Rocio Zavala – Invisible Miracles (2022)

Invisible Miracles is the debut album by Rocio Zavala, a visual and sound artist from Mexico currently based in Chicago. Her work connects the space between spirituality and science in the most natural terrain where both exist – the human body. She builds her own electronic instruments, including synthesizers and zither, that often integrate light and electricity from the human body as modulators. While exploring the boundaries of these instruments, she creates haunting, sublime compositions that access the materiality and metaphysics within wave spectra and listening.

Invisible Miracles is a journey through many years of experiences, travels, and states of consciousness. A collection of recordings and live performances made in Chicago and Hidalgo, Mexico between 2016-2021, each track was composed differently using a combination of synthesis, field recording, sampling, improvisation, looping, light amplification, and diy circuitry. Drawing on a wide-range of inspiration – a Hindu temple in Chicago where she focused on her meditation and yoga practice, Dadaist-influenced cut up and automatic writing techniques, the supernatural lore surrounding the mountains of La Estanzuela – the pieces channel the inevitable oscillation between states of the body and amplified sound as magnetized and electrified energy.

Monastral presents Invisible Miracles on May 6 as a digital download and limited edition cassette.