Born in 1937 in Cordoba, Argentina, Beatriz Ferreyra became a student of music in her early years, playing piano in Buenos Aires before moving to Paris to pursue a career as a painter. She instead joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) "with no qualification except my ears". Regardless, much of her musical work since has been in academia: She’s worked in research departments, lectured at conservatories and held residencies in electronic music at Dartmouth College. Profoundly affected by the disorienting musical methods of Pierre Schaeffer and the GRM - for some time, Ferreyra was the only female composer working with Schaeffer - and contemporaries such as Bernard Parmeggiani, Edgardo Canton and Bruno Maderna, her sonic palette has expanded dramatically over the decades, while remaining just as experimental as in the early days of cutting tape.
