Meave-Avila, Alfonso

Alfonso Meave is a Full-Time Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and a Definite Assignment Professor at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He also teaches in the Master's and Doctoral Program in Music at UNAM. Since 2017, he has been a Collaborating Professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil. He has taught courses at the Universidad de Occidente in Sinaloa, the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen in Campeche, and has led teacher training courses for the Secretary of Public Education (SEP). Areas of Research and Teaching His academic work focuses on multidisciplinary musical studies. His research and teaching areas encompass music theory and ear training, music technology, multimedia, music business, and social aspects of music. His teaching work includes tutoring and collaboration on research projects at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels. Academic Background He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Music with a specialty in Music Technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Instrumental Performance with a specialty in Guitar, all from UNAM. He completed studies in Instrumental Pedagogy at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. Research He is co-author of the chapter "Music, Migration, and Mexicanness in the Digital World" in the book Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border, published by Routledge. He is the author of the article "Multi-modalities in Music: The Videoclip as a Tool for Re-signification in Pop Song", published in Ekphrasis, and has published in the Journal of Applied Research and Technology. He is co-developer of "ModusXXI", an atonal melodic generator published by UNAM, and "Contrapunctus", a species counterpoint generator. He has presented at international conferences such as Pedagogy into Practice (University of California, Lee University), the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Poznan, Berlin, Thessaloniki), the ISME regional conference in Tabasco, and the International Congress on Instrumentation and Applied Science in Cancun. He completed a research stay at the Centre for Systematic Musicology of the University of Graz, under the supervision of Richard Parncutt. Artistic Activity In 2019, he participated in the staging of the interactive opera "La Mare dels Peixos". In 2023, he was part of the musical heritage recovery project "Paniagua. Memorias de Nuestra Música". In 2003, he participated in the production of the soundtrack for the music education method Fidelio 3. Awards and Recognition In 2008, he received the Alfonso Caso medal for academic merit from UNAM. That same year, the journal Ciencia y Desarrollo published a review of his software "ModusXXI". In 2015, he was awarded the OeAD ¿Ernst Mach Up Follow Grant¿ for his research stay at the University of Graz. In 2025, the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation of the Government of Mexico granted him the recognition as a "Candidate" for the National System of Researchers (SNII) for the period 2026-2029.