Ricardo Arias

Ricardo Arias (Bogotá, 1965) is an experimental musician, improviser and sound artist based in Bogotá. He studied electroacoustic music and composition with Gabriel Brncic, flute with Joan Bofill and Hiroshi Kobayashi, and improvisation with Jorge Serraute, in Barcelona, Spain. He also has a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts, both from Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). His work focuses on the use of unconventional instruments and sound sources. He also occasionally makes sound installations and sound objects. He has presented his work at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), ABC NoRio, Experimental Intermedia Foundation (New York), Roulette, Issue Project Room and Diapason Gallery (New York), at the Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf), Galerie Rahel-Haferkamp ( Colonia), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Sowieso (Berlin), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Fundación Joan Miró (Barcelona), FIMAV (Victoriaville, Canada), Electric Eclectics Festival (Meaford, Ontario, Canada) Festival Experimenta (Buenos Aires) , the Museum of Modern Art (Bogotá), Teatro Colón (Bogotá),matik-matik (Bogotá) and Espace SD (Beirut) among many other places. He has collaborated with numerous plastic and sound artists and experimental musicians from around the world, such as Axel Dörner, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mange Valencia, Raed Yassin, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Mann, Anne Wellmer, Yasunao Tone, Andrew Drury, Jane Rigler, Naoya Yoshikawa, Judy Dunaway, Nicolas Collins, Dror Feiler, Peter Brötzmann, and Miguel Frasconi among many others. In the last fifteen years he has curated several sound art festivals and exhibitions: In-Audito (National University, Bogotá), Vociferous (Diapason Gallery, New York), Densities (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), Sonósferas (Espacio Odeón, Bogotá ), Al Claro de Luna (Santa Fé Gallery, Bogotá), Paraphernalia (Casa Hofmann, Bogotá). He has published essays in Experimental Musical Instruments and in the Leonardo Music Journal. He is Associate Professor in the Art Department at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.