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Pristina, Foundation17: Workshop + performance

During May 20-24th I will be giving a workshop TRANSDUCTIVE GESTURES and sharing a performance in https://foundation17.org/, in Prishtina, ...

Oddkins at +Rain Festival – June 11th @ Barcelona

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Fauna in Això al poble no li agradarà festival – May 2025

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Rewire 2025

I will present Fauna at this year Rewire

WHAT HUMS BEYOND @Urban Anthropology · Humboldt University of Berlin

WHAT HUMS BEYOND by Merche Blasco. 3rd February 2025. ...

La escucha, la ofrenda @Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona

https://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/es/detall/De-la-planta-la-festa De la planta, la fiesta Després del vendaval - Taller / laboratorio / ...

EINESS, Barcelona

Merche Blasco + Lorena Izquierdo: Duo setDaphne Xanthopoulou: Solo setMerche Blasco: Solo ...

NEXT Festival , Bratislava

https://nextfestival.sk/2024/artist/merche-blasco-marina-cyrino-ute-wassermann/ Trio with Marina Cyrino and Ute Wassermann presenting ...

Oddkins (Felicity Mangan & Merche Blasco) @Silent Green, November 19th

Oddkins introduces a debut collaboration between Felicity Mangan alongside Luisa Pereira‘s customised Machine Learning powered tool. Through an ...

Merche Blasco @ Dantz: Natura Elektronikoa

On September 27th I will be performing in Dantz: Natura Elektronikoa, Donostia

Fauna at Tangible Music Lab @ ArsElectronica

I will be presenting Fauna this year in the Tangible Music Club in Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria More info: ...

New piece for 9 soles at Museo de Navarra

On August 7th I will be presenting a new site-specif performance for the terrace in Museo de Navarra, as part of 9 soles curated by Mikel Belascoain More ...

Honk 210Hz score published in Graphéme Volume 3

Graphème is a project founded in 2020 by smallest functional unit ( Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann and Racha Gharbieh) with the aim of ...

Fauna in Echoraum, Vienna

11.6.XX Y X + IMAfiction  IMAfiction portrait #06: Maryanne AmacherScreeningMerche Blasco faunaLive ...

Blasco/Voutchkova with Anette in Gibanja, Zagreb

Merche Blasco - AnetteBiliana Voutchkova - violina, glas Biliana Voutchkova i Merche Blasco predstavljaju svoj jedinstveni spoj instrumenata, u kojem ...

Fauna en Paisaje Sonoro, Pamplona

Vibrant Matter in Concrete Dreams Of Sound

Part of the Concrete Dreams of Sound programme, this symposium brings together an international group of artists, architects, and theorists whose work invites ...

Sounding Ways Of Being 2 with Ute Wassermann and Marina Cyrino

06.04.24  sounding ways of being 2Morphine Raum Beriin, Köpenicker Str. 147, courtyard, 1. floordoors open 20:00 / concert 20:30urutau - planktonia ...

Blasco / V​í​tková / Anette released in XI Records

https://xirecords.bandcamp.com/album/blasco-v-tkov-anette On this album Lucie Vítková and Merche Blasco explore cyborgness through their relationships ...

FAUNA release on Friday 10.13 in Habitat Sounds

A live recording for Fauna is available now in Habitat

ATRAVÉS – world premiere MaerzMusik 2024

I am thrilled to be premiering Através, a three-act performance charting the frontiers of interconnectedness among human and non-human beings and how these ...

ESCUCHA!Valencia / Performance en el CCCC – January 2024

I will be part of the program of ESCUCHA!Valencia / Exposición Internacional de artes efímeras y experimentación sonora. 2024 at the CCCC in valencia with ...

Fauna performance for In vitro & STUK – Belgium OCT 2023

On FRI 13 OCT 2023 20:00, I will be performing Fauna for the Invitro concert series with PHEW & RIMOV RIMOV More info ...

Eufònic Festival – Residencia

Durante el mes de Agosto 2023 estaré instalada durante tres semanas en la puerta de entrada del Parque Natural para trabajar en l’Encanyissada, la laguna ...

COMMON GROUND: MERCHE BLASCO & JIYOUNG YOON & GRAŻYNA ROGUSKI

01.06.2023 / 19:00 – 23:00 With Jiyoung Yoon, Merche Blasco 7:00 pm Presentation Merche Blasco Current music & sound fellow, Merche Blasco, ...

Heroines Of Sound Festival

On July 8th, I will premiere CAR[n]E, a new piece for the voices of Anna Clementi, Alessandra Eramo, Lorena Izquierdo, Ute Wassermann, and live electronics. ...

Rarefacció 3 (Barcelona): Merche Blasco / Patiño & Schuttel / Senzu Beans

On May 5th, Hangar (Barcelona) presents the third session of this year’s edition of Rarefacció, a listening cycle curated by Sergi Botella that is part ...

LABOR SONOR with Biliana Voutchkova & Anette

17 april 2023 | 20:30 | KuLe Auguststraße 10, 10117 Berlin MERCHE BLASCO & BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA Merche Blasco – Anette (3D printer instrument) ...

MaerzMusik – March 26

Performance with Christian Kesten, Felicity Mangan, Alex Nowitz, and Ute Wasserman This performance is the culmination of Nandita Kumar's sound ...

FAUNA AT CTM FESTIVAL – PORTALS

Sounding Through Objects: Poulomi Desai and Merche Blasco Mon, 30th Jan 202321:00 – 22:15 HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) more ...

BENEATH THE VISIBLE WAVES – DAAD gallery

27.11.2022 / 20:00 – 23:00 With Merche Blasco, Nicolas Collins Quadrophonic Concerts Merche Blasco curated a night at the daadgalerie presenting three ...

Subjective Currents in Km28, Berlin

Merche Blasco, Mario de Vega, and Viola Yip present solo sets and a trio for self-built instruments and electronics. Doors 19:30 / Concert ...

Téntere Nublo in press

 

Téntere, Nublo

On September 4th 2022, I will be presenting Téntere, nublo in Tudela de Navarra, Spain. Téntere, nublo is a site-specific public performance for Tudela's ...

Featured in Earmark at Montez Press Radio

Earmark is a program of long form conversations with emerging and composers and sound artists hosted by Gryphon Rue. This episode was broadcasted on Wed 23 ...

Qubit Innovator Lab presents Merche Blasco

INNOVATOR LAB February 25th, 8pm MISE-EN_PLACE Tickets available here Qubit presents Merche Blasco as part of our ongoing Innovator ...

UNO Music Technology Guest Lecturer Series

I have been invited to give a talk and organize a workshop with students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Details of the event in the ...

DAAD Fellowship 2022

Deeply honored and grateful to have been selected as one of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD fellows next year! Looking forward to meeting these ...

Mo(u)rning – Premiere in Prospect Park, NYC

On Saturday, May 8th, World Migratory Bird Day I will be premiering this piece composed for euphonium players Christopher McIntyre and Weston Olencki. I ...

Album release with Gryphon Rue

Gryphon Rue and I released "North Of The Future" on Astral Editions last May 2021. You can read more about the work and order in tape format and/or digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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