Born 1964 in Bogotá. Composition studies with Luis Torres Zuleta in Bogotá, Erich Urbanner and Karl-Heinz Füssl at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Conducting courses with Karl Österreicher and Peter Eötvös. Studies on Electroacoustics and Computer Music in Vienna and at IRCAM in Paris.

His catalogue includes instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed compositions, as well as works in collaboration with graphic design, painting and experimental video. Some of his compositions make reference to artists like Mark Rothko, Adolf Wölfli, Michelangelo, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Juan Rulfo and José María Arguedas.

He has received composition grants from the Colombian Ministry of Culture, the Austrian Republic and the Experimental Studio Freiburg as well as composition prizes in Bogotá, Bourges and Austria (Erste Bank 2001) et al. His works have been performed in Europe, South Korea, North- und South America at festivals like Wien Modern, Klangspuren Schwaz, Synthèse Bourges, Sonorities Belfast, Borealis Norway, Humor y Aliento, Mexico, New Media Art, Daegu und WNMD Stuttgart in collaboration with Ensembles like die Reihe Vienna, On-Line Vienna, Mondrian Basel, New Century Players L.A., Mosaik Berlin und Klangforum Vienna among others. He is co-founder of the NewTonEnsemble.

From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the computer music course at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he was guest Professor for Electroacoustic Composition 2006/07. Since October 2007 he is director of the ICST at the School of Arts, Zurich.

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