Josué Amador Valdez: I am a composer, guitarist, researcher, and educator. My practice is informed by notions of improvisation, experimental music composition, and sound studies.

I studied western classical guitar, jazz performance, music composition, and sonology. I have two bachelors, a MA and a PhD.

Denoiser. A sound installation/public intervention

Soundmap of Rotterdam (click on image). This is an ongoing project in which I record different acoustic environments in the city

I was born in México and I live in Rotterdam for almost 12 years now. I consider myself a Mexican Rotterdamer.

I am part of RASL since 2018(?) and since then, I have been involved in several research projects including the development of this minor. Currently, together with a fantastic group of colleagues, I am working on developing the RASL bachelor program which will be launched in 2025(?).
To me, RASL is a space to

An album I recorded during the first months of the pandemic. It is a binaural composition, I recommend listening to it with headphones

I compose music for myself, other musicians, non-musicians, non-humans, and public spaces. My works involve sound, listening, performance, and public interventions.
I love working within collaborative environments.

experiment, create, re-imagine, unlearn, communicate, reflect, investigate, observe, invent...

I work for Codarts for around 5 years where I teach at the Composition, Theory and Research departments.

An ongoing project in which I document surveillance technologies found in the urban space in Rotterdam (click on the picture)