Berlin based sound artist and practitioner, focused in installation work and gallery performances. Generative compositions and performances are a common medium or her exhibitions, intersecting these techniques with other sound cultures as noise music. Ledesma’s work has an origin in Portland in the US, with organising both raves and underground gigs and sound exhibitions.

Her work revolves a lot through synthesis, from plug-ins to hardware. Ledesma has hosted multiple synth workshops, giving people access with complex equipment like modular synthesisers. The workshops later became a collective where different performances and events where taken place. Artist where invited for residency in their studio to explore the equipment and record performances. Artist such as Moor Mother performed in the events, the recognition of the collective made brands donate gear to their studio and later collaborate in workshops with that equipment. Her work in synth workshop lead her to work in a feminist synth library in LA, contributing in curation of events and documentation of female lead synth work.

AMQR is a software synthesiser created by Ledesma and fellow sound artist Ess Mattison. Ledesma used this tool to create her second release ‘Fringe’ , creating her own sound for her own composition. The synth objective is to blend between electric and the acoustic, being in the luminance of both timbral spectrums. The name AMQR is inspired in the new sensational phenomenon ASMR, the synth was created to mirror the affect of an ASMR experience. The success of AMQR led Ledesma to start producing new synths, in particular made in Max Msp, and sell them. She also uses this synths and plug-ins in her performances, with the purpose of testing the plug-ins and explore their limitations.

Above is a song of the Ledesma album ‘Fringe’, as mentioned before this album is weirdly hybrid between electronic and non electronic timbre. As a low quality digital picture, this album sounds possibly real but the tiny distortion of the electronic medium twist the expression of the composition. I admire the ability of Ledesma of creating her own sonic tool, modern music of sound art is widely connected to the sonic tools used in the composition, using unique tools create unique compositions making her composition extremely personal.