Please join us on Thursday November 5th at 7pm on Facebook and YouTube live for a live coding performance and artist talk by FMC’s remote artist in residence, Luis Navarro.
Luis and his team of collaborators have been meeting each week since August to investigate alternative ways of thinking about electronic-music software within Latin America and its diasporas. Join us for a live performance and artist talk to wrap up the Talking and music-making circles on decoloniality and software residency.
Collaboration has been a crucial part of Luis’ research and he will joined in this event by his team: Tania Alejandra, Gabriel G. aka alõm, Jessica A. Rodríguez, and Andrés Miramonte.
Luis Navarro (Mexico City) is a student in New Media and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Luis’ research is about creating a computer music software inflected by Latin American musical expressions derived from political resistance and opposition (e.g. Cumbia). He expects this software to be an ideology critique of the dominant computer-music world system. Luis’ project intends to connect knowledge and practice from the interdisciplinary fields of critical code studies, new interfaces for musical expression, live coding, and Latin American musicology with the decolonial approaches of border thinking and participatory action research. Luis also holds a master’s degree in Communication and New Media studies (McMaster, 2017) and a BA in Popular Music Composition (Mexico, 2015). In 2017, Luis was co-chair of the International Coding Conference on Live Coding, Mexico. He is also a member of the live coding collective RGGTRN and has presented at venues in Mexico, Spain (2014), France (2014), the UK (2016), Colombia (2018), Perú (2018), Ecuador (2018), USA (2019). He is also a member of the McMaster’s Cybernetic Orchestra directed by Dr. David Ogborn, where he has performed at venues in Canada, Mexico (2017), Denmark (2017), and Spain (2019). In addition to musical presentations, Luis has co-published the articles “Cacharpo: co-performing cumbia sonidera with deep abstractions” and “Bellacode: localized textual interfaces for live coding music” at the International Live Coding Conference (Mexico, 2017 and Spain, 2019) and the article “Saborítmico: A Report From the Dance Floor in Mexico” at “Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture” (2018)