Born in Quito in 1938; Mesias Maiguashca is a composer. After studies in Quito he went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester in 1958, where he earned his Master of Arts in 1963; from 1963 to 1965 he worked on electroacoustics and electronic music in Buenos Aires, and in 1965/66 he taught piano and composition in Quito. From 1966 to 1968 he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt, from 1968 to 1972 he worked at the WDR studio for electronic music, and in 1970 he performed as a member of Stockhausen’s ensemble at the World Exposition in Osaka. In 1972 he co-founded the Gruppe Oldorf, which gave concerts and summer night music events all over Europe, from 1977 he worked at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale in Metz, and later he directed the electronic studio of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. On the Cybele album Feedback Studio Köln Vol. 2 – Ton-Antiton (2001) he is represented with “Exercises” (1972/73) for violin and synthesizer, played by Günter Marx and Ramon Schneider: the VCS 3 analogue synthesizer transforms the violin sound as an accompaniment, as an equal polyphonic partner or by covering it entirely.
Mesias Maiguashca
Composer
