BIO

Gabriel E. Pulido was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After studying and playing keyboards and drums, 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 "L´Ecole 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.

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 Católica Andrés Bello”, Caracas, Venezuela, 1994-1995.

• Courses in Management, “Universidad Metropolitana”, Caracas, Venezuela, 1991-1994.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Music composer and sound designer for different audiovisual projects (a selection listed):

• Original music for “Venamax”, a Kyte-Surf TV show, Venezuela, 2006.

• Soundtrack for the stereoscopic video installation “Il faudra descendre vers le haut”(It’s imperative to go down towards the high), by Sabrina Montiel-Soto, exhibited at the International Festival of Experimental Images " Némo" (Paris) & Art Rock Festival, France, 2005 among others.

• 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 América 2001, for the Cable TV Sport Network PSN, Miami, 2001.

Live electronic and hybrid (electronic & acoustic) music concerts:

• Miami Art Central, with the New World Symphony “Fellows” performing a reduced version of “Deep Surface”, Miami, March 2007

• “L’Article” Theatre, electro-latin solo concert, Paris, 2006.

• Atelier Picasso, with pianist Francesco Gassion, performing “After the Moonlight”. Paris, 2006.

• “Maison de L’Amérique Latine”, during the Venezuelan theatre festival, Paris, France, 2005.

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 initiator of the multimedia project “ Deep Surface” (www.deep-surface.org), a concert – performance with video and dance in tribute to the Sea (in process)