Horacio Vaggione

Horacio Vaggione (born 1943) is a composer of electro-acoustic and instrumental music who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound and whose pieces often are for performers and computers ("mixed music")(see Landy 1994; Solomos 2005,2007) . He studied composition at the National University in Córdoba (1958-1961) and privately in Buenos Aires with Juan Carlos Paz (1960-1963), then at the University of Illinois with Lejaren Hiller and Herbert Brün (1966) where he first gained exposure and access to computers. In 1983 he received a Doctorate at the University of Paris VIII (thesis director: Prof. Daniel Charles). In 1982 took the course Informatics for Composers at IRCAM, Paris, followed by a 3 years residence at that center, and in 1987 was a resident of the DAAD Kunstler Program in Berlin. Vaggione was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but lives in Europe since 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, and was part of the ALEA live electronics music group, the ALEA electronic studio and the Project Music and Computer at the University of Madrid with Luis de Pablo. In 1978 he moved to France, where he still resides, and began work at GMEB in Bourges, INA-GRM and IRCAM in Paris. Since 1989 he has been Professor of Music (Composition and Research) at the University of Paris VIII. In 1996 founded the CICM (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Création Musicale) .

Composition Prizes: Newcomp Prize (Cambridge, USA, 1983). Euphonie d'Or (Bourges, 1992). ICMA International Computer Music Association Award (USA, 1992). Ton Bruynel Foundation Prize (Amsterdam, 2010). Giga-Hertz Produktion Preis (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2011), among others.

Writings and research papers: 54 papers, published in Proceedings, books (MIT Press, Harwoord Academic Publishers, Swett and Zeitlinger, L’Harmattan, Routledge) and specialized journals (Computer Music Journal, Contemporary Music Review, Journal of New Music Research, Musica-Realtà, etc.).

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