Il faut que la beauté soit sensible, qu’elle nous procure une jouissance immédiate, qu’elle s’impose ou s’insinue en nous sans que nous ayons aucun efforts à faire pour la saisir.
– Claude Debussy
Born in Pamplona, a beautiful small and green city in the north of Spain. Paula started learning music at the age of 8, and has been since then attracted to the art of creation.
Later at 19 she moved to Amsterdam, her first European life experience that has brought her to different countries such as France, Germany and Switzerland. She studied in the prestigious Berklee College of Music, from which she graduated Cum Laude from the Master in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games.
Paula Olaz creates soundtracks for cinema, television, theatre, dance and video games. Passionate about astronomy and interested in the universe’s world of sound research, in 2017 she recorded and conducted her work “Child of the Universe” based on real images of the Hubble Telescope for the European Space Agency (ESA) at Air Studios in London. Since then she has been researching on “data sonification”, together with European physicists and astronomers and in collaboration with CERN and HEAD (Geneva, Switzerland).
In addition, she teaches scoring for film and music technology courses and collaborates in the radio programs as an expert in science of music and soundtracks.
