Tomás Virgós
Specialty
Composition of music for audiovisual. Piano. Session and live musician. Musical production. Sound technician
Training
Higher Degree in Composition
Piano Professional Grade
Mechanical Technical Engineering at the University of Zaragoza
Audio Engineering Diploma in SAE
Career path
Studio and live musician for Najwa Nimri and Amaral. Music author for advertising campaigns for Banco Sabadell, EDP, Aristocrazy, Joma, Endesa, Roca, Jean Paul Gaultier, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Turkish Airlines, Santander/Ferrari, El País, Seagrams, Amnesty International, etc.
Musical pre-production, musical adaptation and musical programming in who will sing to you by Carlos Vermouth and The Tree of Blood by Julio Medem. Arrangements for the musical dragon pack by Royal Role.
Original soundtrack for award-winning short films such as the greyhounds by Gabriel Azorin Brethren by Javier Roldan September by Rafael Alberola, The Path of Totality de Álvaro Díaz palaces, My father, GDR Shot Putter y Noise by Diego Postigo and The puppies de Guillermo Magariños.
Music for video art pieces such as Room 322 by Francesco Ridolfi or Diary of Dreams by Daniel Abad. Music and technical production for TransEuropeSlow, interactive video-installation on the façade of MediaLab Prado. Music for Love Lur, video-installation by Jon Cazenave at CaixaForum.
His music is full of references to impressionism, minimalism, certain currents of contemporary music, jazz... He also uses elements and attitudes typical of experimental music, post-rock, noise and even punk. He combines these elements with purely electronic production techniques to devise his own language and clearly distanced from any specific style.
Subjects and workshops
Arrangements I: Rhythm section and grooves
Computer Technology
Sound and studio recording
music technology
Score editing and music production
Research lines
Breaking down barriers between cultured and popular music. Destruction of style. Collage in current musical production
Other merits
Premiere of “La Circulación Menor” commissioned by the CSMA Symphony Orchestra at the Zaragoza Auditorium
Premiere of “Kraut Rock Chamber Music”, commissioned for Grupo Enigma at the Auditorio de Zaragoza
Premiere of «L'Electromechanique» commissioned for Ensemble Drama at the Fundación Juan March
Premiere of “Post Punk Suite” commissioned for Xelo Giner and Damian Paradisi at the Pompeu y Fabra University
Live production of the Kinético podcast for Eldiario.es
Musical projects: The Fractal Sound and Phonographe