//Film scoring, recording and a small label, run from Berlin.
A multidisciplinary practice moving between the studio, the score and the stage. Records, film scores, sound installation, performance, and a small cassette label, held together by a single way of working with sound.
Composer
On the work
On intuition as method.
As a self-taught musician, intuition was never a style. It was the only tool I had. I learned to compose by ear, trusting what felt right before I could explain why.
That has often meant taking the longer way around. Without formal rules to fall back on, I follow the path that sounds true rather than the one that is correct, and it tends to be slower, stranger, more my own. The technical side I picked up later. The instinct came first, and it is still what decides.
I think that is where whatever character my work has comes from. Not from method, but from working closer to feeling than to theory, and trusting that the longer road usually arrives somewhere more honest.
//Selected scores for documentary and fiction film.
Wonderful Losers
2017 · Silver Crane
Picotazos
2019 · Goya nom.
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[m]otherhood
2019 · Goya nom.
La Pietà
2022
The Offering
2020
Domingo Domingo
2023
Sara Baras
2017
Experimento Stuka
2018
Viatge d'hivern
2019
Five Days to Dance
2016
Lobster Soup
De Sucre
Each score taken from composition through to final master · Full filmography on request
Mixing / Recording
On the work
On listening before recording.
Much of my work in the studio has little to do with microphones or signal flow. Early on, like most engineers, I was drawn to technical perfection: placement, editing, the cleanest possible take. Over time I understood that a recording is rarely decided by any of that.
Music carries something living underneath. A personal process, tied to the emotions of the people making it. The engineer is the medium that channels it, translating what an artist hears inside their head into something that finally makes sense through the speakers. Much of that means working through fear, ego, doubt, the quiet politics of a room.
None of this is taught in school. Yet today, when a tutorial can show anyone how to mic a kit, it is the part that still matters. A machine can teach technique. It cannot teach you to sit with an artist until they feel free enough to forget they are being recorded.
//Selected records as producer, engineer and mixer.
Lucrecia Dalt
¡Ay!
Recording · RVNG Intl.
Rauelsson
Niu
Sound Engineer · Sonic Pieces
Sacromonte & AFK
Cudol
Sound Engineer · Archives
Adrian de Alfonso
Viator
Engineer / Mixer · Mapple Death
Gordan
Down in the Meadow
Sound Engineer · Morphine
Étoimoi
Growth
Mixer
Montefuji
Bestiario
Engineer / Mixer
Joan Villalonga
Una Noche en Shinjuku
Production · Recording · Rockaway
Full discography of 80+ records available on request · Funkhaus · Studio Boerne · Rockaway · UFO Studios
Music
//Selected releases under my own name, and collaborations.
Calm Giving
2024
Wonderful Losers
Midira · 2021
Sacromonte & AFK
Archives · 2021
Iyov 10.8
El Muelle · 2020
Sacromonte — Rime
Banquise · 2019
Pepo Galán
Strange Parentheses Remixes
Remix · Archives · 2019
V/A
Slow Sketch Vol. 1
Noche de Paz · El Muelle · 2019
Jordi Sapena
Salve Monstera
Synths · Mont Ventoux · 2022
Listen on Bandcamp & Spotify · El Muelle · Banquise · Archives · Midira
Projects
01 · Sound & tape art
Ferric Vessel
Ongoing project
Music built entirely from cassette loops. Short lengths of tape spliced into circles and left to run, accumulating hiss, wow and flutter until the loop itself becomes the instrument.
02 · Sound & tape art
Broken Tapes
Ongoing project
An archive of abandoned recordings. Cassettes left behind, found and unspooled, their decayed magnetic memory turned back into sound. What survives on a forgotten tape, and what the years rewrite onto it.
03 · Music project
Sacromonte
Solo & collaborative
A parallel musical project moving through guitar, electronics and field recording. Released on vinyl and cassette across labels including Banquise and Archives.
04 · Sound installation
I Defend Rights
Spatial sound installation
Listening shelters built around a global archive of human-rights testimonies. Sound design & mixing, with Memria.org & the Norwegian Human Rights Fund.
05 · Performance
Damp Sheets
Music & sound design · live
Live score for Jenny Ocampo's Expanded Being, on choreography and architecture. Premièred 2017, Urbanraum Berlin.
06 · Musiktanztheater
The Time Left
Sound design · music · live
A music-dance-theatre piece on bodies as productive engines. Dir. Clara Calero Durán · Ackerstadt Palast, Berlin.
El Manto
I founded El Manto in Berlin in 2025: a cassette label for ambient and experimental music. Limited editions, hand-assembled, made with care for the physical object as much as the sound it holds.
I run every part of it myself, from curation to mastering, with the help of Albert Ribo in the Artwork and Ksnia Vauchskaia on crafting.
elmanto.bandcamp.com ↗
About
A multidisciplinary artist moving between the studio, the score and the stage, working with sound as a single material across many forms.
Alberto Lucendo is a Berlin-based artist who began as a music producer and recording engineer, and later developed his work as a composer and solo artist within the ambient scene.
As a composer his work has been widely recognised: in 2018 he received the Silver Crane for Best Composer from the Lithuanian Film Academy, and two films he scored were nominated at the Goya Awards. His music has appeared in international films honoured at major festivals, and he has also composed for television, radio, advertising and theatre.
With a deep background in production and sound engineering, he has contributed to a large number of records, including recent collaborations with Rauelsson and Lucrecia Dalt, notably Dalt's ¡Ay!, named among the best albums of 2023 by Pitchfork and others.
As a musician he played guitar in various bands before beginning a solo career in 2016. In 2021 his Wonderful Losers soundtrack was featured in Mojo Magazine's ten best soundtracks, alongside Mica Levi, Clint Mansell and Tim Hecker. He has released on vinyl, cassette and CD across labels including El Muelle, Banquise, Archives and Midira, and tours throughout Europe. In 2025 he founded the cassette label El Manto.