Gabriel E. Pulido was
born in Caracas, Venezuela. After studying keyboards and drums during high
school and college, in 1997 he moved to Boston, USA, where in the year 2000 he
graduated cumlaude in Music Synthesis (music technology applied to composition
and sound design) from Berklee College
of Music. He has composed music and soundtracks for different
audiovisual projects including film, TV and multimedia. In 2004 he received the
Film Scoring Diplome from "LEcole
Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot". He has also played
live electronic music in several venues and events in Belgium, France, and the U.S.A., particluarly
collaborating in the last two years with the New World Symphony at their
special events. He currently works on different projects between Paris and Miami and New York
City.
DEGREES
Film Scoring
diploma at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot (French
composer Antoine Duhamel presided the jury). France, 2004.
B.M. degree
in Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, United
States of America, 1997-2000. Class of 2000. Honors: Cum Laude.
OTHER UNIVERSITY COURSES
Courses in
Music Therapy and Psychology of Music, University of Miami, USA, 2001-2002.
Introductory
course of Psychology, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.
Courses in
Film and Music at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1998.
Courses in
Sociology, Universidad Catlica Andrs Bello, Caracas, Venezuela, 1994-1995.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Free-lance
composer and sound designer for different audiovisual projects (a selection
listed):
Composer of original music for the website Pristine Seas, by the
emergent National Geographic biologist Eric Salas; Green Team Advertising
Agency, New York City, 2008
Original
music for Venamax, a Kyte-Surf TV show, Venezuela, 2006.
Soundtrack
for the stereoscopic video installation Il faudra descendre vers le
haut(Its imperative to go down towards the high), by Sabrina
Montiel-Soto, exhibited at the International Festival of Experimental Images
" Nmo" (Paris) &
Art Rock Festival, France, 2005 among others.
Composer of original music for the website Pristine Seas, by the
emergent National Geographic biologist Eric Salas; Green Team Advertising
Agency, New York City, 2008
Original
electronic music for the DVD series Elite Forces MT,
Visisonor Media Productions, Los Angeles, USA, 2003.
Composed
the electronic piece Urban Day, licensed for
the Film Pure
and premiered at the Miami International Film Festival, United States of
America, 2002.
Original
music for the DirecTV Latin America corporate CD-R The Future is Now,
Miami, 2001.
Original
music for the promotion ads of the Copa Libertadores de Amrica 2001, for the Cable TV Sport Network PSN, Miami, 2001.
Live electronic and
hybrid (electronic & acoustic) music concerts:
Deep
Surface full version premiere, Sleepless Night Festival, Miami Beach, 2009.
Featured
artist at the New World Symphonys Winter Music Conference event, Miami, March
2009.
Deconstructing
the Souffle, a collaborative performance with video artist Buzzeye remixing
live the French Classic film bout de souffe by Jean-Luc Goddard. Alliance
Franaise Miami, March 2009.
Featured
artist at the New World Symphonys Symphony Afterhours ,Lincoln Theatre,
December 2008.
Guest artist
at the New World Symphonys Annual Party Concert, New York, March 2008.
Guest artist
at the New World Symphonys Launch Party performance, Miami, November 2007.
Miami Art
Central, with the New World Symphony Fellows performing a reduced version of
Deep Surface, Miami, March 2007
LArticle
Theatre, electro-latin solo concert, Paris, 2006.
Atelier
Picasso, with pianist Francesco Gassion, performing After the Moonlight.
Paris, 2006.
Globo
Theatre, performing a first live mixing version of Deep Surface, Miami, USA,
2005
Maison
de LAmrique Latine, during the Venezuelan theatre festival, Paris, France, 2005.
DISCOGRAPHY
AS GAB-E
Flying High (single), 2002
AS GAB (see on iTunes) Official page
Casa Lounge (3-song single).
Digital-only release, 2008.
Somewhere Between the Beach
& the Sea, LP, Eclectic Muse, 2008
After The Moonlight EP,
Eclectic Muse, 2010
RELEVANT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO FILM & VIDEO MUSIC
One of the
chosen composers for the Summer Film Encounters "Emergence"
(http://www.emergence.tm.fr/), France 2005.
One of the invited composers for Cinema under construction,
during the Latin Film Festival, Toulouse, France, 2005.
Composer and director of Deep Surface (www.deep-surface.org), a concert
multimedia performance with video and dance in tribute to the Sea (in
progress)