Sound artist, independent researcher and occasional curator.
His research focuses on the sociocultural and political dimensions embedded in the act of listening. He works with field recordings, transforming them into a radical phonographic practice and theory. He understands listening as a political act, both as a mode of artistic creation and as a means of constructing specific sonic situations capable of activating critical thought.
His work begins from an understanding of listening as a gesture of contemporary artistic creation, foregrounding its sociocultural and political dimensions while questioning its ethical and aesthetic limits.
He is currently researching how music, sound and listening relate to existential finitude, death and impermanence through research projects such as Anthropological Repertoire Of Vulnerabilities, La última escucha, Gravitas, The Belliphonic Mind, Escucha Paliativa and Petit Bardo.
He has received awards, grants and fellowships for artistic, editorial and research projects from institutions including the Basque Government, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Fundación Phonos, La Casa Encendida and Calcografía Nacional, and has undertaken research and creation residencies in different national and international contexts.
He began by collaborating with Audiolab at Arteleku in San Sebastián on projects including Soinumapa, the Basque Country Sound Map, and Hots! Radio. He is a member of the Mediateletipos platform, where he has written about sound, noise, listening and musical networks.
In 2016 he curated and coordinated The Listening Observatory in collaboration with José Luis Espejo and Xabier Erkizia, within the framework of Donostia / San Sebastián 2016 European Capital of Culture.
He has worked with dancers and choreographers on numerous contemporary dance projects, creating sound designs for works by Jone San Martin, who worked with William Forsythe for more than twenty years at Ballet Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company. He has also collaborated with Pascal Merighi and Thusnelda Mercy (Tanz Station), both of whom worked for many years with Pina Bausch. In the Basque Country, he has also worked with Matxalen Bilbao and Olatz de Andrés, among others.
He teaches “Deep Listening and Soundscape Recording” on the Master in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona.
Throughout his career, he has worked with, presented projects at, and developed research in relation to cultural institutions, museums, universities, research centres and creative spaces across different contexts and countries:
Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno Vasco, Diputación de Gipuzkoa, Etxepare, Museo Reina Sofía, Radio RRS, MACBA, Radio Web MACBA, Tabakalera, CCCB, Fundación Phonos, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad del País Vasco, Escuela de Cine del País Vasco, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, Team Open Acoustic Devices, Kone Foundation, EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Goethe-Institut, Fundación Juan March, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mercat de les Flors, Teatros del Canal, CentroCentro, Instituto Cervantes, MUTEK, Tsonami Arte Sonoro, PRAXIS Oslo, La Caldera, Grec Festival de Barcelona, Tanzhaus NRW, Cal Gras, Nau Côclea and Museo CA2M.
He has collaborated with a range of artists, choreographers, philosophers, anthropologists and researchers:
Illart Alkorta, Matxalen Bilbao, Olatz de Andrés, Xabier Erkizia, José Luis Espejo, Miguel A. García, Eneko Gil, Flo Huth, Tim Ingold, Alex Mendizabal, Thusnelda Mercy, Pascal Merighi, Carmen Pardo, Albert Potrony, Blanca Rego, Jone San Martin, Pablo Sanz, Emanuele Soavi, among others.
