Susana López aka Susan Drone.
Sound Artist, Experimental Composer and Researcher from Spain.

Interdisciplinary artist with audiovisual background and degree in Electroacoustic Composition. My artistic practice spans abstract compositions, audiovisual installations, and immersive concerts, with a focus on exploring the transformative potential of sound and light. By working with these intangible elements, I investigate how they shape space, alter perceptions of time, and create profound sensory experiences.

Since 2009, I have composed experimental, abstract, electronic, ambient, dark ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. My works combine field recordings, synthesizers, and layers of vocal harmonics, weaving dense, hypnotic soundscapes. My discography includes nine albums, such as Materia Vibrante (2025, Elevator Bath), Stupor Mundi (2023, Vestíbulo), The Edge of the Circle (2022, Elevator Bath), and Crónica de un secuestro (2020, Elevator Bath), which was recognized as a Top Ten Drone International album by A Closer Listen. Other notable works include Huldra (2020, Crystal Mine), Looms (2019), Four Sinusoids to Eliane (2019, Important Drone Records), Megalitomanía (2014), and Vortex (2011).

I have also contributed to international compilations such as Pandemic Response Division (Spectral Electric, 2020, Chicago), From Here to Tranquility, Volume 11 (Silent Records, California), and Artifariti (Encuentros Internacionales de Arte y Derechos Humanos del Sáhara Occidental), among others.

My sound work has been exhibited in prestigious venues, including Audiosfera. Experimentación sonora 1980–2020 at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (Madrid).

As a live performer, I have participated in festivals and events such as Sound Art Ausstellung cckpt (2024, Düsseldorf), Festival Sónikas (2023, Madrid), New European Bauhaus Party at COAMU (2022, Murcia), Réplika Teatro (2021, Madrid), Festival Morada Sónica (2022, Almería), ENSOLab (2020, Alicante), and Festival LEM (2019, Barcelona), among others.

In addition to performance, I have designed and produced sound art installations, including Transforming Landscapes (2018, Norway), Transforming Landscapes II (2019, Murcia), and Transformando el paisaje III at CAB (2019, Burgos). My collective sound installation Sonorous Architectures was featured at CentroCentro (2013, Madrid).

Since 2001, I have collaborated with musicians as a creator of artwork, videos, visuals, and stage lighting for projects by Schwarz, Artificiero, Farniente, Mist, and Thomas Bey William Bailey.

In 2013, I completed a Master’s in Sonology, where my thesis, The Politics of Noise, explored the intersections of sound experimentation and ideological militancy.

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