Cristian Amigo is a Latinx composer, sound artist/designer, guitarist, producer, and educator. Amigo is sound practices faculty @ CalArts in the Department of Experience Design and Production in the School of Theater. Amigo’s awards include a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (music composition), and a Senior Fulbright Scholar/Artist Fellowship (Bolivia). He earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA and studied with masters from various performance traditions.
Amigo plays Fender telecasters, Ibanez semi-hollow bodies, and Falcon and Aria nylon string guitars. He is partial to post-jazz improvisation, Afro-Latin American and Brazilian music, Led Zeppelin, blues, Dub, slow beats, and ecological and surrealist soundscapes. Amigo lives with his family in LA and New York City.
Amigo is currently an artist-in-residence at INTAR Latino Theater in New York City. Recent productions include the geo-located theater/music/sound piece Lives of the New Kind of Saints (texts by Migdalia Cruz) selected by USITT for the American design exhibit at PQ23 (Prague Quadrennial 2023).
Email: camigo@calarts.edu
CalArts Faculty Bio: https://theater.calarts.edu/faculty-and-staff/cristian-amigo
CRISTIAN AMIGO, Ph.D. : music/design/production 