My daily practice is essentially musical, naturally incorporating philosophical, political and paradoxical elements. As part of my ongoing experimentation with sound, songwriting and performance, I have lately grown interested in the connection between speech and music, and how certain uses of interference, fragility, contrast, memory, sustainability, focus, litheness, feedback, interactivity, gesture, portability, asymmetry and space can propel such musical practice into the uncanny.
Born in A Coruña, raised in Barcelona and based in Berlin since 2011, my musical framework is deeply rooted in sources such as flamenco, bolero, copla, tango or sardana, which I channel and transfigure through collective fm transmission, low-cost recording/difussion devices, elusive sampling/midi techniques, stripped-down chant and Sprechgesang.
In addition to releasing music via Maple Death, Crammed Discs, Takoroku, Young Turks, Canada, Isolated Now Waves, Audition, Spread The Disease and Ozonokids, I have been a long time member of Carla Bozulich's live units, played in projects like Don The Tiger, Bèstia Ferida, Veracruz, Homenatges and Capitán, and have worked in various contexts (music, film, installation, radio, performance, dance, poetry, theatre) with artists such as Valerio Tricoli, Lucrecia Dalt, Dean Roberts, Lydia Lunch, Ant Hampton, Regina de Miguel, Arnau Sala, Radio Hito, Francesco Cavaliere, Josephine Foster, Víctor Herrero, Kaffe Mathews, Nuno Marques Pinto, Lorena Izquierdo, Mike Majkowski, Siri Salminen, Carina Khorkhordina, Alex Reynolds, Theo Livesey, Aksak Maboul, Eduardo Rivero, Alice Godfrey, Andi Stecher, Andrea Belfi, GY! BE, El Guincho, Camille Mandoki, Rubén Patiño, Bradien, Eduard Escoffet, Olivier Arson, Gary Schultz, Paloma Polo, Adrià Cañameras, Robert Forster, Cristóbal Fernández, Lorena Álvarez, Sergi Faustino, Marçal Forés, Krapoola, Ion de Sosa, Kiko Amat, Sam Ashley and Macromassa.
My work has been commissioned and granted by institutions including Creative Europe, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, MACBA, or the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, and has appeared in media such as The Wire, BBC, HBO, NTS, WFMU, Kiosk Radio, Red Bull Music Academy Radio, Cashmere Radio or Radio Alhara. I have also performed at festivals and venues including Cafe Oto, Meakusma, Standards, Le Guess Who?, Cave12, Brelfest, Morphine Raum, South By Southwest, Alice, CTM, hOtelier, Seanaps, Les Ateliers Claus, Setu, Primavera Sound, CentroCentro, and Sonar.
I also run workshops on FM Sound Diffusion and work as a freelance tutor at Catalyst (Berlin), sharing insights into new approaches and developments in music, creativity, soundtrack composition, psychoacoustics, performance, technology misuse, etc.