Arts Division
Graduate Student
Graduate
Music Center
Rodrigo Barriga is a Mexican composer and performer.
His work explores ensemble interaction and communication through the use of openness and guided improvisation. His compositions include text scores for open instrumentation as well as works for chamber and rock instruments.
Active in the Santa Cruz experimental scene, he performs solo and with the Rodrigo Barriga Ensemble. He has released two albums containing recordings of his compositions, Silere/Continuo (2019), and Quartet (2020).
MA in Music Composition, Mills College
BS in Music Production, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Text scores
Open works
Indeterminacy
Process-based musical structures
Fluxus
Music production and recording
Improvisation
Musicianship
2022 – Art Dean’s Fund for Excellency and Equity, University of California Santa Cruz
2022 – Graduate Dean’s Travel Grant, University of California Santa Cruz
2019 – Margaret Lyon Prize for Outstanding Music Students, Mills College
2023
This Never Happened: A performance of open and indeterminate musical works – A concert of music by the composer written in 2023. Music Center, UCSC.
Rodrigo Barriga Septet at Indexical, Santa Cruz – Performing a selection of graphic and text scores by the composer and other artists.
2020
Quartet, for open instrumentation – Performed by the spontaneous network for improvised music at the das kleine symposion festival in Vienna, Austria.
Solo Bass House Concert – Performance of works by fellow composers on electric bass
Two of Barriga’s text scores will be included in the upcoming “A Year of Deep Listening,” a compilation of text scores by the Center of Deep Listening to be published on Terra Nova Press in Fall 2024.
2020 – Quartet: https://rodrigobarriga.bandcamp.com/album/quartet-2
2019 – Silere/Continuo: https://rodrigobarriga.bandcamp.com/album/sil-re-continuo
