Press Kit
About Pirarán
"We believe that in the resonances and hidden folds of this music, there lies a political economy that shapes life through musical imagination or imaginative music. What we aim to foster with our music is a network of mutual aid in which we can rely on each other so that this aural exploration and artistic adventure can be sustainable, autonomous, and committed to the redistribution of attention and the means of perception."
Pirarán is a networked ensemble that combines the sound of analogue and digital synthesizers with live coded soundscapes and dance vectors. They provide (audio)visions of a world beyond the post-end of times. The band is influenced by just-intonation research and poly-temporal music forums, Latin-American popular modernism (Pérez Prado, Cumbia chichadélica, and MicoRex), and music genres like vaporwave, hippie synth music, techno, glitch, industrial, ambient and noise. Pirarán also draws extensively (and expropriates when deemed fit) from ideas, words and visions that give meaning to the music like Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Nancy Fraser, Manuel Maples Arce, Gayatri Spivak and Heriberto Yépez.
The band has existed since early 2022 when they recorded Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 1. Later that year, they released A la vørtex for the label Cjantal in the anthology Nijbla. They also released a video with the live performance of The Phog in its audiovisual form. They have an audiovisual performance featured on the EulerRoom YouTube channel.
In 2023, the band released Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 2 and the single track "With/out Dancing." In 2024, they released La Fábrica Colapsada (The Collapsed Factory), a cyber-opera composed and directed by Pirarán's Alejandro Franco Briones and performed by Pirarán. This piece includes a multichannel music performance and a website created by Pirarán's Diego Villaseñor.
Pirarán has performed in Ontario (Canada), Mexico City, Morelia (Mexico), Utrecht (Netherlands), and in a series of networked events simultaneously experienced around the world.
Currently Pirarán is promoting La Fábrica Colapsada, this is a 30-minute-long operatic, networked piece made with visuals, multichannel audio, microtonal tuning, polytemporal rhythmic structures, fixed media, reactive algorithmic music in the form of improvisational semi-analogue synthesisers, and live coding accompanied by a website where the storytelling happens asynchronously. The artwork is also constituted by an online repository where the multimedia materials of the opera can be accessed and various pieces of software can be repurposed for geologic seismic data processing of the 2017 earthquake, wavetable synthesis instruments creation, and spatialisation.
Discography
Videography
Live at the Phog (Windsor, Ontario, CA) 16/11/22
Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 1
Images
Members
Iván López
(Morelia, Mx)
Composer and electronic instrumentalist. His work includes acoustic and electroacoustic music. His creative search extends to fields such as improvisation with electronic/digital media and phonography.
Diego Villaseñor
(Mexico City, Mx)
Composer, improviser, live coder and philosopher. His work is focused on collective creation, modular composition and processes inspired by natural systems.
Alejandro Franco Briones
(Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Composer, live coder, sound artist, and scholar from Mexico City. Some of his major interests include time-oriented music, network art ecologies, and musical/technological notational systems.