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WORKS 2006 Understanding Collective Gestural Improvisation is the title of the DEA I got from the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University. It shows the research developed there.

moz-art-global-art project is a collaborative audiovisual improvisatory system developed for the Instrumenta 2006 festival in Oaxaca Mexico. You could work with it off-line and when ready you may play with others. This project has been created with Mauricio Valdes.

Juum Duet is a free electroacoustic improvisation ensemble created at the beginning of year 2006. It is born as a response to the intention of developing ideas parting from music improvisation and digital means determined to convene a listening willing to deautomate itself.

Here you can download some objects for Pure Data among them the MaxMSP audio analyzers of Tristan Jehan.

WORKS 2005 ix-.-.hel creates a visual and audio link between three communication methods: hands, Morse code, and cell phone messages. The audience is an active participant in the result of the work.

During the summer of 2005 two courses of computer music were taught as the retribution for my FONCA PAEE fellowship. One at the ENM UNAM and one at the "Conservatorio de las Rosas" in Mexico.

We got married on July 30th. Here you will find some of the art that was created before, during, and after the wedding. Do not forget to see the video of the rings.

EnsAmble Crumble, an electro-acoustic improvisatory ensemble was formed at the beginning of 2005 by four musicians from France, Spain, Mexico, and The Netherlands all of them with interdisciplinary studies in music and sound technology.

WORKS 2004 The reacTable*, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Therefore this electronic instrument uses no mouse, no keyboard, no cables and no wearables. (collaborator)

Shaping collective free improvisations in order to obtain solid and succinct works with surprising and synchronized events is not an easy task. This thesis is a proposal towards that goal. It presents the theoretical, philosophical and technical framework of the Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface (IMPI) system: a new computer program for the creation of audiovisual improvisations performed in real time by ensembles of acoustic musicians.

Using the Java Advance Image API a library for the manipulation of pictures was created. With this library it is possible to generate interesting and diverse transformation of a picture. See an example.

RadioBANDA is a radio network art piece that consists of an installation of analog radios and a web server that people access to create music in real time. The final mix is then broadcast by a radio transmitter over 88.1 FM.

Gallery of paintings I.

WORKS 2003 As one of the final projects for the Graphic workshop course by John Maeda, I realized a project about the trains close to my house. This project is an applet where the public has to simulate train sounds in order to see the pictures moving.

This text was presented in the conference Radio Art in Morelia Michoacán on December 9th organized by the University of Michoacá.

The perl-poem is an audiovisual poem within the perl-poem style.

Gallery of analog photos I.

Gestures is a electro-acoustic piece that uses special instruments call Shapers to introduce children to the experience of free improvisation and experimental performance.

Here you can find several visual exercises using processing or Java directly, some of them were assignments for the John Maeda's course and others are presents for friends.

WORKS 2002 As final projects for the Autonomous Art Class, I realized a project about the unsolved situation in Ciudad Juarez, México. The original work was in wood but you can run a digital version.

Vuelo 866 is a collection of digital postcards.

Just a few days before I left Mexico City, I decided to give a piano concert in a lovely public park near the school of music as a present to my family and friends.

Ciudad Movil is an audio-visual project in collaboration with the photographer Nirvana Paz based on images and sounds from the public transportation system of Mexico City.

Salvador Rodríguez's Reflejos is a piece for piano and tape. See the performance at the XXIV Foro Internacional de Música Nueva. Mexico City.

Central Observatorio is a radioart piece of three parts combining bus sounds, music for viola, and poetry.

The original size of this poster is 60 * 79. The sky believe it or not is from Mexico City in January 13th 2002. For the creation of the poster a selection of hundreds of clouds had to be done.

WORKS 2001 Listen fragments of Cort Lippe's Music for piano and Computer performed at the Escuela Nacional de Música, Mexico City.

GAB is an electronic system that allows the reinterpretation of musical material in real time. It is designed to be used by a pianist during the performance of musical improvisations.

In 2001, I was offered a grant by the Mexican Council for Culture and the Arts to pursue the exploration of performance and improvisation in the electronic medium. You can listen to some of the results here.

The Nicrom trio, consisting of two musicians and a painter, was a creative forum for sound and graphic experimentation and exploration.

WORKS 2000 During an exchange program to NYU, I was member of the NYMDE. A concert was performed at the Frederick Loewe Theater on December 11th.

Java technologies. An audio recorder for creating multilayer textures during musical improvisations and other works.

Universum is a project of piano improvisations using digital delays.

In the summer of 2000, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Floop had its premier in Mexico in the XXII Foro Internacional de Música Nueva. I was invited to play the synthesizer part. The other members of the ensemble were Claudia Montiel, Manule Hernández, Mónica del Águila, Tonatiuh de la Sierra, Maribel Pedraza, and José Antonio Espinal.

WORKS 1999 In December 1999, Alejandro F. a student of a 16mm-homemade film workshop invited me to create the sound effects of its unusual experimental work. Music by David Martínez and Emiliano López.

A score for the deaf painter Ixchel Solis. This work is divided in three parts. In the first one the music is almost imperceptible; in the second one the music is out of the human frequency range; in the last one the music is extremely hard in order to make the seats of the hall vibrate.

Mauricio Rodríguez's piece Siderales is a work where light and sound are controlled in real time by the performer. I gave its world premier at the Coahuila School of Music.

WORKS 1998 As a student of the Musical Creation Laboratory, I was offered a grant to participate in a research program entitled, "Music: an Interactive System of Research and Composition" (MUSIIC), directed by Dr. Julio Estrada. As part of this program, I completed an individual research project "Physical Spaces as a Structural Variable in Music."

Listen Francois-Bernard Mâche's piece Lethe for two pianos at four hands performed at the Escuela Nacional de Música, Mexico City. With Frania Mayorquín, Victor Adán and Rogelio Sosa.

WORKS 1997 Intermittently, from 1997-2002, I worked with an experimental dance ensemble. Each week, I used to improvise for the dancers and three shows emerged from this interaction. The first one was played with synthesizers, the second with acoustic piano, and the last with live electronics.