“…let the colors inside your eyelids take musical form for 19 glorious minutes of modular synth majesty.” (AnEarful on River of Life)
Tracing arcs from crystalline to the hypnotic and back, Mario Diaz de Leon performs a set of works for Buchla synthesizer, including the newly released “RIver of Life,” a prismatic meditation on a 32-note melody that draws inspiration from Revelation 22:1-2.
Mario Diaz de Leon is a NYC-based composer, producer, and instrumentalist. Spanning the worlds of modern classical and electronic music, his works have been acclaimed for their “remarkable textures and vivid atmosphere” (New Yorker), “crystalline attacks” (Groove), and “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork). Diaz de Leon’s chamber music can be heard across four albums performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, and TAK, and his solo performances have been featured at CTM (Berlin), Donaufestival (Austria), Roulette, The Kitchen, and Nowadays. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
Curated by Ha-Yang Kim for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series.