Diana Marcela Rodriguez

Diana Marcela Rodriguez is a Bogotá-born composer, sound artist, educator, and self-professed 90s anime enthusiast based in New York City. Her/their work, rooted in cultural theory, interrogates the fragmented immigrant experience and the paradoxes of internet culture through a practice that merges digital ephemera—audio sampled from subreddits, Instagram reels, and other online spaces—with live-processed acoustic instruments like the Colombian gaita and violin. The result is a sonic language oscillating between dense, spectral atmospheres and moments of visceral intimacy.

Drawing from post-spectralism, ambient music, Colombian folk traditions, Rock en Español, and pop culture, Rodriguez's compositions have been performed by ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, ECCE Ensemble, and TAK Ensemble (featuring bassoonist Joy Guidry), at venues such as the BANFF Centre for the Arts, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Americas Society, and MATA Festival. Recent works include Longings, a piece with two iterations: an electroacoustic installation for the National Sawdust Ensemble (part of the 2023 Hildegard Commission Initiative) and an original version for electroacoustic mixed ensemble; Deny. Defend. Depose., an evening-length work for the New York-based trio Sputter Box, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University; and Let it burn, a piece for three accordions and gaita hembra premiered at MATA Festival in collaboration with Found Sound Nation. You can visit their website for more info.