Alejandra Cárdenas is an artist and experimentalist from Lima, Peru, currently residing in Berlin. She creates electroacoustic music, blending elements of noise, pop, avant-garde, and ambient.

Her performances are characterized by high intensity due to the gradual building of tension and layering of sound during the concert, utilizing a wide range of guitar techniques and sampling devices. Her work encompasses various forms such as live concerts, albums, and multimedia works. She considers herself a sound researcher.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in art history at the National University of San Marcos in Lima (2014), a master’s degree in sound studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (2018), and further postgraduate Studies in History and Culture of Science and Technology at the Technische Universität Berlin (2019).

She began performing in the 2000s on Lima’s underground scene. However, Ale Hop’s international recognition dates back to 2012, when she won a residency at the Red Bull Music Academy and performed at Boiler Room for the first time. Since then, she has performed at festivals such as MUTEK, CTM Festival, Heroines of Sound, Nrmal, Unsound.

Last year, she initiated two collaborative projects: Agua Dulce with drummer Laura Robles, focusing on Afro-Peruvian rhythms (this endeavor was highlighted as the world album of the month by The Guardian) and a project with Tatiana Heuman, experimenting with self-made South American clay instruments and storytelling.

She founded the Radical Sounds Latin America festival and currently runs the Contingent Sounds publishing platform, aiming to facilitate critical discourse and artistic research. When not working on her solo projects, she creates scores for films, dance projects, and theatrical productions.

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