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greknoise - fernando lagreca (musician, producer, sound designer)

info / artistic profile

Fernando Lagreca was born at Montevideo, Uruguay, even nowadays is residing in Barcelona, since end of 2002.
 
Member of Innova, and 33media.art/visor, both collectives of digital artists, Fernando Lagreca has a  penchant for the latest electronic music tendencies such as clicks & cuts, microhouse, techno,etc., as well as his pop-song writer side. His prolific career includes a good number of record references, as albums or compilations, spread about in labels such as Autoplate, Thinner, RealAudio, Miga, Emilii Records, Digital Kranky, among others.
 
Running parallel to his record production, Lagreca also is sound designer for web pages, videos, and produces sound ambience for exhibitions and music for video-commercials, working for firmas such as "highscore publishing", from berlin.
 
Far form neglecting on melodies -a basic ingredient of his music career-, he is particularly interested in ambient music which he mixes up with glitchs and oscilations. He has released three albums in the electronic/folk german label Autoplate (www.autoplate.org), one ep in “sumo de house”s french label, another album with realaudio.ch net.label (switzerland), and he is currently promote his tracks through your own label in Barcelona, called Greknoise recordings.
 
Their styles round Minimal and Tech-house, for dance clubs, in wich the musician develops live acts based in a machinedrum+hardware set, and the other face, ambient pop melódico with guitars and vocoders, and electronic in-noise frequencies, combining radio cuts, static, loops and another kind of generated noise with sounds of our daily environment, showing the most experimental side of the artist.
  
Currently, he has just finished his new pop album, “cool hunter”, with subtle-popvocoder melodies and harmfull guitars, and is waiting for launch it. Besides this, since 2007 takes part of the "compañía indómita", a contemporary dance company based in Barcelona, for wich he develops all the music involved in it shows. 


selected discography:

solo: 

 

Particelle (2009), Greknoise! netalbum, folk-tronica

Colpi di Sole (2006), Autoplate, (Alemania), folk-pop-electrónica-vocoder style
Funicular (2005), Realaudio.ch (Suiza) (electrónica)
Nadador (2005), Autoplate.org (Alemania) net.CD (electrónica)
Inland (2004), Sweet Smelling Surfaces (Francia) net.CD (electrónica)

Divine:Fix 2, 12” (2003) Climax Recordings (NewCastle, UK,)(tribal)

Suave, (2003), Autoplate Rec (Manheim, Alemania) net.CD (electronica)
Good for Dance, CD-R (2002) Montevideo (house)
303 Sessions, CD-R (2000, 2001) Montevideo (techno)
Fase D, CD-data (2000) Montevideo (electrónica)
Innova, CD-R (1999) Montevideo (electrónica, various artists)

 

collaborations and compilations:

 

Musiques Urbanes més a prop (recopilatori, 04)

CD-R chamanic interferences (Brian Mackern)

Living Stereo (CD-R, Brian Mackern)

Deambulatorios FTV, CD, curated by Brian Mackern, 07 

Sexteto Electrónico Moderno (remixes)

Electro Summer 05 (compilation) 

Silent Seasons (Thinner net.label, 05, compilation)

Panorama (compilation of electronics musicians from uruguay) 2006

Holger F., Re.interpretations (remix compilation) Realaudio.ch, netalbum, 06)

Kraeka compilation # 08, CD and 12" (digital kranky.de)

Fonogram, Early works & collaborations, CD (Cyan, Static discos, 07)

Arrial - A summer frost and a winter thaw, netalbum,(Autoplate, 07)

My first compilation, CD (Emilii records, BCN, 08)

Integral, netalbum (Miga, 09) 

KLA compilation, CD and net.album, (Konfort discos, 09) 

Mathon, Via Mala-The Remixes Album, CD (Everest Records, 09) 

some gigs:  

