Koyoltzintli Miranda-Rivadeneira

Koyoltzintli is a sound artist and instrument maker working at the intersection of sculpture, performance, and ritual. Through the reconstruction of ancient ceramic instruments from the Americas, she uncovers a language encoded in sound — knowledge preserved in vibration, hidden in plain sight. Her practice draws on Andean cosmology, ancestral iconography, and the materials of the earth itself: clay, bone, stone, and metal. When she plays, the body becomes a vessel — not only for human audiences, but for the natural world. Her work is an act of remembering, repair, and return.