Andrea Pensado

Sound artist, educator and concert organizer. Her computer programming is oriented towards developing sound systems which emphasize the expressive quality of gestures in performance.

Pensado performs dozens of concerts per year, both national and internationally. Please refer to the website for a complete list of shows. The ones included here are only the main performances.

• 4/27/2023 - Invited to perform at ENDE TYMES festival in NY, NY
• 11/11/2022 Presentation of multichannel piece commissioned by the DIFFUSION FESTIVAL - Baltimore, MD - HIGH ZERO’S FIFTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL of Multichannel Electro-Acoustic Music.
• 4/30/2022 - Invited to perform at the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media - Yale University - New Haven, CT
• 5/8-9/2021 - Invited to perform at the Tectonics Festival Glasgow, UK - Broadcasted by the BBC - An online and on-air version of the festival for 2021
• 4/23/2020: Invited to perform for the Quarantine Concerts organized by the ESS (Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago)
• 10.24.2019: Invited to perform at the Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory as part of the Composers' Series, Boston, MA
• 10.14.2019: Invited to perform a full concert and a talk at the Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL
• 8.1-4.2019: Invited to perform the the XFest Improvisation Festival in Mazotos, Cyprus.
• 3.15.2019: Invited to perform at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• 3.9.2019: Invited to perform at the ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, New York, NY
• 11.3.2018: Workshop and concert at the Experimental Education Series, Milwaukee, WI
• 10.26.2018: Invited to perform by Non-Event at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Brookline, MA
• 3.31.2018: Invited to perform at WONDER VALLEY EXPERIMENTAL X FESTIVAL, Twentynine Palms, CA
• 12.7.2017: Invited to perform at Non-Event 2017 Year-End Fundraiser Concert, Le Laboratoire at the MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 12.1.2017: Invited to perform a live QUADRAPHONIC SHOW at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Northampton, MA.
• 9.12.2017: Invited to perform at I’Klectik Art Lab, London, England.
• 8.15.2017: Invited to perform at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL.
• 12.9.2016: Invited to perform at Rhizome DC, Washington DC.
• 12.3.2016: Invited to perform at LES URBAINES FESTIVAL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 11.24.2016: Invited to perform at TONE DEAF FESTIVAL, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 9.2.2016: Invited to perform at MIT as part of a Non-Event concert series, Cambridge, MA
• 4.22.2016: Invited to perform at Sound Around Kaliningrad International Festival, Kaliningrad, Russia.
• 4.19.2016: Monographic concert at the 30th International Festival of Krakow Composers, Krakow, Poland.
• 12.1.2015: invited to perform at Velak, Viena, Austria.
• 11.29.2015: Invited to perform a full concert at INVISIBLE SHOW, Bergamo, Italy.
• 11.26.2015: Live broadcast at Radio Blackout, Torino, Italy.
• 4.11.2015: Invited to perform at Wonder Valley Experimental, Twentynine Palms, CA.
• 4.30.2015: Invited to perform at Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY.
• 11.15.2014: Invited to perform at La Plante, Montreal, Canada
• 9.18-21.2014: Invited to perform at HIGH ZERO Festival, Baltimore, MD.
• 6.28-29.2014: Invited to perform at Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, FL.
• 5.16.2014: Invited to perform at OPENSIGNAL FESTIVAL, Providence, RI.
• 11.15.2013: Invited to perform at Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland.
• 11.13.2013: Invited to perform at NOVEMBERI JAZZAJ MŰSOR, Budapest, Hungary.
• 10.6.2013: Invited to perform at Sonic Circuits Festival 2013, Washington DC. Played with CRUNCH (Trio with Jack Wright and Walter Wright).
• 4.20. 2013: Invited to perform at Sonoscopia, Porto, Portugal.
• 4.15 to 19.2013: Residency at Conservatório de Música de Seia, Portugal. Presentation of a Multichannel piece developed in their studio. Talk to the community and teaching in a public school.
• 9.11.2012: Invited to perform at Alte Feuerwache - Ahad's Masters Garden, Cologne, Germany.
• 9.1.2012: Invited to perform at GEZ21 (The "Pushkinskaya-10" Art Center), St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 8.30.2012: Invited to perform at ARTPLAY, Moscow, Russia.
• 6.15.2011: Invited to perform at The Full Moon Audio Visual Series V - Brooklyn, NY - Live Multi-phonic Sound Design with Ben Miller, Nikolai Yudanov with projections by Chris Jordan, and movement by Valmonte Sprout.
• 9.15.2010: Invited to perform at EIMAS (International Encounter of Music and Sound Arts) Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brasil.
• 12.11.2009: Invited to perform at State-X New Forms Festival, The Hague, Holland.
• 9.19.2008: Invited to perform at Warsaw Autumn Festival. Full concert dedicated to Qfwfq Duo (Andrea Pensado and Greg Kowalski's Interdisciplinary Duo) in the Warsaw National Philharmonic, Chamber Hall.
• 11.2007: Selected to perform at 2007 International Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland.
• 11.007: Invited to perform at “Muzyka z Mozgu” 3rd International Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• 8.20-26.2007: Selected for residency and performance at the Gloucester New Arts Festival 2007, Gloucester, MA.
• 6.2007: Selected to perform at NIME 2007 (New Instruments of Musical Expression International Festival), New York, 2007 (NYU - Steinhardt)
• 4.10/5.17.2007: Invitation to present “Memory of a Looking Glass”, a sound-visual installation, at 119 Gallery as part of the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival, Lowell, MA.
• 2004: Invited to perform at Der Negative Horizont Festival, Podewil Arts Center, Berlin, Germany.
• 2002: Invited to perform at the Cycle of Electronic Art, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2000: Invited to perform at the Cycle of Contemporary Music organized by the San Martin Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2000: Invited to perform at the International Sound Art Festival EXPERIMENTA 2000, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1999: Invited to perform at the International Sound Art Festival EXPERIMENTA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1998: Invited to perform at the Cycle of Electronic and Experimental Music, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1996: Piece Selected to be performed at the International Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, Holland.
• 1995: Piece Selected to be performed at the International Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, Holland.

