Biography

Education
PhD in Musicology. Sorbonne University, France
MA in Arts. Bordeaux Montaigne University, France
Music degree. University of Guadalajara, Mexico
DEM in Electroacoustic composition. Bordeaux Conservatory, France
DEM in Guitar and contemporary chamber music. Bordeaux & Paris XVI Conservatories, France

Luis Velasco-Pufleau is an experimental musician, musicologist and photographer. His artistic practice includes live performances, sound installations and analog photography, exploring the political dimension of human voices, aural memories and social processes of collective forgetting of past events. He has presented his work at international festivals and contemporary art forums, such as Lenbachhaus (Munich), Mixtur (Barcelona), ByPass (Toulouse), SONOHR (Bern), Sound/Image (London) and MACLA (Bordeaux). He is active in the experimental post-rock collective Mad Song, and has performed in projects with the Khimaira Quartet (2009-2017) and Ensemble Regards (2015-2016). Luis Velasco-Pufleau holds a PhD in Musicology from Sorbonne University (2011), a MA in Arts from Bordeaux Montaigne University (2006) and a Music degree from the University of Guadalajara (2001). He has been an artist in residence at Les Subsistances (Lyon), Château des Lumières in Lunéville and SCRIME (University of Bordeaux). In 2015, he was awarded the SACEM Prix d’encouragement for his diploma in electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux.

As an artist and musicologist with interdisciplinary interests, Luis Velasco-Pufleau explores innovative forms of writing at the crossroads of artistic creation and research in the humanities and social sciences. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Montreal and a research affiliate at the University of Bern. After completing his PhD at Sorbonne University, he has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bern and McGill University, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the EHESS (Paris) and University of Salzburg. Additionally, he has taught in the music departments at McGill University, Bordeaux Montaigne University and University of Salzburg, and has been visiting scholar at Ircam (Paris), the University of Oxford and University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). Luis Velasco-Pufleau serves as an elected member of the Swiss Young Academy (SYA), the editor of the research blog Music, Sound and Conflict, and an editorial board member of the open-access journal Transposition.