Rodolfo Nogueira Coelho de Souza

Associate professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Music Department of the College of Philosophy, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP-USP). He also teaches and advises at the Graduate Program in Music of the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). Previously, from 2000 through 2005, he was professor at the Department of Arts at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). He has a Bachelor degree in engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, a Master in Musicology from the ECA-USP and a DMA in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin (UT). He also developed, in 2009, a post-doctoral research at UT. His main fields of interest in music are composition for instruments and electronic sounds, analysis of modern music and computer music. His most recent research dealt with topics of Analysis of Brazilian Modern and Romantic Music, Computer Assisted Composition and Post-Tonal Theory. He coordinates the LATEAM (Laboratory of Music Theory and Analysis) at the DM-FFCLRP-USP and is editor of Musica Theorica (TeMA’s – Brazilian Association of Music Theory and Analysis online academic journal). Among is music compositions we may highlight The Book of Sounds (2010) for symphony orchestra and electronic sounds, Concerto for Computer and Orchestra (2000) and Tristes Trópicos (1991) for symphony orchestra. During the year of 2016, for the Sabbatical Program of the IEA, he is developing the project “Invention of an Opera: ‘Pascal’s Machine in Pernaguá’: a research in experimental art and sound technology innovation”.