About Us
We produce and collaborate in projects to create high quality sound experiences. Our team is made up of professionals in music creation and production, sound designers, mixers, music supervisors and project development specialists.
Alvaro Arce
CEO
Alvaro Arce
CEO
Berklee College of Music Alumnus, Alvaro specialized in music production and supervision, sound design and music composition for film and television. Among his scoring credits are projects like Sr. Ávila (HBO and Lemon Films, Emmy Award winner for Best non English speaking series in 2017); feature films such as Made in Bangkok (Maguey Award in FICG 2016 and Best Documentary in Guanajuato Festival); and Gloria (Nominated for Ariel Award for Best Original Music in 2015), TV series like Desenfrenadas (Netflix Original Series).
Short films like Wanderer, Marea, Some Kind of Love, POLY. Sound design for El Remolino, Chivas, La Película; La era de la Desconexión; and El Cuarto de los Huesos.
Founder and CEO of Semillero Studios since 2013. Other projects in his carreer have involved personalities, brands and groups such as Danilo Pérez, Ralph Peterson, Kenwood Dennard, Richard Mendelson, Stephen Webber, Alejandro Rodríguez, Esperanza Spading, Mili Bermejo, Rob Jackson, Porter, Sussie 4, Los Impostors, Paola Vergara, Sidestepper, Porcelain, Chivas TV, Omnilife, Televisa Foundation. He’s been present in festivals such as Corona Capital, SXSW and stages in many cities of Mexico, Malmö, Stockholm, Copenhague, Miami, Los Angeles and New York
Iván Ledesma
Engineer
Iván Ledesma
Engineer
Logistics assistant for the Corona Revolution Festival and live recording engineer for two editions of the Rock por la Vida Festival in Guadalajara. In charge of technical production in C3 Stage with more than 60 national and international bands (Sum41, Opeth, Los Amigos Invisibles, Tangana, among others). He’s Front of house engineer for the bands Juglares and Locos and Slang Big Band.
He has collaborated in sound postproduction for film and television projects such as Chivas, La Película, Cigüeñas, Un Mundo Raro: Las canciones de José Alfredo Jiménez (Latin Grammy Award nominee in 2018), POLY, SoS; Secrets of Sex. He is sound producer and in charge of post production for ChivasTV.
Yuri González
Compooser & Music Producer
Yuri González
Compooser & Music Producer
A multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ. For many decades Yuri has collaborated with diverse projects as a bass player and producer, among others with: Azul Violeta, Sussie 4, Fat Naked Lady, Plastilina Mosh, YoYo Breakers, Wet Ashes and the Nopal Beat collective. Presently he is a part of Sussie 4, Hybrid and Altamira.
His projects have taken him to perform on several stages around the world, such as the Festimad and Benicassen Festival in Spain, Exit in Serbia, Rock al Parque in Colombia and the majority of festivals and venues in Mexico.
Polo Domínguez
Music Producer
Polo Domínguez
Music Producer
Music producer, composer and sound designer, BA graduate in Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Collaborator with Crushing Music, Zampol Productions and Razorhead Music in New York from 2006 to 2009. Founder of Digigram Music record label and Music House in 2012, which has collaborated with production companies such as Lemon Films, Terciopelo Films, Distrito Films, 35 am, Equis Cosa, Prado Sur, Claro TV, Kuter, La Base, Veta Films, Vinyl Films among others, producing, composing and designing audio and music for projects for diverse media.
Composer of the main theme for the Mariano Osorio program Hoy con Mariano (2014) in Stereo Joya (Radio Red) and co-author of the main theme for the winter Olympics in Sochi, Rusia (2014) for all Latin America. As a solo artist he has released two records and 2 E.P’s covering a wide range of genre in the world of electronic music, focusing mainly in textures and carefully crafted rhythms.
Alejandro Pérez
Music Producer
Alejandro Pérez
Music Producer
Graduated from the Music School of the University of Guadalajara as a music instructor.
Among other works in music:
Composer, producer, drummer and engineer for the band “Azul Violeta” (1989-2014) EMI MUSIC, Fugazzi Records, 3er Piso Records, Universal Music. Producer, arranger and engineer for the “Mariachi Rock-o” project (2007-2019). Composer, producer, instrumentalist and engineer for the artist “Juan Son” (Mermaid Sashimi 2007) Universal Music (nominated for best song for the Latin Grammy Awards 2007). Among other artists, he has worked with: Radaid, Forseps, Sussie4, Sheila Ríos, Pito Pérez, Disidente, Dolphant, Galápago, The Seamus, Pumcayó Vangal, Sexilia, Vemora, Kevin Morgan, Rocamadre, Yoyo Breakers, Paola Vergara. In film: “Todo el Poder”, “Chivas”, “Tres Idiotas, “Chul-lel”. For televisión (score) “El Señor de los Cielos”, “Enemigo Íntimo”.
