Iván Ferrer - Orozco

Musician, Composer, and Computer music designer

Iván Ferrer - Orozco

Musician, Composer, and Computer music designer

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I am a composer, electronic media performer and computer music designer.

My creative work is characterised by an 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, I incorporate in my work elements from other 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 I create heterotopias, sonic constructions that meticulously integrate multiple layers of acoustic spaces, giving rise to carefully designed acoustic environments that unfold new sonic realities.

In 2021 I was awarded by the International Association of Computer Music with the 2021 ICMA Best Music Award. I have 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; Hooyong Performing Arts Centre, Park in Progress-ARTos Foundation, Ibermusicas, I-Portonus, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, among others. My music has been extensively performed in festivals and concert series of Mexico, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, Vietnam, Ireland, Japan, Hong-Kong, USA, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Cyprus.

A very active performer specialized in electronic media I perform as soloist and collaborates as sideman with other artists and ensembles from Spain and abroad. In 2019 I was named Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, national program of the Mexican government awarded to outstanding artists of all disciplines. I was a member of Neopercusion ensemble for eight years, and I'm currently a member of the electronic media band The Experimental Tooth, Synergein Project and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble.