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Joan Arnau Pàmies
Joan Arnau Pàmies website for biography, works, discography, music, video and press.
Territory representation: Europe
For info and costs please contact Alberto Lofoco
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Guidelines/Fonaments
Joan Arnau Pàmies - piano and live electronics
Joan Arnau Pāmies presents a collection of pieces that explore the boundaries between composition,
improvisation, and experimentation. These works belong to his upcoming album released in April 2025.
This music constitutes a new stage in Pāmies's artistic career, which is marked by constant
research and a unique capacity for stylistic synthesis.
Pāmies combines elements of ambient, classical music,
sound experimentation, and jazz, creating soundscapes that invite the listener to an
introspective and transformative experience. Here improvisation plays an essential role:
each piece arises from a predetermined idea, but develops spontaneously, establishing a
living dialogue with the present moment.
This show is a unique opportunity to delve into the universe of Pāmies, where the boundaries
between genres and traditions are diluted to give rise to music that is deeply personal and
connected to the times we live in.
Rituals I
ĢEsperanįaģ
Meditations and Improvisations
Joan Arnau Pàmies - piano
"Meditations and Improvisations" combines original compositions, improvisations, and a handful
of reinterpretations of jazz standards.
Homenatge a Cecil Taylor - live at Cafč del Teatre de l'Escorxador, Lleida on 11-11-2018
Johnny Green: "Body and Soul" (arr. Joan Arnau Pāmies) - live at Cafč del Teatre de l'Escorxador, Lleida on 11-11-2018
Inlet Industry
Joan Arnau Pàmies - live electronics
Original music based on ambient, techno, and experimental electronics.
Inlet Industry - PIERCER - Cafč del Teatre, Lleida on 6.2.2022
Inlet Industry - Residual Framework - Cafč del Teatre, Lleida on 6.2.2022
Joan Arnau Pāmies + Morphosis Ensemble: escalfament
with 16 musicians Chamber Orchestra and conductor
Joan Arnau Pàmies - piano and live electronics
Original music based on global warming.
Excerpts from "escalfament/piano+orquestra" - live at "Auditori Josep Carreras"
• projects as a co-leader •
Des de la Profunditat
Aruán Ortiz - piano, prepared piano, effects and composition
Joan Arnau Pàmies - keyboard, electronics, guitar, percussion and composition
Jordi Mateu - light designer
Des de la Profunditat is an electro-acoustic duo created by composers and musicians Aruán
Ortiz (Cuba) and Joan Arnau Pàmies (Spain), focused on raising awareness of the impact of global
warming with an A/V experience (music, light and video) as the central conduit to embark
the audience in a unique journey. Through a series of musical reflections around some of the
most serious consequences of climate change: sea level rise, floods, droughts, and extreme
temperatures, the Ortiz and Pāmies collaboration looks forward to generating an immersive
audio-visual experience that explains the need to immediately change the behavior of humans
towards the planet and the other species that inhabit it.
Celebrating the legacy of the great Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto duo, this project arises from
the electro-acoustic and experimental vocabulary of the second half of the 20th century and
the first decades of the XXI, with examples such as John Cage, "Drukqs" by Aphex Twin
and "Obsolete Systems" by Laurie Spiegel. The album was released on May 2024.
Presentation
at Proto Material Records
Video Excerpts - live at L'Intčrpret, Lleida on 17-12-2022
• short biography •
Joan Arnau Pāmies is a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, a performing artist, and a record producer.
He is the founder of Protomaterial Records.
Pāmies's career spans fifteen years of highly diverse work, which encompasses live electronics,
music for acoustic instruments, unusual forms of music notation, electroacoustic pieces
and free improvisation on multiple instruments. An artist who unhesitatingly walks uncharted
aesthetic paths, Pāmies has never been comfortable working within the boundaries of specific
musical genres and traditions. For him, music is a liberating space where elements of classical
and electronic music, free jazz, modernism, noise rock and experimental music coexist and
can be combined to generate unique results.
He has been featured in a wide variety of venues and festivals across the world, including
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (United Kingdom), MATA (New York), Constellation (Chicago),
Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (Mexico), Ostrava New Music Days (Czech Republic),
Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Fondazione MAST (Italy), National Museum Reina Sofía,
L'Auditori and Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain).
His debut album "Nocturnes, fantasias" (Sideband Records, 2021) was described as connecting
"Stockhausen's electroacoustic music of the 50s and 60s to experimental techno" (Mundoclásico).
Press Kit
Full Biography on Pāmies webiste
Biografía adaptada en espaņol
• quotes •
"beautiful in the Aristotelian sense of proportion and harmony"
- Albert Ferrer, Revista Musical Catalana
"chaotic and elemental yet discernibly balanced"
- Steve Smith, The New York Times
"thoughtfully intellectual and viscerally artistic"
- Paco Yáņez, Mundoclásico
"an animalistic freak-out"
- Daniel Hautzinger, Cleveland Classical
Full Press on Pāmies webiste
• music & work •
Albums with links
Compositions with details
• links •
Sound Cloud
Scores at Babel Scores
Protomaterial website
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