Horacio Vaggione

Horacio Vaggione is an argentinian composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. He co-founded the Experimental Music Center of the University of Cordoba (Argentina), and has been active as a musician, teacher and organizer in South America and Europe. Vaggione's music is regularly played worldwide in major centers and festivals of contemporary music. Awards include two Newcomp Computer Music prizes, four Bourges prizes, International Computer Music Association Commission Award, DAAD Berlin Künstlerprogramm Award... Born in Argentina, Vaggione has lived in France since 1978, working in centers such as IMEB (Bourges), Ina-GRM and IRCAM (Paris). In 1986 he founded the CICM (Centre de Recherche Informatique et Création Musicale / Center for Computer Music Research) of the University of Paris VIII. His articles have appeared in Contemporary Music Review, Computer Music Journal, Interface, Musica Realta ... Vaggione currently lives in Paris. He is Professor of Music at the University of Paris VIII and Director of the Doctoral Program in Computer Music.