Bestiario

A 7 track leftfield/idm album (54m 36s) — released April 18th 2011 on Mosz

ANGELICA CASTELLO Recorder player (+ electronic devices, distortions, cheap toys, feedbacks, voices) performer, curator, composer, teacher. She studied Music in her native town (Conservatorio Nacional de Mexico), in Montreal (Universite de Montreal), Amsterdam (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) and Vienna (Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, Institut fur Elektroakustische und Computer Musik). Since 1999 she lives in Vienna where she teaches. She founded the concert series "Neue Musik in St Ruprecht" which she currently runs and where regularly musicians from Austria and abroad perform. Castelló works interdivisionaly with sancers, writers, musicians, video artists, performers, theatre, etc. Even if she stayed faithful to the early music (Ensemble fiori musicali), the center and heart of her work is electroacustic and New Music: Co-creation of the Ensembles low frequency orchestra, los autodisparadores (with Thomas Grill and Katharina Klement), frufru (with Maja Osojnik), cilantro (with Billy Roisz), subshrubs (with Katharina Klement, Billy Roisz und Maja Osojnik) and Chesterfield (with Burkhard Stangl). With these ensembles and other musicians such as Olga Neuwirth, Wolfgang Mitterer, Urkuma, Martin Siewert, Eva Reiter, Manrico Montero, Mario de Vega, Barbara Romen, Gunter Schneider, Juan Jose Rivas, Marina Rosenfeld, John Butcher, Okkyung Lee, dieb13, Matija Schellander, Kazu Uchihashi a.o. She performed across America and Europe. As a composer she wrote for her own instruments (mainly Paetzold recorders with or without electronics), for ensembles (a.o. Danubia Saxophon Quartett, subshrubs, Bella Discordia) as well as for theatre and dance; she composed several electroacustic pieces. Her Music has been recorded at labels like Mosz, Ein_klang Records, Mandorla, Mikroton Records and chmafu nocords and has been presented in several radio programs. Castelló has work with composers like Mario Lavista, Hilda Paredes, Katharina Klement, Daniel de la Cuesta, Robert Kellner, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Phil Niblock, Johannes Kretz, Burkhard Stangl etc. on their works, some of which have been dedicated to her.
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