LUZ GONZALEZ
bio
Spain/Switzerland (*1989). Her artistic practice includes electroacoustic and acousmatic composition, sound art, improvisation, vocal performance and music for dance and theater. She is co-founder of the quintet for free improvisation NoRest! and presents a solo project for experimental electronic music under the pseudonym Nyx. Together with scenographer Annatina Huwiler she explores interdisciplinary sound objects, e.g. in the works Dysphoria or z'Berg. Currently she is working on electroacoustic compositions with Rebeca Minten or the Trio Tramontana. She is a regular contributor to Radio Bollwerk. Her works have been presented in Switzerland (Dampfzentrale, Walcheturm, Prozess, etc.), Germany (ZKM, Anachronism, Madame Claude), Spain (MUNCYT, Sin Sal) and Northern Ireland (Sonorities Festival Belfast). Luz holds a Master's degree in Composition - Creative Practice and a Bachelor's degree in Sound Arts from the Bern University of the Arts. She holds a Master's degree in Contemporary Arts Practice at the same university. Previously, she graduated from the University of Bern with a degree in Spanish and French Literature and Linguistics.
artist statement
Luz González treats sound as a physical phenomenon that is experienced with the whole body and not only with the ears. Sound processing becomes the very material of an aesthetic that moves away from purism and focuses on transformation. The relationship between the sound body, the architectural body and the perceiving body is fundamental in this process.
In this line of bodily perception, the topics of deconstruction and hybridization occupy a central place.
Zones limitrophes starts from the desire to create a common language beyond a certain aesthetic line or tradition, as well as from the conviction that musical understanding goes beyond these categories. In this project Luz González (live electronic) and Rebeca Minten (bass clarinet) provoke and support each other in equal parts.
As fillas de Lorca is a solo proposal by Luz González (live electronics, voice) a continuously changing composition in which she explores sonority and develops a language between the visceral and the delicate.