Active relations
Active relations
Sound, tools, space, and writing feed one another. The site is organized as an entry surface into those relations, not as a rigid inventory.
Diego Madero Islas
I work across generative music, software, research, material infrastructure, and writing as connected parts of a single practice.
- Domains
- sound · tools · space · writing
- Method
- research + making + maintenance
- Structure
- connected projects, not isolated categories
Conceptual coherence
One practice, multiple operating scales.
The same logic appears across sound systems, software tools, spatial experiments, publishing structures, and writing: define conditions carefully, observe what they make possible, and refine the relation between perception, use, and meaning.
Conceptual map
Domains of practice
These domains work as navigation lenses. Each one opens a zone of the work, but the relations between them are central to the practice.
Enter
Sound & publishing
Generative music systems, experimental releases, sonic performance, and infrastructures for publishing, archiving, and circulation.
Intersects with systems, performance, editing, and writing.
Enter
Systems & tools
Software, interfaces, prototypes, and technical structures that make a process visible, operable, or repeatable.
Intersects with music, applied research, and working infrastructure.
Enter
Spaces & material systems
Territorial, economic, and material systems: hospitality, production, fermentation, agro-experimentation, and organized everyday life.
Intersects with craft, ecology, and the conditions that sustain practice.
Enter
Writing & research
Essays, notes, and conceptual frameworks on autonomy, complexity, technology, culture, and contemporary systems.
Gives language to the questions running through the rest of the work.
Flagship layer
Primary systems at the center.
The homepage highlights flagship systems. Child projects remain connected to their parent nodes, and archive material appears deeper in the site where lineage can be read with more context.
Sound / Systems
Sound / Systems
Sound systems, publishing structures, and long-running sonic lineages.
Flagship
GRIDI
Primary node for generative rhythm systems, sequencing logic, and compositional structures.
Flagship
Resonance Garden
A primary node for resonant environments, listening structures, and spatialized sonic research.
Subnodes
Flagship
.dm
Electronic and algorithmic music project with releases across several labels since 2009.
Flagship
RKRRK
Experimental drone and ambient project for long-form sound, texture, and live electronics.
Flagship
MDK
Collaborative flagship for collective releases, broadcasting, and shared sonic infrastructure.
Systems / Design
Systems / Design
Software, interfaces, tools, and design infrastructures built as practice nodes.
Space / Infrastructure
Space / Infrastructure
Territorial, material, and everyday infrastructures that sustain the work.
Conceptual
Conceptual
Conceptual systems that name, connect, and orient the rest of the practice.
Working framework
About, documents, and a short framework note remain available as a secondary layer.
The homepage foregrounds domains and relations. Biography, trajectory, formal dossiers, and a concise practice framework remain available as a second layer for collaborators, curators, institutions, or press.
CV archive
Selected dossiers
A compact archive of CV variants remains available from the homepage without turning the landing page into a bio-first presentation.