dBâle electronic music festival basel
frau musica electronica
21 - 23 April 2010
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel
Gonzalo Biffarella
Gonzalo Biffarella was born in 1961 in Argentinia. He has composed electroacoustic music for over 20 years. His works have been presented regularly in Latin America and Europe in concerts and over the radio. He has written mixed pieces for soloists as well as ensembles. Among them, cellist Christoff Beau (France), Chris Chaffe (San Diego, US), guitar player Robert Aussel (France), Ensemble Musica Diagonal (Italy), radiophonic music for the Radio Network WDR 3 of Cologne, Germany, commissioned by the "Studio Akustische Kunst" directed by Klaus Schöning, several works commissioned by the IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges, France) The CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, Padova University,Italy,) the LIPM (Laboratory of Investigations and Musical Productions,) (Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Zeppelín Festival of the CCCB (Barcelona, Spain,) the LIEM (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid , Spain) and the Inaudito Festival (Bogota, Colombia) . In 2009 he won one of the prices of the IMEB Contest.
Biffarella has worked as a composer for the contemporary dance company “Los de al Lado” from Cordoba, creating over 10 dance-music collaborations that were presented in Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Chile and Venezuela.
His works have been released on CD by the IMEB-Chrisopée Electronique label, France (CD “MESTIZAJE”, 1997, monographic), Cosentino Records ("Panorama de la Música Argentina" 1995).
Biffarella developed an intense career as a university professor at the National University of Cordoba (Argentina). Many of his students have obtained composition awards all over the world. He teaches courses in Experimental Music, Composition with new technologies and is the current director of post-graduate courses on Digital Arts at the same university.
He also teaches online courses for the University of Caldas, Colombia, the National University of Chile and the MECAD/ESDI University of Ramón Llull, Spain.
Over the years, Biffarella has become one of the most actives figures in the area of cultural management in Argentina. He has served as the president of the Argentine Federation of Electroacoustic Music for 5 years (FARME CIME-UNESCO), the director of "Juventudes Musicales de Córdoba" (eight years), as well as on many cultural affairs posts with government agencies in the city of Cordoba, organizing electroacoustic music festivals, concerts, multimedia events and dance performances.