Mauricio Pauly writes music for mixed ensembles, working with expressive amplification and electronics as an integrated element of performance. This work has its roots in close collaborative relationships with performers — a constantly evolving practice aimed at a fluid relationship to live-mixing, processing, and performing with electronic sound, expressively intertwined with the sound and physicality of their own instrument. This fluency is transparent to an audience who might normally trip over the physical disconnection of these sounding sources. Having that integration be natural in its physicality is important for that reason.

In 2014-15, Mauricio was awarded a year-long residency at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2016 he was the first Composer in Residence at Villa Romana, in Florence, Italy where he presented a one-hour site-specific piece. In 2017 he wrote the music for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s production of Wedekind’s Lulu at the Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he will be in residence at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria, Italy.

Recordings of his music have been released by JACK Quartet (New Focus), Fonema Consort (New Focus), Karin Hellqvist (ForTune) and Mabel Kwan (MilkFactory). His music has been commissioned by and/or performed at various festivals including Ultima Festival Oslo 2011 & 2017, ISCM New Music Days 2011, MATA Festival NYC 2011, Warsaw Autumn 2013, Darmstadt International Summer Courses 2010, 12, 14 & 16 (Staubach Commission 2010) and Images Sonores Festival 2015 (Liege), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 2016; and by ensembles including scapegoat, Pamplemousse, Phace, Vortex, and ICE.

Mauricio is co-founder and artistic co-director of Distractfold, an internationally acclaimed ensemble specialising in amplified chamber and electroacoustic music.

He is a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.