Arca is an experimental project by Alejandro Ghersi, a Venezuelan electronic producer, mixing engineer and DJ. Arca does not take many categories for granted. His fondness for what he calls “in-between states” extends to gender, genre, emotion, and form itself. Mutability and ambivalence guide the sound of his music — the atmospheres he creates often contain abrasive percussive blasts, metal-shop whine, the screech of subway brakes, the whine of jet engines overheating. Anthropomorphic and animalistic sounds abound —mewling cats, mooing cows, anguished screams, the grunts and groans of orgasm, commingling pleasure and terror and beauty and ugliness in the most thrilling ways possible.
He's also been credited for his writing/producing efforts on Björk's Vulnicura, FKA Twigs' EP2 as well as for his collaborations with Dean Blunt, Mica Levi and Kelela amog others.