Highlight Pack - Adrian Quesada
(Austin, TX) Grammy Award-winning producer and guitarist. He is currently best known as a member and producer of Black Pumas, a psychedelic soul band with singer Eric Burton.
Featured Track - Gabriela Ortiz
Gabriela Ortiz with Alejando Escuer (Mexico City, Mexico) - One of Mexico’s foremost and greatest living composers, with music commissioned and performed around the world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and many more. Latin Grammy nominated and recipient of the National Prize for Arts & Literature, the most prestigious award for writers and artists given by the government of Mexico. Alejandro is a driving force behind the consolidation of new music in Mexico, directing and producing over 150 concerts and 50 premieres around the world.
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Adrian Quesada
(Austin, TX) Grammy Award-winning producer and guitarist. He is currently best known as a member and producer of Black Pumas, a psychedelic soul band with singer Eric Burton.
Henna Chou
(Austin, TX) Henna Chou has traveled the world over 2 decades as a GIS Analyst and musician. She is a member of COTFG, a non-profit dedicated to creative music and future-minded expressions.
Camilo Lara
(Mexico City, MX) Mexican Institute of Sound, the brainchild of Camilo Lara, creates irresistible beats for the global dance floor. His work has landed him 1 Grammy and 4 Latin Grammy nominations, and he has produced artists ranging from Los Angeles Azules to Norah Jones.
Jose Martinez
(Waterville, ME) José’s music incorporates a wide range of influences from Colombian folk tunes to contemporary composition techniques, while borrowing from Latin music, improvisation, and audio sampling techniques. St. Luke’s, among others.
George West
(Houston, TX) George West is the musical nom de plume of one Vik Montemayor, a Texas-based drummer, and producer. Between syncing deals with the Italian fashion boutique, Peuterey, to the earthy, substance-driven brand, Patagonia, George West is a maker for all.
Jean Angelus Pichardo
(Mexico City, MX) Composer/producer whose music has been performed in over 15 countries at festivals such as Festival Diffrazioni, Festival Montreal Nouvelles Musiques Festival, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, and more.
Carl Thiel
(Austin, TX) Carl Thiel is an award-winning Film and TV composer who splits time between Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. He has worked on films such as Sin City 2, Machete Kills, Kill Bill Part 2, Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, and the Spy Kids franchise.
Mabe Fratti
(Mexico City, MX) Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based cellist, singer, producer, and songwriter Mabe Fratti creates music using electronics, voice, and cello, and the sounds of nature
Gibrana Cervantes Chavela
(Mexico City, MX) Gibrana Cervantes Chavela is a violin performer and has been studying since she was 9 years old. She has played numerous operas, ballets, and orchestral compositions. In 2012, she won an audition to be in the first violin section of the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra.
Murcof
(Tijuana, Mexico) Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona (b. 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico). Influenced mainly, though not exclusively, by classical and electronic minimalism, Murcof works with orchestral samples, microscopically detailed textures, sounds and rhythms.
Libertad Figueroa
(Mexico) Figueroa focuses on improvisation with synthesizers and live coding with SuperCollider and Sonic Pi. She is part of Híbridas y Quimeras, a collective that seeks the dissemination of experimental music made by women, trans and non-binary artists.
Graham Reynolds
(Austin, TX) Composer/bandleader known for working across a multitude of disciplines, including collaborations on many film scores with Richard Linklater. Creative Capital Award winner for his bilingual cross-border opera Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance.
Pablo Borchi
(Mexico City, MX) Whistles, tropical beats, latin percussion, carnival rhythms and brass samples galore - Borchi’s mission is to bring the atmosphere of the street carnivals of America, specifically of Northern Brazil and the New Orleans Mardi Gras, to the urban dancefloor.
Juan Felipe Waller
(Mexico City, MX) Mexican-dutch composer Juan Felipe Waller studied at the CIEM in Mexico City, and further on at the Rotterdams Conservatorium with Klaas de Vries, and at IRCAM in Paris. His music often involves a ‘lens of deformation’ as an integrative ingredient, manifesting the maleabitlity of sound by intervining instruments, harmonies and pre-established sonorities.
Concepcion Huerta
(Mexico City, MX) Keen documentarian of the experimental scene in Mexico for more than five years, Concepción creates aural textures of narrative background with ambient and noise as pillars.
Alina Hernandez Maldonado
(Tabasco, Mexico) Violinist, experimental artist, improviser, composer. Received the 2019 'Best Original Music' Award at National Dance Awards (UK).
Jessy Eubanks
(Austin, TX) Jessy Eubanks is a composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and audio engineer living in Austin, Texas. Her works as a composer include XOR, an electroacoustic opera, various songwriting projects, and a sound installation “Accumulation”.
Valentina Moretti
(Mexico City, MX) Valentina Moretti is a young DJane and Producer from Mexico City. She is an Ambassador of Native Instruments, Arturia, Novation and Ableton. Despite her short time on the scene Valentina has a nomination for “Best House Artist” at the Latin American Awards for Electronic Music made by Vicious Magazine (Spain).
Alfredo Rios
(Austin, TX) Juan Alfredo Rios, aka “Chido Machine”, is an experienced Drummer, Musical Director, and DJ who has played either live or in studio for artists like: Mobley, Love Hate Affair, Aquajones, etc.
