Alma Laprida

About

Alma Laprida (1985, San Miguel, Argentina). She studied piano at Julián Aguirre School of Music, Arts Management at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero and Electronic Arts at the same University. Alma explores the territories among composition, improvisation, performance and installation. She works with trumpet marine, field recordings, synthesizers, lyre and other non-conventional instruments and objects. She played, performed and set installations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Italy, Mexico and the United States. She released three solo albums, two collaboration albums and several pieces in compilations. In Buenos Aires, she created the series of concerts Ciclo Hertz and a project for collaborations between visual and sound artists named Estrépito y contemplación. She was Curator-In-Chief at the Centro de Arte Sonoro, which depends on the Ministry of Culture (Argentina), and Assistant Professor at the BA in Electronic Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. After living and working in Buenos Aires for ten years, she’s been based in Maryland, USA, since 2021.