Leopoldo Amigo

1956, Cuenca

Lives and works in Valencia

Sound workshops lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the University of Castilla la Mancha and the Valencia General Society of Authors. Lecturer at the Electroacoustics Laboratory of the Higher Music College of Valencia.

Guest researcher at the Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois. Technical Director and founder of the Gabinete de Música Electroacústica de Cuenca.

He has composed music for the exhibitions and installations of many plastic artists, namely, Miguel Molina, Emilio Martínez, Vicente Ortiz, Mau Monleon, Monique Bastiaan, Amparo Carbonell, etc.

He has been technical assistant of numerous composers at the Electroacoustics Music Laboratory of Cueca, namely, Horacio Vaggione, Luis de Plablo, Jose Manuel Berenguer, José Manuel López, Eduardo Polonio, Lejaren Hiller, etc.

As a composer, he has composed more than 100 pieces for different instrumental set ups and groups, always with the intervention of electronic and electroacoustics generation processes and sounds.

His work has debuted or appeared in the following festivals and concerts:

Nits d'Aielo i Art. (Auditori d'Aielo de Manferit, 1998-99), -'Música en Pedralba de Sol a Sol' (Pedralba,11-07-1998), -'Futuros Emergentes. Arte en la Era Post-Biológica' (Centre Cultural la Beneficencia, Valencia, 5-12-1998)

Ciber@rt. (Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 20-03-1999)

Inauguration of the electroacoustics oratorio Foudre (produced by the Polytechnic University and the Auditori de Torrent, 2001)

International Contemporary Music Festival of Alicante (Alicante 1997) -'8th International Electroacoustics Music Festival, Punto de Encuentro' (Sala Manuel de Falla de la SGAE, Madrid, 28-10-1999)

Cabanyal Portes Obertes. (Plaza Llorenç de la Flor, 1999 to 2006), Contemporary Music Festival, Ensems (Valencia 1998,2000), Inauguration concert of the gallery 'Charpa' (Valencia 2006), Festival Tempo (Albacete 2006) y '1st Spanish Sonorous Art Fair, MASE' (Palacio de Orive, Córdoba, 2006)

He is also a member of the research group Laboratory of Intermedia Creations (LCI) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, which organises intermedia workshops, exhibitions and research projects, the latest of which a project to recover artistic-sonorous works from the artistic avant-guard of the turn of the last century (1909-1945): Futurism, Dadaism, Cubofuturism, Bauhaus, Activism, Ultraism, Estridentisim, Postism, etc.

The following editions include some of the author's sonorous work: 'Mascletà Virtual' (CD Levante, 1998),'Altavoz del Frente' (CD EGT, 2001), 'Del Mono Azul al Cuello Blanco: Sonidos de la Era Industrial' (CD EGT, 2003), 'RAS 7 revista de arte sonoro' (CD. Centro de Creación Experimental, 2004), 'Ruidos y Susurros de la Vanguardias' (Double-CD Allegro Records, 2004).

Selected in 1998 as Spanish representative at UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers.

Selected in 2006 by Radio Nacional de España, radio Clásica, as Spanish representative for the event Cumpleaños del Arte.