The sound artist and musician explores an emergent lowercase sound,  shimmering with elusive timbres that occupy a unique space – neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates tenderness and warmth. 

Processed field recordings sit alongside more traditional instruments utilized in creative ways, as Ledesma expertly moulds microscopic sounds into impenetrable yet intimate sonic worlds. It’s detailed, absorbing music – longform yet somehow also instantly immersive and inviting.

Over the past decade, Ledesma has run project spaces, overseen festival curation and events programming, helping to establish community programs around modular synthesis education, as well as performing live. More recently, Ledesma’s focus has widened to releasing solo compositions: two releases titled Fringe and Sweet Hour, released on Ecstatic Recordings and Enmossed x Psychic Liberation, respectively.

On both releases, Ledesma draws extensively on a custom-made synthesizer called

AMQR, developed together with instrument designer Ess Mattisson – a collaboration that has since flowered into Fors, a music technology project focused on creating software instruments and effects. 

Presented in collaboration with SHAPE+

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