Manuel Rocha Iturbide
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CURRICULUM
Born
in 1963 in Mexico City. Manuel Rocha Iturbide studies composition at
the Escuela Nacional de Música in the University of
Mexico with Julio Estrada, Ratko Tichavsky and Federico Ibarra.
During three years he works in the collective photography workshop of
Pedro Meyer and he participates in various exhibitions in Mexico, Brazil,
Cuba and Italy. His interest for electronic music, experimental video,
sound installations and sound sculpture take him to the University
of Mills College in the USA, where thanks to a grant from the OEA
and UNAM, he studies with Alvin Curran, Anthony Braxton,
David Rosenboom and Larry Polansky, and obtains an MFA in electronic
music and composition (1991). Then in Paris, he takes a one-year course
in composition and computer music at IRCAM, where he studies
with Bryan Fernyhough (1991-92). In 1992 he starts his doctoral thesis
on "Granular synthesis techniques" with Horacio Vaggione at
the University of Paris VIII. In 1993 he wins a grant from the
Mexican cultural foundation to compose three electroacustic pieces.
In France, he works at studios UPIC, GRM and IRCAM
to produce works. Besides producing music in Paris, between 1991
and 1996 he was invited to produce other compositions at different studios
in different countries, such as LIEM in Madrid Spain, SFU
University in Vancouver Canada, University of Herefordshire
in UK, etc. He worked as a researcher at IRCAM developing GiST
(1994-95) and later as a professor at the University of Paris VIII
where he taught synthesis and computer programming (1995-96). In 1996
and 1997 he was nominated at the Bourges Electronic Music Contest
in the categories of program tape music and tape with instruments respectively,
and in 1996 and 1997 he won the 2 prize at the Russolo Electronic
Music Contest in the category of composition for instruments and
electronics and tape alone. He has been invited to different international
conferences to present his work (The tuning of the world, 1993;
The biennial of art and technology, Connecticut 1994; ICMC
1995, 1996, 1997) and to electronic music festivals such as ABSOLUTE
MUSIK in Austria, Experimental Intermedia and REDCAT in USA, VAE
in Peru, etc. Besides composing, he has realized sound installations
and sound sculptures presented in galleries and museums such as Artists
Space in NY NY (1997), the Crousel gallery in Paris, the 1993, The Sidney
Biennial in Australia (1998), the ARCO art fair in Madrid Spain (1998),
SURGE gallery in Tokyo (2000), Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto (2000), Avatar
in Quebec Canada (2002), Bienal do Mercosul in Brazil (2005), etc. .
He has also written articles published in magazines such as "New
Journal of Music Research" and in the proceedings of ICMC. His
music has been played in Mexico, USA, Canada, Italy, Austria, Australia,
Slovakia, Greece, France, Brazil, Hong-Kong and Spain. Some of his outstanding
electroacustic pieces are: "Avidya"
for tape, 23’00, 1989. "Atl"
for tape, 10’00, 1990. "Frost
clear energy saver", for refrigerator, tape and double
bass, 17’00, 1991. "Bandas
de pueblo", for tape, French horn, trombone, tenor saxophone,
soprano saxophone, trumpet, percussion, and a Mexican Village Band,
17’00, 1991. "Ligne
d’abandon", tape composition for an installation,
30’00, 1993. "Transiciones
de fase", interactive composition for brass quartet and
computer, 12’00, 1993-94. "SL-9",
work for digital tape using granular synthesis techniques, 1994. "Móin
Mór", for digital tape, 10’00, 1995. In 1998,
he had a commission from the Banff Center for the Arts to compose an
oboe and tape piece, and another commission from the XXVI Cervantino
Festival in Guanajuato Mexico to compose an instrumental piece for violin,
alto, chelo, flute, clarinet, and percussion, which was performed by
the Mexican Contemporary Ensemble ONIX. In 2000 Rocha spent 7 months
in Japan with a Japan Foundation Fellowship where he composed new pieces
and worked on sound installations. In 2002 he did a two-month residency
in Caracas Venezuela with a grant in order to compose a radio artwork.
Manuel Rocha Iturbide lives currently in Mexico City, where he works
as composer and sound artist, and where he is the curator of the international
sound art festival. He has taught at the University of Morelos State
in Cuernavaca Mexico undergraduate and postgraduate courses on computer
music and the history of sound in the arts(2003-2004), at the National
School of Music in UNAM (2003-2005), he was a member of the Sistema
Nacional de Creadores (2004-2007). He is now teaching at the Ibero University
in the communication and interactive art facultys.
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PARTICIPATION
IN OUTSTANDING MUSIC FESTIVALS
2007.- Manuel Rocha Iturbide performing at the "IX Festival
internacional de música de Bogotá Colombia".
