An essential aspect of my practice involves delivering talks, seminars, and workshops. These events provide valuable opportunities to discuss and test ideas, as well as to listen and learn from diverse perspectives.
I have worked in a variety of contexts, including universities and higher education institutions, art and technology centers, media labs, and small cultural organizations. Participants typically come from diverse backgrounds, including music and various artistic disciplines, architecture, audio engineering, technical fields, and humanities research.
I am Associate Professor at the Department of Music in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). Since 2020, I have also been teaching the course Music and Technology: Aesthetics and Critical Thinking in the Master of Electroacoustic Composition and New Media (MCE) program at CSKG, Madrid. From 2014 to 2019, I contributed to various modules at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
I also collaborate with La Casa Encendida in Madrid, where I curate and facilitate the ongoing program ECOLOGÍAS DE LA ESCUCHA.
The format, content, and methods of these activities are tailored to each specific context and participant group. Their duration ranges from brief talks and one-day or week-long intensive workshops to extended weekly courses. My approach may involve seminar presentations, reading groups, listening sessions, hands-on exploration, or a combination of these.
Depending on the occasion, topics may include historical and contemporary analyses, technical exploration (including hardware, software, or DIY tools), listening exercises, fieldwork and in-situ experimentation, computer-based studio work, and collaborative creative processes culminating in public presentations.
Below are some of the current topics and areas of focus for my courses, masterclasses, and workshops, which revolve around listening, sound, composition, and ecological thinking:
The format, contents and methods are tailored to each specific context and group of participants. Duration varies from talks to one-day or one-week intensive workshops to longer weekly courses. The approach can consist of seminar presentations, reading groups, listening sessions, hands-on exploration and all in-between. Depending on the occasion, the contents might include an overview and analysis of historical and contemporary references, the examination of technical aspects (hardware and software tools or DIY), listening exercises, open-ended fieldwork and in-situ experimentation, computer-based studio work, and collective creation processes toward a final public presentation.
Below is a current list of topics and areas of focus in my courses, masterclasses and workshops around listening, sound, composition and ecological thinking:
- Phonography and field recording practice
- Composition with environmental and recorded sounds
- Spatial audio, multichannel composition, and ambisonics
- Site-specific sound practices
- Sound installations
- Soundwalking and geolocated digital audio experiences
- Environmental composition approaches and ecological sound arts (historical and contemporary references, theory-practice)
- Contemporary ecological and postnatural thinking
- Introduction to sound studies, auditory culture, sonic thinking, and experimental sound practices
Feel free to contact me for further details or if you’d like to organize a talk, workshop, or course.
COMPOSING WITH FIELD RECORDINGS workshop, PRAHA, Brno, 2016. Photo: Mizuki Nakeshu
RECENT WORKSHOPS
Fonografía y creación sonora
12-21 MARCH 2024
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Soundwalking. Taller de paseos sonoros y audio geolocalizado
21-30 MAY 2024
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Creación sonora espacial y Ambisonics
8-17 OCTOBER 2024
La Casa Encendida, Madrid