Musica Dispersa

Roberto Vilela (Musica Dispersa)

Roberto Vilela is an independent researcher, curator, and editor working in the fields of sound, performance, and experimental artistic practices. He is the founder and director of Música Dispersa, a platform active since 2012 dedicated to the research, dissemination, and production of sound and performative projects from a feminist, anticolonial, and non-hegemonic perspective. His practice moves between curatorship, critical writing, and the construction of experimental archives, with a sustained focus on displaced genealogies, marginalized bodies, and practices that challenge dominant narratives within art and music history. He has developed editorial, exhibition, and mediation projects that bring together historical research, contemporary experimentation, and community-based work, understanding listening as a situated form of knowledge and a political mode of relating to the world. A central strand of his work unfolds within radio, radio art, and transmission-based sound practices. He has initiated and produced programs, capsules, and hybrid formats that explore radio as an expanded space for research, a living archive, and a form of distributed performance, combining interviews, sonic essays, soundscapes, and narrative experimentation. In this context, radio is approached not merely as a medium of dissemination, but as a critical, relational, and performative device. He is currently based in Bilbao, working in close relation with Donations Project, an independent space for creation, research, and exhibition, where he collaborates on curatorial processes, public programs, and long-term projects connected to sound and performative experimentation. In parallel, he is the author of Ecos desde los márgenes, a long-term encyclopedic project that proposes a feminist and anticolonial history of sound and performativity, conceived as a non-linear cartography and an evolving archive that brings together research, writing, and contemporary sound practices.