Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (Born 1979 in Madrid, Spain) is a sound artist, theorist and curator.
His artistic and theoretical work addresses problematic concepts like the relationships between sex and music (both understood as socio-cultural constructions, rather that ‘natural categories’), or the connections between interactive proccesses and the illusion of control. Álvarez-Fernández has explored these issues in his sound installations and musical compositions, both alone and as a member of the art group DissoNoiSex.
The works of Álvarez-Fernández have been presented in several venues in Europe and America, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Residencia de Estudiantes (where Álvarez-Fernández was composer-in-residence from 2002 to 2005) in Madrid, the Technical University of Berlin, The Huset gallery in Copenhagen, or the Eyebeam Gallery in New York, among many others. He has also composed music for different audiovisual productions, including the film “A via láctea”, by Brazilian director Lina Chamie, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
Álvarez-Fernández: Sound Amateur, article by Silvia Scaravaggi published by Digimag (Italy)
Wikipedia: (English) (Spanish)
Dissonance, Sex and Noise: (Re)building (Hi)stories of Electroacoustic Music, published by the HZ Journal (Sweden)
Disonancia y emancipación: comodidad en/de algunas estéticas musicales del siglo XX, published by Espacio Sonoro (Spain)
Posibilidades (e imposibilidades) de los "nuevos medios tecnológicos" en la creación sonora, published by Sul Ponticello (Spain)
Fläche (Surface), a video by Asia Piascik with Miguel Álvarez-Fernández
Music for Three Solo Performers, video of the live-electronics performance
Voyelles, radio piece (in collaboration with Sandra Santana)