m a r i a _ c h a v e z
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls "pencils of sound" and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces.
Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna's Phonofemme Festival 2009.
Having also performed at such internationally acclaimed venues as STEIM (Amsterdam) and Sonoteca (Lima, Peru), she was awarded a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant by New York's Roulette Intermedium in 2008 and was recently selected to be a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship which is generously offered to young sound artists by The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust.
In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as an artist in residence for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon.
In an ambulatory fall season, Chavez found herself performing at San Francisco's Electronic Music Festival, The International Turntable Orchestra Festival in Berlin, Gdansk and Krakow, Poland, Ostrava, Czech Republic and the NY Sound Festival at CAPC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France with Phil Niblock and Alan Licht.
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