Phonos Inèdit: From Tape to Master

Phonos Inèdit: From Tape to Master

Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 at 20h. Sala Aranyó (UPF Campus Poblenou). Free entry.
28.04.2026
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A commented listening session dedicated to a selection of works from Phonos Inèdit, a triple album released by La Membrana, featuring previously unreleased tape pieces by composers associated with Phonos, published in high-resolution digital format as well as in an ultra-limited cassette edition.
 
The session will focus on specific challenges within the mastering process, presenting works (or excerpts) that posed concrete issues related to aspects such as stereo image adjustment, tonal and dynamic coherence, as well as the identification of aliasing or transfer speed errors resulting from previous digitizations.
 
It thus proposes a guided exploration of the criteria, decisions, and limits involved in the transfer and mastering process, addressing both historical fidelity and contemporary listening conditions.
 
With works or fragments by Ricardo Arias, Mercè Capdevila, Albert Llanas, Andrés Lewin Richter, Josep Maria Mestres-Quadreny, Jep Nuix, Jordi Rossinyol, Mario Verandi, among others...
 

The session will be conducted by Anxe Faraldo, who carried out the remastering and digital restoration of the pieces.

Anxe Faraldo is a musician and sound artist. His artistic practice focuses on the exploration of non-conventional electronic and digital media, approaching electronic sound from a performative, critical, and ecological perspective, present in his work as a composer and improviser. In parallel, he works as a sound engineer, specializing in live sound and mastering for experimental and electroacoustic music, collaborating with numerous ensembles, composers, and festivals. He is currently a professor of electroacoustic composition at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska (Madrid), is responsible for the technical direction of new music festivals (MIXTUR, ME_MMIX, +RAIN), and co-directs the mastering and sound creation studio La Membrana in Barcelona. He served as artistic director of Phonos from 2018 to 2022.

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