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The third in a series of similarly titled projects, Belle Confusion 969 stands out among López's works as a relatively unpopulated piece wherein environmental sounds captured on several continents are fashioned into fabric that reveals an anthropomorphized Earth in its details. Against an unquiet background of geophysical rumbles, ringing drones, meteorological activity, and piercing insect noise, the 51-minute piece surveys the craggy, weather worn surfaces of exposed rock formations, traces eroded ground-forms, and plumbs the inky bowels of natural pools and abysses. López's triumph is his ability to invest what might have been a detached anatomical study of faceless artificial landscape with suspense, dramatic depth, and remarkably expressive musical character. Produced in part by the Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music (CDMC), and the Spanish National Radio (RNE), with recordings made between 1990-1996 in tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Senegal, Gambia, and China. TRACKLSIT: 1. Belle Confusion 969 (51:32)