Luis Ángel Orduña Gutiérrez is an audiovisual artist born on April 7, 1996, in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and currently based in Mexico City. He studied musical composition at the Florence Academy of Art in Mexico City. He is known for his work in experimental electronic music with the project Ranura Vacía and as the leader and guitarist of the experimental jazz project Antiánima.
Driven by his passion for electronic music, Luis studied Ableton, mixing and mastering, and received private lessons in music production. He also taught himself Tidal Cycles, a live coding musical language. In 2019, Luis began exploring visual creation, learning to use programs such as Blender, TouchDesigner, Resolume Arena, and Hydra.
He presented Antiánima on the television channel “Calle 11” in 2021 and has performed with this project at venues such as Fundación Sebastián in Mexico City. He participated in the Jazzahead! festival in Bremen, Germany, in April 2024, and at the Jazz Burghausen festival in Burghausen, Germany, in March 2025.
With his project Ranura Vacía, he released an EP in 2022 that fuses genres such as glitch, breakcore, ambient, and noise. This EP, accompanied by visuals created by himself, was presented at the LPM Festival in Münster, Germany, in April 2023. In 2025, he released a new EP titled Días Abstractos. He has also collaborated with poets like Blackineel, Ruy Perea and in video poems showcased at various independent festivals in Mexico City.
Luis also played guitar with the GAM Big Band from 2022 to 2023, performing around 100 free concerts per year and participating in the LA NAO Festival in Acapulco, Guerrero, in 2022.
As a composer, he premiered a piece for electronics and three percussionists at the Esperanza Iris City Theater in Mexico City in 2025, a work commissioned by the percussion ensemble Raga Ensamble.
