Alejandro Franco Briones, Diego Villaseñor de Cortina (Videco), Iván López Pineda
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Pirarán is a networked ensemble that hallucinates with mad light-ganglia and one-legged silences. Their algorithmic acid music oscillates between the aridity and emptiness of the post-end of time. The ensemble is made up of Iván López (Morelia, MX), Diego Villaseñor (Mexico City, MX) and Alejandro Franco Briones (Ontario, CA).
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Pirarán is a networked ensemble of algorithmic acid music that combines the sound of analogue and digital synthesisers with live coded soundscapes and dance vectors. Pirarán attempts to provide (audio)visions of a world beyond the post-end of times. The band is influenced by Xeno-harmonic and poly-temporal music forums, Latin-American popular modernism (Pérez Parado, Cumbia chichadélica, and MicoRex), and music genres like vaporwave, hippie synth music, techno, glitch, industrial, ambient and noise. Pirarán also draws extensively (and expropriates when deemed fit) from ideas, words and visions that give meaning to the music like Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Ursula K. Le Guinn, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Nancy Fraser, Manuel Maples Arce, Gayatri Spivak and Heriberto Yépez. Pirarán has existed since early 2022 when they recorded the side A of the Algorithmic Acid Music album. They had a mini-tour that summer performing in Morelia and Mexico City. They later released A la vørtex for the label Cjantal in the anthology Nijbla. In the fall 2022 they performed at the legendary music venue the Phog in Windsor (Canada) and they estimate 2023 will be the year of the premiere of the side B of the album and perhaps even a side C. The ensemble is made up by Iván López (Morelia, MX), Diego Villaseñor (Mexico City, MX) and Alejandro Franco Briones (Hamilton, Ontario, CA).