The UNM Music Department welcomes Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Rodrigo Sigal
Dr. Rodrigo Sigal is a composer, cultural entrepreneur and full time professor since 2017 at ENES, UNAM, Morelia, where he co-founded the Music and Artistic Technology undergraduate program. He is interested in new technologies especially in the electroacoustic music field. Since 2006, Sigal has been the director of the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts where he coordinates numerous initiatives of creation, education, research and cultural management in relation to sound and music. He earned a doctorate degree from the London City University and completed his postdoctoral studies at UNAM. He has a diploma in cultural management from the UAM-BID and has continued his studies and creative projects with the help from various scholarships and support from institutions like Fulbright, FONCA (SNCA member 2011-18), Pride C (UNAM) and the DeVos Foundation for cultural management, among others. He is a member of the National Researchers System Level 1 from Conacyt and for 20 years he has taken part in the Luminico project, he is the director of the “Visiones Sonoras” festival, and editor of “Sonic Ideas” journal.
Dr. Sigal will be in residence at the UNM Music Department in the Spring of 2024 as a Fulbright Scholar, where he will be writing pieces in collaboration with the New Music New Mexico Student Contemporary Ensemble as well as teaching the course “Electroacoustic Music in Latin-America”.
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Art Faculty: Awards, Residencies & Revisited Projects
Distinguished Professor Jim Stone is an exhibiting artist who uses photography. His photographs have been published in three monographs and exhibited internationally; they are represented in the permanent collections of over 30 major museums and public archives.