About Jonathan Watts
A continuing creative practice.
Exploring art, creativity and technology.
Montréal-born. Lisbon-based.
Jonathan Watts is a Lisbon-based music producer working across music production, mixing and immersive audio.
Music, cinema, literature and painting were part of Jonathan’s surroundings from childhood. Listening became a lasting source of curiosity and pleasure, alongside bass playing and a growing interest in electronics. An eclectic musical outlook continues to shape how he listens, thinks and creates, moving freely between acoustic and electronic worlds, song, improvisation and experimentation.
That curiosity also extends to cinema and the visual arts, to the interplay of sound and image, to storytelling, and the different ways a work can move us.
His engineering background still informs his creative process (curiosity, experimentation and systems thinking) while keeping, nonetheless, technology where it belongs: in service of the music and artistic intent.
Making room for the practice.
After more than two decades across technology, innovation and R&D, Jonathan began deliberately bringing a lifelong involvement with music and the arts to the centre of his professional life.
Grounded in electrical engineering and computer science, that experience also creates room for selected work where sound, systems and emerging technologies meet.
Research also informs the practice, connecting questions of space, listening and musical authorship with the world of record making.
A wider context.
The practice extends through an evolving creative ecosystem and a team of collaborators. Shared ideas connect artistic exploration, research, technology and the development of future creative spaces.