Percussionist and sound artist from Santiago de Chile, has been active since 1998 focusing on improvisation and experimentation with Cajón, drums and simple objects in concerts, performances and sound actions in public spaces too.
He has developed experimental work with the Afro-Peruvian Cajón, exploring its sonic and timbral possibilities in improvisation and sound art. Treating it as a resonant geometric object, he uses non-traditional positions and techniques like rubbing, striking, and scraping with various materials. His work includes solo and collaborative pieces, focusing on the Cajón’s geometry, materials, and the spaces during interventions. In this context, he has created a metal Cajón for sound experimentation.
Improvised and experimental percussion using the Afro-Peruvian instrument in an extended way as a utilitarian sound object. Concerts in solo and ensembles.
Experimental sound and audiovisual project with trumpet, cajons and objects since 2012 by Birgit Ulher.
_FÁRRAGO
Improvised music in a duo with guitarist, composer, and Copenhagen-based graphic artist, Tomás Gubbins.
_CAJON 1mt/min Sound action where a Peruvian cajón is dragged with a rope from one end at a speed of 1 meter per minute.
_SOLSTICIOS Y EQUINOCCIOS Performance
Sound action in public spaces where every four years since 2012, sounds are played during each of the astronomical events of the year in the Southern Hemisphere (June, September, December, March, June), with a sound action lasting 24 minutes.
The versions have been held in 2012-13 in Valdivia, Chile (solo format), then in 2016-17 (duo format), and in 2022-23 (trio format), both in Santiago de Chile. They have featured the participation of musicians Nicolás Carrasco, Antonia Valladares, Eduardo Astudillo, and Francisca Echeverría. The next action is planned for 2026-27 in a quartet format, and so on.
_FUERZA LABOR Trio
Fuerza Labor is a jazz-inspired trio formed in 2016 by drummer Felipe Araya, along with Edén Carrasco on winds and Santiago Astaburuaga on bass. They blend improvisation and composition, creating a distinctive sound marked by long, full sound blocks, abrupt cuts, and dynamic transitions.
2008 Paisatgesw/Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Barcelona
NEXT CONCERTS♫
25.04.2025 TOMA CHOCOLATE #12. SOWIESO, Berlin Extended solo set cajones and other objects Toma Chocolate is organized by Mariá Portugal Facebook event
(The Wire) Araya is an improvising Chilean percussionist who has chosen as his primary focus the Peruvian cajón, a boxy instrument that sort of looks like a plywood table. Not that I can actually read the notes. But it’s still a highly interesting mix of neo-environmental sounds and music, regardless of who, what or where. Byron Coley
(Sound Projector) Felipe Araya is a Chilean performer who takes an unorthodox and minimalist approach to playing his Peruvian cajón, a box-shaped percussion device. The conventional way to play it is to strike the sides of the box with sticks or hands. Instead, Araya uses it like a table-top with various small objects laid on top of it, which he rubs and strikes and scrapes. Ed Pinsent
(Cassette Gods) Felipe Araya acts upon his cajon like so: rub, smoosh, flutter, clack, swipe, squeak, massage, caress, shuffle, drag, scrape, massage, tinkle, creak, shudder!… do not look for rhymes or reasons here. Jacob An Kittenplan
(Disaster Amnesiac) He plays the Peruvian Cajon, a quite simply structured percussive box with a large hole in its middle. Felipe experiments with the Cajon’s tones and textures, utilizing extended techniques such as rubbing, sliding, kneading, and dropping it. It’s really quite cool to hear musicians from different parts of the world experimenting upon instruments that are pretty much indigenous to them. Mark Pino
PAST CONCERTS
2025
05.03 Neu Berlin Institute of Improvised Music. PAS, Berlin w/Will Pethick, Trombone + Johannes Koch, Drums + Lilu Herlambang, Visuals 23.01 Workshop: Material Cajón, volumetric sound interactions and tridimensional scores with cajón. Bien Contemporary, Copenhagen 24.01 Solo set w/Lotte Anker. FIMARA n°11, Cap30, Copenhagen 25.01 FÁRRAGO w/Tomás Gubbins + Sarah Buchner, Asger Thomsen, Mika Persdotter, Sarvin Asa, Anne Andersson. Cap30, Copenhagen 26.01 Sound Walk – FÁRRAGO + Friends. Field recordings in/on Copenhagen 27.01 FÁRRAGO w/Tomás Gubbins. Recording session, Copenhagen «This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union».
