Diego
Garro (d.garro@mus.keele.ac.uk)
obtained his BSc in Electronic Engineering from Universita'
di Padova (Italy). He collaborated with the Centro di
Sonologia Computazionale of Padova where he developed an
implementation
on computerised music workstation of the live electronics
in late Luigi Nono's repertoire. He moved to Britain
in 1995 where he studied Electroacoustic Music with Mike
Vaughan
and Rajmil Fischman at Keele University. He holds a lectureship
at the School of Languages, Culture and Creative Arts
- Keele University - where he teaches MIDI, Studio Techniques
and Electroacoustic Music. He has specialised in the
acousmatic
media and composes works for digital audio tape which
are regularly selected and performed in various festivals
and
conferences in UK and abroad. He debuted in the Electroacoustic
circles in 1997 when his anecdotal compositon Passaggi
In-Oltre was performed at the International Computer
Music Conference, Salonica, Greece. Since then his works
for
tape have received international recognition: Voci dall'Aldiquá (1998)
was performed at ExStatic Next Wave Music Festival, Melbourne
(Australia), at Rumori - Musica-Scienza Conference, Rome
(Italy), at Fifth Brazilian Computer Music Symposium,
Belo Horizonte (Brazil), XII Colloquium on Musical Informatics,
Gorizia (Italy) and at the 21st International Study Week
of Contemporary Music, Luneburg (Germany). His acousmatic
work for sampled steel-string guitar "Strum" in
a Teacup (1998) was selected at the Sixth Brazilian Computer
Music
Symposium, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), at the Sixth Computer
Music Festival, Seoul (South Korea), and presented by
the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST)
during
the event Aural Kinetics, Birmingham (UK). |