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13.02.13 - new reviews

Some new reviews of my album Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete.

More reviews on other records here.

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10.01.13 - full live performance with Leif Elggren on youtube



My friend, Michel "moju" Pennec, uploaded this nice video of my live collaboration with Leif Elggren at Oblo, Lausanne.
Leif is 100 % acoustic, and i'm only using build-in speakers from my tape recorder and 2 tiny mp3 speakers for my modular synth + 2 walkies talkies ! NO P.A. !

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24.12.12 - new release

Francisco Meirino Freezing The Mic

This cdr, it's simply what its title says : a recording of freezing a microphone (hydrophone - inside a water bag).
From the liquid state to the ice state, the original recording is 3 hours long, this release presents in around 40 minutes, 4 selections : from after 20 minutes to after 180 minutes.
Nothing more, pure source recording.
Assembled and mastered at Shiver Mobile in 2012.

Released by Very Quiet Records, Uk, December 2012.

cdr in A5 carboard cover, Ltd to 50 copies. / SOLD OUT !

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19.12.12 - a free download !

Francisco Meirino "live at S.A.D.A/Raum, Bologna"

You can download on my soundcloud page, the live (room 2.0)
recording of my live performance,
(7 channels surround : 4 speakers + 2 transducers + subwoofer)
at S.A.D.A / RAUM, Bologna, Italy on december 13 2012.

Recording by Massimo Carozzi.

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12.11.12 - live review

In this month's Wire.

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29.10.12 - new release

Francisco Meirino Undetected

For this CD, I have chosen to compile a selection of sounds extracted from my personal audio library, sounds that I have recorded sometimes at home, sometimes during my travels.
I have incorporated « field recordings » in almost all of my previous works but I never had the chance to present on disc these sounds untreated, exactly as they are, nothing added.
With this CD I hope to have achieved, with the help of a carefully chosen track listing, an enjoyable listening experience.

Released by OtO records, Fukushima, Japan in November 2012.

CD in jewel case, 200 copies. / 13.- euros (shipping included).

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23.10.12 - interview

I've been interviewed by Chris Whitehead for the field reporter webzine,
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01.10.12 - new release

Francisco Meirino Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete

Composed between 2008 and 2011, “Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete”
is a piece made out of 85 HighC/UPIC* sessions and 18 external sounds(recordings of snow falling,
bones cracking, magnetic fields and insects).
*UPIC is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis.
It consists of a digitising tablet linked to a computer, which has a vector display.

Interested by Xenakis’ approach and wanting to draw the sound before hearing it,
I spent nearly four years composing/drawing line by line “Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete”, listening
to every line, gradually adding on lines and sounds, erasing, reassembling, gathering and discreetly
weaving recorded sounds into the piece to “humanise” the whole.
As a final touch, the piece was transferred and mastered on reel-to-reel tape to add some warmth to
the cold digital processing of the UPIC.

Assembled and mastered by Francisco Meirino at Shiver Mobile, Lausanne, Switzerland, between 2008 and 2012.
Produced by cave12, Geneva. Distributed by Metamkine.
With help from la Ville de Lausanne et des affaires culturelles de l’Etat de Vaud
Cover design by Eva Rittmeyer & Xavier Robel, the CD comes in a cardboard wallet cover, with a black&white poster.

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24.09.12 - new review (of a soon-to-be release...)

Undetected (untreated recordings from on-site testimonies archives)
FRANCISCO MEIRINO
Review by Chris Whitehead
The first release on Takanobu Hoshino’s OtO label, is quite a startling and daring launch.
The Fukushima based sound artist has chosen Francisco Meirino to kick start his new venture
with an album of stark beauty and purity. It requires a deep listening approach. I know that
term is a bit of a cliché these days, but this time I think it is truly valid. This work simply
will not reveal the truth at its core without respecting its subtlety.

