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Visiting Artist at SAIC, Chicago

This Spring 2021, I will be a visiting artist in the Sound Department at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. As part of that program, I will give a ...

Vibrant Strata at The Shed

I am excited to announce that I have been one of the artists selected for The Shed’s second Open Call, a large-scale commissioning program to be presented ...

Performance for Music Mondays at Bennington College

On Monday, Dec 7 2020 I will be performing an adapted version of Fauna as a virtual performance followed by a Q&A. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. More information ...

Featured in TAK podcast with Bethany Younge

I spoke with Bethany Younge about collaborative creative processes, homemade instruments, and chaos for the TAK Editions Podcast You can listen to our ...

Presentation of EEMF in Online meetup for women in arts and technology in NOTAM

On October 19 I will be talking about my series EEMF in the Online meetup for women in arts and technology in the Norwegian center for technology, art, and ...

Research fellowship at NYU Berlin

I will be spending Fall 2020 in Berlin to research my dissertation, IN power / OUT of control: Listening to the margins at NYU's Academic Center ...

Talk and Performance for the UB Sound Art Masters program and SONAR+D

Between Sept 14-19 I will be sharing my work with the participants of the workshop "New spaces of sound irradiation - Transmission and Resistance" organized by ...

LOST VOYAGE at FiveMyles

During August 2020 I will be participating in LOST VOYAGE  a seven-week residency and installation at FiveMyles Gallery, led by Miriam Parker and Jo ...

CT::SWaM Broadband Echos – Episode 02 features my work

I had a really nice time talking with Lee Gilboa and Daniel Neumann about some of my multichannel compositions, electromagnetic field recordings, ...

Performance @ Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: New Music Circle presents Sarah Hennies & Merche Blasco

New Music Circle Concert: Sarah Hennies / Merche Blasco Fri Feb 28, 2020, 8:00pm Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies and interdisciplinary artist and ...

Talk and concert as guest composer @ Brooklyn College’s Annual International Electroacoustic Music Festival

Tuesday, Nov 5th. : "Artifacts and Notation Systems" Merche Blasco Talk 1230-2pm in Tow PAC SoundLab Wednesday, Nov 6th: Merche Blasco ...

Fauna@Women Between the Arts

Nov 9 – 3.30 pm @ The New School I will be performing "Fauna"  and sharing the bill with Miriam Parker and Sarah Berstein More info ...

Multichannel Festival @SPECTRUM

Nov 7 – 7 pm Multichannel Festival @ SPECTRUM I will be presenting "Conversations with Anette" for 8

Multichannel works @ IMMERSION ROOM IN BOBST LIBRARY

Oct 23 - 8 pm Immersion Room // NYU 70 Washington Square South, 7th floor Multichannel works by Dafna Naphtali, Lee Gilboa and myself More info ...

CT::SWAM EXCHANGE 008 :: MERCHE BLASCO :: ANDRÉS LEÓN

Mon, Sep 23 2019 8 pm I will be presenting Conversations with Anette - for 8 channels at Fridman Gallery More info ...

EEMF04

EEMF04 is the fourth installment in a series of multichannel pieces in which I explore and perform the electromagnetic field activity (EMF) of the buildings ...

Spatial Music Performance and Workshop @ Moss Arts Center

On August 12 – 17 I will be participating in the 2019 Spatial Music Workshop at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. During that week I will work on a new ...

Either/Or performing Bardenas

The Contemporary/experimental chamber music ensemble Either/Or will present Interactions, a program of works that focus on essentialized forms of ...

IAWM/ Feminist Theory & Music conference at Berklee College of Music

This coming June I will be giving a talk about Queering Sound Technology and presenting an iteration of Fauna as part of the program of the International ...

RECONFIGURATIONS I: Conversations with Anette

This piece began when I listened for the first time to the 3D printer at a biology lab while I was there to collect electromagnetic field recordings for ...

Premiere of “RECONFIGURATIONS I: conversations with Anette” @ Abrons Arts Center

Premiere of the piece "RECONFIGURATIONS I: conversations with Anette" with Shelley Hirsch, Dafna Naphtali, Levy Lorenzo, Dennis Sullivan, and myself performing ...

Performance@The Arts Club of Chicago

As part of Thessia Machado's exhibition "Toward the Unsound" I will be performing on April 26th with  Thessia Machado, Pedro Lopes and Viola Yip. More info ...

Fauna@Issue Project Room / Nov2nd

I am very excited to present a new iteration of FAUNA in a night organized by Harvestworks. The bill will be shared with Mark Cetilia. More information ...

Musical Oddities and Monstrosities@Areté Gallery / Oct 27th

I will be talking and performing among a delightful collection of Musical Oddities and Monstrosities in collaboration with Atlas Obscura. Here are ...

INTERchange series@Brooklyn Research / Oct25th

I will be sharing some work and thoughts around performance, process, instrument building, notation... as part of the INTERchange series organized by Brooklyn ...

