We attended to a very interesting lecture by Derek Baron, a musician and sound artist highly experienced and fully focus on his work, always evolving and finding new inspirations in sound composition. He is a member of the University of New York, city where he resides too and where he runs the majority of his artistic practice.

Amongst his multiple works, I’d like to highlight his installations at a planetarium, where he plays long recordings and music compositions, some of them based on cassette recordings from his young ages. Derek is also influenced by conventional visual art and artists from very diverse fields like impressionism, baroque or cartoons and that becomes a source of inspiration within his musical workflow. His main instrument is the piano, he explained about how this instrument was very important for him as a stress relief during the Covid-19 pandemic, this leaded him to write an album during this time.