A Gran Canaria-born composer and experimental artist, a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Spain and founder of ZAJ.
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu was a composer and experimental artist, a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Spain and founder of Zaj.
Open biographyHe was a central figure in Spanish sound experimentation: a composer and artist linked to the avant-garde, a pioneer of experimental and electroacoustic music and a founder of ZAJ. His career moved between composition, sound action, visual poetry and performance.
His importance lies in having expanded the Canarian musical map toward the avant-garde, linking Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the electroacoustic and performative languages that transformed Spanish creation in the second half of the twentieth century.
He moves in a conceptual and experimental language, with pieces for action, object, recording and stage. His work moves between electroacoustic music, happenings, performance and the relationship between sound and image.
His repertoire is selective: Ukanga, Concierto postal, Biozaj Apolíneo, Lanas, Piano republicano español and Verde, rojo o amarillo. The selection does not aim to close the full catalogue of his work.
His legacy is that of an essential reference for Spanish sound avant-garde, with a Canarian origin that expands the idea of Canarian music beyond folklore and song.
His connection to the Canaries runs through his birth in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and through the international projection of a body of work that places Canarian experimentation within European musical modernity.
Obra temprana de su trayectoria experimental.
Obra asociada al grupo ZAJ.
Pieza que ejemplifica su práctica entre música y acción conceptual.
Obra de su producción compositiva.
Nace en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Compone Ukanga, una obra temprana de su trayectoria experimental.
Funda ZAJ junto a Walter Marchetti y Ramón Barce.
Se publica una entrevista centrada en su trayectoria artística y en ZAJ.
Fallece en 2018.
