IVÁN FERRER - OROZCO

IVÁN FERRER-OROZCO (Mexico City, 1976) is a composer, electronic media performer and computer music designer. 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 by the International Computer Music Association with the 2021 ICMA Best Music Award. He has been artist in residence in several international instituttions as: Akademie der Künste Berlin, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Residencia de Estudiantes, Camargo Foundation, MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Djerassi, Arts Centre of San Luis Potosi, CMMAS, I-Park, Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, Park in Progress-ARTos Foundation, Ibermusicas, I-Portonus, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, Goethe-Institut, among others. His music has been extensively performed in festivals and concert series of Mexico, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, Vietnam, Ecuador, Japan, USA, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Hong-Kong, and Cyprus.

 

A very active performer especialized in electronic media he performs as soloist and collaborates as sideman with other artists and ensembles from Spain and abroad. In 2019 he was named Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, national program of the Mexican government awarded to outstanding artists of all disciplines. He was a member of Neopercusion ensemble for eight years, and is currently a member of the electronic media band The Experimental Tooth, Synergein Project and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble. He is also a member of the Forms of Culture Research Group at the Study Programme in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies of the National Museum and Arts Centre Reina Sofia.