Alejandro Franco Briones

About

Alejandro is a composer, live coder and sound artist from Mexico City. Some of his major interests are: time-oriented music, network art ecologies and musical/technological notational systems. Alejandro is also a PhD student at McMaster University in the department of Communications, New Media and Cultural Studies. He is interested in struggles for resistance and autonomy and artistic forms of community  organisation that are emancipatory. Alejandro has been awarded with Prince Claus Mobility Fund, Sony Forward Creativity Award and the CONACYT-FONCA scholarship for post-graduate studies abroad. He has presented papers and performances in the International Conference on Live Coding in its third, fourth and fifth iteration, the Electroacoustic Music Seminar in Mexico City, participated in independent experimental music festivals and concerts like the Network Music Festival (2020), Umbral Concert Series among many others. Alejandro is currently a teacher assistant in McMaster University teaching Digital Audio and New Media Arts, and a Research Assistant in the Network Imagination Laboratory (NIL) developing the online music platform Estuary.

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