Felipe Araya

Felipe Araya Muñoz (1978) from Chile has been playing drums and percussions since 1994, supported himself by self-learning and constant exploration. Since 2007, he is active in the fields of experimental and improvised music; by now, he mostly uses his Peruvian cajón horizontally, as a table surface: he rubs, strikes, strokes, scrapes, swipes, slides, drops, stirs and excites different objects and materials, some designed for sound while others not. He has worked with chilean improvisers Edén Carrasco, Santiago Astaburuaga, Nicolás Carrasco (composser), Benjamín Vergara, Luis Toto Alvarez, Tomás Gubbins, Christian Delon and others. Since 2012 Felipe share the duo project REPLICA with Birgit Ulher from Hamburg, Germany, with Ulher has published the Scoriacon CD under the Inexhaustible Editions label.