Active since 1994 in sound and live performance, Francisco Meirino / Phroq explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure and how a failure can become something more than just annoying.
Francisco Meirino's music is a complex and constantly changing electronic soundscape that ranges from dynamic electro-acoustic to sheer noise blasts and is fascinating by its physical intensity and detail precision.
He works mainly with the computer, contact microphones and various acoustic and electronics devices.
With more than 100 live performances in festivals such as :
Santander Arte Sonoro (Spain) / Activating The Medium (USA) / Observatori (Spain) / Musica Genera (Poland) / Norberg Electronic Music Festival (Sweden) / Akousma (Canada) / Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (Switzerland)
and in various venues in Europe, Japan and North America, Phroq tries to raise the stress level of the audience by using sound phenomena.
Over the years, Francisco Meirino had the honor to collaborate on studio and live with great artists such as :
Dave Phillips / Scott Arford / Michael Gendreau / Zbigniew Karkowski / Astro / Randy H.Y. Yau / Lasse Marhaug / Cindy Van Acker / Tim Olive / Kasper T Toeplitz.
He has been commissioned with music for :
Pro-Helvetia (Switzerland) / Radio Airplane (Japan) / Companie Greffe/Cindy Van Acker (Switzerland) / Mostra d'Arte Sonoro i Visual de Barcelona (Spain).
Phroq has been awarded with the composition prize for experimental music in 2003 by the Swiss Art Council.
He lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Phroq selected discography :
Solo :
2009 : Connections, opportunities for mistakes / CD / Shiversounds
2008 : Half-asleep music / CD / Entr'acte
2008 : Magnetic ghosts / cdr / Sentient Recognition Archive
2007 : Hazards of sound / cdr / Tanczprocess
2007 : 77 sound objects / cdr / Cipher Productions
2006 : We will shiver with fear / cdr / Obscurica
2006 : Attempts to reach Usa / cdr / Harshnoise
2005 : Mâchoire / cdr / Solipsism
2005 : Collapse / CD / Groundfault Recordings
2004 : Confusion / CD / Shiversounds
2003 : Kobekita, respect is due to? / cdr / Spirals Of Involution
2002 : If a defect is sound / cdr / Shiversounds
2001 : The Microway / cdr / Electronic Musik
2000 : Neko / Lp / Hyhat
collaborations :
2009 : Concert à l'Oblò / cdr / Echomusic / with Kiko C. Esseiva
2007 : Raizan tatami / 2x 3' cdr / Banned Productions / with Mike Shiflet
2007 : Eagle keys / CD / Even Stilte / with Tim Olive
