Graciela Castillo

Graciela Castillo is an Argentine electroacoustic composer.

Life and career

Graciela Castillo was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She was educated in her native city at the Conservsatorio [de Musica Juan Sebastian Bach] and the National University of Córdoba. Her teachers included composers César Franchisena and Francisco Kröpfl; violinist and conductor Zlatko Topolsky; and composer and pianist Nicolás Alfredo Alessio. She alo studied with Alfredo Luis Nihoul, and Ornella Ballestreri de Devoto.
In the mid-1960s, she was among a group of composers that created the Experimental Music Center at the National University of Córdoba. She composed music at the center, and later took a position as Professor of Composition and Music Analysis at the National University.

Concreción 65, concrete music on tape, 1965
Y así era, for tape, 1982
Diálogos for two voices, typewriters, radios, and percussion
Homenaje a Eliot, open work for voices, concrète sounds and music theatre actions, both in 1965
Colores y masas, concrète music for paintings by José De Monte, in 1966
Estudio sobre mi voz for tape, 1967
Estudio sobre mi voz II for tape, 1967
Tres estudios concretos, for tape, 1967
El Pozo, original version for voices, two wind instruments, typewriters and percussion, 1968, second version for instruments and tape, around 1969
Memorias, a series of three electroacoustic pieces for tape, 1991
Tierra for tape in 1994
Iris en los espejos for tape, 1996
Iris en los espejos II for piano, keyboards and processed sounds, 1996
De objetos y desvíos for tape, 1998–99
Los 40 pianos de San Francisco for prepared piano and processed sounds in 1999
Alma mía for tape in 2000
Ofrenda for flute and processed sounds, 2001
Ofrenda II for flute and processed sounds, 2001
Retorno al fuego, for tape, 2002
La vuelta , for tape, 2002