Daniel Zea
Nationality
CH/CO
Year of birth
1976
Biography
Daniel Zea is a Swiss/Colombian composer, sound artist and designer based in Geneva. His artistic practice spans instrumental and electroacoustic music, hybrid performance involving video, sound, gesture-tracking systems and physical computing, as well as programming. He often collaborates on interdisciplinary projects involving visual arts, choreography and live performance. He lectures at HEAD – Genève (Lab for Interactivity and Programming) and is a co-founder and artistic director of Ensemble Vortex, where he works as both composer and performer. Zea has served as lead artist for multidisciplinary residencies at the Fondation Royaumont, and most recently at GRAME – Centre national de création musicale in Lyon. In 2024, he was featured as the guest artist at the monographic festival Les Amplitudes in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
