Nina Garcia
Nina Garcia. Photo by Greg Clement.
The music of Nina Garcia experiments in the halfway place between improvisation and noise.
In her practice, devices are reduced to the minimum: a guitar, a pedal, an amplifier — undecorated yet essential tools in carving out sound from chaos. In the solo project Mariachi, Garcia pays close attention to the gestures, complexities, and history of her guitar: its resonances, its limits, its extensions, and its impurities. These details appear across Garcia’s soundscapes, physical irregularities accentuated through her use of feedback, crackling, short circuit, impact, speaks and unexpected notes. During this process, moments of unexpected perfection rise from the depths of Garcia’s crafted cacophony — expertly placed chords threading through the tumult. In this duality between harmony and chaos sits Garcia, more like a duet than a solo, a stunning blend of technical mastery and total freedom.