Unfinished 2017 (Mixed Media) screening in Anthology Film Archives, NYC

Unfinished 2017 (Mixed Media) a short film by Rafael Salazar that I composed music for, will be at the Anthology Film Archives next Wednesday, August 22  ...

Bardenas

Bardenas is a composition for variable ensemble and multichannel field recordings. The graphic score is composed of a series of twelve images that ...

EEMF03: Rinoceronte azul

EEMF03: Rinoceronte azul is the third installment in a series of multichannel pieces in which I explore and perform the electromagnetic field activity (EMF) of ...

Residency and performance in Hangar

On July 12th I will start a two-week research residency and final performance in collaboration with Claire Williams in Hangar, the art production center in ...

Collaboration with Sibyl Kempson and 7 Daughters of Eve, curated by the Whitney Museum of American Art

I have been invited to design instruments and perform in the next Summer Solstice Shout! this coming June 21st. 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten ...

Bardenas will be premiered by The Rhythm Method

On May 11th The Rhythm Method will premiere my composition for multichannel electronics and variable instrumentation called Bardenas, as well as a new ...

“EEMF03: Rinoceronte azul” presented with ICE Ensemble in OPEN ICE concert

On Thursday 12th April @ Abrons Arts Center at 7 pm, performers from ICE ensemble will be premiering the piece EEMF03: Rinoceronte Azul, a new composition for ...

“Composición a 16 pies” in XXIV Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Música Electroacústica “Punto de Encuentro”

My multichannel composition "Composicion a 16 pie" will be presented in the XXIV Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Música Electroacústica “Punto de ...

“Anchor and Hope”/ “Tierra Firme” – World Premiere – BFI London Film Festival (UK)

Last Summer I worked as a composer for the film "Anchor and Hope" (Spanish title "Tierra Firme"), directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet. The Spanish-UK production ...

The Tonebook – book release

The Tonebook is a collection of contemporary experimental graphic scores exploring the relationship of sound and image. Edited by Michael Anzuoni and Lea ...

She Resonates, a podcast series in Clocktower Radio

She Resonates is a new podcast series starting April 2017 that seeks to explore the interrelation between sound, politics, and gender. Each episode will ...

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship recipient in Digital/Electronic Arts 2017

CT:SWaM: [5] A Spatial Sound Session for the 5th Anniversary

I will be presenting EEMF, a new spatial sound piece as part of the 5th Anniversary of CT:SWaM in Knockdowncenter. The piece will be an exploration on the ...

Artist scholarship at Harvestworks 2017

I will be working on a new performance piece with composer Viola Yip during

Quince Ensemble and the Theremin Orchestra in Frequency Series in Chicago

Quince Ensemble will perform Whirlpool, a piece composed by Fjóla Evans for three sopranos and my theremin orchestra as part of the Frequency Series Festival ...

Visions of the Future II – LaMaMa // Dec. 1st

La MaMa and CultureHub Present Visions of the Future II Directed by Asher Remy-Toledo & Mark Bolotin (Co-Directors, Hyphen Hub) Guest Curated by ...

Presentation in HANGAR, Barcelona

On September 29th I will be presenting some of my work in Hangar, the art production center in Barcelona. More information about the event ...

Fauna

FAUNA is a live improvisation with a set of custom-made instruments/artifacts used to process field recordings, incorporating body movements and the live ...

click, hum, zrrr

Site-specific composition made in collaboration with Viola Yip and performed by The Rhythm Method. Click, hum, zrrr explores the intersection between the ...

Vibrant Matter

An array of technological performative systems that explore the nature of the world as vibrant matter, human and non- human, in constant interplay. Vibrant ...

HONK 210Hz

Honk 210Hz is a site­-specific participatory sound performance in the observation space of NYC’s High Line, presented in June 2015 with the support of ...

She Resonates – Podcast

She Resonates is podcast series made in collaboration with Las Marias that seeks to explore the interrelation between sound, politics, and gender. Each ...

Escala

Generative sound system developed for the video installation "The weather has been nice" by Andrea Wolf. The system uses postcards provided by the visual ...

BLINK in the festival THE PASEO, New Mexico

BLINK has been selected for the next edition of the festival THE PASEO that will take place in Taos, New Mexico on September 23-24. NOTE: The piece will ...

Sonic Bloom, Participatory sound performance on the High Line, NYC

On the 21st of July, I will be orchestrating a participatory sound performance on the High Line at night! More info about the event here. This is ...

North Mountain Residency / 23 June – 13 July

I am thrilled for a residency at North Mountain Residency coming up in June. There, I will be working on my next performance on the High Line, coming up on the ...

Repurposed Technology: A Night of Invented Instruments and Hybrid Performance, Creative Tech Week

I will be showcasing Lobatus in Repurposed Technology: A Night of Invented Instruments and Hybrid Performance, presented by Hyphen Hub and curated by Terry ...

Dada’s daughters, 28th January

I will be presenting some experiments with text and gestural conducting to honor women in Dada in Terry Dame's Weird Wednesdays @ Barbés. More info here ...