As soon as 'Undetected' arrived through the post I couldn’t wait to hear it, so I slid it into
the car CD player to listen to on the half hour drive to work. For a collection as subtle and
nuanced as this, trying to appreciate the detail and peripheral disturbances involved proved
unfruitful whilst motoring. During one particularly quiet spell I forgot I had I had a CD on at
all, there was just the noise of the car’s engine until a sudden thump led me to momentarily
think the exhaust had fallen off. It was actually an unidentified loud bang recorded in Meirino’s back yard.

I would suggest that this release requires some preparation before listening. Firstly the
environment needs to be pretty silent, preferably dark to avoid visual distractions and obviously
the listener needs to be comfortable. Headphones are essential. Ideally Francisco Meirino likes
to play live in total darkness, and maybe we should follow his example. Some of the sounds
revealed here are on the very cusp of audibility, and yet they are essential to the whole.

'Undetected' presents sixteen recordings from Meirino’s archives in an unadulterated form.
They appear to be the sort of components from which he often constructs his tracks, but in
this instance no composition takes place. Like the parts of an engine laid out on a workbench,
Meirino invites us to examine these pure and unadorned sonic objects as they sit there in the cold light of day.

The first track follows a gently fizzing oscillator through its death throes. After two minutes
of undulating static the device suddenly blinks out of existence forever with an impressive
final burst. This sets the tone for what is to come: The sound of carbonic acid decomposing
in water via a hydrophone, crisp and sharp: An unknown recording from a lost archive featuring
drum rolls of charged pulses: A manhole on a construction site and strong wind on scaffolding.
Sounds that in turn explore open spaces, manmade interiors and microscopic events within circuits and machines.

Three separate pieces are concerned with ultrasonic discharges in voltage circuits captured using
electromagnetic field detectors. Like tiny stars punctuating the blackness of empty space, flickers
of electricity momentarily flare into existence, only to die away in an instant. This practice
reminds me of the Dark Matter search experiments carried out in a 1100 metre deep potash mine close
to where I live. The depth of rock cuts out cosmic rays by a factor of 1 million allowing for ultra
low background particle detection.

Two variations on the subject of falling snow (one of snow falling on a metal plate and one of it
falling onto itself) provide a physical counterpoint to the ultrasonic discharges. Similar in the
sense that they record points of sound set against a silent background, continuity is maintained.
The sequencing of these selections is important. Listening to the tracks as they occur in order
provides the best way into this secret world.

'Reel to Reel Motor and Voltage Discharges', gleaned from a tape recorder with belt and high density
ground problems, begins with high pitched crackling and a thin sustained buzz before a deep throbbing
bass sound underpins everything. Meirino’s fascination with malfunctioning machinery and failing
systems seems to bleed into everything he does.

The disc closes with a loud, multichannel examination of a hospital’s ventilation system , rattling
machine noise and churning turbines forming a deeply mechanical finale to a superb and hugely rewarding release. 'Undetected' delivers more secret pleasures with each exploration of its hidden undercurrents.

This CD is not yet available but copies are on their way... should be out there pretty soon !

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17.09.12 - field recording's blog update

I've updated my field recordings blog, listen to the sound of very loud rally cars in the street of Orense in Spain.

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20.08.12 - preview



From my forthcoming CD "Untitled Phenomena In Concrete" to be released in september on Cave12 Records,
this is one of the 85 highC/upic segments that I've draw to compose the whole piece.
More video extracts here.
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16.08.12 - my "archives" now available on bandcamp



I've open a bandcamp account, were you can buy, for about the price of a cup of coffee
(or more if you want to show your support)the digital edition of some of my sold out releases.
So far I^ve uploaded two phroq releases. More soon.
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16.08.12 - new solo release



"An Unnecessary Nothingness"
Francisco Meirino "An Unnecessary Nothingness"
C20 - limited edition, Dokumentarisk Agenda Records
Pro-dubbed tapes, double-sided j-card, inlays.
Price in euros, (shipping included) : 8.50 euros

This release is hard to pin down. Francsico Meirino flawlessly mixes concrete field recordings with the most abstract sounds gathered from the field recordings themselves, but also from failing electronics, magnetic fields, room acoustics, raw drones. Francisco is nothing if not a virtuoso of source material. This is a journey through a shapeless world.
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26.07.12 - new review

My latest solo album "A while & awhile" got a review by Chris Whitehead in the Field Recorder blog.

