spoken word

In the experimental scenario -word meets experimental-, Bruno has worked with artists of the likes of Tom Zé, Gary Lucas, Arnaldo Antunes, Strand, Hyperpotamus, Javier Corcobado, Nacho Vegas, Carlos Ann, Javier Diez Ena (Dead Capo), Leopoldo María Panero, Dick El Demasiado, Javier Colis, Enrique Bunbury, Tanja Tagaq, Vanessa Daou, Mariona Aupí, Leo Minax, Nacho Mastretta, Le Voyeur Mendez and Jaime López among others. 

He performed at festivals like Kosmópolis, Palabra y Música, Experimentaclub, Sónar, Cosmopoética, FIB, Hay Festival, Festival Ñ, SOS 4.8, Medialab and Noche en Blanco, and shared stage with Patti Smith, Blixa Bargeld, Julian Cope, Arto Lindsay, Leopoldo María Panero, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Amiri Baraka, John Giorno, Dennis Rollins and Hanif Kureishi. He has recorded and performed with legendary guitarist Gary Lucas (of Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley fame) at New York's Bowery Poetry Club and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

He is the creator of projects such as “Panero” (CD Book, El Europeo, 2005), “Nushu”, “Electrospoken”, “Ambulancia estrellada (Homenaje a J. G. Ballard) (Esperanto, 2009)”, “El ?úblico”, “Brindando con José Alfredo Jiménez”, “The Infra-Realist Session” and takes part in “Juan Gelman”. These experiments are featured in documentary films like “Una noche con Panero” (Jacobo Beut, Filmax 2006), “Tom Ze, Astronauta Libertado” (Igor Iglesias, Xique Xique Films, 2009) and in the video about his partnership with Gary Lucas “Avoid saying something important” (Caroline Conejero, El Duende Films, 2010). 

Bruno is part of multimedia colective Rey Trueno y su Orquesta, with whom created the on line soap radio show exposed at the Mexican Fine Arts Museum of Chicago, Soonoscop festival at CCCB Barcelona, Radio Ibero (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio), Radio Dos Mundos (Toronto) and RNE 3 (España).

 


WORKS


2011 “Juan Gelman” (with Carlos Ann and Mariona Aupí, CD Títere Records). “Mundo Jíbaro Numismático” (with Javier Díez Ena feat. Miguel Noguera, Arnaldo Antunes, Hyperpotamus, Dick El Demasiado... CD La Piscifactoría, in progress), Le Voyeur Mendez feat. Nacho Mastretta and BG (conciertos). "Añoranza y Acto de Amor" (with Javier Díez Ena, track from Efraín Jara's poem for the compilation CD "Mano a mano", Oído Salvaje, Ecuador). “¿Donde estás Reymundo?” (with Rey Trueno, documentary, México)...


2010 “The Infra-Realist Session” (with Gary Lucas, CD, premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York). “El ?úblico” (with Strand, L'Escorxador, Elche). “Brindando a José Alfredo Jiménez” (with Javier Corcobado, track “El jinete”, CD Títere Records). “El ?úblico” (OST) (with Irene Tremblay, Babasónicos, Strand, on line proyect) .“Canciones de rabia, frustración y venganza” (with BarryGan, CD, Planeta X, Argentina). “Los evangelios perdidos de Reymundo Álvarez Trueno” (with Rey Trueno, CCE, México DF). “Slot Poetry” (action La Noche en Blanco, Matadero, Madrid). “Protones y Neutrones” (with Leo Minax, track), “SM” (with José María Ponce y Mistress Basia, performance, Madrid)...
 


2009 “Homenaje a J. G. Ballard” (with Xavier Losada, Teatro Goethe, Caracas, Venezuela). “Festival Internacional de Perfopoesía” (with Carlos Ann, Mariona Aupí, Javier Adán and Leopoldo María Panero, Sevilla). “Vive como un pájaro estoico”(with Rey Trueno and Jaime López, CD and concierts in Casa de América, Madrid, and Olin Kan festival, México). “Recital” (with Javier Colis, Camon, Alicante). “Las noches del cangrejo” (with Gonzalo Escarpa, Sevilla)...


2008
“Taller de experimentación musical” (with Tom Zé, La Laboral, Gijón, Asturias). “BG & GL” (with Gary Lucas, shows at Poesía en Voz Alta festival México DF, Bowery Poetry Club and Gershwin Hotel, New York). “Día del Libro (with Xavier Losada, shows at Plaza de Altamira, and Barrabar Caracas, Venezuela). “Electrospoken” (Gabarron Foundation, Nueva York).  “Las noches del cangrejo” (with Carlos Ann, Sevilla)...

 
 

2007 “Cosas que preferirías no escuchar” (with Nacho Vegas feat. Javier Corcobado, show FIL Guadalajara, México). “La Música Contada” (with Sabino Méndez, Teatro Central, Sevilla). “Masterclass” (at Microfusa, Barcelona). “Festival slam poetry” (special feature, México DF). “Homenaje a Panero” (with Carlos Ann and Mariona Aupí, Palabra y Música festival at Teatro Lope de Vega de Sevilla, opening for Blixa Bargeld). “Siameses” (with Paco Nogales, performance, La Noche en Blanco, Madrid)...

 


2006
“Nushu” (with Strand, spoken word performances at Territorio Sonoro-La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and Palabra y Música festival, Teatro Lope de Vega, Sevilla, opening for Julian Cope). “Homenaje a Panero” (with Carlos Ann and Mariona Aupí, Caixaforum, Barcelona).  “La vida secreta de los objetos electrónicos” (radioarte Círculo de Bellas Artes), Madrid. “Electrospoken” (textjockey session -text DJ-, La Noche de los Libros, Madrid)...
 

 


2005
“Panero” (with Bunbury, Carlos Ann and José María Ponce; CD-book El Europeo).  “Electrospoken” (textjockey session -text DJ- with Strand at Kosmópolis, CCCB Barcelona)...


 

2004 “Electrospoken” (textjockey session -text DJ- at FIB Benicassim, Sónar Barcelona and Hay Festival at Deia, Mallorca)...