photo credit: Zoe Tiller

Marc Perez is a composer, performer, improviser, artist, author, curator and organization leader whose work is concerned with freedom of agency, access, antidisciplinary arts & improvisation. 

As a performer, they have been featured at various festivals such as High Desert Soundings, Woodstockhausen & Angel City Jazz Festival. As a composer, their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces ranging from universities and festivals to community resource centers and DIY spaces. 

They are a heavy practitioner of text in combination with sound, often creating text scores, poems, installations & art relating to both sound and text. 

Along with working as a curator for various shows, community focused events, and festivals throughout the year, They are also the co-founder and co-director of Sudden Somethings, an organization dedicated to the proliferation of activities, knowledge, research, and communal practices in improvisation across disciplines and non-disciplines. 

They have published articles and prose with NYU’s Journal of Experimental Practice, Rented Tech Zine, Art Block Zine, and Phreaking Collective’s “Phreaking Magazine”. They also have an upcoming book release featuring a collection of text scores, to be printed by Thousands Press. They are currently a doctoral student in Music Composition at University of California, Santa Cruz.