39. The Process of Creating a Computational System: A Collective Audiovisual Composition

Mizky Bernal is a Bolivian composer who also has training in musical direction and piano from renowned national and international teachers. She graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor degree in Music from Loyola University. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona. During her career as a performer, she has participated in numerous musical events of national and international stature. As a composer, she has been invited to collaborate with different contemporary music ensembles creating works that have been presented at several Latin American events. From 2021 to the present, she has been a part of the Ensamble Inmediato, whose work focuses on the creation and dissemination of avant-garde music.

Diego Jiménez studied classical guitar (2006–10) under Alfredo Uribe, during these years composing his first works. In 2007 he entered the Centro de Educación Artística (CEDART) “Ignacio Mariano de las Casas” of INBA. He followed the workshop Computer Tools for Sound Creation and Production with Francisco Colasanto (2007). In 2009 he was awarded a scholarship to study jazz at the American Music Institute’s Jazz Academy in Eugene, Oregon. Later he studied piano with Carmen Eloísa Sánchez and in 2011 he entered the Faculty of Music (FaM) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he formally began his studies in composition with Horacio Uribe and Lorenzo Medina. For his Bachelor’s degree in Composition he studied with Mtro. Leonardo Coral, Dr. María Granillo, and Dr. Julio Estrada. He has composed chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual media such as documentaries and feature films, among which: Revueltas (2018, Alfonso Jiménez), Sobre la Muerte (2019, Adrián Bodegas), Tilman (2020, Enrique Arechavala), and Tótem (2023, Lila Avilés). He has also served as producer and mixing and mastering engineer on albums such as Contemporary Mexican Music for Guitar Quartet (2021) by Cuarteto Kuikani, and Tilman (2023), among others. In 2021 he was awarded one of the scholarships of the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Chair of Musical Composition. His works have been performed in Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, France, Colombia, and Spain.

Guillermo Leonardini lives in La Paz (Bolivia). He has studied at the Plurinational Conservatory of Music; Loyola University; the School of Composition, 2015–16 (with a scholarship from the Fundación Hermann); with Miguel Llanque, Canela Palacios, and Sebastián Zuleta at the Casataller Art Space; and has taken composition classes with Alberto Villalpando. He has participated in various composition workshops with different teachers, including Daniel Leguizamón (Colombia), Julio Estrada (Mexico), Hugo Solís (Mexico), Peter Ablinger (Austria), among others. He has premiered numerous works, including rumo for the ensemble 2e2m (France); Los otros verdes en esta (nuestra) padrera premiered in Germany with the Recherche ensemble (Germany); and uuuaaauauauaauuua premiered in La Paz by the Ensamble Inmediato. Currently, he is part of the Ensamble Inmediato with which he experiments and explores the relationship between music and new media. He is studying for a Master’s degree in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona.

Eunice Pérez is a composer and graduated from the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico in 2021. In 2018 she joined the Musical Creation Laboratory (LACREMUS) taught by Julio Estrada at the Institute of Aesthetic Research at UNAM. Her works have been presented in Mexico and Canada. She is currently part of the Proyecto Ars Nova, a project for the creation, collaboration and reflection of contemporary music.