Biography

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Born in Barcelona, he studied in his home city and Switzerland. Pianist, performer, composer, sound artist. He has presented different multimedia projects with piano, soprano and sonorous poets, electronics, processed image, dance. Balanyà has enjoyed several grants for musical creation in Germany and Switzerland. His catalogue enshrines more than 115 works, all of them with a significant part of improvisation. Among them there are pieces for percussion on sculptures, pieces for fine art tools and for sonorous objects, all works that can be labelled as acoustic experimental art. Balanyà has published fifteen CDs and presented his works at festivals and radios in many countries of Europe and America. Musicians like Claudio Pontiggia, Hans Koch, Joachim Kühn, Michiel Borstlap, Walter Quintus, Ksenija Lukic,? Das Neue Ensemble Hannover, Americo Rodrigues, Ana Maria Rodríguez, Franziska Baumann, Gabriele Hasler, Franz Hautzinger, Carlos Zingaro among others, have played in his projects.