Hello!  I am a performer, composer, and writer interested in the slippery continuums of intelligibility, expressivity, and sense.

Andrea Balency-Béarn is a part French, part Mexican contemporary music and film composer based in London, UK, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.

Born in Paris and raised in Mexico City, she has received commissions from outstanding ensembles and entities including the Nash ensemble, Riot ensemble, the Royal Academy of Music and New Movement Collective, and her work - which spans from solo and chamber music with live electronics to orchestral music - has been recorded and performed internationally.

As a film composer, she has scored feature films and TV series for Netflix, Amazon Studios and the BBC.

Besides her career as a composer, she performs as a member of UK band Mount Kimbie.

Icelandic composer and double bassist based in Copenhagen.

CNDSD {* _ *} Creative Technologist, Audiovisual Artist and Electronic Music Producer from Mexico City, develops soundscapes with a post-cinematic approach. Her music immerses herself in the vast electronic universe, skillfully fusing a variety of subgenres to offer a unique listening experience.
From Deconstructed Club, Glitch, IDM, Footwork to Sound Collages, through composition and algorithmic execution, CNDSD challenges the limits of hearing and stimulates dance, creating profound audiovisual experiences that have left a trail in the live coding community.
With a career spanning international stages, CNDSD has presented live audiovisual performances at festivals such as Sonart Shanghai, MUTEK in Mexico, Japan, Argentina, Spain and Montreal, as well as at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) in Korea and Montreal in 2019, Medialab Prado and Medialab Matadero,  Center for Art and Media | ZKM, the International Live Coding Conference, Aural Festival, Vorspiel and Transmediale in Berlin, ADAF in Athens, and more.

CNDSD's compositions are an amalgamation of organic and synthetic elements, creating a dynamic and expressive atmosphere that invites introspection and also explosion. With a master's degree in sound design for immersive experiences and video games and a propensity for experimentation with unusual rhythms and soundscapes, CNDSD embarks on technological eclecticism in the contemporary electronic music panorama.

Musicologist, Composer, Musical Technology Coordinator in CEPROMUSIC

He was born in Mexico City and graduated in composition from the Faculty of Music of the UNAM. There he studied with Leonardo Coral, Francisco Cortés, María Granillo and Cristina García Islas. In 2020 he entered the program “Cátedra Extraordinaria de Composición Musical” at the Faculty of Music of the UNAM, where he studied with Arturo Márquez. He is currently a student of the Master in Composition at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg in the class of Johannes Maria Staud.  

His training has also included master classes and courses with composers Michael Jarrell, Julio Estrada, Víctor Ibarra, Augusta Read Thomas, Pierreluigi Billone, Frederic Dureux, Francesco Filidei, Eva Reiter, Yann Robin, Sarah Nemtsov and Henry Fourés. 

 

He has received several commissions and premieres from important ensembles and institutions, such as the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata, the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes and the Ensamble Sexteto Místico. Among the ensembles with which he has worked are Ensemble Multilatetalé (FR), Ensemble Fractales (BEL), Ensemble Garage (DE), Ensemble Recherche (DE) and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano (MX).

Brazilian composer, Rodrigo Lima is one of the most active composers of his generation, his music has been performed at festivals and concert halls in Latin America, Europe and the USA. His production includes orchestral music, chamber music, solo instruments, vocal music and works for choir.

In 2008, he was resident composer of the 5th International Forum of Young Composers in Paris with Ensemble Aleph. In 2015, his work Antiphonas for saxophone and ensemble premiered at the 17th World Saxophone Congress & Festival  in Strasbourg (France). In 2016, he received the order from the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux (France) to compose the work Txury-ò: ‘caminho por onde vai o sol’ inspired by the cosmology of the Karajá Indians and dedicated to the french ensemble Proxima Centauri.

He has obtained some prizes in National and International Competitions:

·   Prize International Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter of Composition 2008 in Mexico.

·   Prize ‘Francisco Guerreiro Martín’ at the ‘XVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores 2006 Fundación Autor-CDMC’ in Madrid, Spain.

·   Prize for Classical Composition of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE) 2010 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize of the National Competition Camargo Guarnieri of Composition 2005 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize Camargo Guarnieri of Composition, Campos do Jordão International Winter Music Festival 2009 in Brazil, and others.

Lima’s Music has been performed by the Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Linea (France), Proxima Centauri (France), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata de las Amércicas (Mexico), Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Orchestutropica (Lisboa-Portugal), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata Aberta (Brazil), University of São Paulo Symphony (Brazil), Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) and conductors Claudio Cruz (Brazil), Guillaume Bourgogne (France), Luis Aguirre (Spain), Cesário Costa (Portugal), Kirk Trevor (England) and Claudia Feres (Brazil). 

His main composition teachers were Estércio Marquez Cunha, Sergio Nogueira, Conrado Silva and Silvio Ferraz. Bachelor in Musical Composition Degree at the Department of Music University of Brasília and Masters in "Creative Processes" at the University of Campinas State in São Paulo. He also took courses with composers Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Claude Ledoux (Belgium) and Emmanuel Nunes (Portugal). 

             Rodrigo Lima is teacher of composition at the 'EMESP’- School of Music of São Paulo State. Lima is a member of the General Society of Authors and Editors ‘Sociedade General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)’ in Spain.

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