Angelica Castello
She was born 1972 in México city. Studies in the Conservatorio Nacional de México, Université de Montréal, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Konservatorium Wien. As a soloist or as member of different ensembles, she has performed ancient and modern music in Mexico, Canada, Holland, Germany, England, Italy, Czech Republic and Austria. Since 1999 she has been living, teaching and carrying out musical experiments in Vienna.
She was born 1972 in México city. Studies in the Conservatorio Nacional de México, Université de Montréal, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Konservatorium Wien. As a soloist or as member of different ensembles, she has performed ancient and modern music in Mexico, Canada, Holland, Germany, England, Italy, Czech Republic and Austria. Since 1999 she has been living, teaching and carrying out musical experiments in Vienna.
Catorce Reflexiones Sobre el Fin
** Edition of 300. Comes with green inner sleeve ** Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin (Fourteen Reflections On The End) originated from an installation exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019. Fourteen magnetic bodies of tape that dialogued with the fourteen pieces of electroacoustic music now contained in this album composed from the sound anthology of Angélica Castelló. Thus, Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin is a complex piece consisting of multiple parts that, a…
Lepidópteros
Angélica Castelló (Mexico City 1972) is a recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher living in Vienna. She plays mainly the “Paetzold” which is a sub great bass recorder, along tapes and electronics. As a composer, she writes music for her own instruments and for ensembles as well. The last few years she has done various installations which combines music, performance & visual arts. Even though her source of inspiration, such as literature or visual arts, often have sp…
Disturbio
Angélica Castelló is a Mexican and Austrian composer, sound artist, performer, curator and teacher. Her sound work and compositions concentrate on fragility, dreamworld and the subconscious. Performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Numerous compositions for ensembles, radio works as well as installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts. Several releases on labels like Mikroton Recordings, Interstellar records, Mo…
Dos Cuacochis
Cuacochi in Nahuatl language means “to sleep in a tree”. As a wind player myself I have always been particularly fascinated by the sound of the air through my instruments. As a performer and improviser I have developed a big palette of wind sounds, mixing them with related sounds such as static radio noise and white noise. The „cuachochi“ series are pieces about air and noise.... and sleeping The Tree weights the nest The wind weights the tree and fate the rest (Burkhard Stangl) For 9 players o…
Borderland
Cilantro is the duo of multi-instrumentalists Angelica Castello on paetzold, ukulele, organ, tapes, & electronics, and Billy Roisz on electric bass, organ, tv, piezzo, computer & electronics, scrutinizing the activity in bordering areas between noise and silence, tenderness and rudeness, beat and drone, inner consciousness and outer awareness, control and freedom.
"Cilantro presents a world full of enigmas, labyrinths, sometimes abrasive, sometimes ecstatic, a complex and delicate subjec…
Sonic Blue
...Outstanding!! Shaping the the sonic topography of the Norway’s northern sea with an enigmatic mixture of field recordings, manipulated sounds and other sonic debris, Angelica Castello has completed her best work to date. In 2013, on the Lofoten archipelago, an island chain along Norway’s northern coastline, Angelica Castello met the biologist and bioacoustics researcher Heike Vester, who founded the organization Ocean Sounds in a fishing village named Henningsvær. Heike led Angelica to t…
Scuba
Angélica Castelló, Billy Roisz, Burkhard Stangl and dieb13 are the four musicians most respected and prominent in the world working in a wide area of contexts from rock and improv to electroacoustic improvisation and other forms of experimental music. They live and work in Vienna being the protagonists of Viennese klingtorgian scene as well as travelling and collaborating with musicians from other parts of the planet. You already know all of them due to our release of 'Klingt.org: 10 Jahre Bes…
Silvertone e il sentimento oceanico
Outstanding tape from Angelica Castello (Mexico, 1972) one of the best electroacoustic composers of her generation "I see my music basically as a complex construction of associations, quotations, dreams, nightmares, real and unreal people, stories and reflections. 'erche">Silvertone e il sentimento oceanico' is about a big ship leaving' Angélica Castelló About Castelló's music: 'Music that is both visual and abstract, that calls forth memories and chases them away, that ofte…