Coco Duro Duo started its activities in 2007 after a first performance in the frame of the European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The duo has participated in electroacoustic concerts, events and festivals in Estonia, Sweden, Finland and has collaborated with many composers and sound artists among others: Shinji Kanki, James Andean, Ariadna Alsina, Malle Maltis, WeiWei Jin, Marianne Decoster, the Helsinki Meeting Point. The next performance of the duo takes place in March 2012 at the Black Box in the Music House, Helsinki.

Alejandro Montes de Oca Torres

is a Mexican composer, performer and sound artist. Inspired by the physical materiality of sound, our contemporary soundscape and different time perceptions, he focuses on organizing sounds in space and time with the use of self-made electroacoustic instruments and applications. Alejandro received a bachelor degree in guitar performance from the Superior School of Music, Mexico City, and a master degree in electroacoustic composition from the Royal School of Music in Stockholm. He studied computer-music and media electronics in Vienna and he followed the ECMCT (European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies), Helsinki-Barcelona program. He has got commissions by the "Instrumenta Festival" (Mexico), IMEB (France), CDMC (Spain) and ICST (Switzerland), as well as scholarships from the UNESCO-Aschberg, FONCA, the Cultural Minister of Spain and the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM). He has been awarded with the 10th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Musica Viva prize and the Franz Liszt Stipendium 2011 prize. His music has been release in different compilations and has been presented in different festivals and concerts in Europe and America.

is an electroacoustic musician devoted to pedagogy, live performance and digital lutherie. He is a doctoral candidate developping pedagogical tools for live electronics, and improvisation at the Center for Music and Technology in the Sibelius Academy surpervised by Dr. Andrew Bentley. He studied Guitar and Electroacoustic Music in Colombia with Ramiro Isaza, Roberto Garcia and Horacio Lapidus, Generative Improvisation and Musical Acoustics at the National Conservatory of Paris under the guidance of composer Alain Savouret and engineer Charles Besnaionou. In 2007 he took part in the European Course for Music Composition and Technologies in Barcelona and Helsinki. In 2010 he completed his studies at Paris University in Computer Music with Horacio Vaggione and Anne Sedes. Olarte works as a freelance artist performing, teaching and collaborating with dancers and actors, particularly with choreographer Opiyo Okach, (Kenya).