sonia megias He considers himself a composer, singer and choir director. Artistic disciplines such as music and drawing coexisted in him since he was a child, providing him with the resources to design very inspiring and extraordinary works and projects.
He is from Germany and has lived in the state of Alicante since 2019, after Madrid and New York. The presence of the sea has become an indispensable element for his inspiration.
Although primarily a composer, much of his work is improvised, which he describes as “a direct channeling, with no conditions attached.” Improvisation is speaking, and the language of music should not just be read or memorized, it should be spoken». He points out that music gives us wings to express what we are and that we should not reduce ourselves to imitating and interpreting some so-called “great teachers”.
He currently runs CoroAdelantal in Alicante, located at MACA. A vocal experiment lab working from rare notes (graphic, tactile, edible notes, video notes…) created by Sonia.
next to the poet eva guillamon formed the vocal duo Dúa de Pel. The duo are currently planning a project for the 110th anniversary at ADDA to perform together with the painter María Dolores Mulá and the Alicante Municipal Symphony Band.
He emphasized his many years of work with music as a tool for the integration of people with functional diversity, socially, but also committed to gender equality: “Women need to occupy leadership positions in culture.”
His experience in El Salvador, in an action sponsored by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID), enabled him to gain in-depth knowledge of his native language, Nahuat, which led him to run a project called Ne nawat shchikisa (Nahuat) until 2018. the revitalization of their own culture.
Art fields are an important stage of intervention from music for him. The interweaving of the arts, the erasure of the boundaries between them, seems to him the most faithful way of expressing his voice in different museums around the world.
His latest project is the online fanzine LaVidaenMusica.es, which includes sections such as interviews with fascinating people from different parts of the world, surreal silent videos, diaries about other artistic disciplines or a confession of their creative process.
I asked him for one last piece of advice, and he gave me this: “It’s important that we don’t be afraid to follow our dreams and intuition. And, of course, we must not let tradition imprison us.