Pablo Sanz es un estudioso del fenómeno sonoro, un alquimista que analiza empíricamente el sonido y sus absolutas posibilidades, centrando sus intereses en las relaciones entre espacio y percepción, el paisaje sonoro y la fonografía. Emigró para perfeccionar sus estudios en la Haya donde reside actualmente, estudiando ArtScience en la Royal Academy of Art y el Royal Conservatorium, llevando sus experimentos sónicos a todo tipo de espacios, realizando incursiones en diferentes campos, incluso colaborando en proyectos editoriales y de comisariado.

Nos centraremos en la magnífica serie de selecciones (From 20 to 20000 hz) que lleva facturando el madrileño desde 2004, pequeños tratados de electrónica de una estructura compleja y densa, donde demuestra en forma de mixes que la experimentación no está reñida con un perfil más artístico, manifestando una visión personal e ilimitada de la electrónica y de su historia llena de entresijos, rescatando creadores que muchas veces aparecen solo en los textos explicativos de su desarrollo, pero que aquí podemos saborear junto con lo más representativo de cada escuela, confeccionando perfectos catálogos fidedignos del sonido que tanto veneramos, sin límites estilísticos ni formales que coarten su propuesta, dando cobijo a todo tipo de elementos, desde grabaciones de campo a música concreta, desde Raster Noton a Pierre Henry, de Sun Ra a Jeff Mills, todo es válido y tiene su lugar reservado en su particular universo.

El propio Pablo nos da algunas pinceladas de su trabajo y de los collages sonoros que construye:  “listening, exploratory, experimental, remix, dj, mixtapes, live, radio, audio activism, appropriation, anticopyright, found, cut-ups, sampling, mash-up, lo-fi, database, (net)labels, noise, silence, narratives, cinema for the ear, acousmatic, poetry, industrial, electroacoustic, computer music, techno, minimalism, improv, microsound, lowercase, soundscape, phonography, field recordings, resonances, rhizomes, indeterminacy, journey, hauntology, place, memory, continuum, timespace, flux, immersion”.

From 20 to 20000 hz #30

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Tracklist

Dr. Timothy Leary – The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra) [Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, 1967]
Produkt- Nord [Stretch, 1997, Raster-Noton]
Reanimator – Clicks And Drones May… [Special Powers, 2006, Community Library]
Takehisa Kosugi – 75 Letters And Improvisation [VA - A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute, 1993, Koch]
Gilles Deleuze – L’Immortalité De L’Âme [Spinoza : Immortalité Et Éternité, 2001, Gallimard]
Wehowsky / Wollscheid – Happy Deterritorializations [VA - In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze, 1996, Mille Plateaux]
Sleeparchive – Image Photometer [Infrared Glow 12”, 2005, Sleeparchive]
Brion Gysin – ‘I Am’ Machine-poem [1960, ubu.com]
Ryoji Ikeda – Test Pattern #0001 [Test Pattern, 2008, Raster-Noton / CCI Recordings]
NHK – _1 [Unununium, 2008, Raster-Noton]
Petr Vasa – AEIOU [Poemes Physiques Acoustiques, 1994]
Alva Noto – U_04 [Unitxt, 2008, Raster-Noton]
Yasunao Tone & Hecker – Palimpsest [Palimpsest, 2004, Mego]
Grischa Lichtenberger – 0106_12_LV_3 Sand Ausheben [~Treibgut, 2009, Raster-Noton]
Merzbow – Ushiwaka 2 [Kokuchou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 8, 2009, Important Records]
Toru Takemitsu – Ki, Sora, Tori [VA - Early Japanese Electronic Music, 2003, Earlabs]
Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M – Filament 1-7 [Filament 1, 1998, Extreme]
Ami Yoshida – #11, #14, #20, #75 [Tiger Thrush, 2003, Improvised Music From Japan]

From 20 to 20000 hz #25: the drone effect

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“The drone (bourdon) effect reflects the presence of a constant layer of stable pitch in a sound ensemble with no noticeable variation in intensity. Linked to music in its designation (the drone is a permanent bass note over which other elements are laid), the drone effect can also be observed in urban and industrial soundscapes. Many technical systems generate constant sounds that are close to a drone, even if the frequencies concerned are not limited to the bass range that originally characterized it.”

