Guillermo Galindo
The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media creator Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between all art disciplines, politics, and spirituality.
Galindo’s artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight and performance and includes everything from orchestral compositions, instrumental works and opera, to sculpture, visual arts, computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, filmmaking, instrument building, three dimensional installation and live improvisation. His acoustic compositions includes major chamber and solo works, two symphonies commissioned by the UNAM (Mexico university symphony orchestra), the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and choir, and two operas.
Border Cantos, an award winning book published by Aperture Foundation and a traveling exhibit featuring a unique bidisciplinary collaboration between Guillermo Galindo and American photographer Richard Misrach featuring Galindo’s sonic devices and musical scores made from detritus left behind by immigrants has been shown at the San Jose Museum of Art (2016), Amon Carter Museum, Texas (2016); Crystal Bridges Museum, Arkansas (2017); and Pace Gallery, New York (2017).
Galindo's interactive string quartet Remote Control commissioned by the Kronos Quartet for the Fifty for the Future series premiered at the San Francisco Jazz Festival …
The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media creator Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between all art disciplines, politics, and spirituality.
Galindo’s artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight and performance and includes everything from orchestral compositions, instrumental works and opera, to sculpture, visual arts, computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, filmmaking, instrument building, three dimensional installation and live improvisation. His acoustic compositions includes major chamber and solo works, two symphonies commissioned by the UNAM (Mexico university symphony orchestra), the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and choir, and two operas.
Border Cantos, an award winning book published by Aperture Foundation and a traveling exhibit featuring a unique bidisciplinary collaboration between Guillermo Galindo and American photographer Richard Misrach featuring Galindo’s sonic devices and musical scores made from detritus left behind by immigrants has been shown at the San Jose Museum of Art (2016), Amon Carter Museum, Texas (2016); Crystal Bridges Museum, Arkansas (2017); and Pace Gallery, New York (2017).
Galindo's interactive string quartet Remote Control commissioned by the Kronos Quartet for the Fifty for the Future series premiered at the San Francisco Jazz Festival on April 2018. Galindo's graphic scores and three dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at major museums and art biennials in America, Europe, Asia and around the world including documenta14 (2017) and Miami Art Basel (2017).
Text courtesy of California College of the Arts