Sol Rezza (born April 7, 1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinean composer and sound designer fusing experimental electronics with immersive audio. A specialist in surround sound and digital storytelling, she develops her work in virtual environments and live performances moving between art, psychoacoustics, and technology.
Her compositions combine multilingual voice samples, granular synthesis and sequencers with open-source multichannel audio technology like the SoundSquares plug-in.
Currently, she is developing research on how new technologies (AI, machine learning, VR, etc.) influence the creation and production of contemporary storytelling.
Early career
Her first steps in the radio environment are those made in Radio de la Ciudad LS1; she worked as a production assistant for the radio show "En la vereda" hosted by Quique Pesoa; and then worked as a radio producer on LRA Radio Nacional for the radio program "Hacha y tiza" hosted Argentine historian researcher Hugo Chumbita. In 2006-2007 she traveled through Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia y México with the itinerant radio project Estudio Rodante with which to make her first foray into the field audio recording and began her first notes about it.
In 2009 she studied audio engineering and sound design and began experimenting with microphones and other sound devices.
She moved to México and started her experimental compositions and radio art work. In those years, she collaborated with different community radios with the radio experimental program titled El silencio NO existe.
Career
Since 2008 to date she conducts several workshops and lectures about sound design and deep listening for several institutions in Latin America as in Europe.
She wrote articles about sound experimentation, soundscape and deep listening to the magazine Sonograma, Sul Ponticello, among other publications.
In 2009, composed an album, titled Ex nihilo nihil fit based on texts by Oliverio Girondo. Although the album is not officially released it participated at Prix Bohemia Radio 2010 and the Electronic Language International Festival; from this exploratory work she will participate in different festivals related to sound experimentation in various parts of the world.
In 2015 the sound work 25 segundos de vida belonging to the album Ex nihilo nihil fit was selected to participate in the first exhibition of sound art in Argentina Umbrales - espacios del sonido.
During 2010 to 2012 with the Mexican multimedia artist Daniel Ivan, she made the first of a series of live performances titled Matar al Gato a multimedia art and sound art happening, whose outcome is a digital artwork by itself. This series of performances consists of three parts: the first part Matar al gato 01: conocimiento Funk based on the work of Amiri Baraka was presented May 25, 2010 at the museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, the second performance and installation Matar al gato 02: Ekpyrotica was presented 07,08,09,10 June 2011 at the museum Laboratorio Arte Alameda in México city.
Her second album Verdades Minúsculas 2010 was selected by Festival Netaudio London 2011 and the Soundwaves Festival in Brighton, UK. In the same year, 2010, her radio piece El año del conejo, inspired by the texts El Pensamiento náhuatl cifrado en los calendarios by Laurette Séjourné, it's part of Journée Internationale de la Création Radiophonique and the Radio Arts Space, international sound art and radio art exhibition.
In 2011 released on the Acustronica Label her experimental music, noise and soundscape work titled SPIT, receiving favorable reviews in ATTN Magazine and Music on Tnt.
SPIT was selected by the artist Steve Heimbecker in the first series of concerts in 64-channel multi-channel surround sound system in 2011 and the track The Cat was broadcast on Late Junction BBC Radio 3.
That same year, 2011, she released The existence of the light experimental music work to be published solely on the social network Tumblr. This sound work was selected for use in the presentation of the BASA Awards 2011(Business of the Arts South Africa).
In 2012 she published her radio art work Shorts for Radio, a work under the public domain license and conceived as an homage to the Internet Archive. That same year she involved in the project SoundSpiral, an inflatable arts venue, created by sound artist Amie Slavin as part of her London 2012 Cultural Olympiad piece BabelSpring.