Murcof
Sign in to saveMurcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronic musician Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000, he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006, Corona has been living in Barcelona, Spain.
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- 1970-07-26
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Murcof was founded in early 2001 as a solo project of Fernando Corona in Tijuana, México. Murcof experiments with minimalistic electronic and classical music, exploring how digital precision and acoustic warmth can complement each other. The music is intended to reflect a digitalized way of interacting with the world, with each other and ourselves. It is meant to remind us that the end user will always be human, and that technology is a tool of expression and not an end in itself. <a href="https
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- Murcof performing at Sónar Festival, Barcelona, 15 June 2007
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- Fernando Corona Murillo
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- Terrestre
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- Tijuana, Mexico
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- Laptop, piano, cello, synthesizer
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- Musician, record producer, mastering engineer
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- 2001-present
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- Static Discos, The Leaf Label, Context, InFiné, Blue Note Records
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- Born
- 26 July 1970
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fernando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- Tijuana Municipality
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Field of work
- electronic music
- Genre
- jazz
- Official website
- www.murcof.com
Article
23 sectionsContents
- Music
- Biography and influences
- Early youth (1970)
- First electronic instruments (1985)
- Prog-rock (1991)
- Electro-acoustic projects (1994)
- Terrestre and Nortec (1999)
- Murcof - "MF Relay" / ''Martes'' / Monotonu (2001)
- Terrestre commissions (2002)
- Murcof - ''Ulysses'' / ''Utopía'' (2003)
- Terrestre - ''Secondary Inspection'' (2004)
- Murcof - ''Remembranza'' (2005)
- Live with Singh, Truffaz and Tristano (2006)
- Murcof - ''Cosmos'' (2007)
- Murcof - ''The Versailles Sessions'' (2008)
- Projects with AntiVJ (2008)
- Infographic overview of Corona's music making history
- Discography
- Albums
- Singles/EPs
- See also
- References
- External links
Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronic musician Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000, he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006, Corona has been living in Barcelona, Spain.
==Music== Murcof's music is sparse, minimalist electronic music. Many of his compositions are founded on abstract, glitchy, sometimes complex electronic percussion. Harmonic and melodic influences come from classical music (modern classical music, musique concrète, holy minimalism, micropolyphony, baroque music, etc.), ambient music, drone music, berlin school synthesizer music, ethnic music and free improvisation. Rhythms are derived from minimal techno, dub, glitch, industrial music and IDM, and are often aligned around a 4/4 beat. The more recent works in the Murcof catalogue no longer include electronic beats.