Joan Arnau Pàmies on SoundBetter

15 years of experience · CEO at Protomaterial Records · International career · Doctor in Composition and Music Technology from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)

The music of Joan Arnau Pàmies has been described as “beautiful in the Aristotelian sense of proportion and harmony” (Revista Musical Catalana) and “chaotic and elemental yet discernibly balanced” (The New York Times). His career spans fifteen years of highly diverse work, which encompasses production for other artists, live electronics, composing for acoustic instruments, unusual forms of music notation, electroacoustic pieces, and free improvisation on multiple instruments.

Pàmies has produced artists of many genres and approaches (pop, jazz, classical and contemporary music, electronic dance music, experimental electronic music...), including Aruán Ortiz (U.S.), USHAN (Brazil), Daniel Brandl (Germany), Christopher Lock (U.S.), Alberto Carretero (Spain), Oksana Shymanska (Ukraine), Anaïs Maviel (France/U.S.), Stefan Lovin (Romania), among others.

His music has been featured in venues and festivals such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (United Kingdom), MATA (New York), Ear Taxi, Constellation (Chicago), Center for New Music (San Francisco), Tsai Performance Center (Boston), Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (Mexico City), Ostrava New Music Days (Czech Republic), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), National Museum Reina Sofía (Madrid), L’Auditori, Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), among others.

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