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 López, 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 also is active in poetry.

external link (oficial site): http://www.ferranfages.net

DISCOGRAPHY:

2001

- CREMASTER“Oomfsquawk”(auto-edition)

2002

- CREMASTER “Flysch”(G3G Records)

- COMPILATION“I've never thought you would had done it…”  (Rossbin)

- FERRAN FAGES and MARGARIDA GARCIA “Sloworthography”, (Thin Ice) 

2003

- CREMASTER “Infra”(Antifrost) 

- CREMASTER “23 november 2002”(Sound 323) 

- CREMASTER “32,41 n/m2”(absurd)

- CREMASTER : Compilation "void" (Antifrost)

2004

- FERRAN FAGES“A cavall entre dos cavalls (composicions per a guitarra)”(Creative Sources)

- RUTH BARBERÁN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO “Atolón” (Rossbin)

2005

- RUTH BARBERÁN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO, MARGARIDA GARCIA  “Octante”(l’innomable)

- RUTH BARBERÁN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO “Istmo”(Creative Sources)

2006

- MATTIN + CREMASTER "Barcelona" (Audiobot)

- RUTH BARBERÁN, FERRAN FAGES, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO “Semisferi”(Esquilo)

- FERRAN FAGES, JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, WILL GUTHRIE “Fages-Gross-Guthrie” (Antboy/Lmc Members)

- FAGES-GUTHRIE“Cinabri”(absurd)

- FAGUS “Dans l'involucre entre ouvert”  (a question of re entry)

- FRANCISCO LOPEZ'S “absolute noise ensemble”(blossoming noise)

2007

- FERRAN FAGES “Cançons per a un lent retard”(Etude Records).

- V.A "The Art of the Gremlin" (Electronic Music Foundation Media).