April 9, 1998 @ Performing Arts Center

Concert I Latin American Electroacoustic Music, Part A Martin Fumarola, curator University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater "Los Peces" Juan Amenábar (Chile) "Cyclone" José Augusto Mannis (Brazil) "El Encanto de la Noche Tropical I: El Yunque" Carlos Vázquez (Puerto Rico) "De los elementos" Alberto Villalpando (Bolivia) "Zeluob 3" Pablo Freire (Ecuador) "Homenaje a la flecha clavada en el pecho de Don Juan Díaz de Solís" Coriún Aharonián (Uruguay) The Latinamerican electroacoustic music to be performed in Concerts 1, 4, and 7, ranges from compositions by pioneers in the field from their countries to young composers as well as women composers. For instance, Alberto Villalpando is a pioneer of electroacoustic music practice in Bolivia and Juan Blanco pioneered Cuban electroacoustic music (an interview with him appeared in the Computer Music Journal 21:2), Elsa Justel is an Argentine woman composer now living in Paris pursuing her PhD under the guidance of Horacio Vaggione at the University of Paris VIII, Manuel Rocha-Iturbide is a Mexican composer and researcher who is also working toward his PhD with Vaggione. The works by Ricardo Dal Farra and Alejandro Iglesia-Rossi, both from Argentina, are the respectively winners of the "ICMA Commission Awards 1996" and "1996 International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music Competition of the UNESCO." - Martin Fumarola (25 Feb 1998) Concerts 1 and 4 revised, April 9, 1998