Selection of exhibitions and performances:
2024
EINESS – Solo performance and duo with Lorena Izquierdo – Barcelona
NEXT Festival – Plankturutaña with Ute Wassermann and Marina Cyrino – Bratislava
Silent Green – Oddkins with Felicity Mangan – Berlin
ARS Electronica – Fauna at Tangible Music Lab – Linz
MaerzMusik – Através World premiere – Berlin
DAAD Gallery – Vibrant Matter in Contrete Dreams Of Sound, curated by Dahlia Borsche & Gascia Ouzounian -Berlin
Museo de Navarra – New solo performance for 9 soles curated by Mikel Belascoain – Pamplona
Echoraum – Fauna – Vienna
Gibanja – Biliana Voutchkova, Merche Blasco & Anette – Zagreb
ESCUCHA!Valencia / Exposición Internacional de artes efímeras y experimentación sonora – Fauna – Valencia
2023
CTM Festival – Performance of Fauna
MaerzMusik (With Nandita Kumar, Christian Kesten, Felicity Mangan, Alex Nowitz, and Ute Wasserman)
Labor Sonor (With Biliana Voutchkova ) – Berlin
STUK – In Vitro series – Leuven (Belgium)
Rarefacció 3 – HANGAR (Barcelona)
2022
Qubit Innovator Lab presents Merche Blasco (With Gryphon Rue and Lucie Vítková) – NYC
Panorama 20 festival, Navarra (Spain) – Premiére of Téntere, Nublo commissioned by Fundación Maria Forcada
DAAD GALLERY – Beneath the Visible Waves, curation of the event and performance with Lucie Vítková and Anette
2021
The Shed – Premiere of Vibrant Strata as part of the Open Call Commission Program
Prospect Park – Premiere of Mo(u)rning, a site-specific piece on World Migratory Bird Day performed by euphonium players Christopher McIntyre and Weston Olenki
2020
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis –New Music Circle Concert: Sarah Hennies / Merche Blasco
UB Sound Art Masters program and SONAR+D – Telematic performance interacting with a massive sound sculpture installed at the University of Barcelona.
FiveMyles Gallery – Participation and performance in the Lost Voyage, a residency and installation led by Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown
Bennington College – Online performance of Fauna for Music Mondays at Bennington College
2019
Guest composer at Brooklyn College’s Annual International Electroacoustic Music Festival – Talk and performance of Fauna, Bardenas, and EEMF02
Multichannel works at Immersion Room in Bobst Library – Premiere of Viento y Sierra
CT::SWAM EXCHANGE 008 at Fridman Gallery – Performance of Conversations with Anette
Spatial Music Performance and Workshop at Moss Arts Center in Virginia Tech – Premiere of EEMF05:The Cube
IAWM/ Feminist Theory & Music conference at Berklee College of Music – Performance of Fauna
OPEN ICE concert – Premiere of RECONFIGURATIONS I : Conversations with Anette with Shelley Hirsch, Dafna Naphtali, Levy Lorenzo, and Denis Sullivan
The Arts Club of Chicago – The Unsounders performance with Thessia Machado, Viola Yip, Pedro Lopes, and Jenna Lyle
2018
Whitney Museum of American Art – Performance of Sibyl Kempson: 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Summer Solstice curated by
Issue project Room – Performance curated by Harvestworks
Hangar – Residency and performance in collaboration with Claire Williams
OPEN ICE concert – Premiere of EEMF03: Rinoceronte azul, performed by ICE Ensemble
360º – Premiere of Bardenas by The Rhythm Method
2017
CT:SWaM: [5] A Spatial Sound Session for the 5th Anniversary -Performance of EEMF01, a new spatial sound piece exploring the electromagnetic and radio activity of Knockdown center
She Resonates, a podcast series in Clocktower Radio – Co-production of the podcast in collaboration with Las Marias as part of a residency in Clocktower Radio
Music composition for the film “Anchor and Hope”/ “Tierra Firme”- World Premiere at BFI London Film Festival (UK)
XXIV Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Música Electroacústica “Punto de Encuentro” – Presentation of the multichannel piece “Composición a 16 pies”
2016
Visions of the Future II at La MaMa – Performance directed by Hyphen-Hub and guest curated by Alain Thibault (Artistic Director, ELEKTRA Montreal)
Sonic Bloom -Participatory Sound Performance on the High Line
