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Dr. Eduardo Reck Miranda is a leading research scientist and a composer of international reputation. He is experienced in project management and post-graduate supervision and has integrated master and doctoral thesis examination boards in the UK, Brazil and Spain. In 1991, he received an MSc in Music Technology from the University of York and went on to the University of Edinburgh, where in 1994 he obtained his PhD in Music with important contributions in the fields of musical knowledge representation, machine learning of music and software sound synthesis.

In 1992 he studied computer music at ZKM (Center for Art and Media), in Karlsruhe, Germany and in 1994 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where he developed Chaosynth, an innovative granular synthesis software that uses evolutionary computing techniques for generating complex sound spectra. In 1995 he joined the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, where he lectured computer music for three years. There he formed a research group to conduct interdisciplinary research in the field of computer-aided musical composition systems. In 1998, Dr. Miranda moved to France, to take up a research position at Sony Computer Science Laboratory. At Sony he conducted research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the fundamental cognitive mechanisms employed in sound-based communication systems, with particular focus on the evolution of the human ability to speak and the role of our musical capacity in the development of spoken languages. Before taking up his present post at the University of Plymouth in 2003, Dr. Miranda authored patents in the field of speech processing and made important contributions in the fields of speech synthesis, evolutionary music and cognitive neural modelling. During this period he was appointed Visiting Professor of Interactive Media Arts at MECAD (School of Media Arts and Design) in Barcelona and Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the American University of Paris.

Dr. Miranda?s compositions have been broadcast and performed in prestigious concerts and festivals worldwide, including Festival Música Viva (Lisbon, 1999, 2000), Computer Music Festival in Seoul (Seoul, 1998, 1999, 2001) and International Computer Music Conference (Gothenburg 2002, Hong Kong 1996), to cite but a few. His music has won prizes and distinctions in Brazil, France and Italy. He was appointed Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000. [Click here] to download a recent interview given to New Sound, a journal published by the Union of Yugoslav Composer's Organisations.