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BRIEF BIOS

            
Eduardo Reck Miranda is a Professor in Computer
            Music at the University of Plymouth, UK, and head of the university's
            Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).
            He served as a research scientist at Sony Computer Science Laboratory
            in Paris before moving to the University of Plymouth in 2003
            to lead research in the fields of computer music and intelligent
            interactive systems in the Faculty of Technology. His research
            is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the fundamental
            cognitive mechanisms employed in sound-based communication systems,
            with particular focus on the role of our musical capacity in
            the development of spoken languages. He is the regional editor
            for South America of Organised Sound (CUP) and member of the
            editorial boards of Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and Contemporary
            Music Review (Routledge). He is an active composer on his own
            right. His music has won prizes and distinctions in Europe and
            South America.