María Dolores A. Matienzo

María Dolores A. Matienzo is a composer, poet, and archivist living on unceded Coast Salish lands in so-called Seattle, Washington. Her recent works explore ritual, sensory experience, immaterial labor, and memory and memorialization. She has performed experimental music for over 20 years under her own name and as Black Tent and maría de los dolores. She publishes her work on her imprint, Imprecision Art. Her work has also been published by Travesties?!, Fantômes, and American Tapes. she’s buoyant, her first score for ensemble performance, premiered in October 2024 at at Base: Experimental Arts & Space in South Seattle.