ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKS
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear - David Linuesa (Photography)
Among the small fragments of the night, I walk backward, hoping to find the path where I hid away from the rest. I know no one understands it but you and me — that is the silent cry that moves the leaves, touches the trunks, and stumbles over every root it encounters. The sky is two reflections that cover us with desire and scents.
Escaping inward with you is not a mistake but the self-imposed rule to avoid feeling overwhelmed. An overflow from yesterday without past or future.
The freedom to breathe the same air we lack is a trace we let slip between your hands and mine. Having overcome the pain, let us escape from our sealed bodies toward bodies that burned and gave light.
Tomorrow I will seek the path, but I will not stop walking among the olive trees that touch beneath the surface of the cold mantle, the frozen night, our morning.
Black and white photographs. Black and white videos. Texts.
Exhibition-format publication in print and multimedia.
Photographs & video: David Linuesa
Original music: Rafa Ramos Sania
Columna – Sonia Celma (Photography)
Columna is a profound and emotional exploration of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, addressing not only the condition itself but also the intricate human relationships and the journey of personal healing.
Sonia Celma (b. 1974, Alcañiz, Spain) is distinguished by her unique vision that seamlessly integrates architecture, music, and photography. These three disciplines have profoundly shaped her perception of space, time, and form. While architecture has influenced her signature style, and music has shaped her approach to composition, it is photography that has allowed her to delve deeply into the essence of the human experience—examining those who create and inhabit spaces and find solace in music.
The photographic project Columna is a heartfelt tribute to her daughter Carla, who, as a teenager, endured scoliosis and wore a brace for seven years. Through this project, Sonia aims to heal the emotional wounds that arose during this challenging journey between mother and daughter. To achieve this, she employs three artistic mediums: a photobook, an exhibition, and an audiovisual work.
Oboe: Carla Aguiló Celma
Cello: Sonia Celma
Recorded at: Masterlogic Studios, Mas de las Matas, Teruel, Spain
Composed, mixed, and mastered by: Rafa Ramos Sania in Valencia
Tierra – Espe Pons (Photography)
In the 124 photographs that make up the project, Espe Pons invites us to delve into memory through places marked by the trauma of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression of dissent.
The music was created based on the photographer’s guidance and her wish for a sound that would convey peace and healing.
Unlike the pieces used in the audiovisuals, the music featured on the digital album is the result of a new mix and a later recomposition, conceived for listening on its own rather than as accompaniment to images.
Music for double bass, piano, synthesizers, and field recordings.
Composed, recorded, and edited by Rafa Ramos Sania during March and April 2023 in Patraix, Valencia.
Hasta que la tierra aguante - Santi Donaire (Photography)
Hasta que la tierra aguante is a journalistic and visual investigation — a journey through inland Spain and major food production centers to analyze the environmental, social, and health consequences of a food production model rooted in greed and denial of the planet’s biological limits. Agriculture and livestock farming play a major role in accelerating climate change, with massive water consumption, depletion of soil and nutrients, waste generation, and pollution that affect our rivers and aquifers, along with a labor force subjected to near-slavery conditions.
But this project is also a call for reflection — directed at cities and the contemporary urban consumption model. The endless exploitation of rural resources and people by large multinational corporations is, in part, the result of a consumption model that neither sees nor feels the wounds it causes, and that is disconnected from any natural or human cycle. We produce the way we consume — and we consume the way we produce.
Faros - Alberto Arroyo (Photography)
Cuando apagues la luz - David Linuesa (Photography)
We build our identity based on an exaggerated weight placed on the other, and in their absence, we sometimes struggle to define our own portrait. The images aim to describe feelings that emerge directly from internal drives, expressed through a turbulent atmosphere of desire and absence, noise and silence, light and darkness.
The photographs approach an intimate narrative without a concrete storyline, beyond a search to escape an inner void. The desolate city stays awake as the sun sets, pulsating through windows — lights turning on and off. And through the four walls of a room (one of many), tree leaves slip in, the night slips in. Nature contrasts with the artificial light illuminating the rooms and bodies. Artificial like that sweetened image of love fed to us since childhood. Like the plasticized image of pornography hidden under the bed or in dark alleys, out of our innocent eyes’ reach.
David Linuesa distances himself from these retouched, manipulated images seen through the filter of society and thought… and strips them bare. He bares bodies that, whether united or separated, waiting or intertwined, show that physical contact goes far beyond the surface. Physical contact overflows when two distant lovers long to see each other again — it is thirst, hunger, need. It is fear.
And when reunited, sex — that irrational and pure language — emanates from the gut, burns them, instinctive and primal. David conveys the weight of sex through his photographs, showing it in passionate (and sad) embraces, in eyes that wait (and fear), in generous (and possessive) kisses, in images where irrationality is a heavy burden (and it hurts).
He uncovers in this weight the need to be the other, to seek individuality even as it dissolves in I hold you, you are me, we are intimacy. With his lens, he reveals the doubts that strike lovers when the other leaves, when they are left alone; two doors joined but not touching.
