Ricardo Arias

Ricardo Arias is a Bogotá-based experimental musician, improviser, sound artist, curator, researcher and teacher. His work focuses on unconventional acoustic and electronic sound sources, especially the balloon-based instrument he began developing in the mid-1990s and has continued to expand as a central part of his artistic practice.

Arias is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Universidad de los Andes and has organised and curated festivals and exhibitions devoted to experimental music and sound art in Colombia and internationally. His recent activity includes the continuing Sonósferas programme and new work centred on the acoustic, performative and sculptural possibilities of balloons, breath and unstable materials.