BIO

Marisol Jiménez is a composer, performer, and multidisciplinary artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, currently residing in Berlin.  Her work expresses an intense fascination with the tactile process of creating sound, an interplay of the entropic within the structured musical machinery, colliding the primeval with the technological to seek forceful, sensuous, and visceral energies. Her output includes numerous chamber and electronic works and sound and intermedia installations. Her acoustic, electronic, and mixed media works involve self-made sound sculptures, found objects, and collected sound materials from her field recordings, improvisations, and performances. She completed a Doctorate degree in composition at Stanford University in 2011 and a Master of Arts from Mills College, Oakland, CA (2005). In 2018, she developed a project entitled SENSUOUS MATTER, a large-scale performative installation for intervened autonomous machines and performers, which was selected for an inm-Funding grant for 2018 in Berlin. Jimenéz won the 39th Irino International Composition prize in Tokyo and has recently been a National System of Art Creators in Mexico member from the National Foundation for the Arts and Culture (FONCA). Her work has been performed and commissioned by leading ensembles and interpreters of new music.