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Eduardo Polonio was born in Madrid in 1941 and passed away on December 25, 2024. He initially pursued engineering but left the Engineering and Telecommunications School to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he focused on piano, harmonics, counterpoint, and composition, earning a diploma in teaching composition in 1968. Polonio studied instrumentation with Günther Becker during the Darmstadt Summer Courses from 1966 to 1970. In 1969, he received a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation to train at the Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music Institute at the University of Ghent. His electroacoustic work "Rabelaisiennes" was nominated for the Gaudeamus Festival Award in 1970. He was a member of the Koan group from 1967 to 1970 and began working with the Alea laboratory in Madrid in 1969. Between 1970 and 1972, he was part of the Alea Música Electrónica Libre group, the first Spanish ensemble to perform electroacoustic music live. In 1976, he moved to Barcelona and collaborated closely with the Phonos Laboratory. In 1983, Polonio founded Obert-Art Actual with Rafael Santamaria, organizing the Sis Dies d'Art Actual multimedia festivals in Barcelona from 1983 to 1985. The following year, he co-founded Multimusica, a group specializing in live electroacoustic music

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