Itzá García (b.1993, México) Itzá García (b. 1993, México) is a composer focused on time, intimacy, and machine aesthetics in technology-mediated art music. Her work engages the transformations of acoustic instruments when pushed into new technological conditions: augmented, extended, or dissolved (vaporized) into undefined gestures and data points. In recent work, she has fed field recordings of weathered instruments into neural networks, embedding time and texture into the timbre of AI-generated sound. She has redesigned instrumental parts to alter the tunning of instruments and has developed solo improvisations for Virtual Reality environments and live electronics..
Her work has been performed at the Ars Electronica Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), the Mise-En Festival, the Miami Art Week MUD Foundation Sound of Art Program, among others. Performing artists include JACK Quartet, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Yarn/Wire, Talea Ensemble, Ensamble CEPROMUSIC, PinkNoise, and Mise-En Ensemble.
She has been recognized by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the ICST Artist Residency at the Zurich University of the Arts, and the CONACYT Grant for Graduate Studies (2018). She also received the Art Science Connect Fellowship for her work co-organizing the innovation:SOUND:technology series.
Itzá is currently based in New York City, pursuing a Ph.D. degree in composition at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-founder and current co-organizer of the overdrive electronic music festival in New York.