With a multidisciplinary background spanning industrial engineering, flamenco and classical guitar, music composition, and electronic music, award-winning composer/guitarist Oriol Graus Ribas composes for a wide range of instruments, multimedia, electronically-transformed acoustic instruments, and electroacoustic multifocal diffusion arrays.
Between 2014 and 2022, Graus Ribas embarked on a period of creative exploration, recording several improvisations in which he intentionally limited himself to a restricted set of pitches. In 2024, he selected the best of those recordings for further development and compiled them into a new album: Secrets — a serene, reflective soundtrack for introspection and contemplation as the new year begins to reveal its secrets.
Material for Secrets comes from an electric guitar stripped of any sound processing. Gradually, the sound of the guitar becomes inaudible as it is routed through Kyma modifications, primarily the CrossFilter and SampleCloud. Graus Ribas employs a pedalboard to dynamically navigate the flow between the raw and Kyma-processed sounds.
Reflecting on his creative process, Graus Ribas writes, “Working with Kyma-Pacamara allows me to dedicate my time entirely to the music itself!”