**UPEND** presents **Francisco López**, **Barbara Ellison**, and **Hive Mind**.

On Friday October 13th, Spanish sound-artist and composer **Francisco López** returns to L.A. after more than two decades, bringing an intense and immersive audio experience – *VirtuAural Electro-Mechanics* – to a blindfolded audience in the Theater at 2220 Arts + Archives.

Also, Irish audio-visual artist **Barbara Ellison** makes her L.A. debut with *CyberSongs*, a phantasmic, transhuman song cycle for human-like computer voices and computer-like patterns with human voice. And opening the evening is **Hive Mind** – the seismic, glacial analog devastations of Greh Holger.

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Internationally acclaimed for the intensity, richness, and astonishing audio detail of his live immersive performances, Spanish composer and audio-artist **Francisco López** has enthralled blindfolded audiences in darkened rooms worldwide for decades. Ceaselessly recording environments both natural and artificial, López has gathered a deep well of raw material ranging from rainforests to decidedly urban architectures.

*VirtuAural Electro-Mechanics* utilizes his original recordings of electro-mechanical systems and industrial environments: from food factories to manufacturing “white rooms,” from 18th-century automata to computers, from wood and wires to magnetism, from the microscopic to the monumental. Through a massive process of evolution, recombination, and spatialization of these materials, Lopez merges the “real” into a new breed of nonexistent, magnified, dramatically hyper-real machines. The pieces that Lopez constructs – and deftly diffuses in real-time and space – are decidedly not soundscapes but rather non-representational virtual worlds of sound: “not virtual reality but real virtuality.”

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Irish artist and composer **Barbara Ellison** reveals a ghost in the machine within *CyberSongs*, her new work for live audio-video performance. Simultaneously using computer-generated text-to-speech voices and computer-like patterns with human voices, Ellison reveals how these tools and materials can give rise to an odd and fascinating musicality. Words, morphemes, phonemes, phrases and speech particles acquire constantly-shifting aural meanings, and – through the intensive and extensive use of repetition – turn into the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns of a transhuman song cycle.

This is a 21+ event

Presented by UPEND

No Covid-19 entry requirements

2220 Arts + Archives

Francisco López, Barbara Ellison, Hive Mind

Hive Mind

Barbara Ellison

Francisco López

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Francisco López, Barbara Ellison, Hive Mind

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