Merche Blasco is a composer, performer and sound artist whose work explores how sound, technology, and collective listening can reshape relationships between humans, infrastructures, and beyond-human entities.

Working across improvisation, experimental instrument design, site-responsive composition, and participatory sound practices, Merche creates sonic arrangements in which listening becomes a shared act of attunement, imagination, and encounter. Her performances often emerge from close engagement with specific territories and their hidden material, energetic, historical, communal, and ecological properties. As a performer and composer Merche explores embodied approaches to electronic composition that move away from ideals of precision and control, instead embracing uncertainty, reciprocity, and the agency of both human and non-human performers.

Merche’s work has been presented internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MaerzMusik, ReWire Festival, ZKM, Ars Electronica, CTM Festival, Sónar, La Biennale di Venezia, The Shed, NY, Queens Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Wire, and El País Semanal.

Merche holds a PhD in Music Composition from New York University, where her dissertation, IN power / OUT of Control – Listening to the Margins investigated the ideologies embedded in technological instrument design, and how experimental instrument builders expose and defy them. She has received the DAAD Music & Sound Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the NYFA Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Arts.

Contact: blasco.mer [at] gmail [dot] com

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