Ale Hop (Alejandra Cárdenas) began her career in the 2000s in Lima’s underground music scene. Her body of work includes diverse formats such as live shows, albums, multimedia artworks, and research. Whether alone, maneuvering an intricate repertoire of electric guitar techniques, or in collaboration with other artists, her live performances have a physical and emotional character. She recently launched two collaborative projects: Agua Dulce, with percussionist Laura Robles; and Near and Remote Activation Practices, with Argentinean artist Tatiana Heuman, experimenting with self-built South American instruments. She also co-founded the festival Radical Sounds Latin America (which she co-curated 2019–2021) and today directs the editorial platform Contingent Sounds, which aims at facilitating critical discourses and artistic research.