Ortiz Morales


Ortíz Morales, Jesús Manuel is a Spanish noise and experimental composer. Alias: '''Ommalaga'''

Career

Ortiz Morales is an experimental musician, audiovisual producer, and academic researcher, specializing in neofuturism and noise music, with a diverse catalog of sound experimentation albums. He was the director of the digital lab ATI-Gabirol Lab. for many years and is the founder or co-founder of the rock groups Tabletom and The Xilom Orchestra, the contemporary Music workshops TMC-CSMM, the jazz band La Insostenible Big Band, and the kinematic ensemble Kiné-matik-oM.
PhD in Audiovisual Communication, specializing in the reconstruction of sound contexts in Futurist and Dadaist audiovisual synchronism. His doctoral thesis focused on archaeotechnology, specifically on the first audiovisual mixing console in history, and his master's thesis explored cinematic reconstructions. He holds a Expert postgraduate degree in New Technologies and a Master's degree in Educational Computing from the ETSII-UNED. He teaches composition, guitar, and violin as adjunct professorships in the superior Conservatories of Córdoba, Granada, and Málaga.
His stylistic trajectory is varied, both as an instrumentalist and in his compositional musical styles: with an initial stage as a rock musician, a shorter one as a symphonic musician, a later one, already as a composer and conductor, in experimental chamber music and minimalist music and a final, more extended one, from approximately 1998 to the present. His work encompasses electroacoustic styles, and especially neo-futurist noise and musique concrète, where he has produced most of his experimental and investigative sound material, in addition to his technical work, including the release of over 20 Dadaist and Expressionist films with specially created noise and machine-based soundtracks. He was included by the SGAE in the 2002-2003 anthology of electroacoustic composers for his sound work "Kish."
Much of his work has been educational and outreach-oriented, with numerous lectures and publications on Futurism and Dadaism. Independent producer since 1982 with the alternative production company Ommalaga Prod., dedicated to experimental media and music education & pedagogy and outreach materials. He has created music and theme songs for various media outlets, including RTVE, RNE, RTVA, Canal Sur, and Metro-Málaga.
He has also worked in video art and reconstructive infographics. He is a recipient of one of the Eduardo Ocón Awards from the Málaga Provincial Council. From his early career, with work for RCA, Nuevos Medios and CBS, perhaps his best-known works are the albums "Mezclalina" and "Si tú, si yo". From his more recent work, possibly the audiovisual reconstruction of the canonical version of the 1924 film Ballet mécanique and the album "Abzu", a fairly comprehensive compendium of diverse techniques applied to electroacoustic music at that time, ranging from mathematized and vectorized MIDI processes to stochastic processes developed specifically for special purposes using the C-Sound language, including filtering and resonance manipulations, and fragments of musique concrète and soundscapes. Since 2022, he has retired from performing and public life, dedicating himself to compiling and publishing previously unrecorded material, remastering it, or adding updated videos.

Discography

Mezclalina Tabletom Canterbury rockRecuerdos del futuro Tabletom Rock Rayya Tabletom RockAlgo tuyo Veneno Andalusian RockPequeño salvaje Kiko Veneno RockMúsica Contemporánea Antologia Electroacústica
Solo' Música Inútil Abzu Dilmún Ki Ea Sirrush Irkalla Sumer Interlingua Musical Moloch Great Failures Compilation. AI
  • ''Ruidismo''