HOLOFRENIA

90's:
Holofrenia started as a progressive free jazz-rock drummer under an antropomhorphic shape in the early 90's getting involved with the rock in opposition legendary mexican band Decibel in 1999, and openining shows to bands as Magma, Le Orme & John Wetton (King Crimson)... and with other important encounters recording live or in studio with bands and musicians as Germán Bringas, Humus, Victor Mendez (Oxxomaxoma), Metaconciencia, among others.

21st Century:
In 2004 Holofrenia moved to Europe and got quickly involved into de european improvised music scene, performing under the conduction of orchestras and ensembles as the London Improvisers Orchestra (2008), Berlin Improvisers Orchestra (2010-2012) - & Tristan Honsinger, Ute Wassermann, Alexander von Schlippenbach - ; Orquesta FOCO de Madrid (2006-2011) - & William Parker, Keith Tippett, Eddie Prévost, Michael Fischer [Vienna Improvisers Orchestra], David Leahy -, and released amazing projects of free-jazz-punk in Barcelona in 2010 as Machinations of Joy with Dave Tucker [The Fall] and Ricardo Tejero; and in 2011 also in Barcelona produced by Dicordian Records the contemporary jazz ensembles - The Third Mind w/el Pricto, Don Malfon & Alvaro Muñoz; & Reptilian Mambo + Avelino Saavedra; and in Berlin 2011 Tabla y Cuchillo with Ricardo Tejero, and then as trio in 2013 with Niko Meinhold; and in Istabul 2011 the The Sun, the Moon & the Stars with Korhan Futacı, Umut Çağlar, Barlas Tan Özemek & Yasemin Mori.

Berlin 2010-2012::
It's very important for me to mention, that a lot of musical reflections followed that times, and after each free jazz-free improv-or any other stilistic genre approach recording and performance I was convinced it was time to leave behind all the academic roots, or even all what I have learned related to extended techniques while in Europe.

While living and working in Berlin under the scope of Audition Records and as member of Salon Bruit, attending to tons of concerts, organising and realeasing the first batch of documentary releases of the then - recently funded - Berlin based label, the first musical mutation started spreading its virus over the skin & the way Holofrenia perceives music.
After cuting with a saw in a half the tama jazz drums, the drum kit was less than 20 kg in order to play around as much as possible with a portable 12" bass drum and a 10" toy snare. 3 drums were packed with a mackie mixer, a set of thomann mics & some pedals, and since then and beyond, I have always performed with the PA soundsystem as the main instrument, where the drums where the controller and the bed to jump over the frecuencies in order to channel the voice.

My favourite projects from that time in parallel to all the solo concerts I did, are Animales Varios with the double bass player Klaus Kurvers, with collaborations as trios with Mat Pogo, Els Wandenweyer and Ute Wassermann, and our beloved noise/psychedelic band Ultraspießer with Julian Percy (Last Dominion Lost). My preferred gig with Ultraspießer was sharing lineup with Charles Hayward (This Heat) & Barberos in 2012 at NK. Ah, and also at NK organized by Rumpsti Pumsti, to perform with Vagina Dentata Organ - as a marching drum band with Els Vandeweyer, John Murphy, Marcelo Aguirre, Michael Gillham, Morten J. Olsen -, concert released as LP by Harbinger Sound in 2012.

Mexico 2013-2019:
One of the best things after 8 years - in parallel of performing - studying and working with 3D animation & video games in Interactive Technology Groups and of Neuroscience focusing in Mixed Reality installations and educational games, as well as teaching in the Master Degree University courses while in Europe, was to turn back to Mexico. I presented some concerts with the new solo from 2013 to 2019 in festivals as Nrmal, el Nicho Aural, Lxs Grises, and Vertice at Radio UNAM, and also my VR Chamber Opera at Inmersiva Festival and the Holophrenic Conference, and the first live sets with sensory percussion in Terminal Club Antisocial in Mexico City.

( SIC )
In 2013 - with the talented extreme singer Rodrigo Ambriz -, we created (SIC) - considered by the international press as one of the most brutal and unconventional avant-garde bands in the history of experimental music in Mexico. Some of our hightlights: Berghain (CTM Festival 2017), and sharing lineup in different festivals with bands as Ex Eye (CTM), The Ex & Neurosis (Bestia Festival), Lightning Bolt & Bálazs Pándi (Aural Festival) and performing with Martin Escalante, Joachim Montessuis, and LP in quintet recorded in Paris with SCZRS.

Teatro Holofrénico
So, here we are finally. The year? It's 2017, and since then I have been researching and developing interactive interfaces for invisible music, and my solo have mutated into many forms, from singing like a dark enlightenment angel pulsating handmade string instruments to mapping drums with sensory percussion and live electronics, from building Virtual Reality Interactive Orchestrators to release unconventional editorial formats in the shape of Codex as musical scores, VR immersive environments and so on.

Holofrenia shares knowledge with my parallel research as transmedia composer-singer-live performer-and technologist developing extended reality-interactive musical interfaces for live activations and hybrid art performances.

The album Prologue as it name refers, is a first attempt and compilation of musical works from 2002 to 2020 connected to what Holofrenia does while I sing, and currently we are working on a first solo LP after trying for almost 30 years how to channel the deepest voice of compost-humusities through a human being.

Coronakrise, Berlin 2020