Diego Alfonso

Diego Alfonso (Mexico–Cuba, 1996) is a percussionist, sound artist, and performance researcher whose work explores sound as an embodied and ecological practice. His projects examine the relationship between deep listening, corporality, and territory through extended percussion, performance, electronics, and sound archives, developed using collaborative and non-extractivist methodologies.

He graduated with Honors from the School of Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and began his graduate studies in 2026 in the Master’s Program in Musical Creation, New Technologies, and Traditional Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2025, he participated internationally as a soloist, as a member of chamber ensembles, and with symphony orchestras, with performances at festivals including FEMUSC (Brazil), Mostly Modern Festival (New York, USA), and SoundSCAPE Festival (Switzerland). During the same year, he collaborated as a percussionist on the debut album of FaB5, a New York–based ensemble composed of string quartet and percussion, currently in residence in New York.

Through his solo percussion project Yo la llamo música (“I Call It Music”), he develops immersive works that integrate extended percussion, electronics, performance, and archival sound, engaging oral memory, community knowledge, and decolonial ecological perspectives. His current projects position listening as a tool for care, resistance, and social transformation.