Luis Rubio (Nefelibato) is a neoclassical composer and sound artist based in Reykjavík, originally from Spain. He works from neoclassical piano, hybrid electronic production and field recordings gathered in Arctic and Iberian landscapes.

His grandfather taught him to play the piano when he was little with pasodobles, tangos, bulerías, and any music to get the family together. Later he trained as a classical pianist in Spain and at the Frédéric Chopin University in Warsaw.

His music carries the influence he grew up with, Granados, Albéniz, Debussy and Chopin, into a colder register: slower, more textural, shaped by natural time and by a physical sense of space.

He writes for image. The pieces stay close and tactile, then open into something larger and darker, fragile landscapes that can turn apocalyptic without raising their voice.

The work has developed through projects and collaborations in Iceland, Greenland, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and Spain.

SELECTED WORK

• Sound Dialogue Between Cultures — research trip (Nuuk, Greenland) — supported by Nordic Culture Point & Nuuk Art Museum (2025).

• Silent Compositions — Digital Nature (Snæfellsjökull Part I & II) — sound work with the glacier (Iceland) (2025).

• Reciprocal Vulnerability — natural temporal installation (Nuuk, Greenland) (2024).

• Echoes of Selk’nam — sound installation (Valencia, Spain) — collaboration with MomentoLux (2024).

• EP “Eqqissineq” (Varna Marianne Nielsen) — music video editing + visual effects (2025).

• New Audiences & Innovative Practices x MADTech — collaboration & residency at Grand Theatre (Groningen, NL) (2024)