FERRAN FAGES

 

Ferran Fages plays guitar, turntables and electronics.

He lives and works in Barcelona (Spain).

He was member of the collective IBA from 1999 to 2006. 

He plays regulary in different improvisation projects like: 

.CREMASTER (with Alfredo Costa Monteiro). 

.Fages-Barberán-Costa Monteiro trio

.Fages-Gross-Guthrie trio

.Fages-Gross-Möslang trio

.FAGUS (with Pascal Battus)

.Rega-Fages duo

He did different collaborations with the choreographers and dancers: 

Olga Mesa, Carme Torrent and Constanza Brncic. 

He's played with Mattin, Margarida García, Ivan Palacky, Manuel Mota, 

Xavier Charles, Thomas Charmetant, Andrea Neumann, Taku Unami, 

Masahiko Okura, Masafumi Ezaki, Bukhard Beins, Ingar Zach, Guiseppe 

Ielasi, Mark Wastell.... among others.

Also he works in his own compositons for guitar. As a guitarist he normally 

plays solo, but he has played with Derek Bailey, Pablo Rega, Manuel Mota, 

Phil Niblock and Rhys Chatham.

He has played in different festivals and venues such as: Nits de la Fundació Miró, Sonar, OFFF and LEM (Barcelona), Sonicscope (Lisbon), Ertz (Bera), Cruce, Auditorio Nacional Reina Sofia and La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Arteleku (Donosti), Sound 323 and LMC festival (London), Instants Chavirés and Les Voutes (Paris), Off-site (Tokyo), A4 (Bratislava), Cave 12 (Geneva), Music Lover’s Field Companion 2007 (Newcastle), Sonorités (Montpellier), Musica Genera (Szczezin), DNK (Amsterdam)…

He also is active in poetry

 

DISCOGRAPHY

 

fages / barberán / monteiro

 

2003 | Atami, with Taku Unami, Masahiko Okura e  Masafumi Ezaki [Hibari music]

2004 | Atolón [rossbin]

2005 | Istmo [Creative Sources]

2005 | Octante, with Margarida Garcia [L'Innomable]

2006 | Semisferi [Esquilo]

 

 

solo

 

2000 | Obsolet Farmer [Hazard]

 

2004 | A cavall entre dos cavalls (composicions per a guitarra) [Creative Sources]

 

2007 | Cançons per un Lent Retard [Etude]

 

 

cremaster

2001 | Oomfsquawk 

2002 | Flysch  [G3G Records]

2003 | Infra   [Antifrost]

2003 | 23 november 2002 [Sound 323]

 

2003 | 32,41 n/m2 [absurd]

 

2006 | Mattin / Cremaster - Barcelona [audiobot]

 

 

outros grupos

2002 | Margarida Garcia / Ferran Fages - Sloworthopography [Thin Ice]

2003 |  Ferran Fages & Naoshima: st [self released]

2006 | Fagus - Dans L'Involucre Entre Ouvert (absurd)

2006 | Fages / Guthrie - cinabri [absurd]

2006 | Fages / Gross / Guthrie - Fages-Gross-Guthrie [Antboy/LMC]

2006 | Francisco Lopez - Absolute Noise Ensemble [Blossoming Noise]