Albert Ortega (b. 1971)

Albert Ortega is a multimedia artist from San Gabriel, Ca. His work is primarily concerned with psychoacoustics—how sound informs feelings, thoughts, and a sense-of-place before it becomes concretized into well-defined forms of music. His visual work often combines photographs of sculptural material with gpu shader graphics to induce otherworldy audio-reactive environments.

Albert has performed and installed at music venues, festivals, universities and ephemeral locations around the Americas, UK, & Europe most notably at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University in Northern Belfast. He has received awards such as the Maybeck Studio Award, as well as the American Composers Forum Subito Grant. Regionally his collaborations span several collectives and organizations in the Los Angeles area. He holds an MFA from CalArts in Music Composition, New Media and Integrated Media. He has taught classes as an Associate Professor of Sound Design at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

2026 marks thirty years of Interstitialist creative practice steeped deep in the ideation phase.