Albert Ortega (b. 1971)

Photo by Christopher Cichocki

Albert Ortega is a multidisciplinary artist from San Gabriel, Ca. His work is mostly concerned with psychoacoustics, how sound informs feelings, thoughts, and a sense-of-place before it becomes concretized into well-defined forms of music His visual work leans toward exhibit design induced by deceptively simple sculptural elements— a type of world building based on momentary designs.

Albert has performed and installed at music venues, festivals, universities and ephemeral locations around the Americas, UK, & Europe most notably at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University in Northern Belfast. He has received awards such as the Maybeck Studio Award, as well as the American Composers Forum Subito Grant. Regionally his collaborations span several collectives and organizations such as The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS), the Wulf, and the Los Angeles Free Music Society(LAFMS). He holds an MFA from CalArts in Music Composition, New Media and Integrated Media. He has taught classes as an Associate Professor of Sound Design at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

2024 marks twenty-eight years of Interstitialist practice.