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My artwork strives to create experiences that are both disturbing and strangely reassuring, bridging the gap between the ridiculous with whatever lays at the other end. It exists within the border zone of realities; the intersection of existential dread and childhood wonder; the cross-pollination of internet folktales and lived experiences.

I dissect the aesthetics of disorientation and the weird using sound, light, theater and digital anthropology, reassembling those elements into something grotesque, playful, and oddly tender. My greatest inspirations are ultimately equal parts dreamcore, surreal settings, liminal spaces, the necrotic nostalgia of vaporwave, and the vintage cartoons’ distortion. The goal isn’t to replicate innocence but to replicate how memory warps innocence.

Consider it a form of treatment for the collective dissociation of the internet. Or maybe a sophisticated coping strategy wrapped in playful absurdity. Either way, you’re invited to linger in the discomfort.

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2017Duology of Debot for violocello solo (12′)

2020Por Vía Intravenosa (Intravenously) for electronics (37′)

2021Flaming Requiem for 8 singers (29′)

2022Limen2 for double bass, pedal electronics, and fixed media (10′)

2023  everything was just liminal for 3 dancers (20′). A collaborative work with dancer Juliana Garaycochea

2023  Made from Guilt for dizklavier, 8 channel tape & and live electronics, and lights (13′)

2024 Church of Fun for an organ player and a Preacher (12′)

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2018Duology of Eves for viola solo (13′)

2018SOR operetta in 3 acts for 2 human sopranos and 3 artificial sopranos (20′)

2019I/O (i u o) for 3 clarinet players (15′)

2019Legítima Mea for pipe organ (10′). In collaboration with Eneko Lacalle Berasategi.

2021A Hell In-Between sound installation for 12 speakers

2022I Feel Fantastic for ensemble, 4 soloists, electronics, an android, and a human (10′)

2022Welcome to the Shitshow! demo-piece for smartphones. In collaboration with the Sonology department of l’ESMUC

2023GEBURTSTAG video essay (11′) / Mur

2025 – THIS IS MY DOOSMDAY an inmersive multi-channel dance theater experience for 3 performers (1º)

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2019Duology of Lur for trombone solo (12′)

2019AMAIA for tenor saxophone and fixed media (5′)

2019ESTRELLES (Stars) for electronics (7’30”)

2021L’Ontologia de Nela: com fer de la teva gossa una pianista d’èxit (The Ontology of Nela: how to make your dog a successful pianist) for piano and electronics (12′)

2023 Su Ikustezinen Faktoria (v3) for percussion duet and 8 channels tape (9′)

2023 Sagartxo Txiki for piano solo (9′)

2024 Reasons to Stay for solo performer (5′). A collaborative solo piece work with dancer Pamela Banchetti

2025 what shines beneath for grand ensemble (14′). Commisioned by Acht Brücken|Musik für Köln.

2025 Forget Me. a circus act (55′). A collaborative solo piece work with dancer Pamela Banchetti.

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2020Duology of Neba for 7 singing bowls and live electronics (15′)

2020The Descendants of Galileo or the Adventures of his Fantastic Telescope for string orchestra, brass quartet, and 2 percussionists (25′)

2022El Archivo del Recuerdo Anónimo (The Archive of the Anonymous Memento) for traditional Spanish percussion and fixed media (13′)

2022Backrooms Resonance Project: User Manual for 12 speakers (10′)

2023 – Backrooms Resonance Project: The Auditorium for oboe, violin, 16 channel tape and lights (14′)

2023 – Backrooms Resonance Project: User Manual for 64 speakers (10′)

2024 – Backrooms Resonance Project: Balloons! for for small ensemble, tape, space, video and lights (10′)

2025 – Backrooms Resonance Project: Serenity for 8.1 spearkers (16′). Premiered at LIMINA Festival in Salzburg.

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