Juan Esteban Herrera A.K.A. Ruido Selecto is an artist, producer, and sound engineer from Colombia. He is interested in the archive, remix studies, sound studies, audio technology, and improvisation with studio recording devices. His music often utilizes techniques such as audio separation, sampling, synthesis, audio mixing, and computer-assisted composition. He currently investigates the phenomena of audio production, reproduction, and amplification that have emerged in the Caribbean and Latin America, such as the soundsystem and dubmixing (Jamaica), the picó and champeta (Colombia), and the sonidero (Mexico), from a technical, artistic, and cultural point of view based on hybridization concept. Under this approach, he produced “14 cañonazos en dub,” an album of remixes created from the intervention of the musical archive of the label “Discos Fuentes,” one of the most important labels in the development of cumbia and “tropical music” in Latin America. This research and Installation allowed him to obtain a laureate degree in Digital Arts master’s at ITM (Medellin), and as a result of this work, he published a book chapter and an article based on this research.
As a live electronic performance artist and guitarist, he has had the opportunity to show his work in different parts of the world, such as Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad de las Artes (Guayaquil), Auditorio de Tenerife (Canary Islands), Sala BBK (Bilbao), Palacio Nacional (Bogota) the Pablo Tobón Theater, Altavoz Festival (Medellin), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín MAMM, Circulart, among others. His profile is complemented by his academic activity as a lecturer at Universidad ITM and Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, where he has been teaching classes in the areas of sound design, audio mixing and mastering, synthesis, and audio history.
Juan Esteban Herrera is a professional in recording arts and music production (B.A.), has a Master’s Degree in Digital Arts (M.A.) from Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano ITM (Medellín, Colombia), and has a specialization (Graduate Diploma) in music post-production from Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín.