Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is a Filipina composer, percussionist, and sound artist.

She creates immersive experiences through sound to invite people to connect to their natural and built environments. Ibarra is a 2020 National Geographic Explorer Storyteller, a 2019 Doris Duke United States Artist Fellow in Music, Senior TED Fellow and 2019 Asian Cultural Council Research Fellow in working to preserve and support indigenous music and culture in the Philippines (Musika Katatube), and sound capturing climate change with recordings of glacier melt in the Himalayas.

Recent commissions include the release of a Composer Portrait album with her trio Talking Gong in New Focus Recordings in 2021, “Pulsation” for Kronos Quartet’s “50 for the Future” in 2020, and the performance game piece “Fragility Etudes” for Asia Society Triennial 2021, which examines polyrhythms and interdependence through the structure of Fragility in glass physics. Recent albums include “Walking on Water”, a collaboration with her band DreamTime Ensemble and painter Makoto Fujimura and distributed by Innova Records and Culture Care Creative Inc 2021, and “Master of Time”, a duet with Tashi Dorji, released on Astral Spirits in 2021.