Projects/Discography

2024-01-01

 

Ramon Casamajó

Photo: Matt Favero

 

QBRNTHSS

QBRNTHSS (pronounced “quebrantahuesos”, meaning “bearded vulture” in Spanish) is the alias that Ramon Casamajó, musician and educator, uses for his solo works focused on electronics and algorythmic composition. In his performances he uses live coding (a performative practice of real-time creation by writing source code) and acoustic and electronic instruments in search of a personal space between ambient, contemporary composition and experimental music. Throughout his live sets, he combines synthesized sounds and samples with those generated by himself (trumpet, processed contact microphone, …) seeking the tension between rhythm and abstraction, melody and noise, synthetic and analog.

Discography

_ QBRNTHSS - “The Magic Words Are Squeamish Ossifrage”
(Interworld Media, 2023)

_ TOPLAP Barcelona - “Down the rabbit hole”
(Call It Anything, 2021)
TOPLAP Barcelona compilation with one track from QBRNTHSS.

_ QBRNTHSS / Room-A “Harry Dean Stanton”
(Call It Anything, 2019)

Past gigs

  • 13/12/2024, Cicle d’Arts Digitals (ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Vic)
  • 17/11/2024, Dispositiu de Cançó Protesta Experimental (La Capsa, El Prat del Llobregat)
  • 16/11/2024, TOPLAP Barcelona al Cicle Difraccions - (Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona)

Squeamish LP presentation

  • 06/09/2024, Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts (Granollers) + Balago
  • 20/08/2024, 44 Perills Festival d’Art Sonor (Barcelona)
  • 27/06/2024, El Pumarejo (Hospitalet del Llobregat) + KOU
  • 28/04/2024, La Salle Gueule (Marseille, France) + Barriere + Rrrrrose Azerty
  • 27/04/2024, GRRRND ZERO (Lyon, France)
  • 02/03/2024, VI Congrés de Sobirania Tecnològica (Hangar, Barcelona)
  • 10/02/2024, CIVICAN fundación Caja Navarra (Pamplona) + Savamala on visuals
  • 15/12/2023, Niu Espai Artístic (Barcelona) + Kazumi Sakoda
  • 25/11/2023, Algorave (Sala Taro, Barcelona) + Nesso + Eye Measure + Yaxu + Timo Hoogland + more
  • 23/11/2023, Plug In The Gear (Benicarló) + Pascagoula
  • 30/09/2023, Desertseq Hackmeeting (CSO Nabat 3, Hospitalet del Llobregat)
  • 25/08/2023, Festival Eufònic (Tortosa) + Sam Aaron
  • 25/06/2023, Abbeydale Picture House (Sheffield, UK)
  • 23/06/2023, IKLECTIK (London, UK) + Upsammy + Anything Pointless
  • 14/06/2023, Responsive Dreams digital arts exhibition (Nau Bostik, Barcelona)
  • 26/04/2023, VIU Festival 2023 (Niu Espai Artístic, Barcelona) + Messica Arson + Gabriel Millán
  • 21/04/2023, International Conference on Live Coding (Utrecht, NL)

Other past gigs

  • 09/07/2022, on-the-fly.collect(_) Algorave (Sala VOL, Barcelona) + Flor de Fuego + digital selves + Timo Hoogland + others
  • 02/04/2022, LAVS Festival (Mataró)
  • 12/03/2022, Algorithmic Art Assembly 2022 (Barcelona node) + Lil Data + Eloi el bon noi + Alicia Champlin
  • 18/09/2021, IKLECTIK London (online) + Shelly Knotts + Joana Chicau
  • 29/04/2021, Different Similar Sounds: A Live Coding Evening (Phonos Foundation, Barcelona)
  • 26/03/2021, Algorave Sonar VIU 2021 (Hangar, Barcelona)
  • 24/03/2021, “Down the Rabbit Hole” TOPLAP Barcelona compilation release party, VIU 2021 (Hangar, Barcelona)
  • 28/11/2020, Seismes Party (Fabra i Coats, Barcelona)
  • 10/09/2020, Ars Electrònica 2020 Garden Barcelona (Hangar, Barcelona)
  • 30/11/2019, The Exploding Fest (Fabra i Coats, Barcelona)
  • 23/11/2019, Nibiru Festival (Olot) + Rob Clouth + Balago
  • 05/10/2019, Seismes Party (Fabra i Coats, Barcelona)

 
 

Refugi de Fauna Salvatge

Refugi de Fauna Salvatge are an electronic music duo consisting of Ramon Casamajó and Ivó Valdivielso, who joined forces in 2024 to investigate new possibilities in the sonic territory. Their approach to music is heavily inspired by wildlife and patterns in nature. Field recordings, analog pulses and digital rhythms are initially hunted in the jungle of sound, then transformed into wild musical structures and finally tamed into crushed whispers. Trumpet melodies and synthesizer phrases are captured and processed by algorithms in infinite feedback loops.

