"Playdate" with Roberto Morales and friends
Date:
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA STAGE
Event Type:
Concert Born in Mexico City in 1958. He started his musical training in national folkloric music learning harps from Veracruz, Michoacan and Chiapas as well as different kinds of flutes from several regions.
Morales-Manzanares PhD in Composition form UC Berkeley went to the music school “Escuela Superior de Musica” where he finished his professional studies on flute, piano and composition. In 1981, he created an interdisciplinary workshop in music, painting, literature and dance, which functioned until 1984. At that time, he founded the group “Alacran del Cantaro” which he continues to direct.
As a composer, he has written music for theatre, dance, movies, TV and radio, been commissioned and participated in festivals like “Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva, Festival Internacional Cervantino, ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) and CIM (Contemporary Improvised Music Festival) among others.
As an interpreter, Morales-Manzanares has participated on his own and with other composers in forums of Jazz, Popular, Folkloric and New Music in Mexico, Latin-America, USA and Europe.
As a researcher, he has been invited to different national and international conferences such as ICMC, International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI and Symposium on Arts and Technology and has several publications.
In 1988, he was co-founder of the first computer music studio in Mexico at the Escuela Superior de Musica. In 1992 his composition Nahual II was chosen for inclusion on the compact disk for the 1992 ICMC. He has been invited as a composer in residence at: the Center for New Music Art and Technology CNMAT in UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts CRCA in UC San Diego, Yale University in US, McGill University in Canada and Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie ZKM in Germany. Places where he performed his work as composer and showed his computer program Escamol, an alternative for algorithmic composition.
He has organized festivals such as “La Computadora y la Musica” and “Callejon del Ruido”.
He has been awarded by Bancomer-Rockefeller foundation, UCMEXUS, Canada Council for the Arts and “Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes” FONCA.
Currently he is the director of the “Laboratorio de Informatica Musical LIM at Guanajuato, Mexico founded in 1992 by him, curator of the memorial at Centro de Cultura Digital and former member of the “Sistema Nacional de Creadores”.
FREE
Open to the Public