Horacio Vaggione is an electro-acoustic and musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

 composer

Composer

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 who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis

Granular synthesis

Granular synthesis is a basic sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.It is based on the same principle as sampling. However, the samples are not played back conventionally, but are instead split into small pieces of around 1 to 50ms. These small pieces are called grains...

, and thus microsound

Microsound

Microsound includes all sounds on the time scale shorter than musical notes, the sound object time scale, and longer than the sample time scale. Specifically this is shorter than one tenth of a second and longer than 10 milliseconds, including the audio frequency range and the infrasonic...

 and (Landy 1994, p. 148) whose pieces often are for performer and computer-generated tape. He studied composition at the National University in Córdoba and the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, where he first gained exposure and access to computers.

Vaggione lives in Europe and visited every electronic studio there during the 1970s. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain, and was part of ALEA

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 and co-founded an electronic studio and the Projects Music and Computer at the Autonomous University in Madrid with Luis de Pablo

Luís de Pablo

Luis de Pablo is a Spanish composer.He was born in Bilbao, living in Madrid from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition...

. In 1978 he moved to France, where he still resides, and begin work at GMEB in Bourges, INA-GRM and IRCAM in Paris where his music moved from synthesized and sampled loops (as in La Maquina de Cantar, produced on an IBM computer) towards micromontage. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Music University of Paris VIII and organized the CICM http://cicm.mshparisnord.net.

Compositions

• La Maquina de Cantar (English: "The Singing Machine". 1978, Cramps and reissued 2002, Ampersand 11)
• Thema for bass saxophone & computer-generated tape (1985, Wergo WER 2026-2)
• Tar (1987, Le Chant du Monde, LCD 278046/47)
• Kitab for bass clarinet, piano, contrabass and computer-processed and controlled sounds (1992, Centaur CRC 2255)
• Schall (1995)
• Nodal (1997)
• Agon (1998)
• Sçir for contrabass flute in G & prerecorded tape (2001)
• Atem for horn, bass clarinet, piano, double bass and electroacoustic set-up (2002)
• Gymel Electroacoustic music (2003)
• Taléas for recorders and electroacoustics (2002/2004)
• Préludes Suspendus II(2003?)

Source

• Leigh Landy
  Leigh Landy
  Leigh Landy is a composer and musicologist of Dutch and American citizenship. He holds a Research Chair at De Montfort University where he directs the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre....
  
  (1994). Experimental Music Notebooks. ISBN 3-7186-5553-5.