About me
Born in 1991 in Mexico City, Mexico. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Popular Music Composition from the Fermatta Music Academy (2012) and a Master’s degree in Musical Technology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2023), with additional studies in Sound Art, Technology, Research, and Artistic Production at institutions such as the University of Barcelona, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Nebrija University, and the University of Chile.
He has served as a full-time lecturer at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (2017–2019) and at the Fermatta Music Academy (2019–2020), as well as a part-time lecturer in the Bachelor’s Degree in Music Technology and Production at Tecnológico de Monterrey (2023) and in the Bachelor’s Degree in Film at SAE Institute Mexico (2024). At these institutions, he has taught courses in Music Theory and Composition, Electric Guitar Performance, and Musical Technology. He is currently a Full-Time Research Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Lerma Campus, where he combines his academic work with his activities as a guitarist and advisor for multimedia projects.
His creative work focuses on music composition and performance, artistic creation, and research in the field of musical technology. As a composer, he has created music for advertising campaigns, short films, and a feature-length documentary. His academic works have been recognized in calls such as the “III Premis Zyriab” (2013) of the City Council of Balaguer, Spain; Kaleidoscope, Call for Scores (2020) at the University of California; and “INSEKTEN” (2021) by the Kompass Ensemble in Freiburg, Germany, becoming part of the university’s music catalog and the ensemble’s discographic production.
As a guitarist, he stands out for his personal jazz trio project, with which he has performed at major venues such as “NEUMA: International Jazz Festival of Mexico City” (2024), “JazzEdu: Educational Encounter for Jazz Development” (2023), “FEC: Festival of Contemporary Expressions” (2021), and the “First Jazz & Blues Festival of Tlalpan” (2021), among others. With this ensemble, he has brought to life a variety of compositions that reflect his personal language in both composition and improvisation within jazz, strongly influenced by contemporary exponents such as Miles Okazaki, Ben Monder, Mary Halvorson, and Bill Frisell.
As an artist, his sound-based works have been featured in projects such as the compilation album Homenaje a Aram Slobodian (2013) by the Spanish Association for Electroacoustic Music; the exhibition Cortázar en Casa (2014) at Casa América de Catalunya; the collective exhibition Getxo Arte (2014) organized by the City Council of Getxo, Basque Country; the Central Emerging Art Festival (2019) organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation in El Salvador; and the exhibitions Creaciones con algoritmos: visualización y sonificación de datos (2020) and Geometrías Sensibles: Programa de Creación de Experiencias Afectivas desde lo Virtual (2021) at the Digital Culture Center, among others.
As a researcher, he has focused his interest on technological developments related to the guitar, creating the EGFXSet dataset, which compiles nearly nine thousand electric guitar sounds processed through twelve analog effects, with annotations designed for the development of artificial intelligence models. This work was presented at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR, 2022) and integrated into mirdata, a Python library specialized in music information extraction. Additionally, following his master’s research (2023), he created the website Online Postonal Guitar, which hosts three web applications designed to assist in the study and composition of postonal musical material on the guitar. These applications allow chord analysis from the perspectives of pitch-class set theory and jazz harmony, chord fingering calculation, and automatic voice leading of a given harmonic progression.
Recently, he has developed research focused on data design for artificial intelligence models aimed at specific electric guitar tasks, such as transcription and performance analysis. Within this framework, he published a study at the Digital Audio Conference DAFx (2024) demonstrating how training deep learning models with synthetic data improves their performance with real performances, and he presented a multimodal and multiperspective dataset of electric guitar performances at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP (2025).