Described by The Wire as an artist "unafraid of working within different disciplines and stylistic constraints" (2015), Pauchi Sasaki's interdisciplinary approach integrates musical composition with the design of multimedia performances and the application of new technologies. A composer, performer, improviser and film director that collaborates actively with projects linked to film, dance, theater, installation, site specific and interdisciplinary performances; Pauchi has performed internationally in Latin America, Europe, USA and Japan.
     
Her music recreates intimate subjective landscapes through electro-acoustic sonorities mixed with field recordings and synthesis. Her compositions involve acoustic, amplified and electronic instrumentation performed through ensemble formats influenced by improvisational aesthetics and ethnic musical traditions. Her work also focuses on the development of real time interactive music and self designed instruments using Max Msp and circuit bending. This branch of her work seeks the embodiment of electronic music performance integrating the emission of electronic sounds with corporal expressivity.

An active film scorer, "Pauchi Sasaki's effective scores" [Variety 2015] are featured in more than 30 feature and short films. Pauchi is the recipient of four "Best Original Score" awards from 29th Festival Cine Ceara (Brazil), 30th Festival de Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste (Italy); Filmocorto, in the 15th International Latin American Film Festival of Lima; and CONACINE, the National Film Council of Peru. She also received the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for excellence in the musical composition of stringed instruments (2014), the Ibermúsicas Latin American grant for sound composition with new technologies at CMMAS, México (2015), The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative selected by American composer Philip Glass (2016), the Goethe-Institut’s artist residency in Brazil (2017) and Berlin (2018), Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2018), and Columbia University’s fellowship at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (2020 & 2023).

     Since 2006 she is devoted to the design of immersive multimedia performances and site specific projects, seeking the interaction between artwork, space and audience. During 7 years she assembled and directed a collective of local artists with the aim to create experimental interventions in unusual venues from Lima city. This process derived in "Muru", an operatic multimedia performance premiered in 2012 at the opera house Teatro Municipal de Lima.
      

Commissions include ACO/Carnegie Hall, The Silkroad Ensemble, Pan American Games Opening Ceremony Lima 2019, among others. Her work has been presented at international venues and festivals as the Tokyo Experimental Festival, Venice Biennale, Carnegie Hall, Cannes Film Festival, Walt Disney Hall, MET, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC Lima), The Kitchen, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Festival Cervantino, the Art Basel Miami week, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

     Pauchi studied with composers César Bolaños, Maggi Payne, John Bischoff, Fred Frith, Chris Brown, James Fei, Les Stuck, Laetitia Sonami and Pauline Oliveros. Her violin style is the result of the exposure to diverse cultures. Her classical violin studies began at age of 5, she studied Andean music at CEMDUC; Classical Music of North India with maestro Ali Akbar Khan in San Rafael, California; and Klezmer music with Alicia Svigals in NYC. She holds a BA degree in Journalism at PUCP in Lima, and an MFA degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College in Oakland, California.

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Premios Platino Best Original Score nomination for the film “Canción sin Nombre”, the Peruvian submission for the Oscars | read
The Dream Feed: Musicians on Motherhood Interview by Zosha Di Castri #podcast | listen
San Francisco Symphony Online premiere of “Sanagi” as part of Claire Chase’s METAMORPHOSIS | July 10th watch
SILKROAD Ensemble Origin Stories: The Making of "Heroes Take Their Stands" | May watch
Pacifica Radio Network Interview by Spoiler Alert Radio about film scoring #podcast| May listen
International Contemporary Ensemble TUES@7 is back focused on collaboration in creating new work | May 4
Columbia University Guest lecturer at Colloquium for Composition Seminar | March 24th

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Density 2036: part iv (2016) Release of “Gama XV: Piece for Two Speaker Dresses” as part of Claire Chase’s four full-length albums of the complete Density 2036 cycles from 2013-2018. The third album in the four-CD compilation features the 2016 cycle of Chase's 23-year commissioning project: world premiere recordings by Richard Beaudoin, Suzanne Farrin, Vijay Iyer, Pauchi Sasaki, and Tyshawn Sorey. more
The Wire Magazine Release of “Mañana, Todavía” soundtrack as part of Below The Radar compilation series | Dec. 11th, 2020 more
Vanderbilt University “Love Transmutation, Episode 7” Moderated by Lorenzo F. Candelaria, Martha Rivers Ingram Dean’s Chair Professor of Musicology in the context of "Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice" forum. Artist intervention and interview | Nov. 11, 10:00 am CST more
Premiere of “Tapao Orccoy” a VR audiovisual experience in collaboration with Juan Carlos Yanaura. October 23rd at 1º Feria Virtual de Música y Sellos Independientes organized by Espacio Fundación Telefónica, CONTRAPEDAL & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima | Oct. 23, 8 pm. more
ICE & bespoken series “Pathways: Art & Technology.” Digital Exploration and Empowerment. Webinar | Oct. 4, 2 pm EST. more
Núcleo Feria Producir Música para Películas. Webinar | Sept. 18, 4 pm. más
Ars Electronica 2020 “k’uKu” selected as part of .ART Global Gallery | 9 - 23 Sept. more

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        "If one artist is continuing the legacy of Peru's avant garde pioneers, it's Pauchi Sasaki."

The Wire 2015.
 

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