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membres 
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Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga ( alto sax, bass clarinet, scrach turntables)
Cristina Casanova (FMOL synth)
Sergi Jordà (FMOL synth)
 

bio
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The FMOL Trio is an electronic free improvisation group, which takes its name from the FMOL virtual digital instrument, developed in 1997 by one of its members. It has been formed in 1999, by Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga (alto sax, bass clarinet and scratch turntables), Cristina Casanova (FMOL synth) and Sergi Jordà (FMOL synth), as a fusion of the former improvisation duos held by Casanova and Jordà, and Arrizabalaga and Jordà, respectively. Combining the unique sounds (and visualisations) of the FMOL, with Arrizabalaga's power blowing, the trio creates an astonishing free music of difficult classification, with possible links to Eric Dolphy or Alber Ayler, Xenakis electronic works, illbient, japanese noisemakers, New York's No Wave or Miles' Agartha period.

The FMOL (Faust Music On Line) software synth, was developed by Sergi Jordà and Toni Aguilar when the Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus, proposed Jordà the creation of a collective virtual musical instrument for the Internet.

"We don't want MIDI music. We don't want notes, we want sound. We don't want keyboardists, we want sound sculptors. We won't demand the composers more gear than an Internet connection and a 100$ multimedia soundcard. Music will be composed in real-time with the mouse, and composers will be able to modify, process or distort previous compositions." Those were the basics of a project which, during the spring of 1998, was used by more than a hundred composers around the world for creating part of the music for la Fura's play, Faust 3.0, and was awarded that same year as best multimedia application at the Bourges 3rd International Musical Software Competition (http://www.gmed.fr). One of the software major peculiarities is that its interface, which stands somewhere between a virtual harp and an oscilloscope, allows the music to be visualised while being played.

While la Fura's Faust is still touring world-wide, and after Jordà produced an FMOL CD which remixes hundreds of these Internet contributions, he and Casanova (one of the remixers on the CD) formed the audio-visual improvisation duo (using two computers and two data projectors), now powerfully enriched with Arrizabalaga's saxes, clarinets and scratches, creating an unusual blend of mixed real-time electroacoustic music, audio-visual and free improvisation.

discography 
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>> FMOL TRIO: THE KÖLN CONCERT
hazard CD28, 2002

Electronic improvisation with wind instruments and turntables. 
Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga: bass clarinet, alto sax, turntables / Cristina Casanova: FMOL synth / Sergi Jordà: FMOL synth. 
Recorded live at Köln in the "BCN_CGN", 27th September 2001 and Barcelona, October 2001.

Recorded live, direct from 2-track at the Capella de l'Antic Hospital de laSanta Creu, Barcelona, 28th February 2002.

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>> FMOL TRIO: LIVE AT METRONOM
hazard CD10, 2000

On September 98, some of the top FMOL's composers together with new guests are asked to contribute, and each one receives a CD with more than 300 pieces of 20". The rules are easy: "everything is allowed if the raw material is FMOL". And they start to cut, paste, overdub and process their favorite fragments, composing totally new and longer pieces.
Cada uno de los participantes recibe un disco compacto con más de 300 fragmentos FMOL de 20 segundos, y una consigna clara: "todo vale, con tal que el material sonoro básico proceda de FMOL". Y éstos se ponen a cortar, pegar, superponer y procesar digitalmente sus fragmentos favoritos, hasta dar forma a nuevas composiciones más extensas. 
 Txeic II Cristina Casanova II Sergi Jordà II Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga & Toni Aguilar II Roloco II Alex Martín II Noise from the Kernel  II Diego Dall'Osto II Carlos Padrissa II  BigToxic

press

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"Music, from time to time, creates first fruits and sounds new, as recently inaugurated. Unusual sonorous registers, unexpected articulations, desinhibition. To sound like that, imagination, enthusiasm and audacity are needed. FMOL certainly experience, but with intensity. No frozen instrumental dissections. Pure nerve. Sergi Jordà and Cristina Casanova (synthesyzers) and Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga (sax and clarinet) are a trio of improvised, revitalised and renewed electronic music. A conspiracy, the one of the sons, to sound free and with sense." (D.P.S. - AVUI)

mp3
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>> Noise 8'41 _ download mp3 [ 4,075 kb ] 
Fmol Trio: Live at Metronom, 2000
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>> Gosths five 11'02  _ download mp3 [ 5,167 kb ] 
Fmol Trio: The Köln Concert, 2002
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>> Bass clarinets 10'23 _ download mp3 [ 4,864 kb ] 
Fmol Trio: The Köln Concert, 2002

pictures
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>>>  FMOL TRIO . Barcelona, 2001
>>>  FMOL TRIO . Köhln, 2001
>>>  FMOL TRIO . La Capella . Barcelona, 2002 .

 contact
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>> Webpage Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga:
http://www.experimentaclub.com/data/pelayo_arrizabalaga
email: arteaspirado@gmail.com

>> Webpage Sergi Jordà:
http://www.iua.upf.es/~sergi
email: sergi.jorda@iua.upf.es

>> Webpage Cristina Casanova:
http://www.iua.upf.es/~casanova
email: cristina.casanova@ktonycia.com

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