Ricardo Eizirik (*1985 in Ribeirão Preot, Brazil) is a composer with a broad artistic spectrum that ranges from written music, installations and performances to the performance and production of electronic music. His work focuses on themes such as body perception, banality and the mechanisation of society. Eizirik’s musical aesthetics are characterised in particular by his interest in the friction between control and excess, structure and collapse. To this end, he often draws on archive material, everyday gestures and found objects to create multi-layered, hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between music, visual art and performative actions.

Ricardo Eizirik has received numerous grants and prizes for his work. He has worked with ensembles such as Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Collegium Novum Zurich, Ensemble Adapter, Athelas Sinfonietta, the International Ensemble Modern Academy and Ensemble Talea. Eizirik’s works have been performed at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, ECLAT, Maerz Musik, KLANG, Archipel, Manifeste, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, MUSICA, Nordic Music Days and many others.

In addition to his work in the concert and art world, Ricardo Eizirik also performs under the pseudonym ‘auto_timer’–a DJ and producer identity rooted in left-wing Latin American electronic bass music, with a particular focus on contemporary sounds from Brazil. Known for energetic, cross-genre sets, auto_timer combines deconstructed elements of baile funk, mandelão, bruxaria and broken percussion with experimental approaches to rhythm and texture. Ricardo Eizirik is also one of the founders of CHOKA, a Berlin-based collective and platform specialising in Latin American underground club music.

Ricardo Eizirik is also one of the curators of SuenaLATAM, a festival that celebrates the sounds and diaspora of Latin America. Ricartdo Eizirik sees this club-orientated practice as the basis for his broader artistic concerns, including his exploration of acoustic resistance and artistic identities shaped by experiences of the diaspora.