GOLEB
New album out 24 September

Bio

Omar Medina (MX) is a composer, producer, and guitarist based in Amsterdam. His work blends experimental electronica, ambient, and glitch into immersive sonic environments that explore themes of migration, memory, and technological adaptation.

A lifelong guitarist, Omar expanded his practice into experimental electronics, developing a hybrid approach that combines modular synthesis, custom Max/MSP software, and live performance. His upcoming album, Goleb, is slated for release in September 2026.

Artist Statement

I am intrigued by the moments when familiar structures become unstable: identities shift, familiar ways of understanding the world are disrupted, and boundaries between opposing states become blurred.

Growing up during the transition from an analog world into an increasingly digital one has deeply shaped my understanding of change. This experience was intensified when I relocated from Mexico to the Netherlands, where language, culture, and social relationships demanded a different form of reorientation.

While the guitar has been a compass throughout all these transitions, electronic instruments have become my preferred medium because they allow me to work with sound in ways that are less constrained by the performance traditions attached to acoustic instruments.

To explore these possibilities, I build custom systems in Max/MSP that act as generative collaborators, creating situations that I respond to in real time. Combined with modular synthesizers, field recordings, and processed samples, these systems allow me to compose not only with sounds but with the conditions that generate them.

Coming from a background in jazz and traditional Mexican music, where improvisation often functions as both form and content, I approach electronic instruments through the same principle: negotiating between intention and uncertainty.

My music tends toward slow, dark, and occasionally abrasive sonic landscapes, often interrupted by bursts of rhythmic intensity and densely layered textures. My work is an ongoing exploration of changing states. Through sound, I seek moments where uncertainty becomes a space for discovery and transformation.

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Goleb

FIVE COMPOSITIONS, 2021–2023 · 33 MINUTES · OUT 24 SEPTEMBER 2026

Goleb is a collection of five compositions created between 2021 and 2023 that gradually revealed a shared identity. Although each piece was conceived independently, bringing them together exposed recurring ideas that had emerged unconsciously throughout the creative process: transformation, adaptation, movement, migration, and the tension between resistance and change.

At its core, Goleb is not about technology itself, but about the experience of living through technological and cultural transformation. Rather than looking back with nostalgia or celebrating technological progress, the album inhabits the unstable territory between these two realities.

The album is built on contrast. Organic and synthetic sounds, stillness and rhythmic intensity, fragile atmospheres and abrasive textures, predictable structures and algorithmic behaviors continually interact without ever fully resolving.

Each composition is based on its own generative system, developed in Max/MSP and shaped through improvisation, sound synthesis, field recordings, processed samples, and electronic instruments.

The title comes from the name of an artists' building in Amsterdam where I lived for a short period after moving to the Netherlands. Over time, the name became detached from the place itself and came to represent a broader state of transition: temporary, uncertain, and continuously transforming.

If the album can be reduced to a single image, it is this: Goleb is a memory that has been digitally distorted. It remembers a world that no longer exists exactly as it is remembered.

Tracklist

01Metra

02PNK

03Bionova

04Goleb

05Fada

Credits

Written & produced by Omar Medina
Mixed by Sophie Schnell (PYUR)
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, Studio Schwebung
Artwork by Omar Medina
3D model design by Tomás Eduardo Medina
Field recording on "Metra" courtesy of Sugai Ken

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Live

Past Shows

2024Aural Spaces — Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
2023Opera Forward Festival
2023Jardin Rouge Festival
2022Museumnacht, Kunstinstituut Melly

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Selected Work

PRODUCTION & COLLABORATION

86'

Omar's first release as an electronic music producer — 2023

omarmedina.bandcamp.com/track/86

Insula - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Remix producer, from the ‘HYPOMOD EP’ (Steeplejack Records, 2025)

insulaidm.bandcamp.com/track/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation

Metamorphosis

Track from ‘Narcisi e Camomile’ by Clara Blavet
Written by Clara Blavet, Kersten McCal & Omar Medina.
Produced by Omar Medina
https://tinyurl.com/32x6ruf2

Links

Private stream soundcloud.com/omarmedina/albums

Pre-save	omarmedina.bandcamp.com/album/goleb
Past work	omarmedina.nl/music
Instagram	instagram.com/omarmedinamx

Contact

Press & booking

omarmedinaweb@gmail.com

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