Pablo Rega
Spanish guitarist and electronic musician (b. A Coruña, 1971). He has participated in several theatrical projects as musician/composer and performer with companies such as La Danaus (León), Chévere (Santiago de Compostela), Sociedad Dr. Alonso (Barcelona) and Los Cordero sc. (Barcelona).
He took part of Kozmic Muffin, an experimental rock band, making various recordings and performances: “Nutilus” (Man Records 1993), “Space Between Grief and Confort” (Man Records 1994), “Construction of a Tingle desmontable” (Multimedia 2000) and “Preterito” (Multimedia 2001).
He has been focusing his activity in experimental and improvised music, being a member of the Free Music Collective from Madrid and the FOCO orchestra. He participated in numerous concerts with different directors such as Peter Kowald, Le Quan Nihn, Günter Hains, Walter Thonson, Buch Morris, Dave Tuker, Olivier Benoit, Michael Fisher, William Parker, among others. He also collaborated with the Brazilian musician Tom Zé (Asturias 2008) and with the IBA collective from Barcelona.
With the group PARTO (Luis A. Rodriguez, and Patxi Valera), he conceived a piece for balloons and metronome (Cuenca 2001) in the Electroacoustics Laboratory of Cuenca, during the ”Days of Electroacustic” directed by Gabriel Brcnic.
He also developed several projects along with Iñaki Rios and Nilo Gallego (Trio Merendilla), with Nilo Gallego (Piensan los Pies), with Markus Breuss and Nile Gallego (Dexidrina 32) and Markus Breuss, Nilo Gallego and Fernando Oyaguez (yavestruzcomoandamios).
Works:
- “Megaphones” with Nilo Gallego. Noise action with sirens and megaphones. Festival Observatöri (Valencia 2001).
- “Andamio-vacuum” with Nilo Gallego. Concert for a modified vacuum cleaner for the Street Art Festival of Arganda (Madrid 2003).
- “8 Altavoces. Installation / concert with Nilo Gallego (Nau Coclea, Festival 13, Girona 2003).
- “Yavestruzcomoandamios” with Markus Breuss, Nilo Gallego Oyaguez and Fernando. A project of experimental music and metal instruments construction. Several street festivals (Madrid, León, Arganda, 2004).
- “Deriva” Electroacustic piece for headsets. (MINUSCOLO Festival, Barcelona 2004).
- “Shakespeare Meeting Point”. Direction of a sextet for a soundtrack in real time during the Shakespeare Festival (Barcelona, 2005).
- “Dinamo”. Sound installation in the Paiva river with the sculptor Oscar de Paz. Selected for the “Nodar Pushing the Medium # 2″ Symposium in Nodar (Portugal, 2006).
- “Hardware Hacking”. Exhibition of own-built electronic instruments (Gallery Almazen, Barcelona 2007).
He also worked as a sound designer in several documentaries directed by Chus Dominguez ”Chamamento” (Portugal) and “O Tempo dos Bullós” (Galicia) and in various sound tracks and sound design with the director Enrique Otero.
He participated in the festival “Minin” 2005 (Barcelona) and Hurta Cordel 2006, 2007 and 2008 (Madrid). He coordinated the Minúsculo Festival for Experimentaclub in 2005 and 2006 (Madrid) and he participated in various editions of the Minúsculo Festival in Barcelona.
He participated in “Festivalet”, a free improvisation festival (Barcelona 2007) with a direction for a sextet.
He currently lives in Barcelona and works in various improvised music projects like “MUT” (extreme noise quintet), “Neumática” (electroacustic music) with Alfredo Costa Monteiro (with whom he created “Alludes” published by Creative Sources in 2006 and “Limiar” on Desetxo net label), “CAJA SORDA” (mini concerts for headsets), “Z1C0″ (free-noise trio) with Tom Chant and Lar Lejido, “PROTOM” with Patxi Valera and Pablo Sax.
He also collaborated with the Catalonian guitarist and electronic musician Ferran Fages and with numerous Spanish and international musicians.
He currently directs the improvisation orchestra O.M.E.G.A. based in Santiago de Compostela and formed by 20 galicians musicians and BIB (Improvisors Band of Barcelona), formed by 14 musicians. He also composed for O.M.E.G.A’s string quartet, creating pieces for quartet and quadrofonia.
He also works in the construction of acoustic and electronic instruments, in his personal electroacustic projects focused on the construction and use of electronic sound devices and in pieces for electronics and computer, running various laboratories in these areas.
