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Born in Quito, Ecuador, the 24th of December, 1938. Studied at the Conservatorio de Quito, the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.), the Instituto di Tella (Buenos Aires) and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Productions in the Studio for Electronic Music WDR (Cologne), the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale (Metz), IRCAM (Paris),  Acroe (Grenoble) and ZKM (Karlsruhe). Teaching activities in Metz, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Basel, Sofía, Quito, Cuenca, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Madrid, Barcelona, Györ y Szombathely (Hungary), Seoul (Corea). Performances at the most important European festivals. Professor for electronic music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg from 1990 until his retirement in 2004. Together with Roland Breitenfeld, he founded the K.O.Studio Freiburg in 1998, a private initiative for the practice of experimental music. Since 2008, he has been an advisor in the board of GEMART (Group for Experimental Music and Media Arts, Hannover) and member of the GEMART Ensemble. He lives in Freiburg since 1996.

Listen

Ayayayay (1971) Übungen für 3 (1972) Übungen für Cello (1973)
Lindgren (1976) ...y ahora... (1977) Agualarga (1978)
Intensidad y Altura (1979) La Seconde Ajoutée (1984) Nemos Orgel (1989)
The Tonal (1993) El Oro (1992) The Spirit Catcher (1993)
Tiefen (1998) DarVar( 2004) Ton Geographie II (2005)

Videos

Cuarteto de Cuerdas No. 1 (1964) Tongeographie I (2005) Holz arbeitet I (2005)
Holz arbeitet II (2005) ...es schwingt...(2011)

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