Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca

 

Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca is a composer, sound artist and music teacher. He has performed instrumental and electro-acoustic music at various national and international festivals and has shared the stage with artists and choreographers such as Aitana Cordero and Paz Rojo. His audiovisual works include three feature-length documentaries together with José Luis Tirado, and his participation in the ZEMOS98 collective (Seville). Since 2012, he has worked with the poet María Salgado on various projects including the stage recital It Made a Noise (one of whose pieces has recently become part of the collection at the Dos de Mayo Arts Centre) and the audio-textual pieces Last Kingdom Rider Frag. 3 and Last Kingdom Rider Frag. 2. He is an active performer in the Pharmacy 13 Improvisation Orchestra and in the Transfeminist Fanfare, both in Madrid. Following almost two decades as a music teacher in Spanish public secondary schools, he has taught on the Master of Contemporary Stage Thought and Creation at the School of Dramatic Art of Castilla and Leon (Valladolid). He has coordinated the Communities Unit (part of the Education Department) at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum since September 2018.