These vibrant, intense photographs, which X-ray desire to reveal fear, strike us by reminding us that we are those bodies; that when the light goes out, we will fear the other is gone, that they have left. Fear of solitude. Fear of ourselves… Fear of facing our own void.
Color photographs.
Multimedia-format publication.
Photographs & editing: David Linuesa
Original music: Rafa Ramos Sanía
Text: Elisa Ferrer
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Verde casi negro - Eleonora Gronchi & Pablo Meneu (Contemporary Circus)
Original music composed by Edu Comelles and Rafa Ramos Sania, awarded Best Musical Composition at the 2024 IVC Valencian Performing Arts Awards.
Verde Casi Negro is a contemporary circus and theater production that explores the complex dynamics of power, intimacy, and human emotion. Directed by Eleonora Gronchi and Pablo Meneu, the show draws inspiration from José Sanchis Sinisterra’s play El lector por horas, transforming its characters and themes into a visually rich and physically expressive performance.
Set in a moss-green salon where windows open only to darkness, the performance fuses aerial dance, contemporary circus techniques, and audiovisual elements to immerse the audience in a deeply emotional and symbolic universe. The piece features seven performers who embody multiple facets of three central characters, emphasizing internal conflict, desire, submission, and rebellion through movement and physical storytelling.
Developed by the Institut Valencià de Cultura, the production was part of the Habitem el Rialto initiative and included educational outreach and inclusive performances tailored to neurodiverse audiences. Through its innovative staging and compelling musical score, Verde Casi Negro challenges traditional boundaries between the public and the private, the seen and the hidden, and ultimately, the cultural and the instinctive.
Persona - Daniel Benedito (Improvised Dance and Music)
Soundscape, musical architecture. A project where sound is treated with a plastic, pictorial language; almost cinematic. A point of reflection focusing on textures, movement, depths, luminosity, sound layers, transitions, and fades. It speaks of painting, scattering, blurring, texturizing, coloring, fine lines, and rough planes.
From the beginning, Persona has integrated Butoh dance, poetry, photography, and video into its performance, creating an intimate live dialogue. “Butoh is very inspiring in that sense. A blank body willing to be shaped by the place, the sound, the interaction with the environment in that very moment.” A dance that reinterprets the relationship between the body and the ground, with the world, shedding the mask agreed upon by society.
Similarly, the musicians must strip themselves of schemes, styles, and learned patterns to create something entirely new with the dancer, simultaneously forging a connection with the audience and immersing them in what unfolds—a soundscape that travels through the air to reach the ears and skin of the spectator.
“The works are live creations built in and for that moment. Sometimes they start from a concept, an idea, three words; a skeleton on which the musicians and dancer insert the guts, muscles, skin, body. But at the same time, stripping away personality—that much sought-after societal ‘being someone’—until being nothing and everything at once.”
To create a scene that is heard as one gazes at a painting: unhurriedly, diving into details. Letting it evoke images not necessarily present, bringing memories, and taking us out of the mental labyrinth to a suspended place, making us liquid. To dissolve with the moment, with things; not to be, but to simply be.
Anhel - Cristina Gómez (Contemporary Dance)
"Anhel is a piece that rides between dance, performance, and physical theatre. Just as I use other languages like video and text in other shows, this time it is pure body — no scenography, with music. Anhel delves into the animal essence of the human condition, speaking from and about the rawness of bodies, exploring or revealing the beauty of desire. It is an irreverent piece that shows forgotten places, with many images that reimagine what it might be like to be inside a womb. It also speaks to the need for physical and emotional contact, and is very visual, with a wild edge, yet at the same time very beautiful.”
Salvaje - Irene González (Theater)
"Salvaje" was performed at Sala Ultramar in June 2023. The piece “Lightness”, by Rafa Ramos Sania, was integrated throughout the entire soundscape of the work by its author, Irene González.
"Salvaje" is a theatrical play that invites us to delve into the horror of an inhuman situation that seems distant from our daily lives but could be happening just meters away from us. It is a piece with a peculiar chronology, addressing controversial issues to encourage the audience to reflect on the concept of love, moving away from its conventional idea. How many ways are there to love? Can a monstrous person feel love? Is it possible to go from hatred to love in order to survive? The show is directed by actress, director, and playwright Begoña Tena, with a script written by Irene González and starring José Torres and Irene González.
Wind Shapes + Segundo de Chomón (Short Film)
This short film combines films by Segundo de Chomón with contemporary compositions by Rafa Ramos Sania. The soundtrack features selections from Sania’s latest album, Wind Shapes (2024), providing a modern musical context that complements the historic visuals.
The project intentionally blends elements from different historical periods, creating a dialogue between early cinematic techniques and current sound artistry. By merging Segundo de Chomón’s pioneering visual work with contemporary music, the film offers a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between past and present artistic expressions.
The result is an immersive audiovisual experience that highlights the evolution of storytelling through a nuanced fusion of eras. The full video is included with the purchase of the album Wind Shape on Bandcamp.