Trained as a Telecommunications Engineer, Merche Blasco developed in parallel to her studies a more creative path related with music, video, installation and performance. She created her alter ego “Burbuja” as a vehicle for her own musical exploration and since its conception she has participated & collaborated with various artists, establishing a strong relationship between different mediums of artistic expression & her own musical direction. She has composed music to accompany sculptures of Lucy Orta at the Venice biennale & soundtracks for videos & installations by the artists of FABRICA in Venice (Italy) and HANGAR in Barcelona (Spain), among others. She has also collaborated several times with Chicks on Speed and Cristian Vogel. Her debut, “burbuja” (station55 records) was presented in Sonar 2007, the Advanced Music festival in Barcelona, and has been touring in different cities in Europe, USA and Canada in the past years: Mapping Festival (Geneve), Sonic Art Circuits (Washington), Queens Museum of Art (New York), NIME2012 in Michigan, among others. She has recently graduated from the MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP / NYU) where she mainly focused on Interactive Design for exhibitions and new tools for Electronic Music Performance, meaning visual sound reactive pieces, choreographic tools through computer vision and New Interfaces for Musical Expression. She is currently keeping with her research as a resident in the same school.
