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picture of Ferran Fages

picture of Ferran Fages

picture of Ferran Fages

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, Francisco Ló pez, Thomas Chamertant, 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, 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).

He's also active in poetry

More Info: http://www.ferranfages.net

Discography

  • 2001 CREMASTER "Oomfsquawk" (auto-edition)
  • 2002 CREMASTER "Flysch" (G3G Records)
  • 2002 COMPILATION "I've never thought you would had done it..." (Rossbin)
  • 2002 FERRAN FAGES and MARGARIDA GARCIA "Sloworthography" (Thin Ice)
  • 2003 CREMASTER "Infra" (Antifrost)
  • 2003 CREMASTER "23 novembre 2002" (SOund 323)
  • 2003 CREMASTER "Compilation Void" (Antifrost)
  • 2003 TAKU UNAMI, MASAHIKO OKURA, RUTH BARBERAN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO "Atami" (Hibari Music)
  • 2004 FERRAN FAGES "A cavall entre dos cavalls" (Creative Sources)
  • 2004 RUTH BARBERAN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MNTEIRO "Atolon" (Rossbin)
  • 2004 COMPILATION "Doggy Style. Poeme electronic" (L' Ovni Tendre)
  • 2005 RUTH BARBERAN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO, MARGARIDA GARCIA "Octante" (l'innomable)
  • 2005 RUTH BARBERAN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO "Itsmo" (Creative Sources)
  • 2006 MATTIN + CREMASTER "Barcelona" (Audiobot)
  • 2006 RUTH BARBERAN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO "Semisferi" (Esquilo)
  • 2006 FERRAN FAGES, JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, WILL GUTHRIE "Fages-Gross-Guthrie" (Antboy/Lmc Members)
  • 2006 FAGES GUTHRIE "Cinabri" (Absurd)
  • 2006 FAGUS "Dans L'involucre entre ouvert" (A question of re entry)
  • 2006 FRANCISCO LOPEZ "Absolute Noise Ensemble" (Blossoming Noise)
  • 2007 FERRAN FAGES "Cançons per a un lent retard" (Etude Records)
  • 2007 V.A "The art of the Gremlin" (Electronic Music Foundation Media)
  • 2008 FERRAN FAGES "Al voltant d' un para/.lel" (Etude Records)
  • 2008 FERRAN FAGES | BHOB RAINEY "ch004" (Compost and Height)
  • 2008 V\A "Sudamerica Electronica 2" (Suda 002)
  • 2009 CREMASTER "Noranta Graus a l'esquerra" (Monotype Records)
  • 2009 AP'STROPHE "Objects sense Objectes" (Etude Records)
  • 2009 OCTANTE "Lunula" (Another Timbre)
  • 2010 V-P V-F is V-N CS "Compilation series, cs02" (Winds Measure Recordings)
  • 2010 CREMASTER "Igneo" (Cathnor)
  • 2010 FERRAN FAGES "Lullaby for Lali" (Etude Records)
  • 2010 AP'STROPHE "Corgroc" (Another Timbre)
  • 2011 FERRAN FAGES-ROBIN HAYWARD-NIKOS VELLIOTIS "Tables and stairs" (Organized Music from Tessaloniki)