Visual artist and composer, born in Meliana (B. Roca) in 1955, he studied with Blanquer, Berio, Xenakis and Taïra. He was a scholarship holder in Paris from the Ministry of Culture in 1986-87 and 1987-88, a music scholarship holder at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1988-89 and 1989-90, a guest artist in residence at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain Villa Arson (Nice) in 1994-95, guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the D.A.A.D. (Berlin) in 2000, Endesa scholarship holder for plastic arts in 2002, Marcelino Botin Foundation scholarship holder for plastic arts in 2004, resident artist of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the D.A.A.D. in 2002-2003. ARCO Foundation Electronic Art Award. Riofisa Sculpture Biennial Award. German Sound Art Award in 2004 (Deutscher Klangkunst Preis).
As a composer, his works have been premiered and performed by prestigious musicians in many places, including: Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes); Darmstadt Festival; Bucharest (Ateneul Român); Stockholm (Fylkingen); San Francisco (Cowell Theatre); Chicago (Northwestern University Concert Hall); Orlando (Percussive Arts Society International Convention); Moscow (Composers’ Association Auditorium); Rome (Goethe Institut, Palazzo della Cancelleria, Auditorium della R.A.I.); Berlin (Sophiensaele); Paris (Salle Cortot, Auditorium de Radio France, Cathédrale de Nôtre Dame de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou), etc.
He has received commissions from the Regional Ministry of Culture of the Valencian Government, the I.V.E.I., the Verticale Music Festival (Rome), the Centre for the Dissemination of Contemporary Music (Madrid), France Culture-Radio France, the Spanish National Orchestra and Choirs, the University of Valencia (in commemoration of its 5th centenary), the Inventionen Festival (Berlin), the University of Salamanca (on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture), the Kryptonale Festival (Berlin), the Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival, and the Ministry of Culture (three sound installations) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the National Auditorium.
As an artist in the visual arts he gained international recognition in the field of electronic art , of sound art and of interactivity based on the presentation of his installations. He has held exhibitions at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson (Nice), Fondation Maeght (Saint Paul de Vence), IVAM-Centre del Carme (Valencia), Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (Santiago), Marugame Hirai Museum (Kagawa, Japan), Museum of Fine Arts Juan Manuel Blanes (Montevideo), Koldo Mitxelena (San Sebastián), University Museum of Contemporary Art of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City), I Biennial of Valencia-La Gallera Hall, IVAM-Centre Julio González, DAAD Galerie (Berlin), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Grosser Wasserspeicher (Berlin), etc.
Currently he is considered to be the artist of sound in Spain with the greatest international recognition and, according to the German magazine Musik Texte Texte (No. 135, Tom Johnson, “Minimalismus in Europa”) as a true master of sound installation.
For many, his work, a reference point for the relationship between the arts, marks a milestone in the relationship between Sculpture and Music.