Lili Guadalajara
Producer
Lili Guadalajara
Producer
Arts manager ITESO (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente) graduate, specializing in development, creation, logistics, supervision and fund raising for cultural and artistic projects. General Producer at Semillero Estudios.
Worked as General Coordinator of the Universidad Libre de Música in Guadalajara from 2017 to 2019. Collaborated as assistant for the musical supervision and production of the Netflix series Desenfrenadas.
Héctor Vázquez
Musical Supervisor
Héctor Vázquez
Musical Supervisor
Specialized in music licensing and music supervision. He collaborated with the recording label Casete for bands such as Little Jesus, CentaVrVs, Instituto Mexicano de Sonido, among others. He managed Big Big Love between 2014 and 2018 participating in tours and international festivals such as SXSW, Vive Latino, opening shows for Spoon, Beach House and Local Natives.
Co-Founder of No Pararemos, dedicated to offering musical solutions for all types of audiovisual production. In charge of musical supervision for film in Las Niñas Bien (2019), Chivas, La Película (2018), Artemio (2017), Camila (2018), I carry you with me (2020) and Desenfrenadas, original Netflix series (2019)
Caleb Sevilla
Chief Engineer
Caleb Sevilla
Chief Engineer
More than seven years experience working in the music and film industry. Specialized in recording, sound editing, stereo and 5.1 mix for musical and audiovisual projects. With a vast experience working in Class A recording studios. He has worked in multiple recording productions with artists such as: Reik, Yuri, Wisin, Maite Perroni, Finde, Matisse, Moderatto, La Maldita Vecindad, María José, Jesse y Joy, Natalia Lafourcade, Los Castro, Diego Verdaguer, Aaron y Su Grupo Ilusión, OV7, Mon Laferte, Emmanuel, Allison, Caloncho, Iskander, among others.
He began collaborating with Semillero Studios since 2015, where he has participated in different areas of sound design and music production for film in projects like: Chivas, La Película (Best Sound Design in the Pantalla de Cristal awards in 2019), Un Mundo Raro: Songs by José Alfredo Jiménez (nominated for the 2018 Latin Grammys for Best Long Version Musical Video), A la Mala, Tres Idiotas, Gloria, La Era de la Desconexión, Desenfrenadas (Netflix Original Series), Enemigo Íntimo (Telemundo), among others.
Paulina Koloffon
Audiovisual Direction
Paulina Koloffon
Audiovisual Direction
Holds a degree in Audiovisual Media specialized in Digital Film Development. Her main aptitudes are related to script, direction, still and video photography, production and post-production design. She began to collaborate as art director for local projects such as “Caldo de Pantano”, “Mico” and “Oniros”. She has worked in the development of video clips such as “Nomads” – Old Natives as art director, “Pakal”- Sutra as scriptwriter, director and post producer and “Berlin” (videoclip and documentary) – Alvaro Abitia as producer.
In August 2018 se worked for the digital marketing agency IB Consultants, executing the role as audiovisual producer of content for social media. In 2019 se was Audiovisual Producer of the Universidad Libre de Música where at present she gives audiovisual and film workshops.
María Centeno
Coompooser
María Centeno
Coompooser
Mexican composer, and singer songwriter. She spent a short season at Berklee College of Music and has taken singing, composing and harmony courses and workshops at several institutions. As she was working on her musical training, María studied Arts Management at ITESO (Instituto Superior de Estudios Superiores de Occidente)
She began writing songs at a young age and by 17 she had become the vocalist and composer for the group from Guadalajara “La Garfield” with whom she recorded the Sin Miedo album in 2013 and launched a few more singles before separating from the project in 2015. With her solo project she has launched two short albums, Violencia (2016) and Las Bestias (2019). She is also part of the Isla Centeno project with the producer and guitar player Lito de la Isla. Her first album, Miocarditis, was published in July 2019.
Alongside her personal projects, Maria was a professor at the Universidad Libre de Música in Guadalajara for two years, teaching music theory, singing and song composition. Maria collaborates regularly with different musicians, composers and producers and her songs have appeared in diverse media. She has a scholarship from the eleventh edition of the Maria Griver Composition Scholarship that is bestowed by the Auditorio Nacional and the Author and composers Society of Mexico.
We produce and collaborate in projects to create high quality sound experiences. Our team is made up of professionals in music creation and production, sound designers, mixers, music supervisors and project development specialists.
