Alas de Mosca

-- Alas de Mosca es un dueto de improvisación sonora que hace visitas guiadas al noise desde recorridos sinuosos de la palabra hablada, conformado por Alexándra Cárdenas y Erick Diego el nombre esta inspirado en el modelo de pantimedias Ala de Mosca y en la Cría de Alimento vivo. Alexandra Cárdenas Born in Bogotá, Colombia en 1976. Studied Composition with Catalina Peralta at Los Andes University, where she graduated in 2000. She also studied guitar with Carlos Rocca Lynn. She has carried out several studies, classes and courses with Ricardo Gallardo, Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, Alfredo del Mónaco, Mario Lavista, Graciela Paraskevaídis, Coriún Aharonián, Blás Emilio Atehortúa, Rodolfo Acosta, Thomas Patterson, Víctor Rasgado, Juan Reyes and Ernesto Romero among others. Her work has been played in several concert halls in Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Europe, China and India and have also been played by many different soloists and chamber ensembles, among them Tambuco, Mexican percussion Ensemble, in whose CD Serie Iberoamericana Vol. I is included “de los tiempos del ruido”. Her work “Palíndromos” got an honorific mention at the Third Latin-American Harp Encounter in Venezuela. In 2003 she was granted an Artistic Residence at the Multimedia Center in the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City, where she lives since 2001. In 2010 she was granted a scholarship to be part of the program Prácticas del Vuelo at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) in Morelia, Michoacán, where she composed a piece for Ensable 3 and live electronics. In 2010 she was also invited to participate at Visiones Sonoras Festival at CMMAS. From 2008 she works with SuperCollider, programming and improvising music. She keeps on developing projects at the Multimedia Center in Cenart, with the support of Robotics and Audio Workshops. Her work focuses on experimentation, using electronics and improvisation as one of her main influences and also enjoys constructing her own interfaces and controllers. tiemposdelruido.net Erick Diego Erick Diego is a sound artist, performer and cultural promoter. He currently heads the Airport project. is curator of sound art in Ex Teresa Arte Actual. He’s manager of "Galería Interferencial", a space devoted to ephemeral art in Mexico City. Since 2005, he direct the multidimensional project “Revista Sin Texto”, through which invites artists from around the world to make thematic performance in public spaces in the days of 7-7-7 to 12-12-12. He has also presented his work in various public spaces, museums and cultural centers, among which include Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MUAC UNAM, Mexico; BAC! (Spain), Trampolim_ (Brazil).