IVÁN FERRER - OROZCO

IVÁN FERRER-OROZCO (Mexico City, 1976) is a composer, electronic media performer, computer music designer and sound mediator. His creative work is characterised by a profound exploration of electronic media in music creation, drawing inspiration from a wide range of electronic tools and performance practices, such as turntablism, plunderphonics, clubbing, hip-hop, noise, and free improvisation. In addition, he incorporates elements from diverse genres including free jazz, death metal, punk, early alternative and progressive rock, and funk, to integrate the physicality of sound and the expressive nature and sheer forcefulness of those performative musical practices. By blending analogue and digital studio and production techniques within the digital domain he creates heterotopias, sonic constructions that meticulously integrate multiple layers, giving rise to carefully designed environments that unfold multidimensional sonic realities.

 

In 2021 Iván was awarded the Best Music Award by the International Association of Computer Music. Ivan has been artist in residence in several international instituttions as: Akademie der Künste Berlin, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Culture Moves Europe, Residencia de Estudiantes, Camargo Foundation, MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Djerassi, Arts Centre of San Luis Potosi, CMMAS; Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, Park in Progress-ARTos Foundation, Ibermusicas, I-Portonus, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, among others. As a performer and creator, he has worked extensively in many countries including Mexico, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, Ireland, Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, USA, South Africa, Portugal, Germany, Italy, France, Ecuador and Cyprus. 

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In both 2019 and 2024, he was honoured with the distinction of Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, a prestigious national programme of the Mexican government that acknowledges outstanding artists across all disciplines. He was a member of the Spanish ensemble Neopercusion and is currently a member of Synergein Project and of Vertixe Sonora ensembles, as well as of the free impro electronic band FONDO. Between 2023 and 2024, he was a researcher on the Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies programme at the Reina Sofia National Museum and Arts Centre.