Sex: Male Email: ricardarias@hotmail.com The Composer is willing to travel? Yes Honors, grants, awards the Composer has received: 1st prize, Live Electronic Music, INF-Art Barcelona, 1990 Grant from Colcultura, Colombia 1995 Significant employment and memberships: Teacher at CIEJ Electronic Music Studio, Barcelona, Spain - 1987-1990 Workshops on Analogue Studio Techniques Experimental Education and degrees: Electroacoustic Music Techniques, Composition at Phono/Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, BA Flute privately with Hiroshi Kobayashi Sonology Course, Certificate, Royal Conservatory, The Hague Composer's bio/personal statement: Ricardo Arias was born in Bogota, Colombia. From 1983 to 1993 he lived in Barcelona, Spain, where he studied counterpoint, harmony, composition and electroacoustic music with chilean composer Gabriel Brncic, flute with Hiroshi Kobayashi and improvisation with Jorge Serraute. During these ten years he attended composition seminars with the following teachers: John Chowning, Francisco Kroepfl, Lluis Callego, Xavier Serra, Gerardo Gandini, Alcides Lanza, Jose M. Berenguer, Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt and others. In October 1995, he was invited to do an orientation project at STEIM(Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, Holland. Since 1991, Arias has worked on a series of duo collaborations with Pepe Sarto, Miquel Jorda, Alejandro Gomez, Dror Feiler, Nicolas Collins, Wil Offermans, Rodolfo Acosta, Pascal Boudreault, Christian Marclahy, Barbara Held, and others. His most recent collaborations are a duo with violinist Jane Henry which played live on air at WFMU, East Orange, NJ., and a duo with German guitarist Hans Tammen, and a flute trio (Other Flutes), with Bruce Gremo and Muriel Vergnaud. Payment preferences: S/he sometimes works on spec S/he sometimes defers fee Composer proficiencies: Sound design Performance flautist, ballons, and other unconventional instruments Other professional information: Published articles on his work and Colombian electroacoustic music in Experimental Musical Instruments Vol 13, #2, and Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 8 Organized the "Primer Festival de Los Tiempos del Ruido," a sound art and experimental music festival held in Bogota and Cali, Colombia in August 1995 Taught a course on the Musical Avant-Guarde at Univeridad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia Current record label/publishing affiliations: Other works: "Nos Vidrios" (1986) Performed at the Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 1986 for recorded glass sounds and amplified glass objects "daffodil" (1989) tape. First performed at the Synthese '89 festival, Bourges, France "Musica Gl;obal" (1991-93) for at least eight balloonists, first performed in Bogota, 1994 Reviews: Scratching the Surface: the balloon in my life", Experimental Musical Instruments Vol. 13#2, Nicasio CA Dec. 1997. From the Margins of the Periphery; Music and Technology at the Outskirts of the West - a Personal View". Leonardo Music Journal. Vol 11., Dec. 1998 Genres that apply to the Composer's work: New Music Classsical Ambient All types of instruments/sounds used in Composer's works: Acoustic Synthetic The venues where the Composer's works have been performed are: Concert Film Radio Theatre Some types of ethnicities that describe the Composer's works: Western Pertaining to the scoring of the Composer's works, they are generally: Partly Scored The durations of the Composer's work are generally: Under 3 Minutes Under 10 Minutes The tempo of each work varies: A lot A little The Composer has been influenced by: Mauricio Kagel, Llorenc Barber, Tom Cora, Cornelius Cardew, Hugh Davies, Gabriel Brncic, Luis Boyra, Pascal Boudreault, Roberto Garcia, Phil Minton, Juan Hidalgo, Annea Lockwood, David Tudor The experiences that have influenced the Composer's entire body of work are: Copyright 1999 Harvestworks