Repurposed Technology: A Night of Invented Instruments and Hybrid Performance, Creative Tech Week – Performance curated by Hyphen-Hub and Terry Dame
The New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, NYC – Spatial sound works
2015
Make Music Winter New York – RPM / BLINK / Wheels with P. Spadine and Nissim Schaul
SONIC Festival 2015, NYC – Fjóla Evans composition for Quince Ensemble with The Theremin Orchestra
Festival Propaganda 2015, Barranquilla, Colombia – Performance and Participatory Sound Installation
NIME conference 2015, Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Performance and presentation of Lobatus and Espongina, gesturally controlled electronic instruments
NYCEMF Festival, NYC – Performance with gestural controllers
Honk 210 Hz – Participatory Performance on the High Line
2014
Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago de Chile – Performance and residency with gestural controllers
REVERSE Gallery, NYC – Co-curation and Performance of the exhibition in ACOUSTIC FORMULAE
BLINK, Dublin – Participatory Sound Performance with “Giro d’Italia”
BLINK, Houston – Participatory Sound Performance
BLINK, Santiago de Chile – Participatory Sound Performance
Nightlight Festival, NYC – Participatory Sound Performance
2013
BLINK, Make Music Winter, NYC – Participatory Sound Performance
Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile – Sound residency and exhibition
Dumbo Arts Festival, NYC – Installation
EYEBEAM and VIDEO DUMBO, NYC – Performance with Thessia Machado and CHIKA
Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Atlanta – Presentation and performance
Ventana 244 gallery, NYC – Installation
KnockDown Center, NYC – Performance festival curated by Kelly Watson
Harvestworks, NYC – Sound design for Shikaku 04 by visual artist Chika
ART JAM IV, NYC – Performance with Thessia Machado curated by Kelly Schroer
2012
Geekdown Festival 2012: 92YTribeca, NYC – Performance
NIME conference 2012, Michigan – Performance
Rare Gallery, NYC – Performance
!Spring!Winter – 319 Scholes gallery, NYC – Performance
3rd Ward, NYC – Interactive installation
2011
Queens Museum of Art, NYC – Sound Art Residency and performance
Ebay San Francisco – Interactive installation
Ventana244 gallery, NYC – Interactive installation and performance
2010
Contemporary Art Center, Dundee, Scotland – Performance and installations for “Don’t Art, Fashion, Music ”, with Chicks on Speed
2009
Paris Fashion Week, France – Performance with Chicks On Speed and Pelican Avenue
MAPPING FESTIVAL, Geneve – Performance
2008
SONIC CIRCUITS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, National Museum of Women in
the Arts, Washington – Performance
BOZAR, Brussels – Art installation – Collaboration with Chicks on speed
Műcsarnok Festival, Budapest – Performance
SPERM Electronic Music Festival, Prague – Performance
2007
LES YEUX OUVERTS
Video pieces presented at:
FABRICA, Milano Triennale, Milan
Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris
Shangay Art Museum, Shanghai
Shiodomai Italia Creative Center , Tokyo
SINESTESIA festival, La Casa Encendida, Madrid – Performance
SONAR Music festival, Barcelona – Performance
2006
BLUME06 Festival, Tostner-burg (Austria) – Performance
2005
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA2005 – Sound design for Lucy Orta’s sculptures
TEACH_ME festival, Venice – Performance
MIRADORES 05, Art festival, Madrid – Video piece
TERRITORIO ELECTRICO, La Casa Encendida, Madrid – Performance
GRANTS AND FELOWSHIPS
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship recipient in Digital/Electronic Arts 2017
Fulbright grant : Studies in ITP, NYU
Sound Art Residency in Tsonami Festival 2013, Valparaíso – Chile
Guthman Margaret Musical Instrument Competition 2013: “People’s choice to Most Unusual
Instrument” and Third prize of the Jury, Atlanta
Sound Art Residency in Queens Museum , NY
Spanish grant embassy : Support to Burbuja performance (Budapest, Prague and Washington)
Institut Ramon Llull grant: Support to Burbuja performance (Washington)
TELENOIKA grant : Interactive instrument development
