About

I am Joan Anton Mateu, a singer, musician, composer, and sound creator.

I accompany parties and dances as a live singer, keyboardist, and DJ, with over 20 years of experience performing at celebrations and events in different settings.

Alongside this work, I develop Dusum Sangtong, a project of Buddhist mantras and prayers set to music, created to support calm, meditation, and everyday presence.

Music is my language: a way to celebrate, to share, and to connect with what truly matters.

A bit more about my path

My name is Joan Anton Mateu, and music has been part of my life since childhood. Over the years, this path has taken me both to the stage and into inner exploration, always with music as the common thread.

Live music and celebrations

I currently perform as a live singer, keyboardist, and DJ at parties and dances, community celebrations, birthdays, and events.

With more than 20 years of experience, I have carried out hundreds of performances as a musician, entertainer, and sound technician, adapting each performance to the people and the moment.

Buddhist mantras and prayers

From this same sensitivity comes Dusum Sangtong, a musical project based on mantras and prayers from Tibetan Buddhism, presented with a contemporary and accessible approach.

This music is intended to accompany moments of calm, meditation, and mindful presence in everyday life.

Music as a path

I enjoy exploring sounds, cultures, technologies, and emotions. I understand music as a tool for connection: with people, with the present moment, and with what gives meaning to life.

If you would like to learn more, listen to my music, or get in touch, you will find the relevant links on this page.

Dussum, Joan Anton Mateu Jansana: singer, musician keyboardist, multi-style composer and music producer from Barcelona (Spain), born in 1974. Artist 🎵 Love nature and home made food 🌲🍲

After starting to play and compose on a toy piano, I studied solfège, harmony, and choral singing at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music (in El Bruc and at the annexes on Carrer Mallorca and la Sedeta), while improvising and "working" with a wonderful Casiotone MT-210 electronic keyboard, with 20 sounds and 8-voice polyphony (a gift from the Three Wise Men), and experimenting with speakers, stereos, Walkmans, cassettes, and vinyl records, recording montages, remixes, and megamixes on cassette tapes. How I loved technology and electronic music!

Of everything I studied at the Conservatory, I hardly remember anything anymore... My life revolved around the music that sounded inside me, experimenting, improvising... devouring all kinds of music (records, cassettes, radio, TV—the music from commercials, films—and recording my favorite radio programs on cassettes. Los 40 Principales... Minuto Mix on Radio Minuto with Toni Peret... the 80s... and later in the 90s, Radio Pica, Contrabanda Radio... all that punk, experimental, underground, and alternative scene that was playing in Barcelona and the surrounding areas (Hospitalet, Cornellà, Santa Coloma...), in the streets and in rehearsal spaces, from both national and international bands. Fanzines, magazines (Rock de Lux, Mondo Sonoro...), concerts by musicians and bands in venues and bars, music festivals in the city squares...

I spent a lot of time looking at, listening to, and buying records in shops around Barcelona, especially in a small neighborhood shop, Evolution, on Calle Castillejos (back then I was addicted to 80s disco and its powerful productions full of synthesizers and drum machines), and with friends I spent hours moving boxes of vinyl records around the shops on Tallers Street and in the Raval neighborhood, and at fairs: Jesús Records, Revólver Records, Castells Records... anywhere. I was also pretty into symphonic rock records, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp... a lot of 70s music, and I especially loved the 80s productions.

Behind the keyboard I had a Sanyo radio cassette player that my brother-in-law repaired, and with which I recorded a ton of tapes full of ideas and compositions over the years. I recorded rehearsals and demos with the first bands I played in using this Casio keyboard, and I also used it when we performed live.

For many years, from a young age, I read (studying with passion) every magazine and book I could get my hands on about music and sound technology (Music and Technology, Keyboard...), most of which you could only find in bookstores (Catalonia, Herder...) and newsstands on Las Ramblas, in the center of Barcelona, in some specialized libraries... and I studied telecommunications engineering at the UPC (at the University of Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona), specializing in electronic equipment), although I didn't finish because I felt disconnected from reality and people, and I started working.

I also attended courses and workshops on computer music, electronic music, electroacoustic music, musique concrète (making tape montages at 15...), experimental music, sound studio, recording, and others (CIEJ Barcelona, Jordi Rossinyol, Phonos Foundation...). I continued composing and making recordings.

I played with a group of friends in Cornellà, the Blackmagic (varied pop-rock with some thrash, reggae, punk, hardcore, rock 'n' roll, and blues elements). We had a great time rehearsing and performing, and thanks to my sister's encouragement, I started singing in the Sedna Choir (directed by Myriam Niubò), performing a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque to gospel... Singing, something I'd never even considered.

After saving every penny for a long time, I bought my first synthesizer, the Korg X5—which I still use—at the Fusté store in Barcelona—I think it cost me 200,000 pesetas—and I took classical piano lessons there with the teacher Emilio Cristóbal, who followed the Liceu Conservatory's curriculum, although he brought his own experience and personality, with a touch of jazz and other genres (Emilio maintained that Bach invented jazz... those intense chords... I still remember it).

