As a composer, she has participated in prestigious music festivals such as June in Buffalo (USA), Impuls (Austria), SoundSCAPE (Italy), and Barcelona Modern (Spain), among others. Her compositions have been featured in these international settings, where she has had the opportunity to collaborate with leading musicians, such as the [Switch~Ensemble] and the Arditti Quartet.

An active performer, she has been a flutist in a range of ensembles, including “Ensemble Arsis” (specializing in baroque music), “Samba no Pe” (a Brazilian fusion group), “El Enjambre,” and “The Academic Complex” (both new music ensembles). Her performances span diverse musical genres.

In recent years, she has been working on music with live electronics that generate interactions between sound and light (including video) employing feedback systems. This path includes her work on designing and building new music instrument, sound devices, and music interfaces.

“During the residency, I worked with two video synthesizers: the Sandin Image Processor and the LZX Double Vision. I used similar techniques on both systems, primarily working with camera input to generate video feedback, equivalent patching approaches, and routing the synthesizers’ outputs into a Doepfer modular system to process sound. This allowed me to produce aesthetically consistent material, using shared methods across different tools that operate with analog video as a medium but originate from very different historical moments. The Sandin Image Processor dates from the mid-1970s, while the LZX Double Vision is a contemporary video synthesizer. By working in this way, I was able to observe which aspects of my practice emerge independently of the tools themselves, and which qualities are specific to the “personalities” of each system. The project became an exploration of continuity and difference across generations of analog video technology, revealing both my own artistic traits and those embedded in the instruments.”

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