DAMus
The Departamento de Artes Musicales 'Carlos Lopez Buchardo' (Damus) is the heir of the former institution National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Damus is part of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA).
As a result, CICTEM 2019 aims to encourage the exhibition and publication of works that reflect the application of the power of computers to music, especially to algorithmic composition and electroacoustic music.
The Departamento de Artes Musicales 'Carlos Lopez Buchardo' (Damus) is the heir of the former institution National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Damus is part of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA).
Research activities related to Computer Music at Damus are centralized in the Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollos Computacionales en Música 'Francisco Kröpfl' (CIDCOM), an institution created in 2009 that belongs to Damus.
Guillermo Pozzati (Presidente)
Prof. Cristina Vázquez
Lic. Pablo Freiberg
Lic. Gustavo García Novo
Prof. Constanza Pozzati
Guadalupe González Táboas
Lic. Federico Núñez
Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, holding a Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition from Stanford University (1983), a Master of Arts in music composition from University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts in music from Antioch College. He won a Net Challenge Prize from the IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery in 2000, and a National Science Foundation research award in 1999. He has been performing with the Tintinnabulate ensemble at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
One of the most important teachers of composition of his country, from 1988 to 1997 he was Titular Professor of 'Morfología Musical' at the 'Facultad de Filosofía y Letras' of the 'Universidad de Buenos Aires'. Francisco Kröpfl is also President of the Argentine Federation of Electroacoustic Music (FARME), member of honour of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME), and 'Director Musical' of 'Agrupación Nueva Música'. He also integrates the international academy of the 'Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique' of Bourges, France.
Fernando López-Lezcano is a composer, performer, lecturer and computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University. He has been taking care of computing resources there since 1993, including the Planet CCRMA collection of open source sound and music packages for Linux which he created and maintains since 2001. He has been involved in the field of electronic music since 1976 and his music has been released on CD and played in the Americas, Europe and East Asia. He was the "Edgar Varese Guest Professor" at TU Berlin during Summer 2008.