Biography [enrique tomas]
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Enrique Tomás (Madrid, 1981) is a sound artist based on Linz, Austria. He started his musical studies at the age of 12 in Spain. In 2004, after finishing his MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering and becoming a dissident from academic composition academy, he started to exhibit his work.
He has been responsible for interactive sound art works like “Algorithmic Echolocation” exhibited at SONAR 05 Festival, Ars Electronica 2005, Observatori Festival 2006, Sevilla’s Contemporany Art Biennial 2008, etc. In 2005 he started to work for Medialab Madrid (known as Medialab Prado nowadays) for the production of media art works, exhibitions and events.
His second project “EMI (Experimental Music Instruments)” in colaboration with David Cuartielles and Koray Tahiroglu was exhibited in Ars Electronica 2006 and La Noche en Blanco de Madrid 2006. Focusing in new interfaces for musical expression, EMI played in Finland, Sweden, Piksel Festival in Norway, Spain... From the experiences lived as educator in Electrolobby Ars Electronica 2006, he starts the Libre Art Software collective RecursiveDog (exhibiting and performing in Electroloby Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Facultad Bellas Artes Valencia, etc) for the development of open source tools and code for musical and artistic production.
In 2007 he founded Atmosfera::Sustrato_Ruido, a Spanish guerrilla that uses only noise as material in architectural interventions and performances showed in Madrid and Sevilla in big venues at the public space.
In the last months of 2007 he got a Research Fellowship position in the Robotics Lab at the UC3M University in Madrid, developing some parts of the social robot Maggie, focusing in musical lenguaje possibilities for human to robot interaction.
Since August 2008 he lives in Linz, when he accepted and invitation for working in Futurelab Ars Electronica, developing three sound installations for the composer Rupert Huber that will be permanently showed in the new Viena’s Airport.
As an educator he has developed many workshops about computer music, interactive art and interfaces for musical expression in different institutions and festivals: Madrid, Helsinki, Linz, Berlin, Bergen, Mexico, Sevilla, Cuenca… As a electroacustic music performer, as known as “ultranoise” he has shown his noise in galleries, clubs and festivals in Spain, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Norwey, Finland, Sweden and Netherlands. Since 2008 he is part of the electroacustic music trio Endphase with the composers Alberto Bernal and Joao Pais.
He has worked for many artists producing different kind of artworks: Pablo Valbuena (Light projection and video sync in Entramado), Rafael Marchetti y Raquel Renó (interactive sound for stand-alone net-art works as in Mousaic), Phillipe Chatelain (sound design for interactive works as in Noise Layer), Carlos Urbina (interaction design in Nido de Amor), Román Torre (computer vision design in Life Floor), Rupert Huber (interactive music systems for Soundscapes SkyLink), etc.
Since October 2008 he decided to focus his work in locative audio, producing experimental urban soundscapes that are controlled by the physical location of the audience with the help of GPS systems. Regarding this project, he has presented this new work (called No-Tours) in collaboration with escoitar.org and sponsored and exhibited in Laboral (Gijon).
In 2009 he won the support of Foundation Phonos (Barcelona) and Madrid´s Council for the development of two new works: an experimental audioguide of Madrid and an electroacoustic work based on Hans Richter´s films.
