Mauricio Bejarano is a creator and researcher in concrete music, acousmatics, and sound art (sound plastic arts). He has participated in more than one hundred national and international contemporary music and visual arts events, both individually and collectively. He has been invited to creative studios, sound art, and electroacoustic music events in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and Uruguay.
His awards include the 4th International Acousmatic Music Composition Competition Noroit 95 in France; First Toy Salon in Bogotá, 1996; the National Scholarship for Sound Art Creation from the Ministry of Culture, 1996; the National Composition Award from the Ministry of Culture, 2003; the Sound Art Award from Madrid Abierto International Call, 2007; and nominations and exhibitions at the VI Luis Caballero Award in Bogotá, 2011. He won the 2nd Biennial Prize for Plastic and Visual Arts in Bogotá in 2012, and, with the Reactante collective, received the Art and Science Scholarship at Planetario de Bogotá in 2015.
He studied acousmatic creation at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (G.R.M.) with François Bayle, Francis Dhomont, Daniel Teruggi, Jean-Claude Risset, and Leo Kupper, Paris, France (2001, 1997, 1995, and 1994). Invited to creative studios and electroacoustic music and sound art festivals in Germany (Berlin), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels), Brazil (Recife, Säo Paulo), Canada (Montreal, Winnipeg), Spain (Baeza, Chodes, Madrid), France (Arras, Bourges, Crest, Lyon, Paris, Perpignan), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Mexico (Mexico City, Puebla), Uruguay (Montevideo), and the United States (Denton, New York, Stanford); and in Colombia in Bogotá, Cali, Ibagué, Manizales, Medellín, Mariquita, Pasto, Sasaima, Sutatenza, Tunja, etc.
He studied acousmatic creation at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (G.R.M.) with François Bayle, Francis Dhomont, Daniel Teruggi, Jean-Claude Risset, and Leo Kupper, Paris, France (2001, 1997, 1995, and 1994). Invited to creative studios and electroacoustic music and sound art festivals in Germany (Berlin), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels), Brazil (Recife, Säo Paulo), Canada (Montreal, Winnipeg), Spain (Baeza, Chodes, Madrid), France (Arras, Bourges, Crest, Lyon, Paris, Perpignan), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Mexico (Mexico City, Puebla), Uruguay (Montevideo), and the United States (Denton, New York, Stanford); and in Colombia in Bogotá, Cali, Ibagué, Manizales, Medellín, Mariquita, Pasto, Sasaima, Sutatenza, Tunja, etc.
His sound, musical, and written works have been published in Canada (DIFFUSION i MEDIA), Ecuador (Centro Experimental Oído Salvaje), Spain (UNIA), France (INA-GRM), the Netherlands (Mind the Gap), and Colombia (Ministry of Culture, National University, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, DAMA, etc.).
In 1998, he founded "Murciélago, Museo Sonoro" (Murd, Sound Museum), dedicated to the research, collection, conservation, creation, and design of sounds and soundscapes. He has received awards at the 4th International Acoustic Music Composition Competition Noroit 95 in France; at the First Toy Salon in Bogotá, 1996; the National Scholarship for Sound Art Creation from the Ministry of Culture, 1996; the National Composition Prize from the Ministry of Culture, 2003; and the Sound Art Prize from Madrid Abierto International Competition, 2007; he was nominated for the 6th Luis Caballero Prize in Bogotá, 2011.
Mauricio Bejarano is a creator and researcher in concrete music, acousmatics, and sound art (sound plastic arts). He has participated in over one hundred national and international contemporary music and visual arts events, both individually and collectively.
In 2025, he stepped down from his position as associate professor at the Conservatory of Music, as well as from the Master's programs in Plastic and Visual Arts and Music Therapy at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Colombia.
In 2025, he stepped down from his position as associate professor at the Conservatory of Music, as well as from the Master's programs in Plastic and Visual Arts and Music Therapy at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Colombia.