Although Pensado performs mainly solos, she has frequently collaborated with other musicians as well. The following is a list of her more stable ensembles throughout the years. 

• UNREDEEMABLE: a duo with Tracy Lisk on bowed cymbals and drums.
• THE IMPENITENTS: a trio with Andy Kivela (drums) and Erik Brown (electronics)
• EVERY CLOUD: a duo with Nico Tracy (electronics)
• LOS CONDENADOS: A quartet with Walter Wright (electronics), Chris Strunk (drums) and Bonnie Kane (Saxophone)
• BATS FROM POGO: A duo with Walter Wright (electronics / drums)
• SHEER ANXIETY: A duo with Chris Strunk (drums / objects) -
• QFWFQ DUO: A duo with Gregory Kowalski (images)

• PREVERBAL: CD by Unredeemable (a duo with Tracy Lisk and Andrea Pensado). Released by LEM (Sudbury, MA)
• 2023: CIRCUS PARADE - CD + Digital Album released by Artsy Records, Finland.
• PHILOPHONIA - CD-R + Digital Album released by Econore Records, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
• 2021: TODOS Y TODO - Collaboration with {AN} Eel - CD-R + Digital Album released by HUMANHOOD RECORDINGS
• 2021: Handle With Care - Tape release by Refulgent Sepulchre. This is a split with Jacob Winans
• 2021: Split with id m theft able. Vinyl LP. Recorded on Sept. 11 2020 in Salem, MA as part of a live zoom series “Quarantunes” organized by Feeding Tube Records.
• 2021: “a pesar de todo” - Tape. Solo. Release with Mutual Aid Records
• 2021: s P L e e N C o F F i N - 7 & 7 series - 7 inch vinyl split. Solo
• 2020: “... on the occasion of this noble feature called human disorder...” Solo. CD release by Cruel Symphonies.
• 2020: VOCAL STUDIES #8. Tape. Solo, released by Econore Records, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
• 2018: AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT. Tape. Solo, released by FTAM Productions, Milwaukee, WI
• 2018: ACCEPTING THE PATH TO LOVE. Tape. Solo, released by Anathema Archive, Portland, ME
• 2015: WITHOUT KNOWING WHY. Vinyl LP. Solo album released by Feeding Tube Records, Florence, MA.
• 2012: YEPPERS! - LOS CONDENADOS. Vinyl LP. Album released by Feeding Tube Records, Florence, MA
• 2011: KTOTAM. CD. Solo album released by Zeromoon, Washington DC.

• 7.3. 2023 to 7.14.2023: Visiting faculty at the MFA program at Bard College, NY.
• 6.19.2019: Presented lecture at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
• 1.28.2019: Presented lecture at the Music Now Series, Brown University, RI
• 5.1.2018: Presented lecture at MassArt, Boston, MA
• 4.25.2016: Presented lecture at the Music Innovation Studies Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• 1.27.2016: Presented lecture at Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
• 10.23.2015: Panel Discussion at Temple University as part of the NowHere Festival, Philadelphia, PA. (Topic: What is Free Improvisation?).
• 12.6.2013: Presented lecture at EventsATBrown, Brown University, Providence, RI.
• 11.15.2013: Presented lecture at the Krakow Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland as part of the Audio Art Festival.
• 8.3 to 8.6.2012: Taught an intensive MaxMSP workshop to Faculty at University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME.
• 11.8.2011: Presented lecture at University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME.
• 9.14.2010: Presented lecture at EIMAS (International Encounter of Music and Sound Arts) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora - Brasil. Topic: Mapping of real time parameters of performance using MaxMSP.
• 11.10.2008: Presented lecture at the Massachusetts College of Arts in Boston, MA.
• 20.11.2007: Presented lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland.
• 21.11.2007: Presented lecture at the Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland.
• 4.14-15 2007: Masters Class (Interdisciplinarity and interactivity in the creative process - Motion tracking with VNS). Part of the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival with funding from the Lowell Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

• 2007 until present: Private Practice. Teaching all levels of instruction in performing, composing and improvisation.
• 2018 to 2020. Critic Faculty at RISD, Providence, RI.
• 1.2005 to 6.2008: Adjunct Faculty of Music Theory at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA.
• 9.2004 to 6.2007: Piano Faculty at MusicWorks Studio, Tewksbury, MA.
• 9.2004 to 1.2005: Music teacher at Salem Academy (performing / listening / composing / theory), Salem, MA.
• 2000 - 2002: Faculty of Modern Art Music at Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2001: Faculty in Acoustics and Music History. Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1997 - 2002: Music teacher at Saint Luke's College (High and Middle school), Olivos, Argentina. Preparation for the University of Cambridge, England, IGCSE in Music (Performing, Composing and Listening.) Band and choral assistant.
• 1996: Instructor of electro-acoustic music at the IV International Contemporary Music Workshop. Krakow, Poland.

• 2010 until present: Curator and producer of SONORIUM, a quarterly series of experimental music in Salem, MA.
• 2002-8.2004: Musical Consultant at International Tango Productions, Inc., Somerville, MA.
• 1998-2002: Conductor of the Choir of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fluent in Spanish, English and Polish.