My son has been creating instrumental music on the computer for a year now. It's a quantum leap compared to when I started. At 12, he's doing things I was doing when I was almost 30. The evolution is incredible. He's already listened to a lot of groundbreaking music. He pays close attention to detail, works quickly and intuitively, and focuses on choosing the right sounds to make the song sound interesting. He doesn't consider mixing as a separate element; he does it all at once. He sees it as a whole.

Toti Soler (Vilassar de Dalt, 1949) often falls asleep listening to his own music: the slow and subtle pieces that he and his daughter call transparenciesFifty years after the celebrated concert with Ovidi Montllor at the Olympia, Soler leads a quiet and peaceful life. Born into a family of musicians—his great-grandfather was an opera singer, his mother a pianist—he found two undeniable virtues in the guitar his aunt gave him: the direct contact of his finger against the string, and the ability to carry it on his back and take it with him wherever he went. The rest is history: more than 400 songs and 37 albums, and having been the irreplaceable accompanist for generations of artists.