Born in 1967 in Valladolid Spain, Alberto Posadas began his musical studies there before moving to Madrid to continue his training. In 1988, he met the composer Francisco Guerrero, who Posadas considers to be his true master. With Guerrero, Posadas explored new musical forms through the use of techniques like math combinatorics and fractal theory. Self-determination and a constant search to include aesthetics in these mathematical procedures led the composer to look for other models for composition, notably the transposition of architectural spaces into music, the application of topology techniques and painting in a relationship with perspective, or the exploration of the acoustic phenomena of musical instruments at a microscopic scale.
Alberto Posadas © Lucía MorateAlberto Posadas also created a personal writing style of electro-acoustic music through several projects such as Liturgia de silencio (1995), Snefru, and Versa est in luctum (2002). More recently, his interest for the implication of movement in the electronic transformation of sound led him to take part in a multidisciplinary project instated by IRCAM: Glossopoeia, created in collaboration with the choreographer Richard Siegal in 2009.
Since 1991, Alberto Posadas has taught analysis, harmony, and composition at the Mahadahonda Conservatory in Madrid. He is also regularly invited to speak in a variety of contemporary music courses.