Benjamin Muñoz

Research-Creation Work

2025–2026 What I cannot hear without you: Leisure and creative listening as methodology Graduate researcher · EINA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Supervisors: Andrea Soto Calderón and Raúl Oliva Investigation of leisure and creative listening as means of producing knowledge in regards to sociality. Conducted with research-creation methods combining field recording, sound-diagramming and listening-based composition, conceptually framed through transduction. [Original thesis title: Lo que no escucho sin ti: El ocio y la escucha creativa como metodología.] 2020–present fuit.es Digital Anarchive Co-founder, co-designer and lead developer · Open-source platform · https://fuit.es Conceptual and technical development of a platform for collaborative artistic research, experimental archiving practices and multimodal publishing. 2024–present Digital Compost Software architect and technical director · https://github.com/fuit-es/digital-compost A real-time media processing system that applies principles of organic compost to digest digital media and produce new aggregates based on varying degrees of contrast between elements. 2019–2021 SenseLab / Three Ecologies Institute Researching artist & frontend developer · Montréal, Canada Participated in collective reading, discussion and practice-based research. Developed experimental interfaces for digital publishing and research-creation for the 3E Process Seedbank.

Publications

2023 A Pool of Pulls: Landing Sites as Propositions for Digital Collective Spaces ApSimon-Megens, M., Hoogendoorn, A., & Muñoz, B. · Co-author · In N. Mimura & T. Kadobayashi (Eds.), Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century: After Arakawa and Madeline Gins · pp. 316–320 · NPO Ratik A collaboratively authored account of the philosophical and spatial propositions informing fuit.es.

Professional Development Work

2020–2025 Full-stack software developer Agency Undone / Undone Ventures · Montréal, Canada Development of web products across frontend engineering, application architecture, UI implementation, backend services and APIs. Projects used primarily Vue, Nuxt, JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js. Selected client projects include: Operad for Devonian Systems (2023); Singularity for Protocol Labs (2023); Fishbowl Inventory (2022); Web3.Storage (2022); Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web for Protocol Labs (2021); Slingshot Data Preservation Programs for Protocol Labs (2020–2021). 2023 Frontend designer and developer The Indeterminacy Festival · New York, United States Desig and development of the Indeterminacy Festival portfolio website.

Teaching and Facilitation Experience

2022–2024 Recording Club Co-founder and facilitator · Gold Learning Centre, Miriam Foundation · Montréal, Canada Co-founded and facilitated a weekly sound-making group for neurodivergent adults. Developed participant-directed approaches to collective composition, listening and recording in response to the group’s developing interests and access needs. 2023–2026 Participatory workshops with fuit.es Facilitated workshops introducing artists and researchers to fuites and exploring how to use it in their research-creation practices, across pedagogical contexts including Central Technical School, the Indeterminacy Festival residency programme, and EINA Centre of Design and Art in Barcelona.

Workshops, Presentations and Interviews

Nov 2022 A Proposition for Proliferating Perspectives: When to Start Recording? Workshop and presentation · The Listening Academy · Titanik Gallery · Turku, Finland · With Anouk Hoogendoorn · Co-developer and facilitator A two-day participatory workshop using recording and deferred listening to multiply perspectives on an event. 2022 RollingUnrolling: Landing Sites as Propositions for Digital Collective Spaces Pre-recorded video conference paper · AGxKANSAI 2022 · Kyoto University of the Arts · Kyoto, Japan · Co-author and presenter Presented the conceptual foundations of fuit.es through Arakawa and Gins’s philosophy of the architectural body and digital spaces understood as landing sites. Visuals by Matisse ApSimon-Megens and text co-authored with Anouk Mirte Hoogendoorn. 2022 Careful Sounds Radio interview · Sound in Action · Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee · Online · Interview participant Discussion of Rollingunrolling and practices concerned with unheard sounds, participation, intimacy, memory and how a work may participate in its own emergence.

Selected Sound and Composition Work

2024 Rolling Unrolling Album · fuit.es music · Co-composer and producer Seven compositions created through listening-based practices with recordings of leisure spaces. 2024 Soon A Memory Album · fuit.es music · Mixing and guitar Mixing for album written by Vincent Paradis-Montplaisir & Jonah Bild-Lowrie. 2023 A Light Step Track · Re:Conceive 2 Compilation · Composition, recording and production As rollingunrolling: contribution to compilation album Re:Coneive 2, a project raising money for The Native Women's Shelter and The Just Solutions Clinic of Tiohtiá:ke:, also known as Montréal. 2020 Ovaling Track · Re:Conceive Compilation · Composition and production As Non-being Ad Nauseam: contribution to compilation album Re:Coneive, a project raising money for The Native Women's Shelter and The Just Solutions Clinic of Tiohtiá:ke:, also known as Montréal. 2019 Textual Feelers Video · Three Ecologies Institute · Montréal, Canada Sound for video by Anouk Mirte Hoogendoorn and Matisse ApSimon-Megens.

Selected Creative Outputs, Exhibitions and Performances

Oct 2026 Moodworm Performance · La Sala Rossa · Montréal, Canada · Partner: Codes d’accès · Musician and lead developer Forthcoming collective improvisation and first public implementation of Digital Compost, using real-time musician audio and a projected interface. June 2026 Tug of four Research-creation installation · EINA / Galería Àngels · Barcelona, Spain Multi-person tension based instrument developed through master’s research developed into a participatory musical instrument. 2021–2024 Tiny Sounds Monthly radio program · Still.fm · Montréal, Canada Experimental radio program showcasing music made from tiny sounds. Each month's episode framed through a specific concept and often accompanied by guest artists. 2023 Goodnight Anteism Festival des Arts Entrelacés · Anteism Books · Montréal, Canada Public, real-time collective composition and improvisationwith digital media on fuit.es. 2020 Non Being Ad Nauseam Art Matters Festival · Écomusée du Fier Monde · Montréal, Canada Collaborative improvised performance combining live sound, movement and video. 2019 Minor Movements SenseLab · Jacuzzi Collective, Amsterdam; AIR Lab, IT University, Copenhagen; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia Collaborating sound artist in a series of emergent, collectively improvised installations and performances.

Grants and Funded Projects

Artist Residencies

2024 Indeterminacy Festival Emerging Artist residency New York Arts Program · Governors Island · New York City, United States · Residency: May 6–31 · Festival intensive labs and performances: June 2–9 · Artistic Director: Stanzi Vaubel Invited as an Emerging Artist to develop independent work and collaborate with the festival’s lead artists, Lili Maya & James Rouvelle, building an interactive sound installtion. across sound installation and , dance, visual art and performance. 2021 Créer des ponts Art Souterrain residency · Centre de Commerce Mondial de Montréal (Allied) · Montréal, Canada · Participating artist Construction and exhibition of a sound and sculpture installation acting as a physical extension of the fuit.es platform, then an interactive online music label. Sculptures pictured by collaborator Niko Pageau-Timar.

Education