I have seen a photograph of an open case which is absolutely stuffed full of black cables and wires. Next to these is a metal box with eleven knobs on, each one turned to a different setting. At the side of this case, hanging from a drumstick projecting from the top of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, are several magnetic tape loops. These items belong to Francisco Meirino, and if ever anyone needed an illustration of what ‘A while and awhile’ might sound like, they need look no further.
Meirino seems to be using two categories of sound here: The physical ( flicking switches,  starting fans, clanking metal and generally shuffling around ), and the electrical ( low hums, sparky crackles, overloaded circuits and the sound of fingers on jack plugs ). From this palette he blends pinpoint clicks and sub-bass rumbles with everything in between and comes out with a constantly changing and evolving music of chance encounters.
The first of the nine tracks for example, unnamed except for its length of duration ( 4.51 ), begins with sounds that might be generated in one’s mouth. Spittle snaps and pops in a salivary display of crepitation.  Beneath this a deep, ominous hum takes shape and begins rising from nothing. Before long other mysterious activity, as if from far off rooms carried down ventilation shafts and bounced off walls, becomes apparent.
We’re located in a no-man’s land where it is hard to get a grasp of the location. This is certainly a physical world, but power surges and badly soldered electrical components are rendering the infrastructure dangerous. I see from his website that Meirino has a preference for performing live in absolute darkness. I can visualise the air around him igniting and glowing in iridescent flashes as charged particles collide and decay.
The term ‘glitch’ is an ugly word, and it seems to have been taken on board by a generation of electronic artists wanting to disrupt the metallic sheen of computer music with carefully placed flecks and meticulously honed cuts. Mereino’s work should not be confused with self-conscious  confections of this nature. His art paints a raw and unpolished landscape with surprises and danger at every turn.
His music explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure.  Track 8 puts me inside a computer, but not in a digital way. Not in the sense of being incorporated into the programme as data like Tron. Instead I’m among the fans that cool the processor. I can hear the data transfers occurring  via the wires and I can sense the power coming in from the mains, but it’s all so poorly insulated that energy is leaking out at random points. Instability is increasing. Help!
'A while and awhile' is awash with forces and potentials pulling in all directions. Meirino has developed a purely personal way of articulating his chosen material, and in doing so has created a compelling and completely enthralling piece of work. If this becomes your introduction to this artist, as it was mine, you will want to explore more and search out further examples. Believe me, naked electricity is positively addictive.
I would like to end this review with a piece of advice: Never let Francisco Meirino rewire your house!

"A While & Awhile"
Is my latest solo album on the Russian label "*observatoire", it might at first, look like a fairly short 9 tracks ride but it immediately attracts attention and the need for concentration by alternating, with various degrees, intensity, dynamics and volume.
This assemblage of endless changes with the obvious hissing sound of reel-to-reel motors, the brutal voltage discharges of dying equipments, brings warmth and focus on the other important aspect of this detailed audio work ...
the threat of an unknown sonic language.
Assembled and mastered at Shiver Mobile in 2011-2012 with audio & visual data gathered in Switzerland & China.

cdr - limited edition of 100

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26.06.12 - "We Are None Of Us" re-issue !

Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips "We Are None Of Us"

This album with Dave Phillips is now available as a double LP edition.
It contains 2 additional tracks not included
on the CD (clic on the link to listen to an extract)
and comes with download card for bonus live track,
a recording of their full performance at Ertz Festival, Bera, Spain, 11 sept. 2010.

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13.06.12 - new review

My cd with Michael Esposito, "Ghosts Of Case File 142" got a review by Jim Haynes in this months issue of the wire.

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18.05.12 - new release

Francisco Meirino & Michael Esposito "Ghosts Of Case File 142

EVP research by Michael Esposito, Case File 142 from source recordings done
by myself at an ancient school of anatomy, now a library, in Lausanne, Switzerland 2011.

Assembled, edited and mastered by Francisco Meirino at Shiver Mobile, Nov-Dec. 2011.

