Josep Garcés (ES)

Josep Garces is a Spanish multi-instru-mentalist, composer, and creative design engineer. Josep studied classical & jazz clarinet and saxophone in Spain, under the guid-ance of renown musicians such as Jesus Santandreu, Javier Vercher, Perico Sambeat. In 2012, Josep moved to the Netherlands, where he continued developing his pro-fessional music career by following a MA in Live Electronics at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and studied with Marcel Wierckx, and Jos Zwaanenburg. Josep has followed as well an engineering career, working as a 3D design engineer in research & development for high-tech companies in Spain and in the Netherlands. In his musical journey, a synthesis be-tween acoustic instruments and music technology, Josep combined hisdesign engineering & music performance experience to create a Professional Music Software for Live Looping. LiveLoop was developed to expand the possibilities of the looping technique, aiming to provide musicians with a versatility and complex-ity of features, empowering them to com-pose with maximum creativity. Breaking all instrumental borders, LiveLoop is a multi-faced instrument in a journey of groves, raw sounds, FX & dis-tortions, created for live performing musi-cians and artists who wish to experiment with new sounds and new possibilities of music creation.