Ma Babiloni Conducting

Background

I am a sound artist and music composer based on Barcelona (Spain) who uses listening and collective sound creation to foster social and ecological awareness. In my artistic practice, I typically explore how different modes of listening to an environment can bring about quiet yet profound transformations in people and in their relationships with each other and with nature. I studied sound art and collaborative practices in depth during my Bachelor's degree in Music Composition, where I interviewed and become friends with Llorenç Barber, one of the most important figures of collective sound art.

My Bachelor's thesis "Systems of Sound Creation: A Proposal within Collective Sound Art" outlined a method for analyzing, understanding, and creating collective sound art works. I tested this system by organizing a collaborative concert in which the audience could interact with the sound. When collaborating, I place special emphasis on horizontal structures, listening equally to everyone’s contributions. At times, I take on the role of an external moderator to ensure that no one dominates the process and that every voice is heard and considered. I also work with consensus-building and the generation of intermediate ideas to help participants find common ground.

I kept exploring this collaborative practices and their connection to technology during in the Master Of Sound and Music Computing (Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) where i developed a real time collaborative Web App for musicians.

Some of my most recent projects include:

  • - Sendero de escuchas: A guided experience of listening in the forest, where participants propose different ways of listening, engage in various exercises, and share a collective lunch to reflect on the sensations and thoughts that arose from each activity.
  • - Third Space: A project that creates a public space for open debate, discussion, and the sharing of ideas about ecology and society. Anyone can join to express concerns and collectively explore possible responses and actions.

Experience

Sound, technology, and collaborative creation

Developer of a real time collaborative composition Web App: InScoreAI

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 2025

As my master thesis I developed 'InScoreAI' so composers can share a score in real time (As a Google Docs but for music notation)

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📚 Master Degree in Sound and Music Computing

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 2024 - 2025

An interdisciplinary master where engineers and musicians work together

Generative music AITransformer modelsInterfacesSymbolic encodings of musicMusic Information RetrievalSignal ProcessingMusic Cognition

Composer of an orchestral work: Dhyana

Centro Superior Música Creativa, Madrid 2024

Orchestral work recorded by the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra

Sibelius

Music Conductor

Centro Superior Música Creativa, Madrid Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

Internship as a music conductor, tutorized by the conductor Miguel Romea Chicote

Music Conducting

Main music composer for a short film

Instituto del cine de Madrid Sept 2022, Jun 2023

Internship as a music composer for the short film 'Familia de tres' for Instituto del Cine Madrid

Logic Pro

📚 Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition

Centro Superior Música Creativa, Madrid 2020 - 2024

These are some of the works i composed during the degree:

- Rebis: work with an ensemble of 9 instrumentalists.
- The parts of me...: Work with an ensemble of 6 synchronized to a video art piece
- Above the flames, a silent motto: work for string quartet.
- Sound playground: As part of my bachelor thesis that studied collaborative systems I developed a collaborative creation work with horizontal dynamics.
- Keter: Immersive audio work for 5.1 system with synchronized visuals.

Some of the skills developed during the degree have been:

- Composition of electroacoustic music and sound art
- Composition for orchestra, ensembles and soloists
- Orchestra and ensemble conducting
- Music production (including the mixing and mastering process)
- Arrangements and orchestration of existing works
- Knowledge of analysis, harmony, counterpoint, extended techniques and musical computing.
- Musical performing: Piano

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📚 Data Science Bootcamp

The Bridge | Digital Talent Accelerator Jun 2023 - Oct 2023


480 hours of Data Science training. Development of professional skills in the following areas:

Fundamentals of data science, statistics and programming with Python.

Data analysis:
Introduction to data science and data access, SQL databases, Data exploration, Feature Engineering, Data visualization.

Machine learning:
Supervised learning, Unsupervised learning, Deep learning, Time Series

Data Science and Business:
Data Science Productization, Storytelling and data products.

PythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningData AnalysisData Science

📚 Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2019 - 2021

Provided technical audio support for live events and studio recordings. Developed custom audio processing tools and workflows.

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