Roberto Garretón, guitarist, composer and electronic music creator, performs as a solo artist, as well as constantly collaborating in multimedia and multidisciplinary artistic projects.
Roberto was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1973. He studied Arrangements and Composition in Popular Music in the Escuela Moderna music school in Santiago, Chile, getting a Bachelor's degree on 1999.
In 2002 he moves to the Netherlands to study Sonology in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, from where he got a Master degree in 2007.
With some of his fellow students of Sonology they formed the band NiCad, in which Roberto plays the electric guitar, electric bass and live electronics. NiCad has toured extensively through the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, the United Sates and Israel, and they have published two albums, The Hill (2008) and Every day I grow (2007).
Roberto also is member of Studio Pebre, an electronic music trio together with Yukari Sawaki and Satoshi shiraishi. They have performed in Japan.
Roberto's academic activities include lectures about Electronic Music in general, talks about his own work, and the use and implementations in SuperCollider.

Roberto currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands.


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