alejandro vze
alejandro van zandt-escobar • sound artist • email

recent projects:

J'ai retrouvé Athènes

Sound design for Joanna Dunis' reading of her poem J'ai retrouvé Athènes", with images by Joseph Paris, for the release of Joanna's poetry collection TOPOLOGIES - Contes d'Athènes, published in May 2023 by le Castor Astral.

Le Repli

Sound design for Joseph Paris' feature documentary Le Repli, premiering 2023 at CPH:DOX · NEXT:WAVE.

Abolition

Abolition A-Z sound piece, produced with Ivan Robirosa for MayDay Radio as part of their 2021 Commission Series.

solapurroad-handwash

Solapur Road, experimental saxophone duo with Divya Farias.

Handwash/Burroughs released on XVI Records, 2020

errant-polygraphe

Soundscape composition for Errant Polygraphe, featuring the travel journals of poet Abdelwahab Meddeb, read by Abd Al-Malik and Hind Meddeb.

Performed at la Nuit de la Poésie at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2019

luckedin

Co-producer for afro trip-hop trio Lucked In with Kwame Write (Ghana) and Leila Adu (New Zealand/Ghana).

Debut EP Nuttin Cold released on XVI Records, 2019, supported by Giles Peterson (BBC6).

datastasis_blackstage

Generative and interactive sound design for data-driven installation Datastasis with C. Honghoon Chung.

Exhibited at Survival Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 2019

neural-reflection

Generative sound design for audio-visual installation Neural Reflections with C. Honghoon Chung.

Exhibited at Art Innovation - International Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, 2018

skin

Music composition and interactive sound design for multimedia dance performance Skin with choreographer Sarah Fdili Alaoui and videographer Tamara Erde.

Performed at le 104, Paris, 2017

radio

Co-production of radio documentary Reissued: African Vinyl in the 21st Century for Afropop Worldwide, with Morgan Greenstreet and Nenim Iwebuke, 2017.