Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Music
Networks of US-Cuban musical instrument exchange: decolonizing Composition and Western percussion music
Associate Professor of Music at New York University, where he has taught since 2013. He lived and studied music in Peru until 2006, received his Ph.D. in Computer Music from UCSD in 2011 and subsequently held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University (2011-13).
His music and research explore the role musical instruments play in shaping musical practice and material culture at large, as well as the role that Latin American avant gardes have played in Western Music. His creative work has been featured in international festivals and conferences, working independently and collaborating with several composers, improvisers and artists in a field of action that spans sound performance and installation, composing and performing music, and programming open source software.
Professional recognitions include residencies at ZKM and IRCAM, and prizes from the American Musical Instrument Society, FETA Sound Arts, FILE PRIX LUX, GIGA-HERTZ-PREIS, and the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition .