Hernani Villaseñor Ramírez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico
Hernani Villaseñor is a Mexican musician interested in sound, code and improvisation. He is currently a PhD student at the Music Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His current research is about the implications of writing source code in different levels to produce music and sound. He is also interested in artistic research and the relation of art and technology. As a musician he performs and improvises computer music with source code as interface, computer art practice known as live coding in a range of styles from techno to experimental sound. He has collaborated with different artists in the field of cinema, experimental video, photography and installation and is a member of the laptop band LiveCodeNet Ensamble. His has performed in many venues and participated in diverse conferences in countries of America and Europe. As an organizer he have co-organized tree international symposiums dedicated to muisc and code called /*vivo*/ and many concerts of music and technology for the Centro Multimedia CENART in Mexico. He has also taught sound and computer music in Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and Music Faculty at UNAM.