Bio
Flutist, composer, sound artist, researcher, music curator and educator born in Arequipa, Perú, lived several years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, now based in México City.
Works with interest on the hybridization of aesthetics, standing outside specific genres, the search for an own aesthetic vision through a deconstructed approach on his own instrument and musical language; the sonorous re- exploration of the flute, a non traditional approach crafted by his own history as a human being, as an immigrant and as Latin American artist. The axis and core of sound in his music is the search for an identity. His music is built of explosive sounds created with different extended techniques, preparations on the flute, microtonal textures, electronic processing and hyper amplification of the flute, altering it sounds to make microscopic air gestures become big waves of sound. He is constantly focussed on the obsessive study of ways to expand the sound spectrum of the flute. In his music, improvisation and composition are procedures used for the same purpose: the construction of a particular identity and space for expression.
He co directs his record label TVL REC among Violeta García and Carlos Quebrada. And worked as the curator of the Lima Jazz Festival (2018 – 2022). He has presented his work in festivals and concert series around the world in places such as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Spain, France, Canada, South Africa and more.
Camilo has received awards and scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts of Argentina. Has participated at the OMI International Arts Center Residency as artist in residence in 2016, and also participated at the Yarn/Wire Contemporary Music Festival as a performer/composer in residence at Stony Brook University and the Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2022.
He also received the Science, Art and Technology Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Perú, with a project called “Isla de Huacos”, a sound installation of islands hanging in space containing ceramic whistles from ancestral cultures of Perú with water inside whistling constantly and a live sound processing sounding through a octophonic sound design.
Apart from working as a composer and producer making music for films, dance and theater works, he currently compose and directs the music for his ensemble “Nicotina es Primavera”, a sextet with whom he has published two albums and has a third one coming out by the end of 2023. Has played music with and worked on collaborations with artists such as Christian Lillinger, Pauline Oliveros, Elias Stemesseder, Tyshawn Sorey, Brandon Seabrook, Chris Pitsiokos, Kaja Draksler, Wade Matthews, William Winant, Chris Williams, Ka Baird, Paula Shocron, Matiss Cudars, Tony Malaby, Anaïs Maviel, Jason Nazary, Muyassar Kurdi, Cara Stacey, Ben Bennett, Andrew Drury, Sales de Baño, Violeta Garcia, Carlos Quebrada, Ido Bukelman, Tizia Zimmerman, Samuel Hall, Chatori Shimizu, Andrés Chimango Lares, Susana Baca, Mono Fontana, Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía, Concepción Huerta, Camila Nebbia, Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Joanna Mattrey, Gabby Fluke-mogul, among many others.
