julio lopez
Musician & Teacher
Julio Lopez is a creative musician and music teacher living on Tohono O’odham land / Tucson, AZ. They are interested in sound as thought and thought as sound. Their work orients towards ideas around repertoire (cherished knowledge), ornaments, and emptiness.
Current projects include:
– solo work for voice and electronics
– voice & guitar songs sifting through “American” popular and folk musics
– voice and electronics in distortion moth, a collaboration with emmaline saunders exploring grief, luminosity, and queer harmonics through sound and performance
– guitar for Dactyls, Tucson quartet playing sad jazz fusion
Recordings:
https://juliolopez.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/julio-lopezhiler
Studies:
– Irish song/sean-nos with Dáithí Sproule
– Composition, voice, and pish-radif with Jessika Kenney
– Composition with Christopher Butterfield at the University of Victoria
– Composition with Tom Baker, Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, and Eyvind Kang at Cornish College of the Arts
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