Sonic Experience; Ed Jean-François Augoyard and Henry Torgue
McGill-Queen’s University Press (2005) (p.40-46)

Tracklist

sleep research facility | ‘2.1’ | dead weather machine (manifold records, 2004)
bernhard günter | ‘stone circles’ | details agrandis (table of the elements, 1998)
yen pox | ‘deliver’ | deliver 7” (drone records, 1995)
lull | ‘slow fall inward’ | cold summer (sentrax, 1994)
bj nilsen | ‘breathe’ | va – spire : organ works past, present & future (touch, 2003)
la monte young | ‘for brass’ (1957) | der zweck dieser serie is nicht unterhaltung vol. 1 (unofficial release, 2003)
eliane radigue | ‘adnos i’ | adnos (table of the elements, 2002)
catherine christer hennix | ‘electric harpsichord no. 1’ (mid-1970s) | (ubu.com, 2003)
ellen fullman | ‘work for 4’ | body music (experimental intermedia, 1993)
pablo sanz | ‘ph13_drone’ (20020.org, 2008)
eric la casa | ‘01’ | air.ratio (sirr records, 2006)
eliane radigue | ‘kyema’ | trilogie de la mort (experimental intermedia, 1998)
marhaug + asheim | ‘clavaeolina’ | grand mutation (touch, 2007)
aube | ‘ne tuoi occhi’ | reworks stefano gentile (silentes, 2005)
boris | ‘interference demon’ | dronevil – final (inoxia records, 2006)
sunn o))) | ‘nn o)))’ | øø void (rise above records, 2000)
spacemen 3 | ‘ecstasy in slow motion’ | dreamweapon (live, 1990)
time machines (coil) | ‘2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethyl-amphetamine’ | time machines
time machines (coil) | ‘5-methoxy-n,n-dimethyl’ | time machines (eskaton, 1998)
brendan murray | commonwealth (23five, 2008)
oren ambarchi + martin ng | ‘procession’ | reconnaissance (staubgold, 2000)
paul panhuysen | a magic square to listen to (plinkity plonk records, 2004)
jean-françois laporte | ‘mantra’ | soundmatters (23five, 2007)
michael j. schumacher | ‘still’ | room pieces (experimental intermedia, 2003)
francisco lópez | untitled single piece 7” (drone records, 1996)
chas smith | ‘descent’ | descent (cold blue music, 2005)
sachiko m | bar sachiko (improvised music from japan, 2004)
tucker martine | brokenhearted dragonflies: insect electronica from southeast asia (sublime frequencies, 2004)

From 20 to 20000 hz #24: Regreso al futuro

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“Yo creo que existe un deseo universal de compartir cualquier expresión artística. Un deseo universal que funciona a modo de virus de la cultura. Es decir si yo genero algo, normalmente, quiero compartir mi hallazgo con alguien. Y normalmente, cuando se es bebé, el instinto de la curiosidad está muy presente. De ahí surge un mercado, que tiene hoy día un grave problema con su modelo de negocio. Ese es su problema, nosotros vamos a disfrutar de las posibilidades de viaje sonoro que nos permiten las nuevas tecnologías para encontrar nuevas obras que proceden de una cultura, de una educación…”
-Pedro Jiménez (Zemos98)

