Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician whose works reveal spectral and material relationships embedded among architectures, acoustic systems, and micro-histories. Attentive to phenomenology and malleability, he makes sound, images, and installations; allowing room for frenetic processes and outcomes. His commitment to collective knowledge production through art practice and performance began as an experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist. He continues to perform experimental music and improvisation within group settings.

Daniel Melo Morales lives and works in San Francisco, California. He received an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English from Kenyon College. He was a Community Action Fellow at Blue Sky Center in 2023 where he created an interactive sound-map using open-source software with sounds recorded by community members to their phones. Communicating his experience in the United States as the son of Colombian immigrants, and absorbing ongoing conversations regarding their relationship to sound, he worked with the community to link an underlying sonic network ultimately synthesized into an accessible form. He was an artist in residence at SOMA (CDMX), Rogers Foundation, La Ira de Dios, a participating artist in Sonsbeek20-24 Curating Noise, and an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts for three consecutive years (2016 - 2019). Solo exhibitions with sonic performances include the University of Rochester in New York (2023) and the University of San Francisco. His photography was included in an exhibition curated by Getty Museum’s Senior Curator of Photographs and he has exhibited at Mite Galería, Big Sur, and Laboratorio de Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For a group exhibition in 2023, his photographs were installed on multiple floors of the Marin County Civic Center, a public administration building serving the county.