ALEA by Manuel Rocha Iturbide

This album is a compilation of my mixed electroacoustic composition pieces (instruments plus live electronics, and or, fixed digital sounds) that I have composed from 2001 to 2018. This is an extraordinary field of music where we mix, combine, fusion, hybridize, acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, a very difficult and thrilling labor. The title of the album comes from the word ALEA: aleatory, random, chance, since I like what accidents bring to my music making, an important element experimentation, but also, it is the root for the word aliación (alloy), which means the fusion of two different elements.

Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a composer, artist and writer. His creative work comes from different approaches to the sonic phenomena; from pure imagination, programmatic ideas, conceptual art, soundscape and experimentation with different sound objects. His interdisciplinary work has led him to use photography, sculpture, installation, and visual art as a complement of his sonic work.