Josep Lluís Galiana

Josep Lluís Galiana (València, 1961) has a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a Higher Degree from the Valencia Conservatory of Music. A saxophonist, composer, writer, editor and Spanish cultural manager who stands out on the European scene of free improvisation, electroacoustic creation, avant-garde jazz and musicological research, he begins his artistic career in the 1980s, forming part of various contemporary instrumental ensembles, jazz collectives and valencian popular music groups. His compositions have been premiered and performed at important international festivals in France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba and Spain. Throughout his long artistic career, he has founded instrumental groups together with internationally renowned musicians such as Chaosophy, Deriva Ensemble, Bregues de Moix, Errante Ensemble, Transitions, Quaramba!, Quartet de la Deriva, Mediterranean Electroacoustic Quartet, Impromptu Ensemble, D’ArS Ensemble, Bòlit Jazz Grup i SET.UP.SO., among others, and has collaborated with l’Ensemble d’Improvisació del pianista Agustí Fernández, Josep Manuel Berenguer and l’Orquestra del Caos, Grup Instrumental de València, La Orquesta Mundana, Seidagasa, Wade Matthews, Avelino Saavedra, Ferran Besalduch, Carlos D. Perales, Thomas Bjelkeborn, Íñigo Ibaibarriaga, El Pricto, Josep-Maria Balanyà, Ruiz del Puerto, Mariangeles Sánchez Benimeli, Pere Vicalet, Paloma Carrasco, Ricardo Tejero, Chefa Alonso, Víctor Sequí, José López Montes, Gregorio Jiménez, Vicent Gómez Pons, Sisco Aparici, Mathias Müller, Bartolomé Ferrando, Truna, Joma Rius, Gonzalo Biffarella, Andreas Mniestris, Liba Villavecchia, Ramón López, David Herrington, Jorge Gavaldá, Chapi, Josep Enric Grau, Miguel Molina, Remigi Roca, Osvaldo Jorge , Guillermo Bazzola, Fernando Lamas, Diego Caicedo, Antonio Luis Guillén, Javier Carmona, Edu Comelles, Pablo M. Esparza, Ainara Zubizarreta, Vasco Trilla, Joan Antoni Pich, PEp Mula, Sarah Claman, Luiz Rocha, Carlos Suárez, Quique Téllez, Joan de Ribera, Jesús Gallardo,… He is the author of the essay "IMPROVISACIÓN LIBRE. El gran juego de la deriva sonora" (EdictOràlia, 2017) and compilations of writings like "Escritos desde la intimidad. Conversaciones, artículos de opinión, notas, reseñas y críticas musicales" (EdictOràlia, 2016) and "La emoción sonora. De la creación electroacústica, improvisación libre, arte sonoro y otras músicas experimentales" (PILES, 2014), as well as numerous articles, reviews, lectures and musicological studies published in books, specialized magazines and the written press. In 2016, it created the publishing label EdictOràlia Llibres i Publicacions and the label Liquen Records, dedicated to improvised and experimental music. In the field of teaching, he holds the Chair of Orchestra and Choir of the Higher Conservatory of Music of Castellón during the 2002-2003 academic year, where he founded the Big Band of that center. He has also been Professor of History and Aesthetics of Music at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia (2002) and Aesthetic Education at the Professional Music Conservatory of Cullera (2004-2005), in addition to teaching numerous courses, workshops and seminars around improvisation, electroacoustics, sound art and other musicological, artistic and cultural issues in Argentina, Greece, Sweden and Spain. At the associative level, he founded and presides since 2014 the Laboratory for the Contemporary Creative Processes Research AD LAB and, between 2006 and 2014, he is secretary of the Electroacoustic Music Association of Spain (AMEE), member entity of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM / Unesco). With more than a hundred compositions in catalog and some thirty discs published, Josep Lluís Galiana has recorded or collaborated for Canal Clásico-RTVE-Vía Digital; RNE-Classical Radio (Ars Sonora), RTVV, RNE-Radio 3 (Atmosphere, Discópolis Jazz), Undae Radio podcasts, Universos Paralelos, Jazz en el aire, Llum de Tunguska, Vericuetos-Radio Kras, Bad Music Jazz, and record labels Marmita-Música Viva, Artics Produccions, Intertecno 2000, Cambra Records, AMEE, Desamparats Productions, Sound In, PrimTON Berlin, Luscinia Records, Clamshell Records, Alina Records, Seidagasa, Cilestis, ZAWP Records, Discordian Records and founded Liquen Records.