Tracklist

F.T Marinetti – Definizione Di Futurismo (1912) | Futurism & Dada | SuRosa, 1989
Pierre Henry – Marche Dans Le Temps | Remixe Sa Dixième Symphonie | 1998
The Tape-Beatles | Waves of Waves | Music With Sound | 1990
Radio Boy – Manufactured Music | The Mechanics of Destruction | 2002
Pansonic – Lähetys / Transmission | Katodivaihe | Blast First, 2007
Sainkho Namtchylak – Memory, No. 1 | Lost Rivers | FMP, 1992
Massimo – (1:00) | InvalidObject Series (Var) | Fällt, 2000
Voluble – Otocerum | cedé.zemos98_6 | ZEMOS98, 2004
Man Ray | Interview | Various – Surrealism Reviewed (1929-1963) | LTM, 2002
Taylor Deupree – Continue.Continue | InvalidObject Series (Continue) | Fällt, 2000
Andreas Berthling – with(hold.II) | InvalidObject Series | Fällt, 2000
Radboud Mens – Pulse 021.3 | Various – Club Transmediale 03 | Wire Mag #228
Russel Haswell – Mk2000 | Various – El formato is the challenge | Alku, 2000
Taylor Deupree – Continue.Unhurried | InvalidObject (Continue) | Fällt, 2000
Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) (narrated by Michael Prichard)
Jeff Mills – Robot Replica | Metropolis | Tresor, 2000
John Oswald – Open (Bo No Ma) | Plexure | Avant, 1993
Robert Fripp – Scanning II | Sometimes God Hides: The Young Person´s Guide To Discipline | Discipline Global Mobile, 1996
Mecánica Popular – De De Toowey a Gutemberg | Baku: 1922 | Grabaciones Accidentales, 1987
Marcel Duchamp – The Creative Act – lecture in Houston (1957) | Various – Surrealism Reviewed (1929-1963) | LTM, 2002
Esplendor Geométrico – El empuje del desarrollo técnico | Balearic Rhythms | Geometrik, 1996
Government Alpha – Tomorrow | Strange Days | Xerxes, 2003
Zbigniew Karkowski – Telescoping | Various – Less-Lethal Vol.1 | Alku, 2007
Torturing Nurse – Repeating Weapon | Various – Less-Lethal Vol.1 | Alku, 2007
William S. Burroughs – Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups (lecture in Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Insitute, April 1976)
Found Tapes Exhibition | FT44 / FT66 / FT82 (2006-2007)
Christian Marclay – His master´s voice (live at the Kitchen during an evening titled His Master´s Voice: The Art of The Record Player in 1982) | Records | > Atavistic, 1997
The Tape-beatles | Whole new animal | Music With Sound | 1990
People Like Us – track06 | DIY or DIE (WFMU 2004)
Marshall McLuhan | The Medium is the Massage LP (Columbia Records, late 1960s)
Erkki Kurenniemi – Inventio / Outventio (w/ Jukka Ruohomäki) | Äänityksiä / Recordings 1963-1973 | Love Records, 2002
Yoshio Ojima – Discomposure | Various – Atomic Weight | Dorobo, 1996
FMOL Trio – fragmentos de tiempo | Banda Sonora de ‘Tira tu reloj al agua’ (2003)
FMOL Trio – gracia visionaria | Banda Sonora de ‘Tira tu reloj al agua’ (2003)
Sun Ra – Rocket Number Nine | Space Is The Place | Impulse! 1998 (orig. 1972)
Conrad Schnitzler – Con ´72 (side A) | Con ‘72 | Qbico, 2002 (live London, 1972)
Fátima Miranda – Palimpsiesta | ArteSonado | LCD, 2000
DJ Spooky vs. Scanner – Snowshore | The Quick and The Dead | Sulfur Rec, 1999
Matera – Pure Realism | Same Here | Sub/Mission Records, 1997
Radio Beijing (Tiananmen Square Massacre) | WFMU – Radio Archival Oddities #1
Max Ernst | Interview | Various – Surrealism Reviewed (1929-1963) | LTM, 2002
The Art of Noise – Instruments of Darkness | In Visible Silence | China Rec, 1986
Grabación de la Guardia Civil en la Frontera de España con Marruecos | audio.acción de Volúble en mediateletipos.net
Iannis Xenakis – Concrète PH (1958) (reconstruction by Kees Tazeelar)
Günter Múller & Otomo Yoshihide – Lisboa 98 | Time Travel | Erstwhile, 2003
Ultra Red – Mentirosos | Structural Adjustments | Mille Plateaux, 2000
Muslimgauze – Muslims of China | United States of Islam | Extreme, 1991
Mazen Kerbaj – Starry Night | recorded by MK on the balcony of his flat in Beirut on the night of 15th to 16th of July 2006
Thomas Ashcraft – War Witness: Morbid Soundfields from Iraq (2007)
Akira Rabelais – Disneyland Tower of Terror ride (Los Angeles, US) | soundtransit.nl
Thomas Ashcraft – Baghdad Invasion (March, 2003) | sountransit.nl
Christophe Charles – Undirections Continuum | Various – In Memoriam of Gilles Deleuze | Mille Plateaux, 1996
DJ Spooky – Journey (Paraspace Mix) | Necropolis : The dialogic project | 1996
The Hafler Trio & Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth present Brion Gysin´s Dreamachine | Kk records, 1989
Scanner – Bringing back a past | Warhol´s Surfaces | Intermedium Records, 2003
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – Empty Landscape | New Depression Music (bootleg, 1980)
Alva Noto – Haliod Xerrox Copy 11 | Xerrox Vol.1 | Raster-Noton, 2007
Ryoichi Kurokawa – Cipher | Copynature | Progressive Form, 2003
Thomas A. Edison – Electricity and progress | Recorded for the opening of the NY Electrical Show, Oct 3, 1908 | Format: Edison brown wax cylinder (unissued)
Mecánica Popular – Galilea Centro de Datos | ¿Qué sucede con el tiempo? | Dro, 1984
Godfrey J Kola – Somalia! | VA – Extreme Music From Africa | Susan Lawly, 1997
AGF – human.sMISTAKEreports | Allegorical Power Series #2 | Antiopic, 2003
Terre Thaemlitz – This closet is made of doors | Love For Sale | MP, 1999
David Toop – 37th floor at sunset | 37th Floor At Sunset – Music For Mondophrenetic | Sub Rosa, 2000
Ultra Red – Las Montañas | Structural Adjustments | Mille Plateaux, 2000
Edgar Varèse – Ionisation (1929-1931) | Offrandes | Sony Classical, 1990
Christina Kubisch – Djungle Walk | On Air | 2004 (reissue of cassette from 1984)
MC Slept – 1min in gaza | cedé.zemos98_6 | ZEMOS98, 2004
Autodigest – Compression 7 (Oops I Mixed It Again) | A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded Vol.1 | Crónica, 2003
Atari Teenage Riot – Waves of Disaster (instrumental 97) | Redefine The Enemy! Rarities and B-Sides Compilation 1992-1999 | Beat Records, 2002
voluble.net / Fran MM Cabezadevaca – Artículos prohibidos en aeronaves. Reglamento (CE) Nº 68/2004 de la Comisión 15 de enero de 2004 | El Puerto Aéreo | 2005

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