CD - edition of 500, Firework Edition Records (sweden)

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08.05.12 - BACK IN STOCK ! new solo release

"A While & Awhile"
I've got more copies of my latest solo album for sale.

cdr - limited edition of 100

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07.05.12 - back home from japan with a new release


"Truth is invented by liars"
Japanese label "dotsmark" has released this cd for my japan tour with dave phillips, this cd compilations includes my solo piece "le processus de la signification" (previously released on the LP "Unifying themes" and solo tracks from Dave Phillips, Rudolf Eb.er, Abisyeikah, Mass Phallocentrism Attack and a exculisve, never released before, collaboration piece between Dave Phillips and me.

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23.04.12 - japan tour starts this sunday

JAPAN TOUR 2012
solo sets & collaboration sets with dave phillips.

29.04.12 - Tokyo, Japan
Live @ Superdeluxe (Luff does Tokyo)
+ O'Rourke & Moslang + Kiko C. Esseiva + dp & Astro + Hijokaidan & more...

30.04.12 - Osaka, Japan
Live @ Conpass
+ Dave Phillips + Corrupted + Rudolf Eb.er + Solmania

02.05.12 - Nagoya, Japan
Live @ K.D.Japon
+ Dave Phillips

03.05.12 - Fukuoka, Japan
Live @ Art Space Tetra
+ Dave Phillips + Manscum

04.05.12 - Kyoto, Japan
Live @ Socrates
+ Dave Phillips

05.05.12 - Takasaki, Japan
Live @ Sunburst
+ Dave Phillips + Mikawa & Hiko + Govt Alpha + Fortitude + Zone Defection

06.05.12 - Toyko, Japan
Live @ Earthdom
+ Dave Phillips + Keji Haino + Rudolf Eb.er + Swarrrm
(links and details on the live performances page

Some pictures here : francisco meirino's flickr

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11.04.12 - new solo release

"A While & Awhile"
This new solo album on the Russian label "*obs", might at first, look like a fairly short 9 tracks ride but it immediately attracts attention and the need for concentration by alternating, with various degrees, intensity, dynamics and volume.
This assemblage of endless changes with the obvious hissing sound of reel-to-reel motors, the brutal voltage discharges of dying equipments, brings warmth and focus on the other important aspect of this detailed audio work ...
the threat of an unknown sonic language.
Assembled and mastered at Shiver Mobile in 2011-2012 with audio & visual data gathered in Switzerland & China.

cdr - limited edition of 100
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09.04.12 - new solo release


"Subjected to testing the stasis"
Lorenzo Senni's label "Presto!?" has just released a tape with two of my live performances, recorded in 2008, this two concerts were my "come back" to play analogs live sets again, after several years of computer-only live performances.
Those are room recordings of this two pretty intense sets, if you enjoy analog hiss, the rumbling of motors over metal and deep bass noise blurps, this is for you !
C40 - limited edition of 100

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10.03.12 - sold out !



"Transduce"
Is now sold out.

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21.02.12 - field recording's blog update

I've updated my field recordings blog, listen to the sound of squeaky metal between two train cars.

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13.01.12 - new compilation release



"Darra Gappa Vol.9"
Darra Gappa is a comic book fanzine run by my buddy Kazuya Ishigami from the japanese label Neus318, he asked me to draw a comic book about my work, (my story is in english but all the rest is in japanese). Darra Gappa it's a super underground comic book, no idea what the other 4 stories are about, but there some crazy-shit drawings in there !
If you are interested in getting a copy (i have 2 for sale 5.- euros each) get in touch !
here is a preview from my 3 pages story.
The comic book comes with a cdr with several music tracks including my track "Stop That Noise!"

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19.12.11 - in the wire's top ten



The Wire #335 "2011 review issue" listed in
Best 10 releases of the Year Genre Charts - Outer Limits Section ! my latest LP :
"Recordings of Voltage Errors, Magnetic Fields, On-Site Testimonies & Tape Tension"

The LP is sold out, the cdr edition is available !

