Miggy Torres (b. 1992) is a composer and interdisciplinary artist.

A musical omnivore, Miggy constantly strives to express himself in new and challenging ways. The result has been an experimental artistic style that often transcends various media—including music, theatre, film, interactive media, and performance art—with the ultimate goal of immersing the audience in parallel realities, florescent mythologies, and transformative æsthetic experiences.

Miggy's artistic approach is underpinned by anthropological, psychosocial, and semiotic conceptions of how we experience the world around us. Influenced in part by the the work of Durkheim, Geertz, Eliade, Saussure, Deleuze, and Derrida, among others, Miggy's work is predicated on the idea that:  

1) Perceptions of reality are generated in the mind by a densely interwoven system of symbols. 2) These symbols give meaning to everything we experience. That is, for something to have meaning to someone it must be coded in their mind as a symbol. Moreover, 3) These symbols can be generated by myth—windows into new realities that describe how things ought to be, how things ought not to be, what things have value, and what things even exist. 4) All of art is myth abstracted. A work of art is a window into a new reality with its own system of symbols. 5) When the reality of the work of art collides with the reality of one’s everyday life, the two symbolic webs intersect and interact (interpretation), giving way to new truths and new perceptions of reality. 

Recent interests include machine improvisation; augmented reality; sociological explorations of Millennial culture and identity; works generated by specific physical interactions between performer and instrument; rendering electroacoustic processes with non-electronic means; degradation of memory; and contrapuntal relationships between sound, video, and theatre.  

Originally from South Windsor, CT, Miggy holds degrees in Music Composition from Indiana University (Travers, Gibson, Hass, Freund) and Ithaca College (Grossmann, Wilson). Additional summer studies at IRCAM (Tarakajian, Malt), Paris. 

Miggy is of Greco-Puerto Rican descent. In addition to music, he also loves writing and keeps an active digital collection of writings on æsthetics, the creative process, and other delightful topics.