2007.- Manuel Rocha Iturbide performing at
the Synthèse electroacustic music
festival in Bourges France.
2006.- Manuel Rocha Iturbide performing at
the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
2005.- Manuel Rocha Iturbide performing at
the Video Arte Electronica
(VAE) in Lima Peru.
2005.- Manuel Rocha Iturbide performing at
the Synthèse electroacustic music
festival in Bourges France.
2004.- “Arte Sonoro”. Five Mexican
electronic music composers-performers at the REDCAT
concert series.
2004.- “Sound Trips: a travelogue through
sonic landscapes”. Exploratorium,
SF California.
2004.- “Mutek”. Fetsival of electronic
music. Mexico City.
2003.- “Puddles Festival”. Tokyo
Japan.
2003.- “CCM Songline Series”. SF
California. USA.
2002.- “MexArtFest”. Kyoto Japan.
2001.- “Experimental Intermedia”.
NY, NY.
2001.- “International conference for
computer music” ICMC La Habana Cuba.
2001.- “Festival internacional de Bourges”.
Bourges France.
2000.- The bridge between artificial language
and natural. Hill Side Terrace, Toko Japan.
1999. - "XI
Festival Internacional de Música de Morelia". Morelia Mexico.
1998. - "SEAMUS
Electroacustic week Concert". North Carolina State University.
1998. - "Foro
internacional de música nueva". Mexico City.
1998. - XVI
FESTIVAL CERVANTINO. Guanajuato Mexico.
1998. - "Seventh
Annual Florida Electroacustic Music Festival". University of Florida.
1997. -"International
conference for computer music" (ICMC) in Salonica Greece.
1997. -"Bourges
International festival of electroacustic music ". Bourges, France.
1997. - "Foro
internacional de música nueva". Mexico City.
1996. -"Bourges
International festival of electroacustic music ". Bourges, France.
1996. - ABSOLUTE
MUSIK electroacustic music festival, Allenstaig Austria.
1996. - "International
conference of computer music" (ICMC) in Hong Kong.
1995. - "International
conference for computer music" (ICMC) in Canada in collaboration
with the Banff arts festival. Performance of "Transiciones
de Fase".
1994. - Paralelo
Madrid. Madrid Spain. Otras músicas, "Música y realidad".
Performance of compositions "Atl" for digital tape and "Frost
clear" for double bass, tape and refrigerator.
1994. - Concert
at IRCAM. . Performance of "Transiciones de fase"
by the ensemble Court circuit directed by Pierre André Valade.
1994. - "A
Wrinkle in the air". A concert of electroacustic music presented
by "The school of contemporary arts" at Simon Fraser University
in Vancouver Canada.
1993. - "The
tuning of the world". Electroacustic music concert in Banff Canada
during the international conference of acoustic ecology.
1991. - "Contemplation
and Action" Multimedia concert of electroacustic music at Mills
College Concert Hall. Oakland, CA.
1991. - Mills
College concert Hall in Oakland California, with the "Magellan
string quartet".
1990. - "Seventh
Species composer group". Sherman Clay Recital Hall at SF California,
USA.
1989. - Final
exam to receive composition diploma at "ENM "UNAM.
INDIVIDUAL ART EXHIBITIONS
2004.- “Intervención en el fuerte
de San José”. 23 zonas project. Campeche, Campeche.
2003.- “Recognition of Space".
In collaboration with Luciano Matus. Instituto de Mexico. Miami, Florida,
USA. A parallel activity of Art Bassel Miami.
2002.- "Reconocimiento del espacio".
In collaboration with Luciano Matus. Templo de San Agustín, Centro
Histórico, Mexico DF.
2002.- “Offbeat
Japan”. An internet exhibition at ZoneZero.com
2002.- LASCAS, un arte mexicano actual. Espacio AVATAR,
Québec Canada.
2000.- "Rebicyling".
Surge Galery. Tokyo Japan.
1999. -
"Reconstrucción de los hechos". Casa de la Cultura. Juchitan
Oaxaca.
1999. - "Reconstrucción
de los hechos". Sixth international contemporary music festival
of Bogotá Colombia.
1999. - "In
a fraction of a friction". ARCO 99. Project Rooms.
Madrid, Spain.
1998. - "Impasse".
A one-person exhibition at the alternative space "Regina 51",
Curated by Santiago Sierra.
1991. - "Contemplation
and Action". Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA. Presentation
of Video Art and a Video-Sound-Installation.
COLLECTIVE ART EXHIBITIONS
2007.- “Dimensión
Sonora”. Koldo de Mitxelena, San Sebastían Spain.
2006.- "Plataforma
Puebla 2006". La constancia. Puebla.
