American-Peruvian songwriter, singer and performer Briana Marela Lizárraga was raised in Olympia, Washington's music scene after moving there from her birthplace of Seattle where she began giving concerts and publishing albums. She went back to a more experimental sound focus after earning an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, in contrast to her electronic pop commercial recordings for independent label Jagjaguwar.
Her most recent work focuses on improved items, gesture-based embodied technology and speech. Her expressive song performances incorporate elements of pop music with a strong vocal component and experimental electronic music. She is able to create specialized tools to work with wearable wired and wireless devices by utilizing machine learning and the visual coding language MaxMSP.
She has received grants from the AAUW Career Development Grant from the Allied Arts Foundation. She has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe with musicians including Jenny Hval, Waxahatchee and Emel Mathlouthi. She has performed at events like Decibel, Sasquatch and Green Man (UK). Billboard, Interview Magazine, and Vogue have all conducted interviews with her. For their album honoring the constitutional amendments, Radiolab's More Perfect Podcast commissioned her to create a song on the Fourteenth Amendment.
One of her most recent albums, You Are A Wave, was published independently and features experimental electronic music with a focus on voice and Buchla 100. The album is defined by the pain of her father's untimely death..

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