Galician bagpipe player inspired by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros & Kali Malone

Galician artist, teacher and researcher Carme López (ES) explores the bagpipes in a way you rarely hear. While the instrument is traditionally associated with festive melodies and a male-dominated tradition, López radically shifts that context. She creates dark, slowly shifting drones and soundscapes that completely detach the bagpipes from their folkloric origins. 

Inspired by pioneers like Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Kali Malone, she explores the rich texture of her instrument: microtonal shifts, floating overtones and subtle layers of static become building blocks for a hypnotic sound in which improvisation and serendipity play a central role. 

As a researcher of the Galician oral tradition, she connects heritage to radical innovation without simply reproducing it; she decontextualises the instrument in order to reinvent it. Her recent album Quintela is internationally acclaimed as the first truly experimental work for Galician bagpipes, one in which she stretches the instrument’s sonic possibilities to the limit. 

Her appearance last year at the reputed Le Guess Who? festival left a deep impression on us.

For fans of: Kali Malone, Pauline Oliveros, Éliane Radigue, Yoshi Wada, Brìghde Chaimbeul. 
   
This is a Liveurope concert: the first European initiative to support concert venues in promoting up-and-coming musical talent across Europe.