| Alfredo Villela considers himself to be part of a newly emerging movement he has come to term Syncretism. His music follows in the tradition of repetitious cycles exploited by Minimalists such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, but broadening the choice of textures and harmonies (following inner exploration, there is a need to project outwardly). He has recorded his own music using Aztec instruments and a power book G4 with Digital Performer, Machfive, and an 828mkII from MOTU. Prior to graduating from Berklee College of Music, where he studied film scoring and music synthesis under Dr. Richard Boulanger, he worked as studio director at Brown University with Tod Winkler at the laboratories of electronic music. He also composed and produced the entirety of the music for Caminantes, a CD-Rom about the southeastern region of Mexico. For this project, Dr. Thomas L. Rhea played the EVI and Mark Plati masterized the music. He has also worked as production assistant with Don Christensen at Looking Glass Studios in the production of the music score to Candy Man II, composed by Philip Glass. He has studied music from the time he was 5 years old at different institutions both in Mexico and the United States. He lives with his friend and wife, Rose Ann, and their five year old son, Camilo, with whom he spends most of his free time at parks or roaming New York and New Jersey area). |
| If you would like to know more about his performances and collaborations go to: |
| Alfredo Villela |
| Music Synthesist |
| Overall knowledge: |
| Macintosh hardware and software |
| PC’s hardware and Windows |
| Network and web-based applications |
| Spanish technical writing and support |
| Software |
| Music: |
| Csound |
| Digital Performer |
| Machfive |
| Ma x |
| Pro Tools |
| Peak |
| Reason |
| Mosaic |
| Visuals: |
| Final Cut Pro |
| Adobe Photoshop |
| Programming |
| Code Warrior |
| Resedit |
| Csound |
| Publishing |
| Frame Maker |
| GoLive |
| Word |
| Adobe Distiller |
| Published Material |
| Spanish Digital Performer 3 complete manual |
| Spanish 828 user guide Mac & Windows |
| Spanish AudioDesk manual OS 9 |
| Spanish 2408 user guide |
| Spanish 1224 user guide |
| Spanish AV, XT etc. MIDI interfaces user guide |
| Three articles in MusicoPro magazine |
| Spanish MOTU website |
| Hardware |
| Sac2K control surface |
| MOTU audio interfaces, MIDI and syncronizers |
| Digidesing hardware |
| Hard Drives |