Carlos currently lives in Chicago pursuing a PhD in Composition and Music Technology at Northwestern University, where he studies with Alex Mincek and Jay Alan Yim. He holds an MM in Interdisciplinary Digital Media Composition from Arizona State University, where he was a Fulbright fellow under the guidance of Fernanda Aoki Navarro and Gabriel Bolaños. He also earned a Bachelor’s in Composition and Music Theory from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM). Carlos has been recently exploring how other artistic expressions can inspire musical ideas, and is also developing compositional systems where the interplay of multiple simple algorithms produces complex results and quasi-organic behaviors. His music has been performed in festivals like SPLICE Institute, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva “Manuel Enríquez,” Festival Visiones Sonoras, PRISMS Music Festival and Impulse New Music Summer Festival.