Discography

_ Refugi de Fauna Salvatge - “Demo”

Past gigs

  • 26/10/2024, Refugi de Fauna Salvatge (Mind Fest, Amposta)
  • 15/06/2024, Niu Espai Artístic (Barcelona) + Gòdia Besalduch Shachar trio
  • 17/04/2024, VIU Festival (Sala Taro, Barcelona) + VA

 
 

Turing Tarpit

Turing Tarpit is an electronic, noisy and improvisational musical project. The duo formed by Ferran Gavín (electric guitar and effects) and Ramon Casamajó (trumpet, effects and electronics), proposes the creation of soundscapes and pieces developed live, either from the absolute void, or using starting points or elements of support created and prepared in advance.

A Turing Tarpit is any programming language that is functional and correct (Turing complete), but at the same time difficult to learn and use and with little or no practical sense. Some are created to test the design limits of programming languages, as a proof of concept, or as a joke. Usability is rarely a goal for the designers of these types of languages, often quite the opposite.

Discography

_ Turing Tarpit - “II”
(Call It Anything, 2021)

_ VVAA - “Zona Confusa”
(Zona Watusa, 2019)
A slice of Barcelona underground compilation, one track by Turing Tarpit.

_ Alozeau + Turing Tarpit - “Alozeau + Turing Tarpit”
Zona Watusa, 2019

_ Turing Tarpit - “The International Obfuscated Music Contest”
(Call It Anything, 2016)

Past gigs

  • 06/04/2022, BDN BOX Live Televisió de Badalona (Badalona)
  • 01/04/2022, NIU (Poblenou, BCN) + Ferran Besalduch + HULM
  • 27/11/2021, L’Antic Forn de Vallcarca (Vallcarca, BCN) + HULM
  • 28/11/2019, Sala Taro (Sants, BCN) + Süma
  • 05/10/2019, Seismes - Festa oberta dels artistes de la Fabra i Coats (Fabra i Coats, Sant Andreu, BCN)
  • 04/10/2019, Alozeau + Turing Tarpit, The Mississippi Records SoundSystem & Pop Up Store, La Rubia - Dublab.es HQ (Raval, BCN) + Uza & Monsters de Comida [LÍMA / BCN / SWE] + DJ Golden Wilson [Mississipi Records] + DJ Watusawa [Zona Watusa / dublab.es] + Jorge Páez [Pargueland / dublab.es]
  • 27/09/2019, Alozeau + Turing Tarpit, Màgia Roja HQ (Gràcia, BCN) + Laura LaMontagne + Espacio Profundo
  • 15/02/2019, Alozeau + Turing Tarpit release party (cassette on Zona Watusa / Call It Anything Records), La Rubia - Dublab.es HQ + Espacio Profundo
  • 07/04/2018, L’Antic Forn de Vallcarca (Vallcarca, BCN) + Yamagishi & Hyvärinen
  • 20/01/2018, This Is Not A Trumpet Fest, Miscelanea (BCN) + Barba Corsini + ElectroX
  • 12/07/2017, Grabació del programa BDN BOX Live per a Televisió de Badalona (Badalona)
  • 04/02/2017, Turing Tarpit vs Alozeau, L’Antic Forn de Vallcarca (Vallcarca, BCN)
  • 20/10/2016, LEM Festival - 21th EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC MEETING BARCELONA + Galiana & Saavedra
  • 07/10/2016, Màgia Roja HQ (Gràcia, BCN) + Niño Negro
  • 16/04/2016, Record Store Day, Ultra-Local Records (Poblenou, Barcelona) + The Zephyr Bones + spa.RK dj + …
  • 17/01/2016, Penyafort Cicle d’Experimentació Sonora i Visual (Capella de Sant Joan, Vilafranca del Penedès)
  • 20/08/2015, Festival Electrovinyes (Claustre de Sant Francesc, Vilafranca del Penedès) + Brave Coast showcase: Yarei Molina & Transgress
  • 23/05/2015, Màgia Roja HQ (Gràcia, BCN)
  • 03/10/2014, Mysterium 3, Hangar (Poblenou, BCN) + Sedcontra + Alozeau + Zozobra + Kropoola
  • 20/09/2014, La Saleta Vic Burguer (Vic)
  • 07/09/2014, L’Antic Forn de Vallcarca - Festes Alternatives de Vallcarca (Vallcarca, BCN)
  • 20/03/2014, Caudorella 2014 Jornades de música electrònica, Hangar (Poblenou, BCN) + Fuego + Linalab
  • 19/10/2013, LEM 2013 - 18th EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC MEETING BARCELONA 02-19 OCTOBER, (BCN) + Cut Hands + C-Utter
  • 04/05/2013, L’Antic Forn de Vallcarca (Vallcarca, BCN)
  • 15/03/2013, 14 Niños Consentidos Festival, Freedonia (Raval, BCN) + Tuffo & Trigal + Miquel Parera + Alfonso Muñoz & Ultraviolet Cia
  • 20/10/2012, Switch Bar (Gràcia, BCN)