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Moisés Horta Valenzuela is a self-taught sound artist, technologist, musician, and researcher from Tijuana, Mexico, based in Berlin. His work spans computer music, neural audio synthesis, conversational AI, and the politics of emerging technologies, approached through a critical lens that connects ancestral knowledge with contemporary digital culture. He has presented work internationally at Ars Electronica, NeurIPS ML for Creativity & Design, MUTEK México, MUTEK AI Art Lab Montréal, Transart Festival, CTM Festival, Elektron Musik Studion, and the Sound and Music Computing Conference, among others. A core focus of his practice is SEMILLA.AI, a music interface for generative neural networks developed with “small data” methods and inspired by Mesoamerican ritual traditions. The system enables the morphing of diverse sonic identities and offers an alternative to culture-biased large-scale models. SEMILLA.AI powered MUTUALISMX (2024), a 13-track collaborative release on Other People, and his production work appears on Rosalía’s album LUX (2025). As hexorcismos, he has taught at the Tangible Music Lab (Linz) and the University of La Salle (Barcelona), focusing on music technology and sound/music computing. His academic contributions include the paper “NEBULA: A PCA-Based Method to Explore RAVE-Encoded Audio Representations,” presented at SMC 2025. Across his artistic and research practice, he develops new architectures for neural audio synthesis while advancing culturally reflective approaches to computation and AI-driven sound art.