Debit
Debit (Delia Beatriz) is a Mexican-American electronic-music composer, producer, DJ, and adjunct professor at NYU whose work fuses performance, archival research, and music technologies spanning ancient acoustics, hardware electronics, computer synthesis, and machine learning. She moves through archaeological, algorithmic, and communal archives, with a primary focus on live concert formats and a deep interest in landmark compositions, site-specific sound installations, and evolving modes of performance. The result is a contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk: an immersive event where music, spatial design, and critical commentary converge in a single, visceral experience.
By tracing music-technology lineages across epochs and scenes, Beatriz reveals the social contexts, power structures, econ-political conditions and AI-driven databases that shape musical aesthetics today. This approach informs The Long Count (Modern Love, 2022). Drawing from her research into Mayan wind instruments and utilizing AI to digitally recontextualize this ancient archive, she created an electro-acoustic masterpiece that transcends time. The record was lauded by The Guardian, BBC Radio 3, and Pitchfork.
Earlier releases trace the same research-to-performance arc, translating regional sonic lineages into experimental electronic formats: Animus (N.A.A.F.I., 2018) recast pneumatic club idioms, developed through fieldwork on various Latin American electronic dance traditions, while System (2020) reverse-engineered tribal guarachero using industrial-techno heuristics.
These works have expanded into large-format installations, concerts, and DJ sets. She has performed in hundreds of shows and festivals worldwide, including Roskilde, Berlin Atonal, SXSW, Norberg Festival, Red Bull Music Festival, Tono, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. She has also been featured in conferences and panels such as the Audio Engineering Society, UNAM’s Aleph, MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK Mexico, and Rewire Festival, among others.
At NYU, she teaches Global Electronic Music, Electronic Music Performance, and Computer-Music Synthesis, guiding artists to combine historical insight, technological experimentation, and critical inquiry as they shape new futures for sound.
@social_handle | website.site
performance