Mauricio Reyes was born in Mexico City. His career has alternated between Music and Fine Arts. At the age of 19, he obtained a scholarship from Conahcyt to study visual arts at Middlesex University in London, England, between 1991 and 1994. In 1995, during his master’s degree at Kent State University, in the state of Ohio, he learned Kinetic Design and digital music composition, where he became acquainted with the work of theorists such as Iannis Xenakis and Bruno Maderna. A huge interest in the work of Luigi Russolo prompted him to experiment with various objects, such as stones and rusted metal sheets, to produce interesting sounds. Without the means to remix or record them, he joined the “Open Notes” radio experimentation workshops in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.

Fascinated by the possibilities offered by new digital technologies, Reyes experimented with the techniques of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin by cutting recordings into segments and remixing all their parts. He experimented with multiple recordings at once, as well as playing them in reverse. To have absolute creative freedom, Reyes created his own label, Telekinett Records (www.telekinett.com) between 2004 and 2008. Telekinett is a record label dedicated to the preservation, study and promotion of experimental, atonal, electronic, and electroacoustic music.

In addition to a lifetime of collecting experimental music and studying a wide range of musical genres, Reyes has also exercised his creative powers as a typographer and graphic designer, for which he studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Middlesex University in London, England, and Kent State University in the United States.

One of Mauricio Reyes’s most recent projects is Oculi Mortuus, a recording based on the readings of William Burroughs and the tragic murder of his wife Joan Vollmer in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City in 1951. Currently, Reyes collaborates with several eminent electroacoustic artists to produce various projects based on themes and art such as Vorticism, Constructivism, and Futurism. His next project is called “DADA Musik” in honor of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and pacifist Hugo Ball.

Reyes is the creator, curator, and coordinator of the project 9 Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones Et Symphonia Extenta. He established the Ambisonic Guild, a group of collaborating contemporary electroacoustic artists from different countries and time zones.

Mauricio Reyes lives in Washington, D.C., USA.