Francisco Meirino - Anthems For Unsuccessful Winners
A b o u t
Francisco Meirino is a sound artist based in Switzerland. His music explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure. His interest lies primarily in what is not supposed to be recorded : the end of life of electronic devices, electrostatic noise, magnetic fields and the unconventional use of music hardware and sound systems and how to exploit these sonic failures in radically different ways in his sound pieces.
His music combines intricate textures, sonic precision, wide spatial panning and is fascinating by its physical intensity and detail precision.
He mostly uses the modular synthesizer (Eurorack-Serge), various microphones, the computer, the field recorder, tape recorders and tape echoes, EMF detectors and various home-made electro-acoustic devices.
N E W S
L E T’S K E E P I T A S S I M P L E A S P O S S I B L E
A N D S H A P E A N E W R E A L I T Y O F G E O M E T R I C A L P A T T E R N S
88 pages book. first ed. of 100 copies, edited by Editions Ripopée, February 2023,
22.- euros (shipping included)
A collection of 43 collages made between 2017 and 2022 by Francisco Meirino
every collage is made of one cut : a straight line between corners, and a 90 degree movement.
An attempt at shape a new reality out of historical, war and architecture photo archives.
The original collages featured in the book are for sale, contact me for prices and availability.
P E R F O R M A N C E W I T H L O R E N Z O A B A T T O I R
Surround performance on 20 speakers, at C3, Milano, 2022.
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M U S I C F O R E L E C T R O N I C C O N S U M E R S & C O N S U M E R E L E C T R O N I C S
with Laurent Güdel
Digital edition on Bandcamp. Self-published physical edition of 30 copies, sold out.
Limited physical copy distributed on a lithium battery chargeable USB MP3 circuit board with sound chip and speaker made in Shenzhen, China
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T H E I M I T A T I O N O F A N A C T I O N
with Ensemble Contrechamps
CD/digital, released by Firework Edition Records, 2022, FER1131, 4 panel digisleeve, reverse coating print.
Two compositions that I wrote, performed by (and with me on electronics) The Ensemble Contrechamps, from Geneva, Switzerland.
This CD, released by Firework Edition Records, features two pieces recorded in 2019 and 2021 with the musicians of that amazing contemporary ensemble.
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new LP with Antoine Chessex, Francisco Meirino, Jérôme Noetinger
Editions Cave 12, released April 24, 2022
Side A : «Cocyte & Phlégéthon» 19:50
Side B : «Tunnel» 17:20
S H A T T E R E D R E E L (M) S
CD on Sentimental Productions
2021 SENT 015, 4 panel digisleev, Ltd 200
CD edition : 11.- euros + shipping
Also available as a limited (30 copies) artist boxset that includes a 17x17x4 cm woodbox that holds the regular CD
and also the full album on a reel tape (7' four track stereo)
+ signed card + one of original 30 tape loops used to make the album.
Francisco Meirino: 30 reel tape loops, tape echo, reel-to-reel tape recorder,
modular synthesizer, piano, percussions, resonator guitar, violin, voice, field recorder, computer.
Recorded, assembled, and mastered in 2020 by Francisco Meirino at Shiver Mobile.
Artwork and layout by Edward Sol
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with Simon Whetham & Gregory Büttner
3 x cassette / digital, released by Falt, 2022. Cassette ed. SOLD OUT
Simon Whetham (UK) was hosted by Arc Artist Residency in Romanmôtier, Switzerland throughout March 2016.
The organisation kindly enabled him to invite special guests Francisco Meirino (CH) and Gregory Büttner (DE) for the three to work together and make a public performance, as part of his ongoing Active Crossover project concept. www.activecrossover.co.uk
Over a week the three made improvised sessions in the unique setting of a large studio space of the medieval building, using multiple speakers, mechanical devices, found objects and the space itself as tools to be used and abused.
The three subsequently divided all recordings of the sessions, using them as material to craft the pieces that form "The Arc Sessions".
Collages for the tape wrappers are made by Francisco Meirino.
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13’36 10’42 12’48 with MICHAEL GENDREAU
CD/digital, Misanthropic Agenda,
2021 MAR 058, 4 panel digipak, matte finish, Ltd 200
CD edition : 10.- euros + shipping (includes digital ed.)
Recorded live in Switzerland in July 2008 at Cave 12, Geneva and Oblo, Lausanne. These live recordings were lost and forgotten in our archives, more than a decade later, they were found on a dusty external hard drive in Meirino’s home studio. Re-discovered, edited, mixed, and mastered in 2021.
Comes in a digipack with matt printing, features artwork collage by Francisco Meirino and live pictures by Lisa Seitz & Megan Jankowski.
Big vibrations in perspective
Michael Gendreau : field recorder, microphones, accelerometers, computer.
Francisco Meirino : field recorder, microphones, electro-magnetic sensors, computer.
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F I C H E T E C H N I Q U E with LES SIRENES
56 pages black & white book (in french) + download audio link.
Edited by Van Dieren éditeur, Paris 2021, Collection Rip off/on ISBN : 978-2-37466-025-7