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14.11.11 - new solo release



"Known testimonies on the unknown"
is based on how you can relate, adapt and use sounds or languages of unknown places , in this case, unknown found sounds, known but forgotten sounds and field recordings of people talking a language I do not understand.

C30 - limited edition of 100 released by Musica Moderna Records, Italy

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13.10.11 - new split release



"Unifying Themes"
Is a study of themes that unite as a whole across geographic, language, and cultural barriers.
Bringing together artist from Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and the United States.
Assembled for the Unifying Themes tour.

LP, released by Misanthropic Agenda in a limited edition of 90 copies.

SOLD OUT ! but Metamkine might have a few copies left !

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10.10.11 - field recording's blog update

I've updated my field recordings blog, listen to the sound of train vibrations through metal.

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29.07.11 - new solo release



Here is my first book !
"Transduce"
is an attempt at working with words in the same way as I work with sound.
This book is based on texts extracted from my notebooks, sometimes a whole page, sometimes only a few sentences..

A 92 pages black&white book with a 35 minutes audio cdr, limited to 50 copies.

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08.08.11 - sold out



The LP edition of my latest solo album
"Recording of voltage errors..."
is SOLD OUT!
(but i've kept 10 copies to sell at my forthcoming live shows,
if you want one, there is your last chance.)
The cdr edition, released by Japanese label Neus318 is still available, copies on the release page.

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29.07.11 - new release in collaboration with jason kahn



Authorised Version
a Uk label Run by Phil Julian (Cheapmachines) just released my collaboration with the very unique Jason Kahn ! :
"Music For An Empty Cinema".
A collaborative recording made at Cinéma Oblò in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2009.

A pro CD-R, housed in a four panel card sleeve, letterpressed by Ben Owen at Middle Press, Brooklyn NY.

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28.07.11 - field recording's blog update

I've updated my field recordings blog, listen to the sound of body function (pumping my fist).

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15.06.11 - new solo release

Antifrost
a top notch Greek label (they have amazing stuff, check it out!), have started a series of pro-dubbed tape, based on voice works.
I'm the number 4 of the 1st series with my piece :
"My Voice Is Unique".
(If you buy the whole tape subscrition -HURRY !!! ONLY 2 left- you will get the previous amazing releases, tapes by Michael Esposito, Leif Elggren, Daniel Menche),
my tape is a 26 min. work based on people saying "my voice is unique", I’ve dug into these recordings, to find sounds hidden in the background, audio treasures and amplified silences, I've extracted sighs & breathings.

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08.06.11 - field recording's blog update

I've updated my field recordings blog, listen to the sound of window cleaners on a Shanghai skyscraper.

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30.04.11 - new solo release



Here an LP edition of my latest solo album
"Recording of voltage errors..."
it's released by Misanthropic Agenda in a limited LP edition of 90 copies
This is a very nice edition that will not be around for long...

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29.04.11 - new release in collaboration with lasse marhaug



US-label Misanthropic Agenda have released a collaborative vinyl single of me and my pal
Lasse Marhaug :
"Flupentixol/Lamotrigine"
this little record took us five years to make and what's jammed into 12 minutes is an album's worth of sounds.

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10.02.11 - a field recording's blog

I've started a blog, mainly about (unusual) field recordings.

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12.01.11 - sold out

my 2010 album "Anthems for unsuccessfull winners" is now sold out !

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21.12.10 - new release in collaboration with kiko c. esseiva & scillia lorage

My collaboration with friends Kiko C. Esseiva and Scillia Lorage titled "Untitled" has been released by japanese label Neus318, check it out !

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19.11.10 - new release in collaboration with brent gutzeit

My collaboration with us sound artist Brent Gutzeit
"Five years of work for a strange result"
is now available on CD with a nice digipak designed by myself, in a limited edition of 300 copies.

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01.11.10 - older stuff...

I've found some copies of my LP "Neko" (released in 1999 by swiss label Hyhat, it's limited to 200 copies, here are the last copies ! 

I've found some copies of the 2nd CD my previous lo-fi/pop band "SLOPE" (released in 1999 by swiss label Gentlemen), here are the last Copies!