2006.- "Ayer mañana
". Cuenca, España
2006.- Los Angeles / México:
complejidad – heterogeneidad. Colección Jumex.
México DF.
2005.- “Mercosul
Art Bienale”. Porto Alegre Brazil.
2005.- “Juego Doble”.
Cultural Spain Center. Mexico City.
2004.- “La Colemena”.
Colección Jumex. Mexico City.
2003.- "I
Cube Project. Puddles". Tokyo Japan.
2003.- "Sound-Image".
Laboratorio de Arte Alameda. Mexico City.
2003.- "El Sentido y los sentidos".
Gallery of the Universidad Latinoamericana, Mexico City.
2003.- "Salon de Arte Bancomer".
Modern Art Museum. Mexico City.
2003.- Winners of the Bienal Monterrey
Femsa. Amparo Museum. Puebla Mexico and Museo de Arte de Zapopan.
Guadalajara Mexico.
2002.- Experiencia Sonora.
Museo de Bellas Artes. Caracas Venezuela.2001.- Nothing. Roseeum art building.
Malmo Suiza. Curated by Graham Gussin.
2001.- Nothing.
Roseeum. Malmo Art Space. Switzerland. Curated by Graham Gussin.
2001.- 4th FEMSA Biennale.
Monterrey, Mexico.
2001.- Asamblea.
Centro Cultural de Mexico. Paris France.
2001.- Eso…Third international sound art festival.
Ex-teresa Arte Actual. Mexico DF.
2001.- Channel
n.
Kyoto Art Center. Kyoto Japan.
1999. - Ruido...First
International Sound Art Festival. Sloan Galery.Mexico
City.
1998. - 11th
Biennial of Sidney. Sidney Australia.
1998. - "DOMESTICA".
Project involving 9 artist’s interventions in 9 houses of La Condesa
in Mexico City. Curated by Tomás Rivas.
1997. - "Lines
of Loss". Art exhibit of 5 Mexican artists at Artists
Space in New York. Curated by Gabriel Orozco. Participation with Sound
installation in situ and music performance.
1997. - "La
resurrección del San Martín". San Martín
building. México, DF. Sound installation in situ.
1997. - "Third
biennial of three-dimensional art". National Center for
the Arts. Mexico City.
1995-1996. - "Distant
Relations". Itinerary Art exhibition presented at Icon
Gallery, London. The Dublin Museum of Modern Art, Ireland. The
Santa Monica Museum of contemporary Art, Sta. Monica, CA. The Carrillo
Gil Museum. Mexico City.
1996. - "En
torno a Luis Buñuel". Art exhibition celebrating
Luis Buñuel at Museo del instituto cultural de Morelos, Jardín
Borda. Cuernavaca Mexico.
1996. - "En
otro lugar muy lejos de aquí". World trade center,
Guadalajara MEXICO. Art exhibition at the international Art Faire FITAC.
Curated by Guillermo Santamarina.
1995. - Cultural
Center of Mexico. Paris France.
1995. - Filth
biennial of art and technology in the University of Connecticut.
1995.
1994. - "Figures
d’origines". Chapelle de la Salpetrire, Paris
France. Realization of a sound score for a multimedia luminografic concert
by Jorge Orta.
1994. - Gallery
Chantal Crousel, Paris France. Presentation of the sound installation
"Ligne d’abandon" in collaboration with Gabriel Orozco.
1990. - "The
Day of the Dead". Galería de la Raza.
San Francisco, CA. Art exhibit. Presentation of Performance
"El Rey del Mambo".
1989. - "Siete
fotógrafos Latinoamericanos", in Festival Latinoamericano
de Arte y Cultura" at Brasilia Brazil. Collective Photo exhibition.
1989. - "A
PROPOSITO. 14 obras en torno a JOSEPH BEUYS". Art installations
exhibit in Convento del desierto de los Leones. Mexico City. Curated by Guillermo
Santamarina.
1988. - "Taller
de los lunes". Collective photo exhibition at the Consejo
Mexicano de fotografía (CMF) in Mexico City.
1987. - "Ojos
que no ven" at the Fototeca in Havana Cuba. Collective
Photo exhibition.
1986. - "A
un año del temblor", Milan Italy. Collective photo
exhibition.
ORGANIZATION OF SOUND
ART SHOWS AND
ELECTRACOUSTIC MUSIC
CONCERTS
selection
2006.- Oasis
Sonoro-Sound Oasis. Co-Curator of a sound art installation with 12
international compositions for a 3D spacialization system. Bellas Artes. Mexico
City.
2006.- Audio
Elf.
