Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a Mexican sound artist and curator that has become notorious for its academic work on the sound art practice in Mexico. Rocha Iturbide has published three relevant essays with UNAM (Mexico’s autonomous university), that outline the history and practice in of sound art in Mexico. The most important of the three essays is titled Sound Art in Mexico where he analyzes the first sonic practices of international a national artist in the country, dating back from the 1960. I discovered very interesting pieces and art works from artist that I did not know that they did sound art. For example the chilean film maker and play play-writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, that scored sound actions in his scripts when living in Mexico. Rocha Iturbide is currently a teacher of digital arts in the Metropolitan university of Mexico.

Researching Rocha Iturbide was the first time I investigated a Mexican sound academic. This gave me a general intake in the academic mediums of sound art in Mexico and inspired me to in some near future, contact Rocha Iturbide or or other sound academic and interview them, to get a deeper insight of their jobs.