IVÁN FERRER-OROZCO

Iván Ferrer-Orozco (Mexico City, 1976) is a composer, sound artist and arts

entrepreneur. His strong interest on new media and new technologies has led his

works and projects to evolve from a more narrative approach, to be conceived as

experiences in which elements as sound, territory, new media and space are shaped

to unveil concepts (not as ideas but as facts personally experienced) related with

memory, sensual reaction and intuition, to challenge our perception. His musical

pieces and installations are conceived as acoustic and physical spaces created to test

our senses, mind and subjectivity while they pretend to be meaningful experiences

for the public. Sound and space are carefully shaped within thoroughly planned

structures, to stir public’s intuition so it becomes a way in which the world is

consciously experienced beyond the language.

His music and sound art works have been presented at several concert series,

festivals and exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Korea,

Germany, Italy, Cyprus and USA. He has been guest composer at the Conservatory of

Music of Montreal and resident composer of the Contemporary Ensemble of

Montreal. Since 2003 he has been artist in residence at MacDowell Colony, VCCA,

I-Park and Djerassi in USA; Camargo Foundation in France, Hooyong Performing Arts

Center in South Korea, Arts Center of San Luis Potosi in Mexico; Residencia de

Estudiantes in Spain, Schleswig-Holstein Artists Residency in Germany, and Conseil

des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec in Canada. Iván is director and producer of

InterAcciona, platform for art creation and new media; musician, producer and coder

at NEOPERCUSION ensemble; arts consultant at Acelerador de Artistas Consulting,

and lecturer on digital arts and experience design at IED Madrid, Spain.