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Home   About DigiArts   Media arts   Music using technology   Regional networking   Training   UNESCO Digital Arts Award   Young Digital Creators		Colombia  The first Colombian composers to experiment and use electroacoustic medias in their music are Fabio González Zuleta (born in Bogota, 1920) and Blas Emilio Atehortúa (born in Santa Elena, 1933). There are many other Colombian composers that have been working with electroacoustic medias in their music. Some of them are mainly involved with the creative possibilities of new technologies applied to their music; others have a mixed production of instrumental and electroacoustic works; but for some of them, computers, synthesizers or other electronic resources were only part of an ocassional experience in their compositional world. Read more...  Rodolfo Acosta  Ricardo Arias Born in Bogotá, 1965; is a composer and performer interested in improvisation and collective composition.   Blas Emilio Atehortúa Born in Santa Elena, Colombia, 1933.   Mauricio Bejarano Born in Bogota, 1955; is Associate Professor at the Conservatory of Music, National University of Colombia, where he teaches Music Creation, Acousmatic Music and Soundscape.   Luis Boyra With Ricardo Arias and Roberto García, founded in 1986 the goup Sol Sonoro devoted to improvising with electroacoustic medias. The group performed in several festivals in Spain, France and Colombia.   Lucio Edilberto Cuellar Born in Santafe de Bogota, 1954; have been studying and working in the United States since 1979. He works actively with sound synthesis, multimedia and algorithmic composition in his music.   David Feferbaum  Roberto García Piedrahita Born in Bogotá, 1958; studied piano and music pedagogy at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia. In 1981 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, to study electroacoustic music composition at Fundació Phonos with Chilean composer Gabriel Brncic.   Fabio González Zuleta Born in Bogota, Colombia, 1920.   Jacqueline Nova Born in Ghent, Belgium, 1935, moved to Bucamaranga, Colombia, a few months later; died in Bogota, 1975; is considered one of the big names among the composers of new music of Colombia and the most active and prolific composer working with electroacoustic medias during the 60s and 70s.   Arturo Parra Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1958. guitarist and composer, obtained a doctorate in music from the Université de Montréal in 1998.   Catalina Peralta Born in Bogota, 1963; studied music in Colombia and Austria. She is at present professor of Acoustic and Electroacoustic Compostion at Los Andes University in Bogota.   Andrés Posada Born in Medellín, 1954, a prolific composer of instrumental music.   Juan Reyes born in Barranquilla, 1962) obtained degrees in Mathematics and Music Composition from the University of Tampa, in the United States. He also studied computer music at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in Stanford University with John Chowning, Perry Cook and Chris Chafe.   Ana Maria Romano Born in 1971; studied composition at Andes’ University in Bogotá.   Germán Toro Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1964.   Alba Fernanda Triana Orozco Born in Bogota; studied composition at the Music Department of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota, and at the California Institute of the Arts in the United States.   Francisco Zumaqué Born in Cerete, Colombia, 1945.	Culture All Unesco Advanced Search Resources  Topic Home Page
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