Curator. 10 comissions for 10 international composers. 5.1 Soccer based audio
pieces shown in the exhibition scorecologne.net
2006.- Corredor Sonoro. Curator. 10
comissions for Mozart (The Magic flute Opera) based audio pieces shown in
the music festival "Instrumenta Oaxaca 2006" (posponed for 2007).
2003.- II Festival Radar. Curator
of the first retrospective of electroacustic music in México.
2002.- Generación espontánea.
Curator of a electroacustic music concert with insect sounds for the international
congress: Conocimiento Antiguo/Mundo contemporáneo in Oaxaca México.
2002.- Habitat Sonico…Cuarto Festival
internacional de arte sonoro. Sound
art festival co-organized with Guillermo Santamarina, director of the Ex-Teresa
Museum in Mexico City.
2001.- Eso…Tercer festival internacional
de arte sonoro. Sound
art festival co-organized with Guillermo Santamarina, director of the Ex-Teresa
Museum in Mexico City.
2000.- Humor y Aliento…Segundo festival
internacional de arte sonoro. Sound
art festival co-organized with Guillermo Santamarina, director of the Ex-Teresa
Museum in Mexico City.
2000.- XII Festival Internacional de Música
de Morelia. Curator of a international electroacustic music concert in
Morelia Michoacan.
1999.
- La
Radia. Curator. Sound Installation and electroacustic music concert
for the festival "Arte postal, hacia un nuevo Milenio". Oaxaca Mexico.
1999. - Ruido…
Primer Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro. Sound art festival co-organized
with Guillermo Santamarina, director of the Ex-Teresa Museum in Mexico City.
1999. - "ACOUSMONIUM".
Two Electroacustic Concerts at the "XI Festival Internacional
de Música de Morelia". Morelia Mexico.
1998.- Encounter
of Sound Art. A small festival of sound art in San Miguel
de Allende Guanajuato, co-organized with Michael Bock.
1998. - Vox
Electroacústica. A mega sound-installation acusmonium for diffusing
sound poetry and electroacustic music based on language sounds. Antiguo
Colegio de San Idelfonso Museum, Mexico City.
1997. - Distant
Relations. Electroacustic Music of Mexican and Irish composers. Two concerts
at the Carrillo Gil Museum of contemporary art.
CD's
• PERSONAE. Mexican electroacustic
composers in collaboration with mexican poets. 2006. Buy.
• RAS No. 7. Revista de arte sonoro.
Centro de creación de música experimental. Universidad de Castilla
la Mancha. Cuenca España.2005. Buy.
• A través otra vez.
CD of the sound installation presented in Centro cultural de España.
Limited Edition, 50 CD’s.2005.
• Computer music journal. DVD Anthology. Volume
27 (4), 2003. DVD edited by the magazine Computer Music
Journal. USA.
• Histories of the Future.
Cabinet Magazine, NY EUA.
• Boom Box Project. Compositions
of electroacustic soundscapes by Manuel Rocha Iturbide. Produced by the art
foundation BVA Bancomer. México 2003.Limited edition, 300 CD's. Buy.
• Machin1. Obras electroacústicas
de Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Salvador Rodríguez, Guillermo Acevedo, José
Manuel Mondragón, Miguel Hernández y Víctor Romero.
• Eso. Antología de obras
sonoras del tercer festival internacional de arte sonoro. Ex-Teresa Arte Actual.
México 2001.
• Humor y Aliento . Antología
de obras sonoras del segundo festival internacional de arte sonoro. Ex-Teresa
Arte Actual. México 2000.
• Ruido ... . Antología
de obras sonoras del primer festival internacional de arte sonoro. Ex-Teresa
Arte Actual. México 1999.
• Ver. Revista audiovisual.
No.2. Namdee Publishing Station. Bangkok Tailandia. 2001.
• Computer music journal. Sound Anthology.
Volume 23, 1999. CD editado por la revista Computer Music Journal.
USA.
• XIX CONCORSO
INTERNAZIONALE LUIGI RUSSOLO DI MUSICA ELETTROACUSTICA. 1997.
• XVIII CONCORSO
INTERNAZIONALE LUIGI RUSSOLO DI MUSICA ELETTROACUSTICA. 1996.
• "Ligne
d’abandone". Electroacoustic Sound Art Work in collaboration
with Gabriel Orozco. CD Edited by the gallery Crousel. Paris, France. 1996
• "Distant
Relations". Two electroacustic compositions by Manuel Rocha
Iturbide and Roger Doyle for the art exhibition "Distant Relations".
CD Edited by Curator Trisha Ziff. 1995.
• "Figures
d’origine". Luminographic concert in collaboration
with Jorge Orta. CD Edited by the gallery Ivon Amor-Pallix. Paris, France.
1994.