After that came courses and workshops in yoga, meditation, body expression, dance, creative movement, percussion, singing, and voice... (José Manuel Pagán Santamaría—with I collaborated and worked singing traditional music in recordings and performances (book CD cançons de camp i poemes de ciutat) and as a sound technician in the Bona Sort orchestra, Vicky Soler, La Casona, Magatzem d'artistes - interventions improvising with the keyboard during body work classes for actors in theater schools...) Continue reading after the photos.

While we were training at the Can Dragó athletics track (Nou Barris, Barcelona), I was recommended some rehearsal spaces in Poblenou (Indarra Sessions) where I could make as much noise as I wanted with my amp and keyboards. I shared the space with the band Örn (Mar Orfila). Then, one day, while I was jamming there, the guys from the band Alliance (Jordi Barnils, Joan Vinyals, Jacob Arguimbau, Sandra Villegas) heard me and asked me to join. It had never occurred to me to play in a heavy metal band, but they wanted to try changing the band's sound by taking out one of the two guitars and adding a keyboard, and since they seemed like good people and there was a good vibe, I gave it a try. We performed several shows (Hospitalet, Barcelona Sala Magic, Rock & Trini, and more...) and recorded a fantastic demo/album (Presentes Futuros, 2001) (progressive symphonic pop metal/hard rock) at The Sound of the Kings studio in the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona, which, by the way, still hasn't been released—I have the master tapes; if anyone's interested, get in touch. We also had some great times jamming and recording with bassist Jacob Arguimbau (Stop Stop), and rehearsed and played a few gigs with the heavy metal cover band Break the Chain.

At the same time, I moved to an apartment in Sant Andreu (Barcelona), where I sang in the Capella Gramalla choir, rehearsing and performing in neighborhoods and towns as a tenor—sometimes as a soloist. I also had a brief but beautiful experience with Gregorian chant, singing in churches and other venues with a spatial sound... all this alongside my involvement with metal, heavy metal, and everything else.

While rehearsing with Alliance, some friends from another venue (a death metal band, if I remember correctly) came to listen to us one day. Their bassist, Felipe, offered me a job as a keyboardist in a dance band that played at local festivals and local fairs. I gave it a try... and I've been doing it professionally for over 20 years, using a Korg PA-60 keyboard for these gigs. I also do children's entertainment and DJing at dances and parties. Over 2,000 performances across the country, singing, playing instruments, hosting, organizing, creating repertoire (the foundation of live success), working as a sound engineer, programmer of backing tracks and MIDI sequences for keyboards and synthesizers, manager, and self-employed entrepreneur.

I have performed as a singer and keyboardist at events such as the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Tribute, in small-scale theatrical performances with actress Esther Bueno (Crònica d'una biblioteca), in environmental education theater (the show "Compostacle" with the street theater company Unicornis), and at various social events in Barcelona.

Casiotone MT210

Look at this...

Casiotone MT210, my first electronic keyboard. It is cute, isn't it? 8-Voices Polyphonic, 12 rhythms, 20 sounds. RCA output. No MIDI. Enough to compose and play live :)

I needed to record several tracks simultaneously at home to capture my ideas... first I'd record them on a cassette, which I'd then play through small speakers from a Walkman, over which I'd add another layer of sound and record it all together on the aforementioned Sanyo cassette player... After a while, I got a Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder, which, along with my 80W Laney amp for the keyboard and some effects pedals the guitarist lent me, allowed me to express so much more...

Then I bought a 16-track Zoom hard drive multitrack recorder from Luciano Pietrafesa (from the guitar band Zum), which he'd used to record demos and gigs. That was a whole new level. I recorded tons of songs and ideas on it. Thanks to Zum's Zoom 🌼 Life is beautiful.

I put this Zoom HD16 to use not only for my own artistic expression, but also for the benefit of others, recording demos, mock-ups, and commissions for various artists.

By then, I had moved to the coastal mountains, to Sant Iscle de Vallalta (Maresme, Barcelona), near the Montnegre mountain and the Mediterranean Sea, where I could rest, recover my health, and reconnect with nature.

I maintained a good friendship from my Blackmagic days with musicians from Alella, El Masnou, and Teià (Maresme, Barcelona), and we also performed in that area with Alliance. It was in that region that I spent some time as a singer in the band Eclipse & Gatmonts, where we imitated the vintage sound of classic rock 'n' roll from the 50s and 60s (The Shadows, etc.). A real treat.

Meanwhile, computers were becoming increasingly powerful. With my old PC, I made my first compositions in MIDI files (which, with a magic Korg cable, made the Korg X5 synth sound wonderful—and you could program its sounds from the PC! And store sound banks!). Those new processor speeds allowed me to use external sound cards... and start recording audio! I began using Cubase, Logic, Reaper... and Ableton Live :)