Miscelänea, Barcelona, december 2009 

Impaktes Visuals, Sabadell, november 2009 

LEM festival, niu, Barcelona, october 2009 

Festival Girasound, Ullastret, Girona, september 2009 

Kilociclo, teatre de la facultat d'arts, Montevideo, july 2009

Fete de la Musique, Berlin, june 2009

Arty Nits, La Cova de les Cultures, Barcelona, june 2009

Almazen, Barcelona, april 2009

Almazen, Barcelona, february 2009

Convent St. Agustí, Barcelona, january 2009

Piccolo Circus, Barcelona, january 2009 

Inside 22@, Poble Nou, Barcelona, november 2008

C.Cívic El Pou de la Figuera, Centro AMA, Barcelona, october 2008 

Niu, Poble Nou, Barcelona, september 2008

Caixafórum, Nits d’Estiu, Barcelona, august  2008

Niu, Poble Nou, Barcelona, january 2008

Niu, Poble Nou, Barcelona, december 2007

Espai Open, Alsamendi, Barcelona, december 2007

Invictro#06, Vic, september 2007

U.C.Collective, Isla d’Encanta, Barcelona, june 2007

Avance PEAM 2007, Pescara, IT, june 2007

Coop Corp, Mostra de Netlabels, Girona, june 2007

Cicle Modular@uy, Niu, Barcelona, june 2007

Festival Dansa També, V.del Penedès, companya “Malqueridas”, april 2007

Cicle Impro07, Miscelànea, Barcelona, march 2007

Deambulatorios FTV, Centro de arte Juan Ismael, Fuerteventura, march 2007

Gran Angular, Centre Históric, Mèxic DF,  february 2007

Cinna Bar, Condesa, Mèxic DF,  february 2007

Niu, Poble Nou, Barcelona, january 2007

I aniversari Niu, La Escocesa, Barcelona, december 2006

Espai Open. Alsamendi, Barcelona, november 2006

Centro Cultural España, Mèxic DF, october 2006

Cinna Bar, Condesa, Mèxic DF, september 2006

Sala d’estar, rca@modular, september 2006

Invictro#5, festival de musica i tendències, VIC, september 2006

Cicle Modular, 2005, 2006

V Mostra d’art Sonoro i Visual, Convent St. Agustí, june 2006

Niu Poble Nou,  april 2006

Metrònom, A-minima session, march 2006

Miscelània, march 2006

Video Festival Loops (miscelània, BCN, november 2005)

Invictro#4, festival de musica i tendencies, september 2005, VIC

Laboratori musical H, VIC, september 2005

Cicle Modular – C.Cívic Convent de St. Agustí, BCN april/june/december  2005

Centro Cultural de España – Mèxic DF march 2005

Centro Jiva – Mèxic DF march 2005

B.A.M. (Barcelona Acció Musical) september 2004

Festes de la Mercè 04, barcelona, september 2004

Festival L.E.M., selecció OFF, Gràcia, BCN, october 2004

Microconcert 1.02, Elèctric Bar, BCN, juliol 2004

IV Mostra Sonora i Visual, Convent de St. Agustí, BCN, june 2004

Electromuestra_mvd, Living, Montevideo, may 2004

Festival Zeppelin, BCN, may 2004

Electromuestra_vlc, Radiocity, Valencia, may 2004

Nit Nouvelle, Convent de St. Agusti, Barcelona, april 2004

Electromuestra_bcn, Convent de St. Agusti, Barcelona, february 2004

Discoteca Nan, Granollers, Barcelona, february 2003.

Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona, april 2003.

Discoteca Distrito Diagonal, Barcelona, august 2003.

Feste Major de Gràcia, Barcelona, august 2003.

Showroom, evento de diseñadores y artistas de la marca Alsamendi, BCN 2003

Centre Civic Can Rull, Sabadell, Barcelona, 2002

Sala Zitarrosa, Montevideo, 2002, 2001, 2000

Instituto Goethe, Montevideo, 2001, 2002.

Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2001.

Fonoteca en vivo, ICI, Buenos Aires, 2001.

ICI Montevideo, 2000.

info / press

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info in spanish: infoesp09.pdf

info in català:  infocat2009.pdf

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