitled Sonic Microorganisms", part of a two disc set under the banner of his Absolute Noise Ensemble. Guitar recordings collected between 1992 and 2003 from 32 contributors (Elliott Sharp, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Courtis and Lasse Marhaug among ..." www.blossomingnoise.com