(b Córdoba, Jan 21, 1943). Argentine composer and musicologist. From 1958 to 1963 he studied composition at the National University of Córdoba with Carlos Gasparini, Olger Bistevins, Juan Carlos Fernández, Ornella Devoto, and César Franchisena. He also studied serial techniques with Juan Carlos Paz (Buenos Aires, 1960–62). In 1961 he began composing his first instrumental works (Interpolations, for ensemble, and a piano sonata) and his first electro-acoustic works (Ceremonia and Hierro y espacio, 1962). From 1965 to 1968 he ran the electro-acoustic music studio of Córdoba University, and in 1966 took part in Lejaren Hiller’s course on computer-aided composition at the University of Illinois. During this time he concentrated his research on the interaction between instrumental and electronic music, in works such as Untitled, a multimedia composition involving four instrumental groups, electronic transformations, movement, and lights (1965), Sonata 2, Sonata 3, and ...
