Electroacoustic Music Laboratory Jesús Guridi Conservatoire of Music Studio Report

The "Jesús Guridi" Conservatoire of Music, Vitoria (Spain) is a centre committed to creating and spreading contemporary music via its educational activities and an ongoing offering of concerts, festivals, meetings, conferences, seminars and master classes. Since its beginnings it has organised numerous activities dedicated to the creation of contemporary music, enjoying the participation of composers and performers from all over the world. It is because of this that the Conservatoire has even been able to organise its own festivals, such as the Contemporary Music festival or the Electroacoustic Music Festival, projecting an image of dynamism to the city and its surroundings that displays the work being done in the classroom. A true reflection of the centre’s commitment toward incorporating new technologies into musical education is the annually held Electroacoustic Music Festival, coordinated from the Electroacoustic Music Laboratory (located inside the Conservatoire and representing a first for the country by introducing computers and electronic music into the syllabus), the purpose of these festival is to show the work being done within the various fields of electroacoustic composition and to act as a meeting place for various studios and laboratories by performing concerts of pieces that have been created within them.