Mauricio Reyes, was born in Mexico City. He is the founder and creator of the Fluxus Sonus International Art Movement, an evolving platform dedicated to recontextualizing sound, media, and experimental art practices for contemporary and future generations. His career has alternated between Music and Fine Arts. He studied graphic design at Middlesex University in London, UK. During his master’s studies at Kent State University in Ohio, he focused on Kinetics and digital music composition, where he engaged with the work of theorists such as Iannis Xenakis and Bruno Maderna. A fascination with the work of Luigi Russolo pushed him to experiment with non-musical objects to produce sound. Lacking the means to remix these early experiments, he joined Open Notes, the radiophonic experimentation workshops in Baltimore, Maryland.
Fascinated by the possibilities of digital media, Reyes began experimenting with multiple recordings playing simultaneously, as well as reversing sound materials. Seeking absolute creative freedom, he founded his own label, Telekinett Records (www.telekinett.com, 2001–2008), devoted to the preservation, study, and promotion of experimental, atonal, electronic, and electroacoustic music.
In addition to a lifetime of music collecting and the study of a broad range of musical genres, Reyes has exercised his creative practice as a typographer and graphic designer, studying at universities in Mexico City, London, UK, and Kent State University in the United States. “The connection between music and the visual arts is inevitable,” Reyes states. Beginning in 2004, he produced music for other artists, firmly believing that all visual elements of an album cover must be deeply rooted in and conceptually connected to the music itself.
Currently, Reyes collaborates with several eminent electroacoustic artists on projects rooted in specific artistic movements, including Vorticism, Constructivism, Futurism, and DADA. His forthcoming project is titled DADA Musik. He is the creator, curator, and coordinator of Beet Stretch 2.0: Meta Tones Et Symphonia Extenta, and the founder of the Ambisonic Guild, a collective of contemporary electroacoustic artists collaborating across countries and time zones.
Also a typographer and painter, Reyes is the creator of the Electroacoustic Abstractionism art movement, in which works of art are not confined to the field of hearing alone but unfold as multidimensional, multi-experiential processes connecting the viewer, the environment, and the artwork. Reyes based his artistic name on the track Cycom by ClockDVA. Reyes currently lives in Lewes with his partner Reed in Delaware, USA.