Amanda Ekery
(New York, NY) Vocalist and composer Amanda Ekery’s compositions have earned support from New Music USA, Chamber Music America, and the Jerome Foundation, and have been featured at the Portland Jazz Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and The Kennedy Center
Kenzie Slottow
(Austin, TX) Kenzie Slottow is a flautist, composer, improv conductor, and theatremaker. Her chamber group Sound Worlds has produced live-scored virtual theatre with since June 2020.
Orión García
(Austin, TX) Founder of the legendary Austin, Texas DJ collective, Peligrosa and their affiliate record label Discos Peligrosa.
Tednoir Martinez
(Austin, TX) Mexican American singer, songwriter, producer, and frontman of Easy Compadre. Tednoir has developed an eclectic musical style that draws inspiration on genres spanning from world beat, surf, psych rock, new wave, electronic pop, cumbia, and Mexican folk.
Vanessa Burden
(Austin, TX) Vanessa Burden is a DJ and musician from Austin, TX. When not DJing, she is singing with Latinx Psych Band, Los Alcos or can be found on any dance floor with a good beat.
Toy Selectah
(Monterrey, MX) - Antonio Hernández, better known as Toy Selectah, is a DJ, producer and Mexican musician. He began his career as a member of the group Control Machete and has collaborated with artists such as MIA, Cypress Hill, Thievery Corporation, Café Tacvba, Manu Chao and Celso Piña, among many others.
Dario Valderrama
(Mexico City, Mexico) - Los Angeles based composer and producer, known for his work on acclaimed Spanish television series El Ministerio del Tiempo, Niño Santo, and many others. 2010 Ariel Award for 'Best Film Score' from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts & Sciences.
Laura Brackney
(Austin, TX) Laura Brackney is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at Arizona State University. She recently served as the Co-Creative Director of the nonprofit, COTFG in Austin, Texas, and completed her Master of Music in Composition at Texas State University.
Saint Spicer
(Austin, TX) Saint Spicer, A.K.A. the Space Cowgirl, is a next-generation hip-hop fusion artist. She combines funk and soul with silky vocals and fiercely honest lyrics to convey the realities of life—however brutal they may be.
Cesar Juarez Joyner
(Mexico) Producer, sound artist, and interpreter of traditional music, Joyner has a degree in composition from the National School of Music. His professional activity occurs in various fields ranging from contemporary music to pieces of sound art as well as traditional music and sound design for theater, cinema and new media.
Sabina Covarrubias
(Mexico City, MX) Composer, multimedia artist, and researcher in the field of computer music. Professor at the INSPE of the Sorbonne University in Paris and part of the IREMUS laboratory.
Paulina Sotomayor
(Mexico City, MX) Paulina Sotomayor is one half of the electronic music project Sotomayor with Raul Sotomayor, who began making music together in 2014. Prior to working together, Paulina had worked with the psychedelic folk project Jefes del Desierto.
Jane Claire Hervey
(Austin, TX) Creative director, entrepreneur, recording artist. Founder of Future Front Texas (formerly Boss Babes TX), a 501c3 amplifying women and nonbinary creatives and leaders.
Nurrydog
(Austin, TX) Producer/DJ from Monterrey, Mexico, "Nurrydog", member of the crew of Peligrosa as well as a veteran of his parties in Austin, TX. Main part of Perreo and Global Bass scene in Monterrey and founder of Estudio 1070.
Natalia Rocafuerte
(Austin, TX) Natalia Rocafuerte is a xicanx experimental video artist exploring dreams as narratives of self through installations, films, albums and print. Her current project is creating animations and videos of dreams from Mexican Americans/ Xicanx/ Mexican immigrants.
Peter Stopschinski
(Austin, TX) Peter has composed music for everything from symphony orchestra to string quartet to solo cello, has created string arrangements for country artists, latin funk, and singer songwriters.
Marla Lueur
(Houston, TX) - Marla Lueur is a musician and visual artist located in the Houston area. She has done design work and music compositions for various local startups and independent music and art collaboratives in South and East Texas, and is part of the synth-pop duo Noise Traveler.
Naerlot
(Mexico City, MX) Itzel Noyz aka Naerlot is a mexican singer & producer influenced by trip hop, ambient, downtempo & electronic music. She started in 2016 and released her first album, Naerlot, in 2018. Her work is characterized by ethereal voices and trip hop beats as a fusion.
Felipe Perez Santiago
(Mexico City, Mexico) Composer, conductor and sound artist, founder and director of Mal’Akh and Vortice Ensembles. His music has been commissioned and performed in legendary concert halls in over 40 countries, and he provided the score for the film Rudo y Cursi by director Carlos Cuarón.
Microhm
(Mexico City, MX) Electronic music artist and producer with projects characterized by a strong experimental and improvisational influence. Sound designer for visual and digital media, exploring the fusion of art and technology.
Adrian Armstrong
(Austin, TX) Adrian Armstrong is a multidisciplinary artist from Omaha, NE now living in Austin, TX. Armstrong received his BFA from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2014. His work expands throughout different mediums such as music, painting, and printmaking, but his primary medium of choice is ballpoint pen.