Audible Crossed Geographies

Audible Crossed Geographies is an ongoing series of soundpieces sonically merging my steps as they navigate two locations that couldn’t otherwise ...

New Ear Festival – CT::SWaM, 11th January

I will be presenting two spatial sound compositions : Composicion a 16 pies and Audible Crossed Geographies: N 40° 43.37' W 73° 57.01' - N 42° 46.33' W 0° ...

BLINK, Make Music Winter 2015

BLINK will be part of Make Music Winter 2015 as musical trilogy with composers Nissim Schaul’s “Wheels” from MMW 2014, and this year’s premiere ...

Sonic Festival, October 2015

"Whirpool", a piece composed by Fjóla Evans for three voices and My Theremin Orchestra will be performed at Sonic Festival as part of Machine Music: Acoustic ...

Festival Propanda, Colombia October 2015

I will be performing with my gestural controllers and doing a sound participatory performance at the Festival Propaganda in Barranquilla, Colombia 12-16 ...

Sonic Bloom

Participatory sound performance that invites participants to explore a section of the High Line gardens at night by flashlight. A grid of hidden sensors ...

NYCEMF, June 2015

I have been invited to present an Electroacoustic Improvisation with Lobatus and Espongina during  the NYCEMF Festival on Saturday 28th ...

NIME 2015, MAY 2015

I will be presenting Lobatus and Espongina in the next NIME 2015 conference in Lousiana State University More info about the conference ...

BLINK in Santiago de Chile, December

Sponsored between Tsonami Festival  and Anilla Cultural, BLINK will be held in Santiago de Chile next December 2014 More info coming ...

CRUCES SONOROS 2014 / RESIDENCY

Organized by Anilla cultural and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Chile, I will be part of the residency program next November - December 2014 MORE ...

New Music for New Instruments, 16 NOV

"New Music for New Instruments" is a program of new works created through the collaboration of instrument builders, Andy Cavatorta, Merche Blasco, and Nick ...

ABOUT

DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL – 26-28 Sept

Presenting new sound work designed for the piece SEI: Stella Octangula by Chika, in collaboration with sound artist Phan Visutyothapibal More ...

LOBATUS

The gestural interface for Lobatus is constructed from ceramic pieces and wood. This project combines haptic feedback gestures with non-haptic ones. The ...

Espongina

Espongina is a gestural controller using water and wood to produce sound through interaction with audio software. The initial drive to create this instrument ...

BLINK

Participatory performance that gathers the city’s seasoned and casual cyclists to perform a piece for bicycle bells. Riders travel through a selected ...

Ciudad Jardin

Participants in Ciudad Jardín are invited to explore a community garden at night by flashlight, as a grid of hidden light sensors monitor the ...

The Theremin Orchestra

The Theremin Orchestra is a modular system combining theremin sensors with live vocal performance. Two theremins apply effects to the three singers’ voices, ...

re(p)l(a)y

Site-specific sculptural platform for the exchange of musical events. Functioning both as dynamic score and instrument, the active structure will be integral ...

Oruga

Gestural controller made from elastic fabric and soft circuits. Data is generated by the movement of the performer’s upper body and how she twists and ...

StoryWalks

Sound piece composed for “Storywalks at Eldridge Street”, a site-specific smartphone application that infuses the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue with ...

dePesca

Sound Art Residency and exhibition work developed during Tsonami Festival, Valparaíso (Chile), Dec 2013 WEBSITE OF THE ...

ACOUSTIC FORMULAE

Co-curated by REVERSE gallery, Thessia Machado and Merche Blasco,  “Acoustic formulae” brought together a group of sound artists who work with formulas ...

Rºad’io”

Interactive installation that allows the user to explore the American cultural landscape by tuning into the various radio stations playing around the country. ...

burbuja

Burbuja is the alter ego as an Electronic Musician of Merche Blasco created in 2003. Since its conception she participated & collaborated with various ...

Sketching the voice

Sound reactive installation and performance tool to generate visuals. As a performer, I am interested in different ways to create and control audio, visuals ...

Interactive Costumes

Interactive lights embedded in the costumes created by Miren Maranon as the visual support of a performance. The lights create a dialog between the two ...

Die Unterhaltung

Participatory installation that explores the theory of blinks and synchronicity. While editing the film The Conversation, film editor Water Murch noticed that ...

SHiKAKU 04

Sound Design for the piece Shikaku 04, by the visual artist Chika. SHiKAKU 04 examines the relationship between sound, public interaction and visuals mapped ...

Capturing Dance – Exploring movement with computer vision

A series of choreographic studies using the Kinect to explore movement in three-dimensions, movement over time and movement through distortion, as well as new ...

Burbujas de coordenadas

Interactive installation where visuals and sound are triggered by the movement of a curtain that waves with the power of a fan. The movement is captured with a ...

Composición a 16 pies

8 Channel Sound Piece produced for ZEPPELIN 2009 // sons del poder - escoltes de la por With an exponential increase in mobility and dissolving of ...

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