Francisco Colasanto
he/him
Michoacán, Mexico
Dr. Francisco Colasanto (A.K.A. Doctor Zoppa) is an artist focused on the composition of experimental electronic music and interested in algorithmic processes for creation. He has been teaching Max for twenty years, having taught courses in several countries in Latin America and Europe. He has published the book "Max/MSP: guía de programación para artistas" (CMMAS, 2010) He is deputy director of the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts and professor at the ENES-Morelia (UNAM).
Francisco is an Argentine artist based in Mexico who loves to use and teach Max. As a Max Certified Trainer, Francisco is eager to transmit the knowledge acquired during his PhD research and his twenty years as a Max user and teacher.
The publication, in 2010, of his book "Max/MSP: guía de programación para artistas" has been very satisfactory for him since, being the only pedagogical book about Max in Spanish, it is used as a bibliography by several educational institutions in Latin America and Spain.
He has worked with creators from different disciplines such as choreographers, dancers, audiovisual and sound artists using multichannel audio systems, sensors, video mapping, color tracking etc. As an artist and under the pseudonym Doctor Zoppa, he enjoys working with digital and analog synthesizers, and creating works from the control of such systems using algorithmic processes in Max and Max for Live.
As deputy director of CMMAS, during the last fifteen years he has coordinated the Visiones Sonoras festival, has curated a large number of concerts and has participated in the edition of the magazine Ideas Sónicas among many other tasks.
Among several other international awards, he has received the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, the Giga-Hertz award 2009 and the support of Ibermúsicas 2013.
He teaches Max and Max for Live to groups of students and private lessons (remotely) and works as consultant for other multimedia artists. Francisco's mother tongue is Spanish, but he also teaches in English.
Francisco is an Argentine artist based in Mexico who loves to use and teach Max. As a Max Certified Trainer, Francisco is eager to transmit the knowledge acquired during his PhD research and his twenty years as a Max user and teacher.
The publication, in 2010, of his book "Max/MSP: guía de programación para artistas" has been very satisfactory for him since, being the only pedagogical book about Max in Spanish, it is used as a bibliography by several educational institutions in Latin America and Spain.
He has worked with creators from different disciplines such as choreographers, dancers, audiovisual and sound artists using multichannel audio systems, sensors, video mapping, color tracking etc. As an artist and under the pseudonym Doctor Zoppa, he enjoys working with digital and analog synthesizers, and creating works from the control of such systems using algorithmic processes in Max and Max for Live.
As deputy director of CMMAS, during the last fifteen years he has coordinated the Visiones Sonoras festival, has curated a large number of concerts and has participated in the edition of the magazine Ideas Sónicas among many other tasks.
Among several other international awards, he has received the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, the Giga-Hertz award 2009 and the support of Ibermúsicas 2013.
He teaches Max and Max for Live to groups of students and private lessons (remotely) and works as consultant for other multimedia artists. Francisco's mother tongue is Spanish, but he also teaches in English.