Rodrigo F. Cádiz is a composer and engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he studied with Alejandro Guarello, Aliosha Solovera and Pablo Aranda. He obtained his Ph.D. in Music Technology from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 in 2006, where he studied with Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas

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, Jay Alan Yim

Jay Alan Yim

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, Virgil Moorefield

Virgil Moorefield

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, Amnon Wolman

Amnon Wolman

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 and Gary Kendall.

His music includes works for all genres and it has been programmed in Chile, USA, and Europe, in venues such as Festival de Música Chilena Contemporánea, June in Buffalo, ICMC, Bourges, SEAMUS and Música Viva.

His research articles have been published in journals such as the Computer Music Journal

Computer Music Journal

Computer Music Journal is an American academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The magazine is accompanied by an annual CD/DVD that collects audio and video work...

 and several international conferences. He has taugh several courses in computer music. His research interests include digital audio processing, computer music, composition, music perception and cognition and the musical applications of fuzzy logic.

Cádiz is currently an associate researcher at the Music Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, School of Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He is a member of AMC, SEAMUS, ICMA and he is the current general coordinator of the Electroacoustic Community of Chile (CECH).

Awards

Cádiz has won several grants and prizes for artistic creation and research, among them Beca Presidente de la República del Gobierno de Chile, Fondo de la Música Nacional, Fundación Andes and Studio22, CIRA, Wonderlic y Wyatt from Northwestern University. He has won several composition prizes in Chile and the US.

Publications

• Cadiz, Rodrigo and Kendall, Gary (2005): A Particle-based Fuzzy Logic Approach to Sound Synthesis Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIMO5), Montreal http://www.oicm.umontreal.ca/doc/cim05/articles/CADIZ_R_CIM05.pdf
• Cadiz, Rodrigo (2006): 'A Fuzzy-Logic Mapper for Audiovisual Media' in Computer Music Journal Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2006) pp 67 - 82 ISSN:0148-9267
• Cadiz, Rodrigo (2009): Computer Music Control by Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications VDM Verlag ISBN 978-3639141122

External links

• Electroacustica en Chile biographical page, accessed 9 February 2010