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Bruegel Sound
Live project · 2025
Jazz, poetry, electronics and Chilean instruments in an immersive concert format.
Composer · Guitarist · Musicologist
Sound as
thought.
I work across contemporary jazz, Chilean oral traditions, electroacoustic music, poetry and computational tools—building forms where listening becomes research.
Madrid ↔ Chile · Available for concerts, talks and collaborations
01 / Featured
Current live project
Bruegel
Sound
An impossible encounter: jazz, electronics and poetry.
Built from the poems of Grisalla and the visual worlds of Pieter Bruegel, the project moves between composition and improvisation without turning one language into an illustration of another.
206 → 8projects selected for JazzEñe 2025
5musicians in the live ensemble
60thSan Sebastián Jazzaldia
“I dream that listening might become the sense of the future.”
02 / Selected work
Four currents.
One practice.
A concise map of the projects that best explain the work.
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Labio
Album · 2021
An open-form jazz record shaped by improvisation, poetry and transformed traces of Chilean musical traditions.
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Marisa Manchado
Musicology · PhD research
Electroacoustic creation analysed through logostructure, mixture and symptom from a feminist perspective.
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Imaginal Thinking Engine
Digital humanities · Live research prototype
A system for navigating and sonifying multimodal archives as relational worlds of text, image, sound and metadata.
Navigable research environment
Enter a world.
Not a menu.
Córdoba is the first public world of the Imaginal Thinking Engine: an experimental space where images, texts and sounds can be explored through their relations.
Now · One intermodal sound world
The Córdoba prototype will open as a stable, playable experience inside this website.
Next · Load your own worlds
World upload and external processing are in development. The public site will remain a clear demonstration, not an unfinished tool.
© José Luis Luna Rocafort / Tomajazz, 2025
Research is not the backstage of the music
It is another way
of composing.
My work connects music analysis, feminist theory, electroacoustic practices, Chilean oral traditions and computational methods. The aim is not to place theory beside sound, but to let each transform the other.
Electroacoustic analysis
Gender & contemporary music
Canto a lo poeta
Guitarrón chileno
Embeddings & sonification
03 / Press
Selected press,
not noise.
Fundación SGAE
JazzEñe selects Daniel Román Jazz Quintet for the 60th Jazzaldia
2025
La Estrategia del CaracolLong-form interview: poetry, tradition and avant-garde in Bruegel Sound
2025
MasJazzLabio: a fresh, unorthodox view of Chilean jazz
2022
TomajazzDaniel Román Jazz Quintet at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre
2025
04 / About
Daniel
Román
Chilean composer, guitarist and musicologist based in Madrid.
PhD in Musicology, cum laude, from the University of Valladolid. His work moves between contemporary jazz, electroacoustic research, poetry and living oral traditions. He teaches at university level and develops artistic research where archives, technology and listening become compositional materials.
With MECHA, he received Chile’s Pulsar Award for Best Jazz and Fusion Album in 2018. He is the author of the poetry collection Grisalla and has presented artistic and academic work in Spain, Chile and across Latin America.
PhDMusicology · cum laude
2018Pulsar Award
3released albums
20+years in music and education
Concerts · Research · Lectures · Collaborations