A Canarian composer, producer and musician linked to Gran Canaria, founder of ARTENARA and a pioneer in applying technology to live performance.
Enrique Mateu de Villavicencio is a composer, producer and musician linked to Gran Canaria, and the founder of the multidisciplinary project ARTENARA.
Open biographyInstitutional sources present him as a musician trained in classical guitar, active in Gran Canaria since childhood, with a career combining creation, production and artistic direction. Since 1990 he has directed INEXART, a business and cultural platform devoted to leisure, culture and artistic creation.
His musical importance lies in combining Canarian tradition with technological and multimedia procedures, and in turning ARTENARA into a path for updating island folklore.
His profile blends Canarian roots, contemporary creation, electronic resources and a laboratory approach to tradition.
The repertoire documented here includes solo works such as Formas Millares and Ritual Collage, plus collective projects such as ARTENARA, #(928) and Rías Lejanas.
His legacy joins the technological updating of Canarian music with a composing and producing practice that moves between stage, studio and multimedia.
He was musically formed in Gran Canaria, where his work with the timple took root and where ARTENARA was born as a project for renewing Canarian folklore.
Obra en solitario que la ficha oficial destaca como innovadora y premonitoria.
Primer proyecto discográfico del grupo multidisciplinar.
Proyecto para la utilización del cordófono canario en la música electrónica y electroacústica.
Nace en Wimbledon, Reino Unido, el 7 de mayo de 1960.
Comienza a dirigir INEXART, plataforma dedicada al ocio, la cultura y la creación artística.
Funda ARTENARA como proyecto multidisciplinar de actualización del folclore canario.
Presenta un proyecto para llevar el cordófono canario al ámbito de la música electrónica y electroacústica.
