Joel Olivé is a multi-instrumentalist musician, music therapist and luthier. Promoter and collaborator of music therapy workshops for the expansion of consciousness at a national and international level, he works combining research and studies of music and yoga of sound, with voice, overtone singing and archaic instruments, among them: the symphonic gong, the didgeridoo, the monochord, the bina and tabla, and it’s specialized in their application in therapy. It’s the creator of most of the instruments that he uses in music therapy sessions, sound journeys and concerts, He likes to design the sound he feels.

He published numerous writings and articles on the instruments, apart from an extensive collection of musical works. Founding member of the Sound & Trance Institute (Germany-Spain), and offers courses together with Dr. Peter Hess and his wife Heike Hess, with whom, since 2002, they run the international Sound and Trance States Training STF – Sound TransFormation. Professor of music therapy at the University of Girona, and a collaborator of ICEERS (Barcelona), SÄPT (Switzerland) and the Integrative Transpersonal Institute (Barcelona).

He studied didgeridoo with the Australian Aborigines, African percussion with Senegalese and tabla and singing of Indian classical music and Dhrupad, and currently studying guitar and pan drum.

Among his studies, it is worth mentioning his training in Music and Unconsciousness (Sociedad d’Etnopsicologia Aplicada), and the ECCS (European College of Counciousness Studies). He studied Fine Arts (Universitat de Barcelona), and has a postgraduate degree in music therapy from the Blanquerna University.