Carme López
You don’t often hear ominous droney landscapes coming from traditional instruments. In the specific case of Carme López, Galician bagpipes move through a totally unknown field, disconnected from traditional music to decontextualize it and create a personal approach regarding gender perspective (abandoning the association of prestige between the instrument and the male gender). Influenced by Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Kali Malone, the performer (and researcher in the field of Galician oral tradition music) explores the rich sound texture of the instrument, taking improvisation and randomness as compositional ideas, and creating slowly modulating sound environments, stretching the sound possibilities of the bagpipe to its absolute limit.