2024
30.10 w/Siri Salminen, Carina Khorkhordina, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
28.09 Réplica w/Birgit Ulher, Café Plume, Berlin
08.09 Réplica w/Birgit Ulher, Gregory Büttner, Tam Pham, Hamburg
14.07 Emilio Gordoa Ensemble (w/Sofia Borges, Eric Bauer, Max Glass). PAS, Berlin
12.07 w/Gustavo Obligado, Edith Steyer. Dim Things, Berlin
02.07 w/Hada Benedito, Kellen Mills, Edén Carrasco. Untergründ, Berlin
21.06 w/Lorena Izquierdo. Exploratorium, Berlin
22.05 Solo performance Cajón 1mt/min. Cafe Plume, Berlin
16.05 Réplica. Kühlspot, Berlin
18.04 Solo (drum kit), PAS, Berlin
24.02 Réplica. Sowieso, Berlín
25.01 Réplica. PAS, Berlin
2023
18.11 w/Bryan Eubanks. Cafe Plume, Berlin
01.09 w/H. Benedito, M. Montoya, L.Izquierdo, D.Craig, H.Navarro. PAS, Berlin
26.08 w/ Edith Steyer, Hada Benedito, Isabel Rössler. Kühlspot, Berlin
Las Sesiones CPI son encuentros entre artistas locales y visitantes ligados a la improvisación y la experimentación sonora realizados desde 2014 en azoteas, patios y otros espacios exteriores a escala humana.
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Se activa la improvisación, la ejecución de piezas musicales y el estreno de obras, performances, instalaciones audibles, etc.
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De diciembre 2014 a febrero 2016 se realizaron en la azotea de un pequeño edificio residencial sin conserje en Santiago, espacio que debió ser cancelado por incumplir ilegalidad.
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En octubre 2016 desde su segundo aniversario se puso en marcha la Temporada 2 para activar Sesiones CPI ahora en distintos exteriores como patios, otras azoteas, estaciones de metro, y recintos interiores sensibles al exterior y la espacialidad
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Desde el 2022 las sesiones CPI se desarrollan en Espacio Amaza en Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile.
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Sesiones CPI es organizado por el músico improvisador, Felipe Araya (www.felipearaya.org)
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ARCHIVO CPI:
CPI 18 LO PANAM
LIMACHE VIEJO
31/08/2017
DÚO SCELSI
Claudio Bernier: contrabajo
Cesar Bernal: contrabajo
QUINTETO NO QUINTETO
Daniel Mendoza – violín
Diego Rojas – contrabajo
Esteban Robledo – percusiones
Joaquín Salas – guitarra – anfitrion CPI Lo Panam Limache
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CPI 17
28/07/2017
Rolando Hernández (Mx)
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CPI 16
26/05/2017
NUEVO EQUIPO ORGANIZADOR:::
Bárbara González
Nicolás Carrasco
Rodrigo Araya
Felipe Araya
Participan Cristián Alvear y Santiago Astaburuaga en la interpretación de sin título nº 21 de Nicolás Carrasco.
David Vélez (Colombia)
Eduardo Astudillo
Anne-F Jacques
Ensamble LOTE
+ Michael Winter (EEUU)
+ Gudinni Cortina (México)
Santiago Astaburuaga
Cristian Alvear
Nicolás Carrasco
Edén Carrasco
Sebastián Jatz
Alvaro Pacheco
Vicente Araya
Felipe Araya
Felipe Araya 
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