Born in 1963 in Mexico City, Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a composer and a transdisciplinary and intermedia artist. His creative lines go through synesthesia, conceptualism, immersion, chance,and constant experimentation with the hybridization of different media and languages. He studied composition at the ENM in the University of Mexico (1981-1989) and photography at the Taller de los lunes workshop with Pedro Meyer (1985-1989). In 1991 he finishes an MFA in electronic music and composition at Mills College, Oakland California. In Paris, he takes a one-year course in composition and computer music at IRCAM, where he studies with Bryan Fernyhough (1991-92). In 1992 he starts his doctoral thesis in the field of Science and Technologie of the Arts at the University of Paris VIII with a thesis related to quantum physics, sound and art, and he worked as a researcher at IRCAM developing Gist.His music has been played through the American, European and Asian continents. He has been the recipient of different residencys, Japan Foundation in Tokyo, etc. He has obtained important prices with his electroacoustic works such as Festival Synthese Bourges, Ars electronica and Giga Hertz. Rocha Iturbide teaches currently at the UAM Lerma University in the field of Digital Arts and composition at UNAM.