Based in Barcelona, Khalify is a composer, sound artist, and performance maker whose practice explores the physical, material, and organic capacities of sound. Through the modification of elements such as rhythm and melody, his work proposes new perspectives that invite individual and subjective listening. Recurring themes in his practice include social and familial heritage, identity and its processes of growth, and perceptions of what we consider immovable.
Sound, for Khalify, becomes a living matter — a site of transformation, tension, and continual questioning. In his recent work, Khalify challenges traditional notions of musicality and form, treating acts of rupture, decay, and disintegration as compositional tools. Through this approach, destruction becomes an extension of performance — a way to expose the inner architecture of sound and to confront the listener with their own perceptual boundaries.
Selected Works & Performances
2024 - 2025
SPRING/SUMMER
Opera premier Devs ex Machina, commissioned by ESMUC, Barcelona.
Public recording sessions of Hot & Cold Dyeing, manual for dyers, Barcelona.
Premiered X Innocence, by promotion of composers, Barcelona.
2022 - 2023
FALL/WINTER
Micropera premiered: Le Bisou. Sala 3, L’Auditori, by ESMUC, Barcelona.
Cantata Congrats, commissioned by Escoles de l’Eixample. L’Orfeo Gracienc, Barcelona
Justine, commissioned for the Granollers Organ resotration. Granollers.
SPRING/SUMMER
In collaboration - Nicolas Trépanier (Hist. Dep. University of Mississippi), Manifesto. Barcelona.
Primitiv premier. Ivo Medek Baroque farm, Prague.
Education, workshops & seminars
2022-25 - Catalonia College of Music, Composition (Bcn, ESP) bachellor degree under the leadership of Reiko Yamada (Harvard University-USA, IEM-DE), Bernat Vivancos (CNSMDP FR, NMH-NO) & conducting with Ernest M. Izquierdo (P. Boulez assistant).
2025 - MIXTUR Instant Composition, seminar by Carola Bauckholt.
2024-25 - Workshop ”Ars Subtilior, the compositional avant-garde of the Middle Ages” with P. Memelsdorf. ESMUC
2024 - Violeta Mayoral, "No eres tu, soy yo." Hangar performance collab.
2023 - Symposium Trstênice for Composers (CZE)
2022 - AIMS Festival (SP) 2022 - Bansic Flute soloist (ESP)
2021 - Philippe Vallet "Refugees" group member (ESP + SYR)
2021 - Artistic School Institute OM (Bcn, ESP), professional degree in transverse flute.
Also With
Anne Cleare, Reiko Yamada, Genevieve Murphy, Jenny Sunesson, Tomáš Ondrůšek, Victoria Cheah, Mauricio Sotelo, Bernat Vivancos, Raquel Garcia-Tomás, Yan Maresz, Martina Sabariego, Javier Quislant, Hara Alonso, Joan Magrané Figuera, Jeff Beer, Ivo Medek, Albert Guinovart, Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo, Helena Cánovas