2013: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano will present “Knock, Knock… anybody there?” as part of the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit. This set of compositions explores altered states of consciousness—and in particular, insanity—in a journey through a 3D soundscape where voices and sounds evoke multiple and conflicting states of mind. The processing includes dynamic spatialization of multiple moving sources. The listener moves through the soundscape while voices and sounds tell several overlapping stories that might occur in the hazy border between sanity and insanity.

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956, received a Master in Electronic Engineering (Faculty of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires) and a Master in Music (Carlos Lopez Buchardo National Conservatory, Buenos Aires). He began working with electro-acoustic music by building his own analog studio and synthesizers around 1976. After graduating, he worked for nine years in industry as microprocessor hardware and software Design Engineer for embedded real-time systems (telephone exchanges) while simultaneously pursuing his interests in electro-acoustic music composition. His 1986 piece "Quest" won a mention in the 1990 Bourges Competition. Starting in October 1990 he spent one year at the CCRMA at Stanford University, as and Invited Composer, as part of an exchange program between LIPM in Argentina, CCRMA and CRCA at UCSD sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. He later did research in dynamic sound localization and taught an Introduction to Electronic Music course for one year at the Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University, Japan. Since 1993 he has been working at CCRMA as Lecturer, Composer, Performer and Systems Administrator of CCRMA's computer resources. In 2008 he completed a fine-month residency in Berlin thanks to the DAAD as the Edgar Varese Guest Professor at TU-Berlin. His music has been released on CDs and played in the Americas, Europe and East Asia.

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