Elías Merino is a Madrid-based artist working primarily with sound. His practice spans installation, composition, and live performance, moving between algorithmic abstract computer music, experimental electronics, and instrumental works. He often explores turbulence and vehemence through timbral physicality, shifting temporal perspectives, fragmented narratives, and the poetics of otherness.
He also develops parallel interests around speculative futures and fiction, post-digital materiality, notions of the sacred, and object-oriented composition, which occasionally inform and intertwine with his musical practice. Alongside his solo work, he collaborates in several ongoing projects: he is one half of the audiovisual duo SYNSPECIES (with Tadej Droljc) and of Grievous Bodily Harmonics (with Rian Treanor).
His work has been exhibited across Japan, the US, UK, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Latin America, Serbia, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Portugal, Taiwan, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Finland or The Netherlands. He has performed in festivals and venues such Sónar Festival (Barcelona and Istambul), MUTEK (Montreal and Mexico), Philharmonie de Paris (NEMO Biennale), Node, L.E.V. Festival, Semibreve, Cafe OTO, Lunchmeat Festival, HCMF (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Sonica Glasgow, MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Rumania, La Casa Encendida, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Matadero Madrid, or MNCARS to mention a few. His recorded albums have been released in different labels including Room40 or SUPERPANG among others.
Elías Merino holds a Masters Degree in sonic arts and PhD in composition at CeReNeM (Centre for Research in New Music).