Graciela Castillo

Graciela Castillo (born 1940) 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 (Centro de Música Experimental) 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.

Works Selected works include: 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 (the score was published in John Cage's book Notations), second version for instruments and tape, around 1969 Memorias, a series of three electroacoustic pieces for tape ("La casa grande", "Memorias" and "memorias II"), 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 (Tango), for tape, 2002