I interviewed composer and visual artist Guillermo Galindo. Guillermo was born in Mexico City. He received his Bachelor's degree from Berkeley College in Boston. He received his Master's from Mills College in Oakland. At Mills College he was introduced to composer Pauline Oliveros and other major influences. Mills College merged with the San Francisco Tape Center in the 1960s. The Tape Center was started by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick. The Center also had Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros and several other major influences.  As a result of this merger Mills College has become a hub for New Music. Galindo did a collaboration with Chris Brown called the Transmission Series. He has written a commission for the Kronos Quartet, and Wolfeyes has opened for him. He has had a career that doesn’t seem to be dependent on a dealer or the art market. He seems to respond to the world as he sees it. His most well known recent work was Border Cantos, a collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach. The show became a traveling museum exhibition, and a book published by Aperture. For the show Galindo created primitive musical instruments using objects that had been discarded by people attempting to cross the border illegally into the United States, many fleeing persecution. Misrach took haunting large format photos of a border area devoid of humans. The project was extremely powerful. It’s an example of the humanity of Guillermo Galindo’s work. He is currently working on a project called Sonic Botany for the Huntington Library, Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

His work has been shown at Documenta 14, ICA in Boston, Rollins College Cornell Museum of Fine Art, and several other museums and galleries.