Abstract/ Conceptual overview
Installation version
There is now an initial installation version as a parody of the boat trip.

In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe describes how the narrator's character kills the old man he lives with, how he hides the dismembered body in the scantlings of the chamber, and how he confesses the murder to the police after still hearing the beating of the old man’s heart coming from the underfloor where the body is hidden.

While not programmatic, this work –the installation and the musical composition- is based on Poe’s story and uses an old acoustic upright piano electronically and mechanically augmented for representing the sonic imagery described in the writing.

This three-movement radio artwork has three different layers that are combined during the piece. 1- poems, 2- viola motives, which are fragments of important viola works of different periods and composers and 3- sounds of the Central Observatorio Bus Station of México City. All the poems are by Gabriela Villa except "Este es un amor" by Efraín Huerta and "Te amo ahí contra el muro destruido" by Homero Aridjis. The viola works are by Bach, Ligeti, Feldman, Schumann, Reger, and Hindemith. Reading of poems are done by Gabriela Villa, Alina Amozurrutia, Emilio Domínguez, and Hugo Solís.

GAB is an electronic system that allows the reinterpretation of musical material in real time. It is designed to be used by a pianist during the performance of musical improvisations.

EnsAmble Crumble, an electro-acoustic improvisatory ensemble was formed at the beginning of 2005 by four musicians from France, Spain, Mexico, and The Netherlands all of them with interdisciplinary studies in music and sound technology.

In order to combine my various interests, I founded the NICROM Electro-acoustic Musical Improvisation Trio in 2001. This trio, consisting of two musicians and a painter, was a creative forum for sound and graphic experimentation and exploration. We were particularly interested in finding alternative means of producing coherent musical discourse based more on atonal and graphic manipulation than on the interval relations between sounds, which led us to explore the spectrum of noise and abstract painting.

The MOZ-ART-GLOBAL-ART project is a piece of software for collective audiovisual improvisations over the net produced by the composer Mauricio Valdes and the author. It was commissioned by the Instrumenta 2006 festival which should have taken place in Oaxaca Mexico on June 2006.
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RadioBANDA is a radio network art piece that consists of an installation of analog radios and a web server that people access to create music in real time. The final mix is then broadcast by a radio transmitter over 88.1 FM. (IN SPANISH)

ix-.-.hel creates a visual and audio link between three communication methods: hands, Morse code, and cell phone messages. The audience is an active participant in the result of the work, by being asked to resend the last text message in their cell phone. The text is used to produce visual and sound events, becoming rhythmic when translated into Morse code. The visual content is generated from human hands images provided by the audience.

The installation is dedicated to Ixhcel Solis, the artist's sister, deaf since birth. For both, hand language has been an important communication medium. The cell phone messages have become not only a practical way of communication, but the most common way to send instant emotions at a distance.

This work was selected in the TRANSITIO_MX International Video and Electronic Arts Festival from Mexico City. You can see the description at TRANSITIO_MX --> festival 05 --> contest --> selected works.

Juum Duet, (www.DuoJuum.net) integrated by Hugo Solís and Gabriela Villa, is a free electroacoustic improvisation ensemble created at the beginning of year 2006. Both musicians, native Mexicans, share interdisciplinary interests and education which include music, music technology, digital media and speech.

Eyes can see you (Ojos te vean) www.ojosTeVean.net intends to be a non-utilitarian channel of poetic audiovisual creation. It is a collaborative net project that produces short abstract videos using the material generated by the users over the Internet. In order to achieve this goal, the project is made of a forum, a customized piece of software, a server, an automatic audio and movie mashing system, an automatic subtitling machine, and a set of public showing events organized by the participants.

Most of my research during the last years has involved the creation of tools, and experiments in order to extend the "performance" activity with digital technologies....

This forum is for related activities in the field with comments and reviews of my advisors, mentors, and collegues.

The Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface (IMPI) is a piece of software for the creation and guidance of audiovisual improvisations. By drawing into a digital tablet using a defined syntax, a conductor generates in real time both the music displayed in several formats on computer screens for the musicians, and dynamic graphics projected on the stage in synchronicity with the music. The kind of musical style this system is intended for is non-tonal, non-rhythmic, and texture-oriented, which means that strong emphasis is put on the control of timbral qualities and continuum transitions. One of the main goals of the system is the translation of planned compositional elements such as precise structure and synchronization between instruments into the improvisatory domain. The graphics that IMPI generates are organic, fluid, vivid, dynamic, and unified with the music.

Thesis Abstract
Gestural Improvisation is a type of free improvisation that aims to create short and long-term relationships in the acoustic parameters of music, such as pitch and intensity. The gestural improvisation style is closely related to the concept of real-time composition. This work describes a set of experiments based on signal processing methods and machine learning techniques that are applied to gestural improvisation music. These methods are commonly applied to other styles of music and employed in music information retrieval and computational musicology, among other elds. As a case-study, a set of twenty-one multi-channel recordings of music performed by the ve-member gestural improvisation group EnsAmble Crumble is analyzed.