Maria Arnal

A singer and composer, her yen to experiment, as manifested in works like the disc Clamor, has made her one of the best-known figures of the present music scene.

With a background in the fields of translation, the performing arts, anthropology, and singing, she bases her musical work on passionate experimentation with archives and digitalised music libraries of fieldwork recordings. She shares her main artistic project with the musician Marcel Bagés, with whom she presented her first album, 45 cerebros y 1 corazón (Forty-Five Brains and One Heart, Fina Estampa 2017), for which she has been awarded numerous prizes: best national disc, revelation artist, best pop disc, best national song in the independent music awards, City of Barcelona Prize, and the 2018 Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) Ojo Crítico award for Revelation Artist. Her latest artistic endeavour, created with Marcel Bagés and David Soler, has taken the form of the disc Clamor (Fina Estampa, 2021), an ambitious research project that ventures into new sound and philosophical domains to sketch a transformative hyper-utopia. She also took part in the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale as composer of the sound piece for the Catalan pavilion, which was curated by Olga Subirós.